Day to Day Info Site
Towards the end of the Fly Line at Hawke’s Nest are the remains of an old railway carriage, as shown below. This was for many years used as accommodation, by who I do not know, if anyone has information I would love to here about it.
The carriage was not one that graced the railway, that particular item ended its days in the garden of a house in Aberford, which house I am again unsure!… Read the full article
Another day of very heavy rain has washed tonnes of material down the valley of the River Crow. An unusual name for a very small river, more of a stream, it sounds as if it should be in Colorado, with mean faced Indians on horseback waiting to strike. Sadly the folk likely to strike hereabouts are gypsies, it seems they made off with a Quad bike from the local farm, also threatened the owners with “sticks”, so I’m told, when the farmer tried to recover his goods.… Read the full article
To cut down on the burden on my servers, I am delivering some of the content via Flickr, where I have almost 1,000 images stored, Generally they are a larger size than I would produce for my sites so if your interested click on the Flickr Badge lower down the page on the right.
A recent acquisition, is this charming print, by J Ayrton Symington, described by the vendor as an antique print from the end of the nineteenth century. Aberford House the earlier post, is behind the wall beyond the last property on the right, just past the cart parked on the roadside.
Aberford House, Main Street, Aberford, a former Gascoigne property, is probably the best example of how the stonework of the main elevation at Parlington was constructed, the window details are very similar, particularly the string course formed with the window cills. Also quoins are almost identical.… Read the full article
This image has been added using a new utility called Skitch, it’s still in Beta and I believe only available for Mac computers. It’s from the same people who make Comic Life, which has got to be one of the best “fun to use programmes” I’ve ever come across Plasq.com… Read the full article
For anyone who is interested there is a photograph of the Garforth Colliery on eBay at the moment. Ebay item 130189413153 Does anyone know which colliery it is? I think in may be Trench Pit.
I [Richard] have been doing a little bit of research regarding the wagons visible in the pictures of the Aberford Railway. Most of the open wagons cannot be identified beyond being typical open wagons of the era.
I’ve had more luck with the coal hoppers. The wagons in the foreground of the “Garforth Colliery” picture (Page 72, Hudson’s book) are NER Diagram P4 10.5 ton coal hoppers (some of the ones at the colliery look to be of the same type – the curved ends and general proportions are distinctive)
Many of these survived into LNER ownership, but they were virtually extinct by Nationalisation (1948).… Read the full article
A painting, by an unknown artist, from around the mid eighteenth century, another contribution by David Teal
