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A Class 207 (3D) unit leaves the faded grandeur of Tunbridge Wellls West on a gloomy day in 1984 with an Eridge-Tonbridge working. The signalman leans from the signalbox with the token for the driver to take for the single line to Tunbridge Wells Central.
Apart from the station building itself, all of the railway land seen here now lies beneath a supermarket and its car park.
The driver of Northern Class 150 'Sprinter' No, 150269 has just exchanged the Kirkby - Rainham Junction single line token with the signalman at Rainham Junction signal box on 15th May 2017, prior to continuing with 2J64 1344 Kirkby - Blackburn. From here to Kirkby is essentially a long sidings as through services between Wigan and Liverpool ceased in 1977, and when Merseyrail electrified the line from Liverpool to Kirkby the station became an interchange point as the line was severed. Also, there is no junction at Rainford now, as once a triangular formation joined this line with one running from St. Helens to Ormskirk which would have crossed the present formation around the point of the background foot crossing. Services to St. Helens from Rainford Junction were withdrawn in 1951, while those to Ormsirk survived through to 1964. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Paying for drink without the hassle of searching for the correct amount of money? This can be done via tokens of the
Token Company.
Sharples Token
Ref: INV: 16851
Obverse [head]: Decorative pattern at the top and bottom, two four leaf clovers either side of inscription in the centre: T. SHARPLES CONCERT ROOM AND MUSEUM STAR INN CHURCHGATE BOLTON.
Reverse [tails]: Star with seven points inside a wreath.
Biography
This token is from an exciting Victorian Bolton attraction, the Sharples Concert Rooms and Museum, which were located above the Star Inn on Churchgate.
Unfortunately, it is not known how this token entered the museum. The token was found during an inventory of the token collection. However, there are several other tokens like this one in the collection. This is because the Sharples Concert Room and Museum are seen as an important part of the social history of Bolton.
Some interesting facts
The full name of the museum part of the Sharples rooms was ‘Sharples Museum of Curiosities in Nature & Art’, and you can see an original guide to the museum on display when our new Local History Gallery opens in the autumn.
In the guide book to the museum, strange curiosities described include a duck with two heads!
Find out more
There is currently another Sharples token on display in our very own ‘cabinet of curiosity’ located on the ground floor of Bolton Central library to the rear of the library.
For more information about the concert rooms and musical entertainment at Sharples, see
Dagmar Kift, The Victorian Music Hall: Culture, Class and Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 1996) in Part One ‘The English Music Hall’.
Direct Rail Services 66433 crawls into a damp Knaresborough with a train load of spent ballast whilst Signalman Ian stands on the Platform with the token for the Single Line Section to Cattal.
Project 365 // Day 85
This is a special set of arcade coins/tokens given out at the "Flynn's Arcade" building at SDCC '10. There was a huge marketing campaign for this movie, including an actual building with different levels and rooms depicting various TRON environments. My wife and I were very lucky to have been a part of this on one of the last days of Comic-Con, and got to take away this little souvenir to remember it.
To see the complete Project 365 photo gallery, click here.
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One of a series of medals issued by Peter Kempson in 1797. It shows St Mary’s Chapel in Weaman Street which was built in 1774.
Accession number: 1939 N171
A 1980 telephone token issued by Pakistan Telegraph and Telephone (T&T). Part of my Privet Collection .
18/06/2017 (Sun) 1334 Hammerton (between Harrogate & York) 155347 + 153351 2C39 1320 York - Leeds via Harrogate (signaller collecting single line token)
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Soft sunset as evening falls in Tok, Alaska.
250 exposures, taken 5 seconds apart, combined at one second intervals for this time-lapsed sunset video.
Per Larry Moran this token was struck in 1797. It commemorated a mail delivery service which was started by J. Palmer and traveled from Liverpool to London and back. Note the die cracks on the obverse of this coin.
St Andrew, Ilketshall St Andrew, Suffolk
St Andrew is one of the Saints, a group of twelve remote, scattered and traditionally lawless parishes not far from the Norfolk border. There is a sense in which St Andrew is in the Saints, but not of them: it looks away from the others to north and east for the other parishes in its shared benefice. There is no real village here, but that is par for the course with the Saints of course: only three of them have a proper village in their parish. St Andrew has more houses than most, but they are scattered around commons, separated by winding hedged lanes. All in all, the parish is rambling and incoherent, and somewhat difficult to grasp.
This grand round-towered church sits at a bend in the road with the former rectory for company. As is common in this part of East Anglia, the tower has an octagonal bell stage, and although some round towers were built from scratch in the 13th and 14th centuries, it is likely that this top was built onto a Norman tower, probably contemporarily with the body of the nave, which despite the acquisition of later Perpendicular windows is essentially a long Norman church. The chancel was probably added at the time the tower was topped off. A good modern statue of St Andrew gazes out from the niche on the porch, which was built right on the eve of the Anglican Reformation. The graveyard he looks out on is a delight: there has been almost no clearance of the older gravestones, and it must be a genealogist's dream.
In December 2001, workmen undertaking a repair to the south wall uncovered a remarkable scheme of wall paintings. They bear a similarity to the 14th century wall paintings at nearby North Cove, but what makes them unusual is the main subject, the depiction of a wheel of fortune. It is the only known example in East Anglia, although it is possible that the painting on the south wall at Barton Bendish St Mary in Norfolk may show something similar. The wheel of fortune is a variation on the usual Judgement scene, with a seated figure at the top, and two other figures apparently tied to the wheel, one rising and the other falling. The image of a wheel of fortune was a potent one in late medieval times. It was derived from a work called the Consolation of Philosophy, by the 6th Century Roman philosopher Boethius. By the 13th and 14th centuries, this book was the most widely copied work of secular literature in Europe, central to a university education and formation for the Priesthood. As such, it informed and infused English medieval Christianity, particularly at the time of the Black Death and afterwards.
Famously, Boethius has Fortune tell us that inconstancy is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top. Yes, rise up on my wheel if you like, but don't count it an injury when by the same token you begin to fall, as the rules of the game will require This fatalism is also seen expressed in such more common wall painting scenes as the Three Living and the Three Dead, where the noblemen out hunting are reminded by corpses in various states of decay that as you are, so once was I, as I am so you must be, therefore prepare to follow me. The suggestion is that it is of no use to store up earthly treasures, but the wheel is also intended to remind the viewer of the temporality and uncertainty of material things, and that it is far better to concentrate the mind on higher thoughts.
In the 15th century, there was a move away from classical mysticism towards an enforcement of the orthodoxy of the Catholic Church, mainly because of the way in which the increasing wealth of a rising middle class was paying for reminders of the significance of praying for the dead at that time of pestilence and disease. These wall paintings were probably covered up during the 15th century, a century or so before the protestant iconoclasts came along. Around the wheel are other figures, including the dead rising from their graves, and east of the window are a queen and an angel, probably part of a larger scene. The pitting in the figure of the queen is almost certainly not iconoclasm, but simply the way that the surface has been prepared for a covering of plaster.
For many years this church had been a woefully neglected place, full of dust and dirt. But the discovery seems to have galvanised the local parish. The great carved royal arms of Charles II were swept off to Cambridge to be restored, the unicorn's manhood gilded in magnificent fashion, which may well explain the gloomy look on the envious lion's face. The church is now beautifully kept, and - at last - after many years of being kept locked without a keyholder notice, it is now open every day.
Reverse side of Bakery token from R. Marrigan's Bakery in Deseronto. Text reads: "GOOD FOR & 1/2 LOAF OF BREAD."
Part of a collection of materials found during the move of the Deseronto Archives.
50008 Thunderers driver is about to surrender the token from Arley at Highley during the SVRs 50 years of the Class 50 gala.
One of a series of medals issued by Peter Kempson in 1797. It shows the New Meeting House after it had been re-built following the riots of 1791.
Accession number: 1939 N161
from one of those make-it-yourself machines that used to be everywhere. When I was a kid in the early 60's we would go to the bus station and make them with obscenities on them, thinking we were getting away with something. Come to think of it, if I could find one now, I would probably still do the same thing - - some people never grow up
I think the name Hoyle on this token refers to Edmond Hoyle (1672- 1769) who was a writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games. The phrase "According to Hoyle" came into the language as a reflection of his generally percieved authority on the subject.