RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted September 21, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 21, 2017 I love Tin Tabernacles, and I think they've cropped up here in the past. IIRC, they were produced from the mid-Nineteenth Century onward. Given the right location, the date of 1905 is fine. In Nancy Mitford's novels, every time Uncle Matt experiences a financial crisis he buys himself a new car. I fully understand the psychology of this. Last weekend, fuelled by posts on Tin Tabernacles and a glass of the sort of New World vin rouge that I can still afford, I ordered a book. It came today, and I was not disappointed .... ! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted September 21, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 21, 2017 Now that looks like an interesting book that I should have on the shelf, whats it like inside? I hope is has constructional drawings etc? Andy G 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 21, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 21, 2017 See also... Perhaps the WNR might buy one if the LYR had any to dispose of? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 (edited) Uax6 Why? Are you thinking of founding a sect? Compound Grim up north, or what? One of Emmett's drawings shows a group of retired guys, fisherman living in upturned boat etc. The railwayman is living in a lovely old brake van, with flowers on the verandah etc ....... he clearly isn't getting his pension from the L&Y K Edited September 21, 2017 by Nearholmer 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted September 21, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 21, 2017 I'm a long way from founding a sect... at the minute at least! I've been interested in pre-fab buildings for years, and I like to see the nuts and bolts of these things... Rev Andy G 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted September 21, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 21, 2017 Uax6 Why? Are you thinking of founding a sect? Compound Grim up north, or what? One of Emmett's drawings shows a group of retired guys, fisherman living in upturned boat etc. The railwayman is living in a lovely old brake van, with flowers on the verandah etc ....... he clearly isn't getting his pension from the L&Y K Evidently the ex-railwayman was forced to follow the architectural rules of the district...... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted September 21, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 21, 2017 In Nancy Mitford's novels, every time Uncle Matt experiences a financial crisis he buys himself a new car. I fully understand the psychology of this. Last weekend, fuelled by posts on Tin Tabernacles and a glass of the sort of New World vin rouge that I can still afford, I ordered a book. It came today, and I was not disappointed .... ! Does it have the one in Whipcord Lane, Chester in it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Uax6 can hold services in his; I will be having mine shunted onto a siding overlooking the sea, and moving in on the day I, eventually, take a pension. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted September 21, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 21, 2017 Whatever floats your boat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 21, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 21, 2017 Whatever floats your boat. ... it's only because his pension won't run to this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted September 22, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2017 ... it's only because his pension won't run to this. "pension"? pension? What's one of those?!? I will die in the traces. Now that looks like an interesting book that I should have on the shelf, whats it like inside? I hope is has constructional drawings etc? Andy G No scale drawings. Lots of photographs and fairly intelligent text. Plenty of inspiration for the modeller... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 Those repros of period adverts are a delight. I was particularly interested in the glimpse in the top corner of one of the pics at a Liverpool advert. Their premises were on Spekeland Rd which borders the southwest edge of the Edge Hill railway yards (beside the tunnels down to the original L&M Crown Street terminus). One can imagine an industrious business sourcing the inventories for their buildings from across the kingdom and combining items into waggonloads being dispatched to fulfil orders.(did the spires come as standard or could you order encrusted Castillean gothic on an expensive impulse?) Australians as well as settlements around the Caribbean built with cast iron building components from Liverpool. Adjacent to St Michaels, Aigburth was the Cast Iron Shore (St Michaels church itself is very heavy cast iron dating from the Napoleonic years) . A specialty of the shore was elaborately decorated baconies- many are still to be found in Melbourne and New Orleans. So at the end of the century it seems possible this activity had spawned a lighterweight pre-fab buiding industry - both adjacent to the docks (Herculaneum) and Edge Hill railway yards for inland destinations. The south end of the city was the Protestant end - more particularly Welsh non-conformist - so that might be the slant of the advert. dh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted September 22, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2017 St Michaels, Aigburth was the Cast Iron Shore (St Michaels church itself is very heavy cast iron dating from the Napoleonic years) . dh Wow! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Church,_Aigburth 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Burnham Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 Reminds me of the old Patent Office Library off Chancery Lane, where I spent a lot of time in the 1970s and 1980s. St Michaels has better stained glass, though... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted September 23, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 23, 2017 Reminds me of the old Patent Office Library off Chancery Lane, where I spent a lot of time in the 1970s and 1980s. St Michaels has better stained glass, though... Excellent. Less ironmongery, save for the galleries, but in days past I spent an unconscionable amount of time here: 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted September 23, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 23, 2017 Further progress ... 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted September 23, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2017 good grief is the silver shovel ready to cut the first sod? Nick 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted September 23, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 23, 2017 good grief is the silver shovel ready to cut the first sod? Nick There are hopes that this may happen before the ground freezes! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 Great progress, Edwardian. Shows what can be done when you tear yourself away from the contents of the library at Hogwarts. K 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 23, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2017 Excellent. Less ironmongery, save for the galleries, but in days past I spent an unconscionable amount of time here: Not bad for a law library - but for a ceiling to keep your mind off your studies, not a patch on philosophy or even theology... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted September 23, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 23, 2017 Delighted to see you making progress on the baseboards. Don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted September 24, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 24, 2017 (edited) Actually, there is, now, a base board. That's only taken 17 months. I now have to think about track laying. DonW's excellent Templotting means I have to hand-build all the points. Gulp. Now, finally, we can clearly see the plan unfold. The station is set at an angle to the wall/boards, as this increases the length and brings it to the foreground. The element of genius (ahem) is in having the very end of the line over-lap the door frame slightly. This allows the viewer the opportunity to sit on the stop-blocks, as it were, and look right down the line, under the overall roof and see the rest of the scenic portion curve away behind, with the keep of the castle right at the back.. That is the 'vision' or mental picture that started the project. I find, much to my delight, that it is even possible to view the far side of a train obliquely from this position. I suspect the thing to do will be to de-mount the station board and bring it into the house for track-laying in due course. Edited September 24, 2017 by Edwardian 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesperus Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 This is going to look fantastic. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 A nice sharp corner to bump into whenever someone walks through the door . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Vision to reality, brilliant! Looks to me as if the LBSCR got there first, naturally so, it being the real Premier Line. K 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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