Wylde Green duo

Due to reasons i had to start (and end) my railway adventure at Wylde Green instead of Chester Road last weekend, but it did give me the chance to video a pair of 730s.

Collingham

I felt like going somewhere new this week so on Saturday i headed to Nottinghamshire and to Collingham near Newark (the other side of the East Coast Main Line in fact). A nice little village with the usual medieval church and some interesting buildings, plus the station of course. The original station building is out of use and a bit derelict nowadays but looked fascinating. You can see my photos here.

Waterways reaches 3000

My waterways photo blog is my oldest blog, the first posts being way back in 2009! Today we reached a milestone with the 3000th blog post! Actually earlier in the year i was thinking of ending the blog on post 3000 but later i changed my mind, it is going to continue. We begin the road to 4000 tomorrow...

Typewriters (13) : Boots PT400

Boots the Chemist also sold office equipment back in the day (and music too, the first LP i ever bought was from the local Boots!) I have three Boots branded typewriters in the collection of which the PT400 is the latest to arrive. This is a very similar machine to the likes of the Silver-Reed SR10 and is in very good working order.

Interestingly, the machine came with it's manual which included details of when it was first purchased! That was in Cambridge in 1988. In the intervening thirty-six years the typewriter has been well cared for and still types as new.

Model Week : P1127

The last model project has now come to an end. The Hawker P1127 has turned out quite well, though painting was fairly simple being mostly one colour! That makes two completed projects for the year now after a long pause in the first. The aim is to do two more before the end of the year.