Re: Wykeham - Somewhere in the south!
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 3:17 pm
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Barry - your “Mankyness” know no bounds - nice jobbulleidboy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 3:17 pm I hope this looks "manky" enough?
IMG_0763 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr
Quite some boss. My Christmas Bonus was not being sacked.bulleidboy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 5:20 pm It's been a wet old day today, so I have been having a bit of a tidy-up, and also re-arranging things in the stock cupboard. You may recall that I collected loco's before building a layout a few years ago, and working a ten minute walk from Beatties flag-ship store (later to become ModelZone) the collection grew and grew! It also helped that my boss was a French Hornby fan - so it was a surprise at Christmas 2005 when I was presented with this:
IMG_0748 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr
This loco joined an LMS Class 5 No.5000 - one of the first, if not the first loco Hornby produced with a DCC Socket:
IMG_0750 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr
In 2007 the "boss" presented me with this at Christmas:
IMG_0741 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr
A few more loco's that have been sitting in the cupboard for over ten years in some cases.
IMG_0749 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr
IMG_0744 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr
Where would a collection be without a Flying Scotsman
IMG_0747 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr
The Dapol Terrier was a gift from a dear, sadly deceased neighbour. Eric was the south of England Sales representative for Hornby - his "patch" stretched from Margate to Weymouth.
IMG_0751 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr