Picture(s) of the day....

[bobins]

Giant Meccano Bridge At Nob End, Little Lever, Bolton



Nice seating too,

Regards Neil

Meccano Bridge - Google maps, fair use

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.55434 ... 200!8i3600

[NewcastleFalcon]

There are some magazines which cater for such things, and great news The Pickled Egg Library has a link to virtually every copy published between them from 1916 to 1981. The colour artwork on the covers is just gorgeous. This example has made POTD before

.....another example "Crepello" may please certain forum members

Happy Boxing day Jim....and everone else of course......

Regards Neil

[Gibbo2286]

For the Meccano enthusiast there's a chap on the Birmingham History Forum (Sospiri) about to sell a sizeable Meccano set that's been tucked under his bed for years.
Only difficulty is he's in Crete.

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php

[myglaren]

Looked that name up as it seemed familiar.
Had Google Translate pronounce it in Greek, was about as I expected, then in English (American).

[Gibbo2286]

Here's a link to the posting.

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/i ... ost-651940

[NewcastleFalcon]

The "Crown Dependency" of the Isle of Man cropped up in the news, so I had a little read of the wiki page. Yes there are plenty of constitutional oddities, interesting enough but I focussed in on the Bishop of Man and Sodor, and from that followed the story of Rev W Awdry and the creation of the fictional island of Sodor just off Barrow in Furness. Much more to the Thomas the Tank Engine Stories than meets the eye.

So in homage here is the railway network of the Island of Sodor, and wiki does a decent enough job of telling the tale of Awdry's creation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodor_(fictional_island)


Maps-sodor-map-beck-amoswolfe
The original uploader was AmosWolfe at English Wikipedia. [CC BY-SA 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Just converted a neighbour's high level cistern to low level. Imagine my reaction when I unscrewed the fixing screws to find these:



How much longer before she had a nasty shock one day?
!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

100 years ago today, in an age when high level cisterns were de rigueur
Before

After


Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

As we are feeling flushed, what is the car in your second picture?

[NewcastleFalcon]

As we are feeling flushed, what is the car in your second picture?

It’s a Pierce Arrow model 40PP of course

I am willing to be proved wrong of course

In the meantime this is one excellent photo of Louis Bleriot




Regards Neil

[myglaren]

Extra lift from the moustache. Must be why the RAF adopted them.

[mickthemaverick]

"It’s a Pierce Arrow model 40PP of course "

Would that make it Harry Harper's car then? (The Daily Mail reporter at the landing site!)

[Gibbo2286]

Looks a bit small to be a Pierce Arrow to me but it's well before my time.

[NewcastleFalcon]

"It’s a Pierce Arrow model 40PP of course "

Would that make it Harry Harper's car then? (The Daily Mail reporter at the landing site!)

Impressive Mick, the car was very probably Harry hotfooting it from the planned landing site to where Blériot ended up. Harry liked his bicycling too




Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Spanner in the works here!! We may be mistaken about the landing site. Further digging revealed a letter Harry wrote to the times in 1939 which contains the following extract:

"Perhaps it was because I stood on the sand dunes near Calais at sunrise on July 25, 1909, watching Bleriot set off in the direction of Dover, that this flight always strikes me as being one of the greatest of all milestones in the annals of the air."

Similar evidence in his obituary in The Times 7th June 1960 , which you can read at:
http://epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org ... Harry.html

So, that being the case it can't be Harry's car so is it a 40PP we must ask ourselves!!