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This is one of the walls at the Gallery showing most of the Love Tokens. Definitely was a great reception. These were blank thin wooden hearts, and about 20 different artists did whatever they
wanted to paint or collage or both to them. Even I did four, but I must admit it's not my "bag", and I didn't have fun doing them. Mine are the pathetic ones on the far right!
Arriving at Medstead and Four Marks station, former British Railways class 9F locomotive, 92212 is about to exchange the token giving permission to porceed with its train towards Alton.
Former British Railways class 9F steam locomotive, number 92212 is seen arriving at Medstead, and the top of the stiff climb from Ropley, with service to Alton.
The British Railways Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 was designed for BR by Robert Riddles. The 9F’s were the last in a series of standardised locomotive classes designed for BR during the 1950s, and was intended for use on fast, heavy freight trains over long distances. It was one of the most powerful locomotive types ever constructed in Britain and successfully performed its intended duties.
At various times during the 1950s, the 9Fs worked passenger trains with great success, indicating the versatility of the design, considered to represent the ultimate in British steam development. Several variants were constructed for experimentation purposes in an effort to reduce costs and maintenance, although these met with varying degrees of success. The total number built was 251, production being shared between Swindon (53) and Crewe Works (198). The last of the class, 92220 Evening Star, was the final steam locomotive to be built by BR, in 1960. Withdrawals began in 1964, with the final locomotives removed from service in 1968. Several examples have survived into the preservation era in varying states of repair, including Evening Star.
The 9F was designed at both Derby and Brighton Works in 1951 to operate freight trains of up to 900 tons (914 tonnes) at 35 mph (56 km/h) with maximum fuel efficiency. The original proposal was for a boiler from the BR Standard Class 7 Britannia 4-6-2, adapting it to a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement, but Riddles eventually settled upon a 2-10-0 type because it had been successfully utilised on some of his previous Austerity locomotives; distributing the adhesive weight over five axles gave a maximum axle load of only 15 tons, 10 cwt. However, in order to clear the rear coupled wheels the grate had to be set higher, thus reducing firebox volume.
There were many problems associated with locomotives of such a long wheelbase, but these were solved by the design team through a series of compromises. The driving wheels were 5 feet 0 inches (1.5 m) in diameter, and the centre driving wheels were without flanges, whilst those on the second and fourth coupled wheels were reduced in depth. This enabled the locomotive to round curves of a radius as small as 400 feet (120 m). 92212 carries the Bath Green Park (82F) shed code where she was based for a short period in 1961. Whilst there she worked over the Somerset & Dorset hauling trains such as the ‘Pines Express’.
Mid Hants Railway, 1940s weekend
Medstead and Four Marks, Hampshire, UK
26th December 2015.
Un token (jeton) d'un 1/2 penny de Dymchurch dans le Kent au Royaume-Uni.
A/ Initiales WP ; au dessus, mouton à gauche ; ROMNEY MARSH HALFPENNY . 1794
R/ La Justice avec le plateau et l'épée ; FOR THE HONOR AND USE OF TRADE.
Tranche : PAYABLE AT W. PARRIS DIMCHURCH .X.X.X.
Diamètre : 28.5 mm Poids : 9.8 g.
Référence : P.Seaby & M.Bussell Kent 15
These are one of my most popular items at this time of year. New photos to re-launch the tokens for the 2012 festive season!
After all the jewelry the Purple Mage was obliged to wear as status markers, this little token of devotion is that much more precious to Nightowl.
July 1943
A publicity photograph depicting a female Pacific Electric Railway Company employee with a large quantity of tokens. Purpose of publicity photo is unknown.
Hindu temple token from India, probably made in the first half of the 20th century. Obverse shows Rama and Sita, while the reverse shows the monkey god Hanuman.
With the sun entirely in the wrong place, visiting mainline Class 37/4 no. 37418 'An Comunn Gaidhealach' is seen accelerating away from a token exchange at New Bridge signal box, working 2G06 the 12:09 Pickering to Grosmont service.
37418 visited the line curtesy of it's owner as well as LORAM, it's operator.
Taken during the North Yorkshire Moors Railway's 2024 diesel gala.
This week's Creative Thursday assignment prompted me to write up a very simple baby sweater knitting recipe that I've had spread across scribbled notes for the last year and a half. My intention was to pull together a very, very simple baby sweater that could be knit with any yarn on hand, straight needles and little to no seaming (you seem a max of 8 stitches in this pattern!). Meaning, above all else, you could knit one very, very quickly (I scribbled all those notes in the midst of a baby boom across my friends and family).
Of course, so far, I've been the only test-knitter and it makes PERFECT sense to me, so if someone DOES knit this up, I would love to see pictures, get feedback, etc. Thank you!
The bathrooms at the Stack's in Menlo Park are in a publicly accessible part of the building, so they use tokens to keep homeless people from sleeping in them.
Round wooden disc with small hole in center. Blue in color. Stamped in both sides the following: "MEAT" above hole in disk, "VIANDE" below hole, "CANADA" along the top curve of the disk, "RATION" along the bottom curve.
The practice of rationing was practiced in Canada from 1939-1947. Meat was rationed from May 27, 1943 to February 29, 1944 and from September 9, 1945 to March 26, 1947. The second period of meat rationing gave rise to the holed, blue "meat ration" token, a pressed-wood token given as change as one-eighth of a weekly meat ration coupon.
A 1s/- token with 'WM. Lees Smithfield Market Birmingham' on. Not sure of it's age, however Smithfield Market is long gone demolished in the 1960/70s, now the location of the newer outdoor Bullring markets or thereabouts. This was found in a collection of other random coins/tokens of my grandmothers in West Bromwich, however I'd love more information on this, what it was used for, who is WM Lees, how old it actually might be?