Another dialphone has joined the collection, a fine but slightly shabby GPO 776. This was the last dialphone designed by the Post Office and was the first intended principally for the residential instead of the business market. After this BT (as they became) would go push-button only on their new telephone models leaving this model as a final last gasp of a more civilised age.
Over the last few months i have been trying to visit nearly every railway station in the West Midlands so i can update my photography ready for my forthcoming book. I have nearly finished that now with very few stations remaining after i visited Coventry and Walsall at the weekend. I think i have all of the photography i need now. The aim is to get the book completed by the end of this month and do plenty of checking before it is submitted to the publisher at the end of next month. You can see my photos here.
A man tries to find out how his wife died eight years before. What may have seemed an accident seems to be mixed up with paid off witnesses and big business corruption.
It takes a while to warm up but when it does you are rewarded by a complicated but logical plot.
At the weekend i felt like a change from the heavy railway diet i had had recently, so i headed to Leicester to explore the waterways there. The Soar Navigation, part of the Grand Union Canal, stretches around quite a bit of the city centre and is a terrific walk with some amazing bridges. You can see my waterways photos here, other Leicester photos can be seen here.
