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« Reply #270 on: December 24, 2018, 17:14:32 »

By the way, Grahame - I do not recall ever have seen an answer to 10.3. My immediate thoughts were on the S&C (Settle and Carlisle ). If the answer hasn't been disclosed can you let us know, please?

Loved the quiz. Thankyou
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« Reply #271 on: December 24, 2018, 17:43:23 »

Many thanks for yet another excellent quiz Grahame.

With reference to 24.1, I will always remember the station announcer at Exeter St Davids and his pronunciation of Ilfracombe. This probably doesn't convey it that well but it was phonetically...........

Ill-fra-com-bee   

spoken very quickly, but with most emphasis on the final syllable (as in the honey variety)
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« Reply #272 on: December 24, 2018, 18:55:20 »

1.1 Westbury; 1.3 Chippenham; 2.1 Kirkby Stephen West; 2.3 Pilning; 3.1 New Passage Halt; 3.3 Salisbury; 4.1 Gomshall; 4.3 Oldfield Park; 5.1 Holt; 5.3 Exeter St Thomas; 6.1 Eggesford; 6.3 Hayle; 7.1 Castle Cary; 7.3 Ashchurch; 8.1 Thingley Junction; 8.3 Athenry; 9.1 Maidenhead; 9.3 Borth; 10.1 Melksham; 10.3 STILL TO BE GUESSED; 11.1 Newbury; 11.3 Lincoln; 12.1 Masbury; 12.3 Okehampton; 13.1 Corris; 13.3 Bedwyn; 14.1 Taunton; 14.3 Southampton Central; 15.1 Bristol Temple Meads; 15.3 Severn Beach; 16.1 Plymouth; 16.3 Bridgwater; 17.1 Portland; 17.3 Basingstoke; 18.1 Patchway; 18.3 Altnabraec; 19.1 Aberystwyth; 19.3 Liskeard; 20.1 Worcester Foregate Street; 20.3 Gatwick Airport; 21.1 Calne; 21.3 Newquay; 22.1 Porthmadog; 22.3 Kyle of Lochalsh; 23.1 Montpelier; 23.3 Looe; 24.1 Ilfracombe; 24.3 STILL TO BE GUESSED.



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By the way, Grahame - I do not recall ever have seen an answer to 10.3. My immediate thoughts were on the S&C (Settle and Carlisle ). If the answer hasn't been disclosed can you let us know, please?

Loved the quiz. Thankyou

Santa has the answers on a slip of paper in his bag, and will be leaving that slip at Melksham with me just before he heads off to Tonfanau.  I will add them when the children dogs wake us if no-one has before.

10.3


24.3


25.1


25.3
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« Reply #273 on: December 24, 2018, 19:20:56 »

25.3 is Taunton, I mean Melksham
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« Reply #274 on: December 24, 2018, 19:26:15 »

25.3 is Taunton, I mean Melksham

So is 25.1!
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« Reply #275 on: December 24, 2018, 19:33:12 »

25.1 Is that 92220 Evening Star? If so it's between 1960 and 1965.
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« Reply #276 on: December 24, 2018, 19:39:28 »

25.1 Is that 92220 Evening Star? If so it's between 1960 and 1965.

That would fit with the date I was thinking of (not that it was actually asked for) - 1963, on the grounds that a high proportion of the days with snow lying from the date in the 50s when some of the track around the goods shed was lifted to 1966 were in 1963.
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« Reply #277 on: December 24, 2018, 20:24:55 »

25.1 Is that 92220 Evening Star? If so it's between 1960 and 1965.

That would fit with the date I was thinking of (not that it was actually asked for) - 1963, on the grounds that a high proportion of the days with snow lying from the date in the 50s when some of the track around the goods shed was lifted to 1966 were in 1963.

mmm.  Think that might just be over-exposure (of the print that is)..... Tongue
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« Reply #278 on: December 24, 2018, 20:59:20 »

25.1 Is that 92220 Evening Star? If so it's between 1960 and 1965.

That would fit with the date I was thinking of (not that it was actually asked for) - 1963, on the grounds that a high proportion of the days with snow lying from the date in the 50s when some of the track around the goods shed was lifted to 1966 were in 1963.

mmm.  Think that might just be over-exposure (of the print that is)..... Tongue

17th October 1964 according to my source - so, yes, over-exposure.  Overall picture quality is not great (!) though the content is fascinating
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« Reply #279 on: December 24, 2018, 21:07:08 »

Snow was recorded in October 1964,  if  the 18th was the perhaps the 8th or 28th, looking at the sheds in the background quite possibly IS snow.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/mohippo/pdf/j/k/oct1964.pdf

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« Reply #280 on: December 24, 2018, 21:12:12 »

25.1 Is that 92220 Evening Star? If so it's between 1960 and 1965.

That would fit with the date I was thinking of (not that it was actually asked for) - 1963, on the grounds that a high proportion of the days with snow lying from the date in the 50s when some of the track around the goods shed was lifted to 1966 were in 1963.

mmm.  Think that might just be over-exposure (of the print that is)..... Tongue

17th October 1964 according to my source - so, yes, over-exposure.  Overall picture quality is not great (!) though the content is fascinating

Is it me, or have the nameplates already been plundered? They should be on the smoke deflector, shouldn't they?
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« Reply #281 on: December 25, 2018, 03:27:11 »

Santa has the answers on a slip of paper in his bag, and will be leaving that slip at Melksham with me just before he heads off to Tonfanau.  I will add them when the children dogs wake us if no-one has before.

10.3 is Llandrindod

24.3 is Leeds

Billy and Gypsy both wanted to check the garden ... is it really morning already?    Happy Christmas everyone!
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« Reply #282 on: December 26, 2018, 19:56:42 »

Santa has the answers on a slip of paper in his bag, and will be leaving that slip at Melksham with me just before he heads off to Tonfanau.  I will add them when the children dogs wake us if no-one has before.

10.3 is Llandrindod

24.3 is Leeds

Billy and Gypsy both wanted to check the garden ... is it really morning already?    Happy Christmas everyone!

Looking at those "before and after" shots of Melksham, those single-storey buildings on the right of the 9F have survived - albeit looking in need of some TLC (three letter code ). Also in the far distance two of the industrial buildings appear still to be there beyond the housing.

What was the industry?
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« Reply #283 on: December 26, 2018, 21:28:51 »

Looking at those "before and after" shots of Melksham, those single-storey buildings on the right of the 9F have survived - albeit looking in need of some TLC (three letter code ). Also in the far distance two of the industrial buildings appear still to be there beyond the housing.

What was the industry?

From the Wiltshire Times - a 2006 archive

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Once one of the largest employers in the town, Spencer (Melksham) Ltd started as a small works at the corner of Union Street and Bank Street.

The company moved to the Beanacre site in 1903 and before the Second World War they had built up a reputation internationally for many aspects and techniques of mechanical handling. In the immediate post war years, work was devoted to re-establishment of peace-time trade and by the 1950s the demand for Spencer equipment both home and overseas was heavy.

Heavy workloads in 1956 led to the modernisation and extension of both the head office and works, the establishment of a research and development section and a canteen was also constructed. In 1962, the company became a member of the Elliott Automation Group of Companies (later GEC Mechanical Handling).

The business closed in 1990 with part of the site becoming a retail centre.

I recall walking around the old docks in Dublin and seeing a lift bridge with a maker's plate "Spencers, Melksham" ...

A picture from the archive and a map from the second world war.   My wife has become something of an expert on Spencer's having catalogues much of their archive for the Swindon and Wiltshire history centre ...



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« Reply #284 on: December 26, 2018, 21:39:22 »

Looking at those "before and after" shots of Melksham, those single-storey buildings on the right of the 9F have survived - albeit looking in need of some TLC (three letter code ). Also in the far distance two of the industrial buildings appear still to be there beyond the housing.

What was the industry?

From the Wiltshire Times - a 2006 archive

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Once one of the largest employers in the town, Spencer (Melksham) Ltd started as a small works at the corner of Union Street and Bank Street.

The company moved to the Beanacre site in 1903 and before the Second World War they had built up a reputation internationally for many aspects and techniques of mechanical handling. In the immediate post war years, work was devoted to re-establishment of peace-time trade and by the 1950s the demand for Spencer equipment both home and overseas was heavy.

Heavy workloads in 1956 led to the modernisation and extension of both the head office and works, the establishment of a research and development section and a canteen was also constructed. In 1962, the company became a member of the Elliott Automation Group of Companies (later GEC Mechanical Handling).

The business closed in 1990 with part of the site becoming a retail centre.

I recall walking around the old docks in Dublin and seeing a lift bridge with a maker's plate "Spencers, Melksham" ...

A picture from the archive and a map from the second world war.   My wife has become something of an expert on Spencer's having catalogues much of their archive for the Swindon and Wiltshire history centre ...





Wow! Thanks for posting, Graham.
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