Willow wilson

But, Hammers are more versatile.

Yes that's them BK. The moon is moving away now and won't be back for about a month. Another website which you may find helpful is "Night Sky Map and Planets visible Tonight". Lots of info, compatible with android and you can make the location local to you if you want. I keep it as a bookmark in my browser.

Excellent pic CT, even through a very faint cloud, the camera shows it to great effect.

Once again the night sky displays its spectacular sights. Venus and Jupiter chasing the setting sun into the evening twilight below the horizon, followed by the perfect crescent moon. For me it really is something to wonder at, it being another very clear night. It was a night sky like this 40 years ago my brother borrowed a refracting telescope, probly a 5" object lens. We set up in our dark backyard and focused on Jupiter and there in all its glory we saw the faint clouds on the planet but more important to us at the time we saw the 4 largest moons of Jupiter; Europa, Gannymede, Io and Call

'All done and dusted'

All the above sounds like the dystopia I was warned about.

One summer school holiday in the 50s when I was about 12 I went for an early morning bike ride with another aerophile classmate to Tollerton aerodrome. When we got there we found 2 Avro Lancastrians parked near the north gate. Lancastrian was a de-militarised Lancaster. 'Shall we?'....Yeah!' The bikes went in the grassy ditch and we went through the old fence and ran bent double to the nearer Lanc. The door wasn't locked and we somehow found ourselves inside. While my pal went exploring the interior I got in the pilot's seat facing a mind boggling array of dials and switches and I went throu

My first flight was in a Vickers Viscount from Bournemouth Hurn to Jersey 1961. My second flight was a pleasure flight in an Auster (it was in fact quite 'austere', noisy and bumpy) from a field near Skegness, 15 minutes north and south over the shoreline and back, quite an enjoyable experience. My first Jumbo flight was about 30 yr ago to San Francisco by British Airways. Interestingly from Heathrow we went not west to USA but north via Western Scotland then south of Iceland, past the tip of Greenland where, following the shortest route straight line being navigated on a globe, the trac

An interesting spectacle in the very clear twilight sky these evenings. A glorious new crescent moon in formation with a bright Venus. Venus gaining elongation in the solar system throughout the coming months. Years ago in the Broads I witnessed a display of the Milky way arching from horizon to horizon. There was no light pollution at the time and no mist, just a crystal clear sky. When these things are clearly visible I always take time to immerse for a while in something different from the daily grind. Man may come and go but the stars (and their subordinates) go on and on in their ow

Beekay, Deaton's newsagent. (If my memory is still working OK) The big building in the distance beyond the telephone pole was CO-OP, now M'coll's

I was watching a documentary just now about a couple of restorers who dismantled a 1940s piper cub artillery spotter aircraft and rebuilt it from the ground up to airworthy status. Somewhere in Lincolnshire. It was flown to the mass gathering of Piper cub spotters in France to commemorate Dday. During their 'getting-parts-tested' travels they visited the Linc Lanc in its home field where said Lanc was taxiing around on the grass sans ailerons. I think it will be airworthy one day. (P.S. A bit tenuous I know but the meanderings of some threads are a bit like Tennyson's poem

It seems he was a big fan of Les Paul too. Tribute to Les at the Iridium club NY. With Imelda May.

I remember that NCT buses had 'SPITTING PROHIBITED' and also a sign on the upper deck above the right-hand front window which advised-'DRIVER BELOW DO NOT STAMP FEET'.

Sounds good, DJ. I take it the knee pains are now history, which must be a great relief. Edit, I looked it up on Google earth and youtube, it looks a good steady slog with a rewarding view.

Fab jacket Arthur!!

That would explain the lack of windows. I stand corrected.

A Howard Trencher? Form follows function. It looks very functional. Below: Marvellous things, tractors. Here's one demonstrating the lethal open square wheels principle similar to those shown above, we can sort of see how they work but difficult to describe it to someone, say, over the phone.

The sargasso, Phil, was part of El Toreador as you remember and it was fashioned like a cave inside with fishing nets and glass floats adorning the walls and ceilings. The Guildhall Pub was opposite the Guildhall courts building, further down burton st, past Nequests and over Sherwood St. The cafe you mention facing Nequests was The Robin Hood milk bar. The walls inside were decorated with photos of past and current artistes frequenting the theatres. 2.. I didn't frequent the Sargasso much (which was upstairs) our clique preferred the Toreador bit which was at ground level and the 49

Additional interesting factoid. The dorsal-fin coach introduced in 1935 has a roof and window-line which significantly curves down from half way along towards the rear, thus reducing headroom in the back of the coach. The vehicle construction and use regulations required that floor-to-roof clearance height of the gangway be the same for the whole length of the coach. This was achieved by making a bulge in the rear roof over the gangway for legal headroom access to the back seats. The bulge was cleverly disguised by making it a fin shape design feature to include ventilation. (The exterior ven

A very handsome looking well proportioned coach imo Rog, apart from the fin, that's more Flash Gordon imo so probably in keeping with its era. The 1949 mk1 Burlingham Seagull (Leyland or AEC with winged sword motif on the front) was considered by many, including me, to be the best looking coachwork for a long time and sold very well. The mk 2 and subsequent design tweaks were considered a step down, (if it ain't broke.... ) All this is highly subjective I know and opinions may vary lol.

I like the one back-right, it looks like a later model Burlingham Seagul. When as a kid holidaying at Mablethorpe, mid 1950s, I always got up early to watch the coaches being brought out of the garage on Tennyson Rd. There was regularly a red Sheffield United Tours very curvy flamboyant early model Seagul in there. It looked space age to me. More austere but well proportioned were the green Lincolnshire Road Car Bristols. From your collection I see a more modern Harrington Cavalier. Also 3 to the right of that a very attractive AEC half-cab, I had a dinky toys model similar to that. I

Not much Whitworth about these days except perhaps for building bridges and repairing beam engines, Fred Dibnah would have known. Even huge ships are now welded together. I started in 1960 at Syd Smith's and some of my work in the gauge shop involved tapered threads to American Petroleum Institute (API) affectionately known in-house as IPA. I guess there's a good reason for the plethora of differently threaded thingies but the differences between some are very small and a pain for stocktaking. PS I always measure in metric.

There was 'The Old Vic' on Fletcher gate many years ago next to the Cross Keys pub. Old Vic had a few comedy and musical acts in its day.

Owzthat. A fellow pupil in my class at Ellis in the 50s had one, I thought it was cool. We later acquired one at home in the early 80s based not on facetted rollers but on 4 cubes like dice about 1 inch but with the scores and responses printed on them.

True, Jill. My cousin traced our family tree and it took the best part of 12 years. One of the forms for which cousin obtained a resized photocopy was my Grandmother's marriage cert. It was signed by my Grandmother as 'Her mark, X' .(The words 'Her mark' being inserted by the officiating person). It was quite a moving revelation moment for me when I first saw it. She and Grandfather lived in a tied cottage in Norfolk.