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30 March 2024
Time Shifters: The Eccentric Rituals of Little England's Clock Circle
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Here in Little England, twice a year in preparation for the overnight clock change, the ancient ironstone circle has to be moved to reflect ...
29 March 2024
Pigeon Fiddlers & Piccalilli Fanatics
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These are the men who work on the track, all lining up in acknowledgement of the passing goods. From left to right we have Cyril Flagshaft, ...
28 March 2024
The Tipsy Tale of Moorewood Colliery
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For decades, Moorewood Colliery was a cover up for an illicit moonshine operation. The pretend mine was used as storage for casks of the ill...
27 March 2024
East Meets West
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A sunny morning at Combwich. A rare view showing an ex Great Eastern Railway J15 being tested on the Combwich line. With the Eastern Region ...
23 March 2024
Lockdown Lovers
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To commemorate 4 whole years of the ‘lockdown’ here in Little England, masked crusaders and Zombie Apocalypse of Doom work-shy lockdown-love...
22 March 2024
Spence the Spanner
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Spence the Spanner has been working all night with his big spanner and pot of grease. There’s nothing he can’t build with this versatile com...
20 March 2024
Spring Equinox
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Happy Spring Equinox, today the day is as long as the night, and the night is as long as the day, confusing I know. And here we have the 6.1...
19 March 2024
Moorewood Colliery Revisited
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A scene on my OO9 (1/76 scale on 9mm track) Moorewood Colliery. It’s fully wired and working, but really needs finishing off and placing in ...
16 March 2024
Pink Panda
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Pink Panda It’s all happening outside The Miners Arms today. Newly formed railway guard dance trio and occasional Morris men; Dwayne, Dusty ...
13 March 2024
Using Expired Film
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Cad, charmer, business and ladies’ man Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe is taking Dizzy Lizzie for a wander around the docks, because as we know l...
12 March 2024
Hobby Graveyard
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Looking through my back catalogue for todays post, this one popped up from 2007 - 17 years ago, which in digital photography land is almost ...
10 March 2024
‘Look No Hands’ Technique
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The light over Somerset Levels is often quite spectacular and unusually for a Sunday the bus replacement rail service has been replaced with...
08 March 2024
LSWR Steam Extravaganza 150
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Fresh out out of the scanner. Over the weekend of 23 and 24 July 1988 to celebrate 150 years on the London & South Western Railway, BR N...
07 March 2024
Screw in Strap Lugs
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Many old cameras don’t have a means of attaching a cameras strap, they being designed to sit in a case when out and about with strap attache...
06 March 2024
That’s Your Lot….
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That’s your lot….. Today we take the time machine back 58 years, to the 6th March 1966. And here we are at the end of the road for Somerset ...
05 March 2024
High Speed 1.9
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Down on the docks. For years Pete, Dud and Neil have been asking for a passenger service on the light railway system. The day has finally ar...
28 February 2024
Wise Guy Wednesday
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Wednesday morning looks like a good one, for once it’s not raining which makes a change. So much so that Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe has take...
25 February 2024
Sunday Shenanigans
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More dubious activities outside The Kettle Inn this morning. Waving Willy and Waving Wayne look like they’re having a good time over there ...
18 February 2024
Stormy Sunday
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Sunday morning looks like it’s going to be a stormy one as Farmer George and Rufus hound watch the works train take the rough track in its s...
17 February 2024
Peter Pug
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Saturday morning at the brewery, and Peter Pug, twin half brother of Peter Peckett propels a load of finest malted barley across the cobble...
15 February 2024
Class 50 Thursday!
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A Class 50 heads away from Salisbury with a London Waterloo to Exeter service, June 1982. Minolta SRT101 200mm Rokkor. Kodak Plus X Class 5...
14 February 2024
#WTFWednesday
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#WTFWednesday A hazy summer morning at Combwich, and it looks like it’s going to be a scorcher. So much so, that the little people made fro...
11 February 2024
The Pines Express, According to ChatGPT
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The up Pines Express powers over the Mendips Hills ably hauled by 40564 and 53809. Double heading (often with whatever could be found) was u...
10 February 2024
Saturday Shimmy
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On Saturdays, Double Denim Dancing Dando loves to stand on the footplate of passing locos. His magnetic heels helping him enormously, but ma...
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