The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway (RH&DR) is a 15 in (381 mm) gauge light railway in Kent, England, operating steam and internal combustion locomotives. The 13.5 mile (21.7 km) line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe via Dymchurch, St. Mary's Bay, New Romney and Romney Sands to Dungeness, close to the Dungeness nuclear power stations and Dungeness Lighthouse.

The railway was the dream of millionaire racing drivers Captain John Edwards Presgrave ("Jack") Howey and Count Louis Zborowski. The latter had constructed a railway at Higham Park, his home at Bridge, Kent, and agreed to donate the rolling stock and infrastructure to the project. However, he was killed in a motor racing accident at the Monza Grand Prix on 19 October 1924 before the Romney Marsh site was chosen, and Howey continued the project alone.

The railway was opened on 16 July 1927 by Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp. In 1940 the railway was taken over by the military during World War II, and a miniature armoured train was used on the line. The line re-opened between Hythe and New Romney in 1946, the New Romney to Dungeness section following with a formal opening by Laurel and Hardy on 21 March 1947. Today, the railway carries over 150,000 passengers each year.

Dr. Syn is one of the railway's two Canadian Pacific-style locomotives, built in 1931 by the Yorkshire Engine Co., the other being Winston Churchill and has an identical history of design and build. Named Black Prince on delivery, Number 10 changed name shortly after the war when Number 9 was re-named Winston Churchill (for obvious patriotic reasons and for display at an exhibition in Canada) and Howey knew that the line could not be without a Doctor Syn (a local fictional hero of smuggling stories).

Watching the trains, on a very cold , grey gloomy afternoon at Dungeness, when the entire peninsular was covered in a heavy sea mist.

GN outline two-cylinder (formerly three-cylinder)

4-6-2 Pacific locomotive

Designed by Henry Greenly

Built by Davey Paxman & Co., (16044) in 1927

Overall length: 27' 7"

Weight in working order: 8 ton 10cwt

Driving wheel diameter: 2' 1.5"

Bogie and trailing wheel diameter: 1'

Cylinders: 5.25" x 8.5"

Current Livery: Caledonian Blue

Delivered on 20th July 1927, Hurricane was identical to Typhoon — a powerful three cylinder locomotive. She at once became Captain Howey's favourite and was fitted with special features such as stainless steel handrails and, in 1934, a high capacity tender modeled on the corridor tenders of the LNER.

She remained three cylinder until the inside motion failed in July 1937. She fell from favour and the Captain had her painted blue and renamed Bluebottle. In this guise she was used to pull the new blue train until the war, during which time she was used extensively by the Army.

After the war she retained her blue livery, found favour with the Captain once again and was renamed Hurricane. In 1950 she received smoke deflectors.

In 1957, Hurricane hauled a Royal train carrying HM the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. To commemorate this event, she now carries a plaque on her cab-side.

She carries a chromium-plated whistle similar to those fitted to the streamlined A4 pacifics of the LNER like Mallard. It was a gift of their designer Nigel Gresley to Captain Howey, who had previously presented a Canadian Pacific whistle to the famous engineer.

In August 1994, Hurricane became another RH&DR locomotive to be a victim of an accident with a motor vehicle, this time on a private crossing near Greatstone. After receiving repairs, she continued to see service, until a full overhaul during 1996 —1997. During this she was given a new tender similar to the previous 1934 model.

Hurricane returned for in time to enter service for the 1998 season and became the 1999 timetable cover star.

Following an accident near Dungeness in July 2005, Hurricane has once again undergone a complete and major overhaul, returned to traffic in February 2008.

In May 2008 she travelled all the way to Cumbria, with Typhoon, to spend some time on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway. Click here to see some photos of the trip »

She remains as popular with visitors today as she did with the railways founder.

An architectural gem in the Lake County community of Howey-in-the-Hills attests to Ernest Hemingway’s oft-quoted remark “The rich are different.” To wander through the 20 room mansion built in 1925 by the community’s founder, William J. Howey, and stroll over the 15 acres surrounding, brings a nostalgic feeling of how “Once upon a time--.”

French postcard by Cinémagazine-Edition, Paris, no. 212. Photo: First National Pictures. Colleen Moore in Synthetic Sin (William A. Seiter, 1929).

American actress Colleen Moore (1899-1988) was a star of the silent screen who appeared in about 100 films beginning in 1917. During the 1920s, she put her stamp on American social history, creating in dozens of films the image of the wide-eyed, insouciant flapper with her bobbed hair and short skirts.

Colleen Moore was born Kathleen Morrison in Port Huron, Michigan in 1899 (the date which she insisted was correct in her autobiography Silent Star, was 1902). Her father was an irrigation engineer and his job was good enough to provide the family with a middle-class environment. She was educated in parochial schools and studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory. As a child, she was fascinated with films and stars such as Marguerite Clark and Mary Pickford and kept a scrapbook of those actresses. By 1917 she was on her way to becoming a star herself. Her uncle, Walter C. Howey, was the editor of the Chicago Tribune and had helped D.W. Griffith make his films The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) more presentable to the censors. Knowing of his niece's acting aspirations, Hovey asked Griffith to help her get a start in the film industry. No sooner had she arrived in Hollywood than she found herself playing in five films that year, The Savage (Rupert Julkian, 1917) being her first. Her first starring role was as Annie in Little Orphant Annie (Colin Campbell, 1918). Colleen was on her way. She also starred in a number of B-films and in Westerns opposite Tom Mix, like The Wilderness Trail (Edward LeSaint, 1919) and The Cyclone (Clifford Smith, 1920).

The film that defined Colleen Moore as which defined her as the inventor of the 'flapper' look was Flaming Youth (John Francis Dillon, 1923), in which she played Patricia Fentriss. Her Dutch bob in the film was soon copied by hairdressers across America and her air of an emancipated young woman inspired countless imitations. The year she married the first of her four husbands, Frank McCormick, production head of First National Pictures, later part of Warner Brothers. There followed such films as The Perfect Flapper (John Francis Dillon, 1924), The Desert Flower (Irving Cummings, 1925), Ella Cinders (Alfred E. Green, 1926) and Her Wild Oat (Marshall Neilan, 1927). By 1927 she was the top box-office draw in the US, making $12,500 a week. Her second husband was a New York broker, Albert F. Scott. Moore put her money into the stock market, making very shrewd investments. She took a hiatus from acting between 1929 and 1933, just as the sound film was introduced. Her four sound pictures released in 1933 and 1934 were not financial successes. Moore then retired permanently from screen acting. Her final film role was as Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter (Robert G. Vignola, 1934). In 1937 she married her third husband, Homer Hargrave, again a stockbroker, and ended her film career. After she retired she wrote two books on investing and she traveled widely, frequently to China. At 83, she married her fourth husband, builder Paul Maginot. In 1988, Colleen Moore died of an undisclosed ailment in Paso Robles, California. She was 88. At the time of her death, she was writing a novel, a Hollywood murder mystery centered around a Mae West type. Tragically, approximately half of Moore's films are now considered lost. Of her most celebrated film, Flaming Youth (1923), only one reel survives.

Sources: Glenn Fowler (The New York Times), Denny Jackson (IMDb), Ed Stephan (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.

RD11776. Although the 15 inch gauge Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway is mostly operated by stream locomotives, they do have a couple of main line diesel locomotives. So, for the benefit of the diesel fans, here's a shot of one of them, No.14 CAPTAIN HOWEY, running into Romney Sands.

Captain Howey was the founder of the RH&DR and ran it from the the opening in 1927 until his death in 1963 apart from the war years when it requisitioned by the War Department. The locomotive that now bears his name was built in 1989 by TMA Engineering of Erdington in the West Midlands and it has a Perkins six cylinder diesel engine.

Romney Sands Station serves a large holiday caravan park and it is also the only passing loop on the single line section from New Romney to Dungeness.

Monday, 10th August, 2015. Copyright © Ron Fisher.

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This loco was built in 1914 by Bassett Lowke, the only 'Class 60' they ever produced. It was built for Captain Howey (of Romney Hythe & Dymchurch fame) for use on his private Staughton Manor Railway. Early publicity photos show it named 'Gigantic' but it was soon renamed 'John Anthony' on arrivial at its new home. It then went to Eaton Hall for trials before being sold to Ravenglass in 1916 for £400 where it was renamed yet again to 'Colossus'.

In 1919 Hunt and Co. built another loco for Ravenglass closely based on 'Colossus' which was named 'Sir Aubrey Brocklebank'.

In 1927 someone came up with the dubious idea of combining the bottom halves of these two locos (along with a new boiler and mainframe) into one new articulated loco which was named 'River Mite'. Unfortunately this was not a great success and by late 1930s it was withdrawn from service and dismantled.

The two bottom halves (frames, wheels, cylinders and valve gear) remained at Ravenglass until being sold to Harry Barlow of Southport in 1942. One set was later converted into a 4-4-0. Both chassis sets were advertised for sale in 1969 when Harry Barlow retired and were acquired by Mark Bamford of the JCB family.

I've no idea what happened after that.

Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway No 14 "Captain Howey" is seen here having just crossed Botolophs Bridge whilst working the 17:30 Hythe to New Romney. Sunday 3rd June 2007.

RH&DR No 14 was removed from service in 2018 to receive a major overhaul. However this appears to have been cancelled and No 14 became a valuable spares donor for sister No 12. Having been dismantled, all that visibly remains to the publi is the frame and cab stored outside and opposite the locomotive sheds at New Romney.

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This loco was built in 1914 by Bassett Lowke, the only 'Class 60' they ever produced. It was built for Captain Howey (of Romney Hythe & Dymchurch fame) for use on his private Staughton Manor Railway. Early publicity photos show it named 'Gigantic' but it was soon renamed 'John Anthony' on arrivial at its new home. It then went to Eaton Hall for trials before being sold to Ravenglass in 1916 for £400 where it was renamed yet again to 'Colossus'.

In 1919 Hunt and Co. built another loco for Ravenglass closely based on 'Colossus' which was named 'Sir Aubrey Brocklebank'.

In 1927 someone came up with the dubious idea of combining the bottom halves of these two locos (along with a new boiler and mainframe) into one new articulated loco which was named 'River Mite'. Unfortunately this was not a great success and by the late 1930s it was withdrawn from service and dismantled.

The two bottom halves (frames, wheels, cylinders and valve gear) remained at Ravenglass until being sold to Harry Barlow of Southport in 1942. One set was later converted into a 4-4-0. Both chassis sets were advertised for sale in 1969 when Harry Barlow retired and I've no idea what happened after that.

Ferdinand posed for his photo this past weekend while Jo and I were visiting friends and attending a class reunion bond fire on a ranch in Howey-in-the-Hills, FL This big bull was so gentle, so easy going that, while he was sniffing me, he almost gave me a big kiss. It was truly amazing to be so close to this very large, very heavy beast of an animal yet have absolutely no fear that he would hurt us.

Thank you Liz for the opportunity to experience this meeting.

- Copyrighted Jon-Mark Davey 2016

View near the Rhogo hill lane between Howey and Hundred House. During a very dry period.

Cel Out, Howey Place.

A photograph from a bird of prey photography workship organised by Alan Hewitt Photography and Andy Howey Bird of Prey Centre.

RHDR No.7 Typhoon leaving Dungeness Station.

GN outline two-cylinder (formerly three-cylinder) 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive

Designed by Henry Greenly

Built by Davey Paxman & Co., (16043) in 1927

Overall length: 27' 7"

Weight in working order: 8 ton 10cwt

Driving wheel diameter: 2' 1.5"

Bogie and trailing wheel diameter: 1'

Cylinders: 5.25" x 8.5"

Current Livery: Malachite Green

Based on the Henry Greenly-designed Pacifics that were already at the railway; Green Goddess, Northern Chief and Southern Maid. Typhoon differed in that she had three cylinders. The railway's founder and owner, Captain J E P Howey, craved more power and ultimately speed from his locomotives and the three cylinder route was experimented with on this engine and her sister No.8, Hurricane.

Before being delivered to New Romney on 19th May 1927, Typhoon posed for publicity photographs next to the full-size Flying Scotsman locomotive at Kings Cross.

The expected performance gains from the three-cylinders didn't outweigh the increased running costs and many breakdowns experienced and she was converted to the tried and tested two-cylinder configuration during 1935-36.

A new large capacity tender was built for her in 1946, in 1955 the smoke deflectors were fitted and in 1958 she received a superheated boiler.

Typhoon, prior to her recent overhaul, was finished in a dark green similar to that once used by the former Southern Railway, and her whistle is from one of that company's Bullied designed 'West Country' class locomotives.

During 1996 Typhoon saw 99 days service and in the process clocked up 6,236 miles on RH&DR metals.

In May 1997 — as Typhoon celebrated 70 years at New Romney — she traveled north to the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway to take part in the 21st birthday celebrations of their loco Northern Rock.

For the Steam and Diesel Gala in May 2003, Typhoon returned to New Romney from a long and thorough overhaul looking magnificent. She re-entered service on 30th May.

In May 2008 she travelled all the way to Cumbria, with Hurricane, to spend some time on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway.

The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway (RH&DR) is a 15 in (381 mm) gauge light railway in Kent, England, operating steam and internal combustion locomotives. The 13.5 mile (21.7 km) line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe via Dymchurch, St. Mary's Bay, New Romney and Romney Sands to Dungeness, close to the Dungeness nuclear power stations and Dungeness Lighthouse.

The railway was the dream of millionaire racing drivers Captain John Edwards Presgrave ("Jack") Howey and Count Louis Zborowski. The latter had constructed a railway at Higham Park, his home at Bridge, Kent, and agreed to donate the rolling stock and infrastructure to the project. However, he was killed in a motor racing accident at the Monza Grand Prix on 19 October 1924 before the Romney Marsh site was chosen, and Howey continued the project alone. The railway was opened on 16 July 1927 by Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp.

In 1940 the railway was taken over by the military during World War II, and a miniature armoured train was used on the line. The line re-opened between Hythe and New Romney in 1946, the New Romney to Dungeness section following with a formal opening by Laurel and Hardy on 21 March 1947. Today, the railway carries over 150,000 passengers each year.

RHDR No.7 Typhoon waiting at Dungeness Station.

The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway is a 15 in/​381 mm gauge light railway in Kent, England. The 131⁄2-mile (22 km) line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe via Dymchurch, St. Mary's Bay, New Romney and Romney Sands to Dungeness, close to Dungeness nuclear power station and Dungeness lighthouse.

From 1926 to 1978, the RH&DR held the title of the "Smallest public railway in the world" (in terms of track gauge). The title was lost to the 12 1⁄4 in (311 mm) gauge Réseau Guerlédan in France in 1978 and regained from 1979, when the Réseau Guerlédan closed, until 1982, when the 10 1⁄4 in (260 mm) gauge Wells and Walsingham Light Railway opened.

The railway was featured in an episode of the BBC series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.

GN outline two-cylinder (formerly three-cylinder) 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive

Designed by Henry Greenly

Built by Davey Paxman & Co., (16043) in 1927

Overall length: 27' 7"

Weight in working order: 8 ton 10cwt

Driving wheel diameter: 2' 1.5"

Bogie and trailing wheel diameter: 1'

Cylinders: 5.25" x 8.5"

Current Livery: Malachite Green

Based on the Henry Greenly-designed Pacifics that were already at the railway; Green Goddess, Northern Chief and Southern Maid. Typhoon differed in that she had three cylinders. The railway's founder and owner, Captain J E P Howey, craved more power and ultimately speed from his locomotives and the three cylinder route was experimented with on this engine and her sister No.8, Hurricane.

Before being delivered to New Romney on 19th May 1927, Typhoon posed for publicity photographs next to the full-size Flying Scotsman locomotive at Kings Cross.

The expected performance gains from the three-cylinders didn't outweigh the increased running costs and many breakdowns experienced and she was converted to the tried and tested two-cylinder configuration during 1935-36.

A new large capacity tender was built for her in 1946, in 1955 the smoke deflectors were fitted and in 1958 she received a superheated boiler.

Typhoon, prior to her recent overhaul, was finished in a dark green similar to that once used by the former Southern Railway, and her whistle is from one of that company's Bullied designed 'West Country' class locomotives.

During 1996 Typhoon saw 99 days service and in the process clocked up 6,236 miles on RH&DR metals.

In May 1997 — as Typhoon celebrated 70 years at New Romney — she traveled north to the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway to take part in the 21st birthday celebrations of their loco Northern Rock.

For the Steam and Diesel Gala in May 2003, Typhoon returned to New Romney from a long and thorough overhaul looking magnificent. She re-entered service on 30th May.

In May 2008 she travelled all the way to Cumbria, with Hurricane, to spend some time on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway.

© Katie Howey 2016

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In a siding by the engine shed and parallel to the garden of Red Tiles, Capt. Howey's home next to his station at New Romney. Leica Q.

A shot of the Cherhill White Horse & Lansdowne monument.

The Cherhill White Horse is a hill figure on Cherhill Down, 3.5 miles east of Calne in Wiltshire, England. Dating from the late 18th century, it is the third oldest of several such white horses in Great Britain.

The figure at Cherhill was first cut in 1780 by a Dr Christopher Alsop, of Calne, and was created by stripping away the turf to expose the chalk hillside beneath. Its original size was 165 feet (50 m) by 220 feet (67 m).Dr Alsop, who was Guild Steward of the Borough of Calne, has been called "the mad doctor", and is reported to have directed the making of the horse from a distance, shouting through a megaphone from below Labour-in-Vain Hill.His design may have been influenced by the work of his friend George Stubbs, notable for his paintings of horses.

Since 1780, the horse has been 'scoured' several times. In 1935, it was dressed with a mixture of concrete and chalk, and it was cleaned up in 1994.A major restoration was carried out in 2002 by the Cherhill White Horse Restoration Group, when the horse was resurfaced with one hundred and sixty tonnes of new chalk, the outline was re-cut, and shuttering was added to hold the chalk in place.This work was supported by a grant of £18,000 from the National Trust.The present surface is thus made of compacted chalk, and the edges of the figure are well defined.

In the 19th century, the horse had a glittering glass eye, formed from bottles pressed neck-first into the ground. The bottles had been added by a Farmer Angell and his wife, but by the late 19th century they were gone, perhaps taken as souvenirs. During the 1970s, a local youth centre project added a new eye made of glass bottles, but these also disappeared.The eye now consists of stone and concrete and stands proud of the chalk surface.

In 1922, M. Oldfield Howey noted that "At the time of writing (1922) this horse is sadly in need of scouring, as due to the Great War all such things have had to be neglected, but we understand that a local lady has come to its rescue and asked permission to restore it. Formerly the Lord of the Manor was its groom!"

In the week of the coronation of King George VI in 1937, the horse was floodlit and the letters GE (for the king and his queen, Elizabeth) were picked out in red lights above it, with the power coming from a generator at the foot of the hill. The red letters were lit up for five seconds, followed by the floodlights for ten seconds, in a repeating pattern.

The figure was featured in The Timelords music video for "Doctorin' the Tardis".

Thirteen such white horses are known to have existed in Wiltshire. Of these, eight can still be seen, while the others have grown over.The Cherhill White Horse is maintained and saved from this fate by Cherhill parish council. Perhaps most notable out of the eight, along with the Cherill white horse, is Westbury White Horse.

The hill above the horse now belongs to the National Trust.

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Visiting the RH&DR for the gala was Count Louis which was working up and down the line at New Romney. Obviously not a Romney loco, but was built for Louis Zborowski who was a racing driver and started the RH&DR project along with Captain Howey. Sadly Count Louis was killed in a racing accident in Monza before the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch railway opened. The loco was named after him after his death and spent most of its life at the Fairbourne railway. Taken on 13/5/23.

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This loco was built in 1914 by Bassett Lowke, the only 'Class 60' they ever produced. It was built for Captain Howey (of Romney Hythe & Dymchurch fame) for use on his private Staughton Manor Railway. Early publicity photos show it named 'Gigantic' but it was soon renamed 'John Anthony' on arrivial at its new home. It then went to Eaton Hall for trials before being sold to Ravenglass in 1916 for £400 where it was renamed yet again to 'Colossus'.

In 1919 Hunt and Co. built another loco for Ravenglass closely based on 'Colossus' which was named 'Sir Aubrey Brocklebank'.

In 1927 someone came up with the dubious idea of combining the bottom halves of these two locos (along with a new boiler and mainframe) into one new articulated loco which was named 'River Mite'. Unfortunately this was not a great success and by the late 1930s it was withdrawn from service and dismantled.

The two bottom halves (frames, wheels, cylinders and valve gear) remained at Ravenglass until being sold to Harry Barlow of Southport in 1942. One set was later converted into a 4-4-0. Both chassis sets were advertised for sale in 1969 when Harry Barlow retired and were acquired by Mark Bamford of the JCB family.

I've no idea what happened after that.

RHDR No.1 Green Goddess, leaving Dungeness Station.

GN outline two-cylinder 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive

Designed by Henry Greenly

Built by Davey Paxman & Co., (15469) in 1925

Overall length: 27' 7"

Weight in working order: 8 ton 10cwt

Driving wheel diameter: 2' 1.5"

Bogie and trailing wheel diameter: 1'

Cylinders: 5.25" x 8.5"

Current Livery: LNER Apple Green

One of two locomotives ordered in 1924 by Count Louis Zborowski, Captain Howey's original partner, and designed by Henry Greenly.

Greenly based them on Nigel Gresley's famous A1 class locomotives of the London & North Eastern Railway, of which the Flying Scotsman is a surviving example. Green Goddess and tender cost £1,250 to build. The name of the locomotive was apparently taken from one of Howey's favourite plays.

She was ready long before the railway, so Howey arranged for her to be tested on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway in Cumbria during 1925. Following this, and while the line was under construction, Howey tried to whet the appetite of the local people by displaying the loco at Binns Garage in New Romney.

She has always been seen sporting a livery of green, and since the war has sported two new high capacity tenders. The second of these now belongs to Northern Chief, the first has been re-united with Green Goddess.

Green Goddess caries a Wilcox chime whistle and George Barlow was her driver for over thirty years from 1947.

She currently runs in an Apple Green livery similar to that of the former Great Northern Railway. Having been built in 1925, the year 2000 saw this fine engine celebrate its 75th birthday.

Now, a new DVD — RH&DR 2006 — which features footage from an exciting year in the history of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway: the return of the Bug from overhaul, 2006 gala, installation of barriers at crossings and more.

Green Goddess is now back in service following a major overhaul, returning to traffic on Saturday June 13th 2009.

German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4366/2, 1929-1930. Photo: Defina / First-National-Film. Publicity still for Oh Kay! (Mervyn LeRoy, 1928).

American actress Colleen Moore (1899-1988) was a star of the silent screen who appeared in about 100 films beginning in 1917. During the 1920s, she put her stamp on American social history, creating in dozens of films the image of the wide-eyed, insouciant flapper with her bobbed hair and short skirts.

Colleen Moore was born Kathleen Morrison in Port Huron, Michigan in 1899 (the date which she insisted was correct in her autobiography Silent Star, was 1902). Her father was an irrigation engineer and his job was good enough to provide the family a middle-class environment. She was educated in parochial schools and studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory. As a child she was fascinated with films and stars such as Marguerite Clark and Mary Pickford and kept a scrapbook of those actresses. By 1917 she was on her way to becoming a star herself. Her uncle, Walter C. Howey, was the editor of the Chicago Tribune and had helped D.W. Griffith make his films The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) more presentable to the censors. Knowing of his niece's acting aspirations, Hovey asked Griffith to help her get a start in the film industry. No sooner had she arrived in Hollywood than she found herself playing in five films that year, The Savage (Rupert Julkian, 1917) being her first. Her first starring role was as Annie in Little Orphant Annie (Colin Campbell, 1918). Colleen was on her way. She also starred in a number of B-films and in Westerns opposite Tom Mix, like The Wilderness Trail (Edward LeSaint, 1919) and The Cyclone (Clifford Smith, 1920).

The film that defined Colleen Moore as which defined her as the inventor of the 'flapper' look was Flaming Youth (John Francis Dillon, 1923), in which she played Patricia Fentriss. Her Dutch bob in the film was soon copied by hairdressers across America and her air of an emancipated young woman inspired countless imitations. The year she married the first of her four husbands, Frank McCormick, production head of First National Pictures, later part of Warner Brothers. There followed such films as The Perfect Flapper (John Francis Dillon, 1924), The Desert Flower (Irving Cummings, 1925), Ella Cinders (Alfred E. Green, 1926) and Her Wild Oat (Marshall Neilan, 1927). By 1927 she was the top box-office draw in the US, making $12,500 a week. Her second husband was a New York broker, Albert F. Scott. Moore put her money into the stock market, making very shrewd investments. She took a hiatus from acting between 1929 and 1933, just as sound film was introduced. Her four sound pictures released in 1933 and 1934 were not financial successes. Moore then retired permanently from screen acting. Her final film role was as Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter (Robert G. Vignola, 1934). In 1937 she married her third husband, Homer Hargrave, again a stockbroker, and ended her film career. After she retired she wrote two books on investing and she traveled widely, frequently to China. At 83, she married her fourth husband, builder Paul Maginot. In 1988, Colleen Moore died of an undisclosed ailment in Paso Robles, California. She was 88. At the time of her death she was writing a novel, a Hollywood murder mystery centered around a Mae West type. Tragically, approximately half of Moore's films are now considered lost. Of her most celebrated film, Flaming Youth (1923), only one reel survives.

Sources: Glenn Fowler (The New York Times), Denny Jackson (IMDb), Ed Stephan (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.

Divided reverse. Note "English aeroplane near Ingelmunster (West Flanders)".

Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2a 5644 belonging to 6 Squadron RFC, brought down on 11th November 1915.

On the 11th November 1915, Kelway-Bamber failed to return from a patrol in his FE2. His observer, Lt J E P Howey - who was taken prisoner - wrote later:

"Poor Bamber, I was sorry that he was killed. He was such a nice boy and only 19. I had a fight with two German aeroplanes and then a shell burst very close to us and I heard a large piece whizz past my head. The aeroplane then started to come down head first, spinning all the time. We must have dropped about 5,000 feet in about 20 seconds. I looked around at once and saw poor Bamber with a terrible wound in his head, quite dead. I then realised that the only chance of saving my life was to step over into his seat and sit on his lap where I could reach the controls. I managed to get the machine out of that terrible death plunge - switched off the engine - and made a good landing on terra firma. We were at 10,000 feet when Bamber was killed. I met one of the pilots of the German machines that attacked us - I brought down his machine with my machine gun and he had to land quite close to where I had landed. He had a bullet through his radiator but neither he or his observer was touched."

- Thanks to "Fulvue" for tracking down the aircraft and its remarkable story.

RHDR No.9 Winston Churchill, leaving Dungeness Station.

The Yorkshire Engine Company of Sheffield finished the job of building this loco by finally assembling the parts, accrued during a chequered history for two new engines for the

RH&DR. Originally ordered from, and started by, Davey Paxman then continued at New Romney using boilers from Krauss in Munich.

Designed from drawings originated by Greenly, completed by A.L.S Richardson and based on Canadian Pacific practice!

The Canadian style was chosen by Howey as it was felt that the larger cab would give the driver better protection against some of Kent's fine summer weather, than the British styled

locomotives. He was also a fan of and visitor to the Canadian Pacific Railway. When the engine emerged onto the RH&DR in 1931 she came complete with a very 'American' Vanderbilt tender and was named Doctor Syn, after the Dymchurch smuggling-vicar created by Russell Thorndyke.

In 1948, having been renamed Winston Churchill after the war-time Prime Minister, she was sent to an exhibition in Toronto, Canada. At this time she was painted bright red, but in 1962 she received a black coat of paint and a new tender. The original, although stylish was prone to leaking.

As an experiment Winston Churchill was converted to an oil firing loco in 1973, but was rebuilt conventionally in 1979. The experiments were successful, but a rise in the price of oil meant that no savings would be made over coal.

She carries one of a pair of Crosby chime whistles that Howey had bought in Canada, and had impressed Nigel Gresley on a visit to the RH&DR. Howey then presented Gresley with the second whistle which in turn was fitted to the new LNER express Cock o' the North.

She has just undergone (2013) an in-house Major Overhaul, complete with new power cylinders and a brand new tender. Her current colour is bright red, similar to how she looked during the 1970's.

Tawny Owl taken at Andy Howey Photo Workshop

Doing something different with another runway show... right click on image and see it bigger.

I have to say, this was the most unevenly lit event of this kind I've ever seen. As you can see, the lighting was like a small spotlight aimed right at the faces of the models. And certain parts of the runway were almost completely unlit.

These were taken at the Lisa Barron 2010/2010 Spring/Summer 10 Collection, presented in Melbourne’s unique Howey Place laneway at the rear of Collins234 – Boutique Place. This is her signature collection in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Victorian racing, complimented with a selection of Kim Fletcher Millinery. The parade will showcase exquisite day and evening wear pieces created with fabrics sourced from all over the world. - From www.msfw.com.au

Notes: Single shot, original framing, no-retouching, straight from RAW, etc.

Technical Details

Canadian outline two-cylinder 4-6-2

Pacific locomotive.

Designed by Henry Greenly

and A.L.S. Richardson.

Built by Yorkshire Engine Co

(2295) in 1931

Overall length: 28'

Weight in working order: 8 ton 15cwt

Driving wheel diameter: 2' 1.5"

Bogie and trailing wheel diameter: 1'

Cylinders: 5.25" bore x 8.5" stroke

Current Livery: Black

Dr. Syn is one of the railway's two Canadian Pacific-style locomotives, built in 1931 by the Yorkshire Engine Co., the other being Winston Churchill and has an identical history of design and build.

Originally to have been built by Paxmans as GN outline pacifics (as all previous Romney pacifics), but Howey, an admirer of the American outline, decided to change the order at the suggestion of Henry Greenly. The American style would afford the driver better protection against the inclement weather on the Romney Marsh.

The frames and wheel-sets for the originally intended Pacifics were procured from Paxmans in order to complete the work at New Romney, but even this didn't happen and everything was dispatched to Sheffield for final completion.

Named Black Prince on delivery, Number 10 changed name shortly after the war when Number 9 was re-named Winston Churchill (for obvious patriotic reasons and for display at an exhibition in Canada) and Howey knew that the line could not be without a Dr Syn (a local fictional hero of smuggling stories).

Alterations during the 1980's included — chimney raised and copper-capped, both domes raised, a bell, and a headlight — to give this popular engine a very American appearance.

Eagle Owl taken at Andy Howey Photo Workshop

GN outline two-cylinder 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive

Designed by Henry Greenly

Built by Davey Paxman & Co., (15469) in 1925

Overall length: 27' 7"

Weight in working order: 8 ton 10cwt

Driving wheel diameter: 2' 1.5"

Bogie and trailing wheel diameter: 1'

Cylinders: 5.25" x 8.5"

Current Livery: LNER Apple Green

One of two locomotives ordered in 1924 by Count Louis Zborowski, Captain Howey's original partner, and designed by Henry Greenly.

Greenly based them on Nigel Gresley's famous A1 class locomotives of the London & North Eastern Railway, of which the Flying Scotsman is a surviving example. Green Goddess and tender cost £1,250 to build. The name of the locomotive was apparently taken from one of Howey's favourite plays.

She was ready long before the railway, so Howey arranged for her to be tested on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway in Cumbria during 1925. Following this, and while the line was under construction, Howey tried to whet the appetite of the local people by displaying the loco at Binns Garage in New Romney.

She has always been seen sporting a livery of green, and since the war has sported two new high capacity tenders. The second of these now belongs to Northern Chief, the first has been re-united with Green Goddess.

Green Goddess caries a Wilcox chime whistle and George Barlow was her driver for over thirty years from 1947.

She currently runs in an Apple Green livery similar to that of the former Great Northern Railway. Having been built in 1925, the year 2000 saw this fine engine celebrate its 75th birthday.

Now, a new DVD — RH&DR 2006 — which features footage from an exciting year in the history of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway: the return of the Bug from overhaul, 2006 gala, installation of barriers at crossings and more.

Green Goddess is now back in service following a major overhaul, returning to traffic on Saturday June 13th 2009.

maybe Indianapolis

An architectural gem in the Lake County community of Howey-in-the-Hills attests to Ernest Hemingway’s oft-quoted remark “The rich are different.” To wander through the 20 room mansion built in 1925 by the community’s founder, William J. Howey, and stroll over the 15 acres surrounding, brings a nostalgic feeling of how “Once upon a time".

Possibly the most chequered history of any of the Romney locomotives, No. 4 was bought to haul construction trains at the beginning of the line's existence. Captain Howey then sold it. It was found in Belfast in the 1970s, bought and returned to service.

Author of Wool

She loves me? ... She loves me not? Pharmacist's Mate 1st Class Jackie Welsh depetals a flower to settle an ageless question of romance, as Signalman 2nd Class Harold Howey records the event on film. Witnesses are Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Anna Welsh (left) and Aviation Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Evalyne Olsen. All four are stationed at Naval Air Station, New Orleans, Louisiana. The photograph was taken prior to December 1944.

A photograph from a bird of prey photography workship organised by Alan Hewitt Photography and Adrian Howey Bird of Prey Centre.

Besan barfi

From Wikipedia

Besan barfi or Besan ki barfi (Hindi: बेसन की बर्फ़ी, Urdu: بیسن کی برفی) is a barfi sweet from Northern India and Pakistan.

Besan ki barfi is made with besan (gram flour), condensed milk and sugar. The sugar blends into a creamy texture that comes from the basic mixture, khoya, a traditional Pakistani and Indian dairy confection made from thickened whole milk. The mix is generally heated until the milk solidifies and is then placed in molds of different shapes--diamond, square or sometimes round.

Besan ki barfi is a very common sweet in India, especially during winter. It is usually garnished with sliced or chopped almonds or pistachios. Because it visually looks like an orange-colored cheese, it is sometimes called "Indian cheesecake", though it isn't made from cheese. Newer "fusion cuisine" variations include flavorings of apricot, mango and coconut.

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RHDR No.1 Green Goddess, heading south across the Shingle, towards Dungeness Station.

GN outline two-cylinder 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive

Designed by Henry Greenly

Built by Davey Paxman & Co., (15469) in 1925

Overall length: 27' 7"

Weight in working order: 8 ton 10cwt

Driving wheel diameter: 2' 1.5"

Bogie and trailing wheel diameter: 1'

Cylinders: 5.25" x 8.5"

Current Livery: LNER Apple Green

One of two locomotives ordered in 1924 by Count Louis Zborowski, Captain Howey's original partner, and designed by Henry Greenly.

Greenly based them on Nigel Gresley's famous A1 class locomotives of the London & North Eastern Railway, of which the Flying Scotsman is a surviving example. Green Goddess and tender cost £1,250 to build. The name of the locomotive was apparently taken from one of Howey's favourite plays.

She was ready long before the railway, so Howey arranged for her to be tested on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway in Cumbria during 1925. Following this, and while the line was under construction, Howey tried to whet the appetite of the local people by displaying the loco at Binns Garage in New Romney.

She has always been seen sporting a livery of green, and since the war has sported two new high capacity tenders. The second of these now belongs to Northern Chief, the first has been re-united with Green Goddess.

Green Goddess caries a Wilcox chime whistle and George Barlow was her driver for over thirty years from 1947.

She currently runs in an Apple Green livery similar to that of the former Great Northern Railway. Having been built in 1925, the year 2000 saw this fine engine celebrate its 75th birthday.

Now, a new DVD — RH&DR 2006 — which features footage from an exciting year in the history of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway: the return of the Bug from overhaul, 2006 gala, installation of barriers at crossings and more.

Green Goddess is now back in service following a major overhaul, returning to traffic on Saturday June 13th 2009.

No.14 'Captain Howey' seen at St Mary's Bay on the 1900 Hythe - New Romeny non-stop. Taken during the RH&DR 90th gala 13/5/17. (Taken using a pole)

Rollei RPX 100 film

Bellini RDL developer 50+1

Leica MP

Summilux 35mm F1.4 circa 1969

Melbourne Australia

January 2025

Check out my other miniature railway pics on Flickr:

www.flickr.com/photos/trainsandstuff/collections/72157625...

This loco was built in 1914 by Bassett Lowke, the only 'Class 60' they ever produced. It was built for Captain Howey (of Romney Hythe & Dymchurch fame) for use on his private Staughton Manor Railway. Early publicity photos show it named 'Gigantic' but it was soon renamed 'John Anthony' on arrivial at its new home. It then went to Eaton Hall for trials before being sold to Ravenglass in 1916 for £400 where it was renamed yet again to 'Colossus'.

In 1919 Hunt and Co. built another loco for Ravenglass closely based on 'Colossus' which was named 'Sir Aubrey Brocklebank'.

In 1927 someone came up with the dubious idea of combining the bottom halves of these two locos (along with a new boiler and mainframe) into one new articulated loco which was named 'River Mite'. Unfortunately this was not a great success and by the late 1930s it was withdrawn from service and dismantled.

The two bottom halves (frames, wheels, cylinders and valve gear) remained at Ravenglass until being sold to Harry Barlow of Southport in 1942. One set was later converted into a 4-4-0. Both chassis sets were advertised for sale in 1969 when Harry Barlow retired and were acquired by Mark Bamford of the JCB family.

I've no idea what happened after that.

Check out my other miniature railway pics on Flickr:

www.flickr.com/photos/trainsandstuff/collections/72157625...

This loco was built in 1914 by Bassett Lowke, the only 'Class 60' they ever produced. It was built for Captain Howey (of Romney Hythe & Dymchurch fame) for use on his private Staughton Manor Railway. Early publicity photos show it named 'Gigantic' but it was soon renamed 'John Anthony' on arrivial at its new home. It then went to Eaton Hall for trials before being sold to Ravenglass in 1916 for £400 where it was renamed yet again to 'Colossus'.

In 1919 Hunt and Co. built another loco for Ravenglass closely based on 'Colossus' which was named 'Sir Aubrey Brocklebank'.

In 1927 someone came up with the dubious idea of combining the bottom halves of these two locos (along with a new boiler and mainframe) into one new articulated loco which was named 'River Mite'. Unfortunately this was not a great success and by the late 1930s it was withdrawn from service and dismantled.

The two bottom halves (frames, wheels, cylinders and valve gear) remained at Ravenglass until being sold to Harry Barlow of Southport in 1942. One set was later converted into a 4-4-0. Both chassis sets were advertised for sale in 1969 when Harry Barlow retired and were acquired by Mark Bamford of the JCB family.

I've no idea what happened after that.

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