29 August 2011

The Moustachioed Little Man

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Some designs are just absolutely right. One product that marries superb, simple design and a perfectly suited material is the Bialetti Moka ...
25 August 2011

The World's Best Library

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The British Library is second only in scale to the Library of Congress, holding 14 million books and over 150 million items in total, in pre...
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24 August 2011

Sir Giles Gilbert Who?

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Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and his work deserve to be widely known, and properly appreciated. As previously documented by YMGW, Scott designed ...
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23 August 2011

Blue Fin Building, London

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IPC Media's Blue Fin Building lies between Southwark Street and Bankside. It was designed by the practice of Allies and Morrison, base...
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21 August 2011

Métallurgique - Wacky Racer

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The 21 October 1966 issue of the Weekend Telegraph magazine was given over to the Motor Show of that year and a retrospective of 70 years...
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19 August 2011

Reclamation Yard

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North Shropshire Reclamation Ltd, at Wackley near Burlton, north of Shrewsbury, is a cornucopia of reclaimed and antique it...
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11 August 2011

Japanese Mustang

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Hometyre, a Shrewsbury-based business started in 2003, provides a fully mobile puncture repair, tyre replacement, and balancing servic...
09 August 2011

Folding Stuff

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In the mid-1970s Andrew Ritchie, an engineer, radically improved the standard design for folding bicycles. The rear subframe and wheel of ...
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08 August 2011

Mining Minerals in Minera II

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Just down the road from where Minera's limestone was mined for lead and zinc ore, the same rock was quarried for lime. The Minera Li...

Mining Minerals in Minera I

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The carboniferous limestone outcrop that starts at Llanymynech passes through Minera, in North Wales. Although it is believed that the lat...
07 August 2011

Welsh Banger Racing

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On the floodplain of the River Vyrnwy at Meifod, Bron-Y-Maen Farm plays annual host to charity banger racing. There are a number of race...
02 August 2011

Huglith & Westcott Mines

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Huglith Mine, three miles south of Pontesbury, was worked in the early 19th century, initially in search of copper, up until the 1850s, wh...
01 August 2011

Tar Tunnel, Coalport

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In 1797 William Reynolds, ironmaster, drove into the north bank of the River Severn what is now known as the tar tunnel, intended as an un...
30 July 2011

Snailbeach - Work

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Snailbeach was Shropshire's largest lead mine, and reputed to have the highest per acre yield of any lead mine in Europe. In addition ...