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Great Western Railway 4-6-0 7812 "Erlestoke Manor" at Horsted Keynes on the Bluebell Railway on 10th May 2024.
7812 Erlestoke Manor is one of three Manor class locomotives based at the SVR, the others being 7802 Bradley Manor and 7819 Hinton Manor.
The Manor Class 4-6-0 mixed traffic locomotive was designed as a lighter version of the GWR Grange Class, giving a wider Route Availability. The first 20, including all three at the SVR, were built between 1938 and 1939 and incorporated parts from old GWR 4300 Class Moguls. BR built a further 10 in 1950 and rated the class 5MT.
7812 was named after the Manor at Erlestoke, a village near Devizes in Wiltshire. It entered service in January 1939 in the Bristol/Bath area, working passenger and freight trains to places such as Salisbury, Weymouth, Weston Super Mare and Cardiff. Post-War, 7812 was based in the far South-West, often assisting with long distance expresses on the notorious ‘Devon banks’.
In late 1960, 7812 moved to the Oswestry/Shrewsbury/Cambrian area where 7802 Bradley Manor was already working. Both locomotives were thought to have been withdrawn at Shrewsbury on 6th November 1965, and both moved to Woodham’s scrapyard at Barry in June 1966. However, in November 2015, evidence in the form of a footplate diary (see below) was presented to the Erlestoke Manor Fund, indicating that Erlestoke Manor was still in service on 13th November 1965.
The Manor
Check out the video for the detailed walkthrough!!
Exterior view of an abandoned apartment building that was about to be demolished!!
A little backstory about...let's call him Greg. Greg was the tenant of the hoarder apartment that you see in the thumbnail of this video, I don't have all the answers but here are a few little tidbits of information about him. In High school and his early college years, Greg was very interested in sports, baseball and hockey in particular! He even played hockey at one point in time, his jersey can be seen hanging inside one of the closets in the apartment. At the same time, like many other teenagers he really enjoyed video games and seemed to have a fondness for fantasy movies and television. In Greg's college years he also enjoyed to party, in a photo I found he can be seen funneling a beer in his home near campus and I believe this is where everything began to take a turn for the worse! A few years ago he was arrested for selling Marijuana and MDMA, he was later convicted on the charges and received probation for the offences. Greg left the University where he was studying at some point after his conviction and I don't know if he was able to finish his schooling or not.
The timeline gets a bit fuzzy at this point and the details are scarce and occasionally misleading. At some point he moved into this apartment, which was registered under his grandparents names. It appears as though some of the furniture once belonged to his grandparents who have recently passed away. I also found some sort of a card about a housewarming party for what I would assume was for him and his girlfriend at the time. Unfortunately I did not mark this information down and only have a vague recollection of the document after quickly glancing at it. But it appears as though his life began to fall apart after he moved into this apartment. He began to amass quite the collection of empties, fast food garbage and cannabis packaging. There were huge piles of kleenexes and napkins on the floor, McDonald's cups piled on the bed and a black grime that ran down the front of the kitchen counter! Due to the filth that built up inside the apartment, fruit flies began to multiply and that in turn attracted the spiders! There were cobwebs covering every inch of the apartment, the smell was putrid and the kitchen had become all but inaccessible! The bed with exposed mattress was mostly covered in fast food garbage bags and I can only imagine how he could even use it for its intended purpose. All the things of his former life were becoming buried under a mound of garbage and only the belongings that were currently in use were accessible. There was a couch with an LCD screen on the coffee table in front and a game console that would have been attached, was no longer there. I would imagine that this is where he spent most of his time during this dark point in his life until he was forced to vacate the apartment! This all took place during the pandemic and I wonder if that had something to do with it, maybe he was living in fear of the virus and didn't leave his home or maybe it was just a symptom of something more serious such as Diogenes syndrome. There is light at the end of the tunnel for Greg, he now works at one of the many cannabis stores located throughout the province, a very fitting job if you ask me!
I stand corrected, this was not a social housing building at all it was actually just a regular low-rise apartment building built in the mid 1900s. This property included another building of the same age and style, along with another mid-rise as well as 4 detached homes that had been turned into apartments. The existing buildings are going to be replaced with two new condo towers, one being 33 storeys and the other 21 storeys, this new development has yet to be named.
©James Hackland
The manor house at Avebury. It is sometimes open to the public but was closed on the day we were here,
PC19 AMC was the newer from a pair of Aston Manor Coaches VDL Futuras in Brighton this afternoon, 3rd July, 2022.
Wilderstein
330 Morton Rd.
Originally built in 1852, remodeled in 1888.
The history of Wilderstein begins in 1852 with Thomas Holy Suckley's purchase of the river front site, then a sheep meadow of the adjacent late 18th-century estate, Wildercliff. Suckley's fortune had been secured through the family export trade and real estate investments. Suckley named the property "Wilderstein" (wild man's stone) in reference to a nearby Indian petroglyph. The original Italianate villa designed by John Warren Ritch was remodeled and enlarged in 1888 by Thomas's son Robert Bowne Suckley and his wife, Elizabeth Philips Montgomery. Poughkeepsie architect Arnout Cannon was hired to transform the two story villa into an elaborate Queen Anne style country house. Through 1991 three generations of Suckleys occupied Wilderstein. The last resident of Wilderstein was Margaret (Daisy) Suckley. A cousin and confidante of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, she died in the mansion in 1991 (her 100th year). Wilderstein is currently an independent not-for-profit historic site.
Although I am drawn like a moth to a flame to any steam engine activity I am not a technical expert but I was very disappointed to see my train being pushed from the back by this beautifully restored engine!!
Magnolia Manor is the grandest of the old Victorian houses in Cairo. Apparently, a large party was thrown for President Grant here upon his retirement from office.
Cairo is located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers at the extreme southern tip of Illinois but, in a way, it feels more like the northernmost point in the Delta. At one point, Cairo was a major river city and transport hub, and the downtown appears to have stretched for blocks and blocks. Almost everything there is abandoned now, with the greatest density of buildings at the center and only a few fragments left further away. The latest Census projections show under 3,000 residents in a town that once had over 15,000 in the 1920s.
Colletts Manor class 4-6-0 were handsome looking but not to be the most successful of his designs in actual work early on until drafting experiments were carried out in later BR days which then turned them into quiet capable locomotives.
My version, inspired by Andrew Harveys build, is of No 7820 Dinmore Manor in early BR full black livery which quiet suits these engines I feel. It has a fully detailed cab.
Work in Progress on Wayne Manor. Wayne family crest mounted above the fireplace inside the main entrance. Custom printed sticker on LEGO shield. Based on the crest that appears in the “Batman vs. Superman” film and an uncredited drawing posted on Reddit. Please leave a comment if you know the artist.
Built by James Kendall and remained in the family until 1990 when it was purchased as a bed and breakfast. It was sold again in 2000 and returned to a private residence.
Construction began in 1860 but delayed by the war. Mr. Kendall stopped keeping records of constructiuon cost when they went over $30,000.
The front entrance has double walnut doors, sidelights and transoms of ruby glass.
- from the Walking-Driving Tour brochure, Eufaula and Barbour County Chamber of Commerce
One of only three National Trust properties in East London. This used to be the knot garden, and now it's not.
New to Yorkshire Traction Group in 2005, this vehicle passed to Stagecoach in 2007. The 13-year old Volvo B7TL is pictured at the junction of Manor Road and Messingham Road, Ashby, near Scunthorpe on Saturday 16th June 2018.
Source The DiCamillo Companion to British and Irish Country Houses.
In 1874 Ferdinand purchased the Waddesdon and Winchendon estates from the Duke of Marlborough. The Waddesdon hillside was originally almost barren of trees; this was remedied by the planting of hundreds of fully-grown trees; sometimes requiring 16 horses to haul just one of the large trees (Ferdinand also had a special railroad built to haul the building materials to the top of the hill on which the House was built). Waddesdon is built of Bath stone and is designed in the French Renaissance style of the 16th century, with traces of the Loire Valley throughout the House. Baron Ferdinand once admitted that the towers of Waddesdon were borrowed from Maintenon, the chateau of the Duc de Noailles. The interiors were extravagantly done up in the French 18th century taste, with many rooms fitted out in historic paneling. The majority of the paneling came from historic Paris houses that were demolished in 1860s by Baron Haussmann as part of his improvements to the city during the reign of Napoleon III.Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. Source
Signalbox diagram from Manor Yard. This box controlled access at one end of Temple Mills Goods Yard in Stratford. On the left were wagons in the sorting sidings, after they had descended from the hump. To the right are the Departure Sidings.
I have built (a part of) Wayne Manor. I wanted to show how the rich Bruce Wayne lives over the well known bat cave. Round about 150.000 parts were used for this moc, mainly small bricks and plates - and over 10.000 jumper plates 1x2 and 2x2 in almost all colours.
More minfigures than usually were at Wayne Manor. There was an costume party, but the Joker invited himself and Bruce Wayne could not become the Dark Knight. So the rest of the bat family hat to solve the problem ...
Guy 'Utility' G 351, dating from 1945, was rather the star of the show on the route 101 running day. Here she pauses briefly in Whitta Road, Manor Park, having worked a short journey terminating there, before returning south to North Woolwich.
A small fleet of these buses was bought by LT after WW2 as a stop gap. They were built to a very basic specification, with bodies from a variety of builders, and lasted only about eight years, route 101 being the last on which the Gs saw service.
G 351, part of the London Bus Museum's collection, is the sole survivor of the class. It is a Guy Arab II with a Gardner 5LW engine and crash gearbox, and has Park Royal bodywork.
I was rostered as conductor in the afternoon, my driver being Leon Daniels, the LBM chairman and ex-MD Surface Transport for TfL (and master of the clutch and crash gearbox).
Route 101 running day organised by the London Bus Museum. www.londonbusmuseum.com/