31 January 2011

Avant Garde After 40 Years

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Roxy Music was formed in 1970 by Bryan Ferry, the group's principal songwriter and lead vocalist, Brian Eno, and Andy Mackay. Genera...
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28 January 2011

The Beast is Back

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The Beast of West Bromwich is undergoing various works to ready it for its MOT. Done to date: ignition switch and hazard lights toggle ...
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13 January 2011

Lake Vyrnwy

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The large dam at Lake Vyrnwy, built between 1881 and 1889, was the first in Britain to be stone-built, earlier constructions being earth e...
12 January 2011

Royal Spartanette Trailer Trailer

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Many thanks to Rupert in Toronto for sending through information about this fantastic trailer, fully restored by a Michigan owner, and con...

We Don't Get No Edjukayshun

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With apologies to our American readers, it's not possible to let today's bleating of UK teaching unions pass without comment. Thei...
06 January 2011

Ruyton, VI.I.MMXI

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Ruyton XI Towns is the only place in the world that features Roman numerals in its name. It was known as Ruyton of the XI Towns from the XII...
03 January 2011

Goering's Balls Not Small After All

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The description "important" is massively overused in connection with books, but James Wyllie's Goering and Goering certainly...
29 December 2010

Phoenix Rising

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Seventy years ago Herbert Mason, chief photographer for the Daily Mail , took what has become one of the iconic images of WWII. On 29 D...

Montgomeryshire Morris in Meifod

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On the hills high above Meifod lives Fran Leeman. Resting in her yard is a Morris FFK truck. The registration is NEP 587. The letter ...
25 December 2010

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

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The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, designed by Thomas Telford and built under the supervision of canal engineer William Jessop, is the highest n...
18 December 2010

Le Drapeau Tricolore

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About four inches of snow at home. It's interesting that, when referring to snowfall, the BBC still, rightly, uses the imperial system...
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14 December 2010

Cromer-wick Green

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Over 38 feet tall to its rooftop, the windmill at Cromer is Hertfordshire's only surviving post mill. In a post mill the entire body...
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09 December 2010

Cockshutt, Then Sleap At Dusk

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Cockshutt ROC post was decommissioned in 1968 and is now welded closed. The ingress of air and fallout has been improved by the cutting o...
06 December 2010

Bomere Heath ROC Post

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A passing ex-BT engineer points out the location of this ROC post (YMGW passim ). The posts were formed into clusters, and could communica...
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05 December 2010

"Check Your Oil, Sir?"

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At Crickheath Wharf, near Llynclys, are a very large vintage petrol pump and an old oil cabinet. Both bear...
04 December 2010

Llanymynech ROC Post

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The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was formed in 1925, the role of its volunteers to identify enemy aircraft. In the 1950s the ROC was addit...
03 December 2010

You Shall Go To Ball

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Near Maesbury is the hamlet of Ball, home to a pub with a name of which no-one seems to know the origin - The Original Ball. Just al...
28 November 2010

Arrival of the Argonaut

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Using a dually pickup, Stuart Connell shifts the Silver Streak Clipper (YMGW passim ). He's assisted by his son Richard, who's a w...
27 November 2010

Tanat Valley

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The Tanat Valley Light Railway opened in 1904. Operated by Cambrian Railways, the line ran from Gobowen, through Llynclys and Porthywaen, ...
25 November 2010

The Full Monty

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Dominating the county town of what used to be Montgomeryshire, the castle, at least in its stone form, was commenced in 1223, with the inn...