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A side-by-side comparison of my old model (top; September 2009) and new model (bottom; January 2021).
My Lego model of Peppercorn A1 class 60163 'Tornado', in ex-works grey livery.
This is a complete rebuild of my previous Tornado model, which I finished in 2009. The new model can be powered by either 9V through the track, or battery power using Power Functions components in the tender.
Improvements since the last version include:
- larger driving wheels
- larger boiler and firebox
- redesigned cab
- valve gear representation
- shortened tender wheelbase
- additional bogie detail
- reprofiled smoke deflectors
Custom 3rd-party components:
- XL wheels from Big Ben Bricks
- connecting rods from Trained Bricks
- custom printed cab numbers and tender text from Minifig.me
The real 'Tornado' was built by the A1 Trust and completed in 2008, making it the first mainline steam loco built in Britain since the turn of the millennium.
This image was taken during a day trip to Chirk Castle on Monday 6th April 2015. For more information see the National Trust site:
Why is it people seem incapable of taking photos when you ask them to do so but when you do one of them it comes out good??
Sorry about this being blurred beyond blurred sadly this is the best one of the evening well I have one other that might be ok once its ben worked on a little.
Yes I am wearing flats lol. As you can just make out we did have a laugh and the dancing wasn't that bad either. Jamie lead me a few times and I danced with one or two other ladies who weren't getting a dance, the joys of being able to lead and kind of follow.
Any way back to the title. Don't trust anyone to tale a good photo of you if they fancy the man you are stood next to lol
Clumber Park Bridge
Clumber Park
Nottinghamshire
UK
13 October 2018
National Trust
Clumber Bridge was subjected to major vandalism in March this year. At present it is closed to all but foot traffic. It is currently expected to be another twelve months before it is restored and re-opened. Samples of the stone have been analysed in an effort to identify its quarry of origin so that matching stone can be used in the restoration.
INS46 Trust in the Old Harbour at Lossiemouth. Not as old as some of the others, think the transom stern dates its build to the early Seventies.
That is a corner of Knole House in Kent .
Knole feels almost weighed down by its own history – six centuries of it. People are often impressed by all the absolutes of Knole: its enormous size, the number of rooms, its completeness. But those who live, work and visit here love its quiet dignity, its almost melancholy feel – the grandeur has passed but its old, glinting beauty remains.
What we see today is a remarkably preserved and complete early Jacobean remodelling of a medieval archiepiscopal palace. From an even older manor house, it was built and extended by the Archbishops of Canterbury after 1456. It then became a royal possession during the Tudor dynasty when Henry VIII hunted here and Elizabeth I visited.
From 1603, Thomas Sackville made it the aristocratic treasure house for the Sackville family, who were prominent and influential in court circles. Knole's showrooms were designed to impress visitors and to display the Sackville family’s wealth and status.
Over more than 400 years, his descendants rebuilt and then furnished Knole in two further bursts of activity. First, at the end of the 17th century, when the 6th Earl acquired Stuart furniture and textiles from royal palaces, and again at the end of the 18th century, with the 3rd Duke's art collection.
The Sackvilles gradually withdrew into the heart of the house, leaving many rooms unused and treasures covered. This helps to explain the relative lack of modernisation at Knole (central heating was never installed in the showrooms, for example) and the survival of its collections.
Knole has been welcoming visitors to see its splendours and curiosities for centuries. We know that visitors have followed the same route as you do today for at least the last 400 years.
There's a popular myth that Knole is a calendar house - with 365 rooms, 52 staircases, 12 entrances and 7 courtyards. While fascinating, the reality is that it all depends on how you count the rooms and Knole is such a large, rambling estate that it would be impossible to say for certain.
When the National Trust acquired the house in 1946, the majority of the rooms were leased back to the Sackville family, with the Trust retaining the more formal spaces. The 7th Baron Sackville and his family still live at Knole today in private apartments.
Now, visitors can experience so many different parts of Knole, from the grand showrooms to the cosy Gatehouse Tower, the tranquil Orangery to the sweeping parkland. Discover the vast estate and all it has to offer, home to a world-class collection of portraits and furniture, a state-of-the-art conservation studio and a wild deer herd. There really is something for everyone at Knole.
info taken from NT webpage on Knole .
Trust Jesus was the chant this group a rather fanatic religious group they were! Seen on a beautiful Spring day on Broadway in the heart of downtown Los Angeles!
This National Trust property is famous for being the ancestral home of the first USA President, George Washington. In fact, Washington DC takes it names from the very village where this building still stands.
It rather lucky that it does stand because it very nearly ended up being demolished, so run down had it become.
By the 19th century, the hall had been divided up into tenement flats and in the years that followed, gradually fell into a state of disrepair. Finally, in 1936, the building was declared to be unfit for human habitation. Luckily, it was saved from being bulldozed by a local school teacher by the name of Fred Hill. Fred formed a group which became known as the 'Friends of Washington Old Hall', whose aims were to save and preserve the building.
Restoration work began, and although it was halted during Word War II, it was finally completed in 1955.
A couple of years later, the National Trust took over management of the building.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/erddig/
Erddig, near Wrexham. A National Trust property.
Barrington Court is a Tudor manor house begun c. 1538 and completed in the late 1550s, with a vernacular seventeenth-century stable court (1675), situated in Barrington, near Ilminster, Somerset, England. It was the first house acquired by the National Trust, in 1907, on the recommendation of the antiquarian Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.
Barrington Court, once dated 1514 and considered an early example of a symmetrical front, was completed in the late 1550s for William Clifton, a London merchant who had been assembling a Somerset estate. Its central entry porch leads into a screens passage with the Hall on the left and, an innovation, a service passage leading to the kitchen wing that occupies the right wing. A symmetrically sited gatehouse (rebuilt) was set far forward of the house, to permit a full view of its symmetrical facade.
The interior of the house suffered from its demotion to a tenant farm, and from a fire in the early nineteenth century; after being almost derelict it was repaired under the supervision of Alfred Hoare Powell. Barrington Court was acquired by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty in 1907 and was leased to Col. Lyle of Tate & Lyle in the 1920s. He and his wife turned the house around and refurbished the court house and renovated Strode House (built by William Strode in the 1600s) which was originally a stable and coach block. It was at this time that the Lyles contracted Gertrude Jekyll to design the three formal gardens on the property that are kept in beautiful condition by the head gardener.
Texture by pareeerica:
Grunge Chocolate:
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Explored 23.07.09 - #177
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company Building
currently Wells Fargo Building
sculptors: Piccirilli Brothers
window designers: d'Ascenzo Studios
architect: Simon & Simon, 1927-28
architectural style: Beaux-Arts
Center City - Rittenhouse Square
Avenue of the Arts - Broad Street Historic District
123-151 S. Broad St.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Waddesdon Manor was built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild between 1874 and 1885 to display his collection of arts and to entertain the fashionable world.
Chauncey reclines on the trunk of a fallen tree. She was a little nervous when I first put her up there, settled once I had her lay down. She is filthy black, so I did it in B & W to hide her dirtiness:o) It was so sandy that within minutes she was black.
"Then we had set up last night, you had told me your story, and there was a little more to trust from you...And then what happened this morning...Instead of saving yourself and running...you come back for me...You kept close, you kept me safe, you didn't think to leave me behind...and you were willing to kill to save us both...That was what made me realize you deserved my trust. That you would protect me..."
Waddesdon Manor was built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (of the famous banking family) between 1874 and 1885 to display his collection of arts and to entertain the fashionable world. It is managed by the Rothschild Foundation, a family charitable trust, on behalf of the National Trust, which took over ownership in 1957.
Yo mate, this is all safe, just don't look at the gaps!
This structure is a safety ladder on the edge of a quai in Kiel-Holtenau. Never mind the rust and gaps, it's all secure, trust me!
Toy Project Day 1409