Vintage Machine.

[jenkinsbrynmair]

One of my repro items which when asked about you encounter a blank expression when you explain the use..

I remember (just) as a toddler being 'scolded' for playing with a whole boxful of 'Blew' as it's known here in the shop we had then (inherited from my grandfather)

and my home made plywood range..

Errm - excuse me for being picky but i wouldn't think a wooden fireplace is going to last long wouldn't it sort of..................Burn?

 

[Dishmop]

Errm - excuse me for being picky but i wouldn't think a wooden fireplace is going to last long wouldn't it sort of..................Burn?

oh well..

back to the drawing board then...

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Two of my grandmother's elderly sisters/aunts and brother/uncle (don't ask, long story, let's just say that true to form - I come from a long line of genuine bastards ) were still alive and living in the family home (we'd been there since the early 1800's) in the late 1970's. The only improvements since the old king George (IV that is) had died was a cold water tap outside the back door and electrickery which my uncle Dai had installed himself after reading a book about it, shortly after the Armistice. We used to stay down there on the occasional weekend - they had a traditional cast iron bread oven next to a deep open basket hearth - the other side of the fire was a cast iron reservoir for heating the water which was ladled out into a tin tub for us to bathe in front of the fire (bit embarrasing for a seventeen year old - especially when the vicar and his wife used to come and visit )

 

[drstitson]

That's not a museum - it's Ian Duncan Smith's vision of the future!

 

[Dishmop]

I grew up in a big Victorian house (rented) just outside Norwich city cente.
Servants bedrooms on top floor, marble fireplaces with bellpushes to call the butler. The first two floors had rooms that were 13ft high and windows were 11ft high. A walk in butlers pantry with the bells, scullery with copper boiler and a big range in the kitchen... My mum paid a scrap bloke £10 to take it away!!!!!

We did have an indoor loo tho.

My mum found out after she moved in after the war that the previous tenant had been running a brothel there.

 

[theeggman]

If you are ever in this part of the UK I can recommend a trip to 'Finches Foundry' just outside of Oke.
It is really a water powered forge, never was a foundry, but is still in working order. Even the wind for the forge is created via a waterwheel. All of the power to the hammers and grindstones etc. is via o/head shafts and flat belting.

 

[Dishmop]

I have often wondered of the scrap dealers bought the trains or were paid to dispose of them,, or just freebies..

 

[Somerford]

How is the washer woman powered ?

 

[coffin dodger]

I grew up in a big Victorian house

House ! House ! we could only dream of living in a house etc.

CD

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I have often wondered of the scrap dealers bought the trains or were paid to dispose of them,, or just freebies..

I believe they paid for them - I think there ws a TV programme on it down this way a few years ago

 

[pargyle]

Thanks Phil - have had to stop scrolling through it as I'm in danger of blubbing in the office - fond memories of me and my Great Uncle Del. scrabbbling over the engines in about 1970-71
Wouldn't happen nowadays would it - letting a four year old play in a scrapyard!

Yes ... great it's a good site ... I was scrolling through and spotted a few designs of engine that I recognised - at one time I would have been able to tell you how many were in the class, where they worked and probably even the wheel configuration ... a mastermind specialist subject at about 12 years old I reckon. All lost in the grey cells now ...

I used to climb over the wall into Doncaster Plant Railway sheds to collect the numbers of the locos in for repair there. It would be about 1960/61 or so ~ I would be about 10 or 11 and I used to catch the train there on my own with a gang of mates to spend a day trainspotting on Donny station ... I wouldn't have let my children do it at that age but it all seemed so perfectly safe in those days,

The scrapyard at the end of our road was my playground from almost the time I could walk ... WWII tanks, steam rollers, traction engines, empty boilers .. we had a great time - it just seems incredible now.

As for the blue bags Dishmop ... are these a hoard or do you know somewhere up there that still has new old stock ??

 

[Dishmop]

As for the blue bags Dishmop ... are these a hoard or do you know somewhere up there that still has new old stock ??

They're repro ones.. Nothing in them.

Most of my sales of repro items go to the general public but I also sell stuff to theatre companies, schools, National Trust.. The props buyer for the company who made the last Die Hard film bought a load of stuff a few months back, but I dont think I'll get a mention in any titles.

 

[Dishmop]

Errm - excuse me for being picky but i wouldn't think a wooden fireplace is going to last long wouldn't it sort of..................Burn?

Problem solved.

If I pour water over it while its burning I can use it to smoke salmon.

 

[pargyle]

They're repro ones.. Nothing in them.

Most of my sales of repro items go to the general public but I also sell stuff to theatre companies, schools, National Trust.. The props buyer for the company who made the last Die Hard film bought a load of stuff a few months back, but I dont think I'll get a mention in any titles.

Excellent ...Just like the real thing !!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Problem solved.

If I pour water over it while its burning I can use it to smoke salmon.

Hmm I've smoked tea leaves and banana skins and even normal grass (the sort that cows eat)! but salmon - sounds a bit fishy to me!