Phil Beard
Thursday, 27 January 2022

Cornish Mining in the St. Just District

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In the 1890s the Great Western Railway operated a weekly train to Southampton calling at Redruth and Camborne to collect Cornish miners on t...
Sunday, 2 January 2022

Bridge Postcards of 2021

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There are 14 postcards in the 2021 survey of bridge themed cards.  Two have a story of renovation to tell.  The deck of the Union Chain Brid...
Wednesday, 29 December 2021

Bridges of 2021

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Our annual round up of bridges is again much reduced.  One of my favourite Cornish towns is Lostwithiel with its compact grid of narrow stre...
Tuesday, 7 December 2021

Mass Transit in Victorian Britain

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There are 20 visible passengers, including the coachman, piled high in defiance of gravity on this horse-drawn carriage.  Some look sullen, ...
Friday, 3 December 2021

Postcard of the Day No. 106, Larkin Factories, Buffalo

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This is a conventional promotional postcard - an invitation to admire the inordinate scale of the Larkin Factories activity and the vast ext...
Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Leipzig 1931

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YouTube’s relentless algorithms invade our minds with recommendations designed to trap us in an ever shrinking universe constructed from our...
Monday, 22 November 2021

Building a Tunnel in New Zealand

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There’s a tunnel mouth with a block built portal and some stone retaining walls under construction beneath a steeply rising hillside. A temp...
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Mostly water. Oxygen (65.0%) Carbon (18.5%) Hydrogen (9.5%) Nitrogen (3.2%) Calcium (1.5%) Phosphorus (1.0%) Potassium (0.4%) Sulphur (0.3%) Sodium (0.2% Chlorine (0.2%) Magnesium (0.1%) Iodine (0.1%) Iron (0.1%) Chromium (trace) Cobalt (trace) Copper (trace) Fluorine (trace) Manganese (trace) Molybdenum (trace) Selenium (trace) Tin (trace) Vanadium (trace) Zinc (trace)
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