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Bacup Miscellany: 2nd: Prose and Verse by Local Writers Past and Present

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It's also very easy to become over-critical of ones own work, especially if you keep it to yourself. Instead, I aim to attempt to create a grotty looking mill town filled with terraced houses, mills, etc. There is another 10" deep scenic board that will be attached to the end, the frame of which is just poking into the photo.

The idea for the layout will be that the railway will be on the level of the station building, with the ground falling away in the direction of the platforms, the lowest point being a road underbridge and river passing under the railway just after the platform ends (the river being the reason for the valley, if you see what I mean). I went a bit mad with the glazing and cut each window to size and inserted / glued them into the recesses - something I never want to do again. The track plan (everyone loves a track plan) is not an exact copy of Bacup, but uses the basic layout of the station. The layout is (or will be) L shaped; 13' x 3 for the main scenic area and 11' x 2 for the fiddle yard end. As such, I've started to build a row to replace the cafe, and these will start to climb the hill rather than remaining level (as the cafe row did for it's full 9 house length).

I also started to add rudimentary column bases to the station canopy and affixed it (and the platform buildings) to the platform. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. There was another lady who was able to show the photos to her grandmother and found pictures of the lady’s husband. Paint the slates with watercolours or watered down acrylics, applying numerous very thin washes to avoid 'planking' - where the vertical gap between each slate gets fulled with paint and disappears.

We will make comparisons between the different monarchs and ask questions about power and how it is exercised as well as how control works in government. The Festival’s main aim is to attract and expose visitors to the beauty, heritage and culture of Rossendale. g. required to be where battens will be) and ensuring a steady curve that also included a curved crossover that did not fall below the minimum radius of at least 600mm.Closed to passengers beyond Bury by BR in 1972, the line to Rawtenstall still functions under the heritage East Lancashire Railway.

G. Gammell's "LMS Branch Lines 1945-1965" some years ago, so I'm enjoying your continuing account of the building of a model version.The slide show tradition dates back to at least October 1937, when the society celebrated moving into new premises at the former Zion Baptist Church by producing a lantern show of ‘Bacup Past and Present’ for posterity. Street begins to climb earlier and then levels out (although still an inch or so below track level). Around the many mills houses grew like weeds, built in a hurry on any land available no need to worry about sanitation or the view as one of the mill masters said " Houses were not made for living in: the mill was where they lived. In total, it took over three months (including the station building itself and the platform) and still needs a bit more weathering and detail adding.

As mentioned in my original post, I am tackling a number of the buildings first for a number of reasons, the main one being that I want to build the railway around the town, rather than the other way round and end up with a compromise, where buildings are slotted in to fit around the railway, not always in a prototypical style (e. In addition, pupils undertake a period study focusing on conflict and tension: the inter-war years, 1918–1939. Once happy with it, I cut out the side sections and then the plastic rodding to the width, with plastikard for the non-glazed sections. That evening, with the girlfriend out on the beer and me home alone (I know, something not quite right there), I pressed on with the curved crossover, which proved to be quite tricky to get right but with a few choice words that the swear filter doesn't like and a few adjustments, I got there in the end.Opened by the East Lancashire Railway, it was taken over by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway following the former's merger, and it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The Industrial Revolution transformed Bacup in to a prosperous Mill Town, with many large cotton mills benefiting from the close proximity to the River Irwell, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and the growth of the regional railway network. Construction of these is as follows (with no real difference between the plastikard and mounting board formed ones).

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