Picture(s) of the day....

[NewcastleFalcon]

The red church clocks count has gome up by one purely out of chance on our little holiday in North Yorkshire

Here it is, All Saints Church At Hunmanby near Filey

Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

That's a cracker of a find Neil

Seems we've been both away for a little break this weekend then

Hope yours was as good as mine...

Whilst strolling the beach below Highcliffe between Barton-on-Sea and Christchurch I spotted the remains of one of these:

Own Work

Not sure of these have been covered in POTD before but potentially a nice, rich seam to mine

This one, I think, has been a victim of cliff erosion and was once much further up the cliff, if not on top of it!

[Hell Razor5543]

I was in Banbury recently, and I found this;

[NewcastleFalcon]

That's a cracker of a find Neil

Seems we've been both away for a little break this weekend then
Hope yours was as good as mine...

Thanks Jim it was! We did a last minute Monday to Friday job Jim. Initial thoughts were North quite fancied seeing that Station up a Weymms Bay and maybe doing a bit of Arran/Isle of Bute and even a Day trip to Glasgow.

Trouble with the internet, is it comes up with too many alternatives when you look at whats available and we were going round in circles so out comes the "Random" holiday selector....4 bits of paper with North/South/East/West on, and that would determine where we went for the accomodation. Ended up with South (ie Yorkshire/Derbyshire) and the best on offer in terms of price/location/accommodation was a cottage near Thirsk!

Totally random, and an excellent area to explore.

Even discovered a Citroen H Van parked up behind a Cafe in Ampleforth!

N Falcon Own Work

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

I was in Banbury recently, and I found this;

If I am ever in Banbury. just the sort of thing I would seek out.

..Got a bit of a "sticky mouse" at the mo...clicked to like the post and ended up probably liking it and unliking it several times before I got the clicking right!

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Well leading on from Jim's picture of that cube of concrete, I had a bit of a search for such things, presumably some sort of WWII defences. I knew there were some good examples of such things at Blyth in Northumberland and came up with this sea of info and pictures from Gloucester (not actual Gloucester but the farm!) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery at Blyth. Its from the site Derelictplaces which has the tagline "Documenting Decay"....(yes fascinating!)

https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/w ... rland.html

Its strangely interesting though, and we have had plenty of exposure on POTD of such places.

On my travels around the site I did discover this very good "Slideshow" of a Tour of disused parts of Euston Underground.....some of the buildings are going to be demolished, so pretty much a last chance viewing.

https://klempner69.smugmug.com/Euston-d ... tion-2017/

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Well I'm going to do it just need to bag this moment!

Regards Neil

Moment bagged

Now can anyone supply a POTD to commemorate 61,000 posts in the OTCL
before I dig up one of a locomotive

Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

Now can anyone supply a POTD to commemorate 61,000 posts in the OTCL
before I dig up one of a locomotive

Regards Neil

No, I can't but a picture of a locomotive would be just the job Neil

Especially of 61000...

just what i need to perk me up today

[NewcastleFalcon]

Well the roman numeral for 61,000 is

LXM

So a picture of an L-Reg XM would do!

Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

Well the roman numeral for 61,000 is

LXM

So a picture of an L-Reg XM would do!

Regards Neil

Sweet..

I used to have an L Reg XM too... Wonder if I can unearth a photo of it...

[CitroJim]

Here we go...

Own Work

And pictured at Aberystwyth on a very rough day...

Own Work

Best XM I ever had.... Ran on LPG too...

[NewcastleFalcon]

Here we go...

Best XM I ever had.... Ran on LPG too...

That is just excellent Jim, love it! Total randomness and we unearth a nice pair! Thats just what POTD is about for me.

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

My research into 61000 has revealed plenty of info, but whether any pics exist of that particular loco is another matter.

The Class was B1 aka Springbok and heres a pic from wiki of another member of the class but not 61000, and guess what its at a Norfolk Station...Norwich Thorpe! What do I know about Norfolk...more and more each day it seems!


Norwich Thorpe station geograph-2835036-by-Ben-Brooksbank [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], by Ben Brooksbank (From geograph.org.uk), from Wikimedia Commons

Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

My research into 61000 has revealed plenty of info, but whether any pics exist of that particular loco is another matter.

Here's one of Springbok as a model...

http://www.hobbs-warren.co.uk

More at http://www.hobbs-warren.co.uk

[NewcastleFalcon]

Tre-Men-Dous!

Top Class POTD-ing!

Regards Neil