The oldest part of the parish church of St Peter & St Paul in Wem, Shropshire is the the west tower which date from the 14th century. Much of the rest of the church is a later rebuilding. The nave was built in the early 19th century, the chancel at the end of that century. The reason for the rebuilding was that much of the older church was lost in the great fire of Wem in 1677.
The church is built from ashlar and is in a mixture of Decorated and Gothic styles.
My last train adventure of the month of March was, again, a travel around some of Birmingham and the West Midlands' many railway stations. I went as far as Sandwell & Dudley in one direction and Small Heath in the other. You can see my photos here.
The latest typewriter has arrived, and it is this rather nice Olympus Splendid 66, it is indeed quite splendid. The typewriter was non-working when it arrived but i got it back into decent working order. The typewriter is my first French typewriter (or la machine à écrire - i had to look that up!) It has an AZERTY keyboard and accented character keys.
The Canon Palmtronic 8, also known as the LD-84 is a fine little mid-1970s Japanese calculator with a VFD (vacuum fluorescent) display. The calculator has a TI TMS0855NL (7632) microprocessor and supports the four basic arithmetic functions as well as square roots and percentages.
My one still works OK and is in reasonably good condition for something that is now fifty years old, though it is a little scuffed (arn't we all?) Some of the keys are a little stiff and sometimes do not register.
