26 May 2013

AD37, Anno Domini 1936

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The Ekco AD37, an upright table model operating on AC/DC, was released in March 1936, price £8.18s.6d in t...
19 May 2013

Triumph - German First & Last

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Held at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, STAR90 - the Standard Triumph Anniversary Rally - celebrated 90 years of Triumph and 110 years of...
18 May 2013

Mary Arden's Farm - Confusion's Masterpiece

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What is now presented as Mary Arden's Farm, the childhood home of Shakespeare's mother, is actually an amalgam of the house in w...
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17 May 2013

Lorenz & Colossus

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At Bletchley Park is displayed a working replica of the Bombe machines used in the decryption of WWII Germany's signals, encoded throug...
05 May 2013

April Fools' Car Show - in May

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The 2013 April Fools' Car Show, again hosted at Canal Central, Maesbury Marsh, was rescheduled to May due to snow on 1 April. The sun ...
29 April 2013

Echo of an Ekco

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In 1931 Ekco introduced the RS2 wireless, available in AC and DC versions, in a cathedral-style Bakelite c...
20 April 2013

Cambrian Heritage Railways - Steam

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Cambrian Heritage Railways is making steady progress against its aim to ultimately operate trains between Gobowen, where there is a ma...

Cambrian Heritage Railways - Diesel, Petrol & Tar

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Cambrian Heritage Railways each year runs a transport festival in Oswestry. Among the commercial vehicles on display were a 1962 ERF (Edw...
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14 April 2013

White Nancy

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Built by John Gaskell in 1817 atop the Saddle of Kerridge, above Bollington, Cheshire, White Nancy is a rendered sandstone rubble...
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11 April 2013

Hoover, Damned

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The Hoover company's UK washing machine factory was established in Pentrebach, just south of Merthyr Tydfil, in 1948. Hoover's B...
31 March 2013

Soixante-Neuf, 1938-style

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The Ekco all-wave AW69 (alternating current) was introduced in 1938, and boasted short-, medium- and long-w...
24 March 2013

Polar(oid)

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Shot on a Polaroid 636 CloseUp instant camera, introduced 1996, using out-of-date PX 680 Color Shade fil...
21 March 2013

Hemlock Hillock, Nottingham

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The Hemlock Stone is a pillar of Nottingham Castle sandstone. Such rock is normally weakly cemented, but this outcrop is ...
18 March 2013

Joule's Energy

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The pale ale that later became Joule's was first brewed by Augustinian monks, in Stone, Staffordshire, from the twelfth century, each ...
09 March 2013

Triumph Carledo

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A 1974 Triumph Toledo, fitted with an injected two litre Vauxhall Carlton SRi engine, driving through a Vauxhall Omega gearbox. Finished in ...
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07 March 2013

Angels With Dirty Faces

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In response to crowded churchyards and urban population increase, private enterprise developed new cemeteries from the 1830s. T...
04 March 2013

Karan Anne Porter

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Thursday 4 March 1965 to Wednesday 4 February 2009. Photograph: Lancaster, 1987.
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01 March 2013

From Little Acorns

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Rising at just over 2,000 feet on Plynlimon, the highest point in the Cambrian Mountains, the Severn - Hafren in Welsh - is, at 220 miles, t...