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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