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Friday Bench: Elbe Station
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At The Depot
All posts will have a heritage railway theme this week. Here we are at the depot of the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad in Mineral, WA. Guess what you can just see between the railroad trucks?
Classified Ads…
… Wild Western style. The Heddington and Stockley steam rally at the weekend featured a display of American life from the mid to late 1800s. It also seems an appropriate photo in view of today’s date!
Oakham Treasures
Oakham Treasures is a couple of very large sheds on a farm in Somerset which houses a wealth of farm machinery and shop goods from yesteryear. A couple of cases are stuffed full of gardening nostalgia…
Friday Bench: Badbury Rings
A rather nice use of part of a felled tree in the Badbury Rings car park. The fence behind is the boundary of the local point to point course.
Tumulus
A Bronze Age tumulus with Iron Age Badbury Rings in the background. There are several tumuli in the area and all have been covered with wire mesh to prevent rabbits from burrowing into these ancient monuments.
Do Not Ask
A slice of social history summed up in just a few words on a door.
Seen at the National Museum of Mining for England in the pithead baths.











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