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		<name>Les Auld</name>
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	<updated>2010-03-19T11:51:30Z</updated>
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				The lengths some people go to...
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				... to get that perfect picture. Bill genuflects before the lesser steam behemoth, GWR Pannier locomotive 5786, in order to find the fine detail for his post on wheels. 5786 is a 57xx class Pannier Tank engine built in 1929 and is seen on the back of a low loader in Kidderminster Yard, off to some other heritage railway, or perhaps back to it's home base on the South Devon railway.
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		<updated>2010-03-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				The Boathouse in the Park
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				Birkenhead Park, unsurprisingly in Birkenhead on the Wirral, is generally accepted as the world's first publicly funded civic park and has formed the model for many others around the world, including Central Park in New York. It was opened on the 5th April 1847. The lakes in the park are shaped so as to expose and hide the features such as the Boathouse and the Swiss Bridge as you walk around the lake. As far as I can tell there is not a Bandstand in the park.
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		<updated>2010-03-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				Another Park - Another Bandstand
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				Sefton Park is the premier park in Liverpool and has had a lot of money spent on it recently to improve the facilities there, This includes refurbishing the bandstand at the side of the lake.
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		<updated>2010-03-17T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				The Empty Bandstand
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				As part of the refurbishment in Stanley Park the bandstand has been given a make-over. I have seen a number of these around over the years but I do not remember ever seeing one used for it's intended purpose. Maybe I've just been in the right place at the wrong time.
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		<updated>2010-03-16T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				The Isla Gladstone Conservatory
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				Stanley Park, in Liverpool, is situated between the football grounds of Liverpool and Everton. Long been run down, parts of it just being a car park, it has recently undergone a grand facelift. The Park is one of Liverpool's most important historic parks, part of the city's heritage and it is listed by English Heritage as a Grade ll Park. Opened in 1870 the park had open fields and formal gardens with a grand Glasshouse and Bandstand. Renovation of the terraces and buildings started in 2007 and has more or less finished. The restored Isla Gladstone conservatory is named after the local artist and textile designer, famous for floral prints in the Arts and Crafts movement at the turn of last century. It is now used for events and functions, no longer housing exotic plants.
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		<updated>2010-03-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				The Old Ticket Collectors Booth
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				A picture I take regularly, especially when there is a sunset. The only remaining part of the old Princess Landing Stage in Liverpool, a couple of variants have been posted over the years. It is one of my favourite places in Liverpool, you can just imagine the many thousands of travellers that past by on their way to the liners, the Irish boats and the Isle of man boats that all left from Princess Landing Stage.
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		<updated>2010-03-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				An Orchid Update
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				Way back on the 5th January I posted a picture of an Orchid that is kept in the kitchen and not taken good care of. It is still flowering, the last bud is about to open and no other flower heads have dropped off. It has been watered precisely once, last week and is still doing well.
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		<updated>2010-03-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				I went back into Liverpool last night to hopefully get a decent picture of HMS Albion against a sunset but it was not to be. the sunset sort of fizzled out.What I did get though was a cloud of black smoke, a squawking tannoy system and then four fire engines. They did not stay too long though, perhaps it was just a chip pan fire.
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		<updated>2010-03-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				The ship now arriving in Liverpool
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				is HMS Albion, the name ship of the Royal Navy's Albion class of assault ships. Built as a Landing Platform Dock in 2001, she is designed to carry personnel and vehicles such as Hovercraft, Troop Carries and Tanks. More details can be found here. Aided by tugs Smit Waterloo, Smit Barbados and Thorngarth the arrival was very efficient, within an hour the ship had moored at the Cruise liner Facility, disembarked her Marine Commandos, started loading stores and rigging the ship for visitors. She is here for several days but unfortunately this time she will not be open to the public.
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		<updated>2010-03-11T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				The Severn Valley Limited
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				The Driver of ex GWR Manor Class7812, Erlestoke Manor, shuts off as it approaches Highley and the fireman prepare to pass over the single line access token to the signalman. A few more images from the gala may be found on my Flickr site here.
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		<updated>2010-03-10T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				The Last Train to Bridgenorth...
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				...... and I'm waiting at the Station Bewdley on a fine Sunday evening, Stanier Mogul 42968 arrives with the last train of the Spring Steam Gala. The event was part of the Great Western Railway 175 celebrations and many of the trains carried the headboards from famous trains of the past, the Cornishmann was just one of these, although perhaps a touch out of place in rural Shropshire.
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		<updated>2010-03-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				Another Sunday, this time on the SVR
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				The first Severn Valley Steam Gala of the year was held this weekend, Sunday turned out to be a fine day as Ivatt Class 4MT, 43106, also known as the flying pig, leaves Bewdley with a Kidderminster bound train. Built in the late 1940's/earl;y 1950s, 43106 was the last of its class to run on British Railways, being withdrawn on the 1st August 1968 just before the end of steam, going onto the SVR to spend more years in preservation than it did in mainline service. i also met up with Bill for an hour or so on Kidderminster station, a most pleasant interlude between trains.
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		<updated>2010-03-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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