Conversational Vectis

It’s Monochrome Monday of course, and because the colour meter isn’t topped up until Tuesday morning, and because of colour overuse during the week prior, it usually runs out on Sunday night resulting in Monday’s monochrome post. 

Going through my archive I found this old photograph of Hartley the only horse that can chat in conversational Vectis, the ancient native language of the Isle of Wight. Here he is as a young horse before he left the island and headed for mainland pastures to further his career as a prolific shunting horse and part time language teacher. 

The location could be confused with that of Catcott, but scholars of the railways of southern Little England railway architecture will know that the crossing keeper’s cottage is of a standard design which popped up at several locations including the Isle of Wight, allegedly.  

The Nasal Nigels here will no doubt comment at the lack of crew on the Isle of Wight Central Railway locomotive, but this easily explained. Driver Reg is having a quick lesson in ‘Vectis’ from Hartley, with the photograph being taken by young average posh photographer Ivan Locksmiths, who briefly was a fireman before daddy bought him a photographic studio. 

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