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[crystal palace fireworks]

Now no laughing! I've been honing my Blue Peter skills & building a scale model of the current proposed layout. It will help visualise things & particularly help the artist doing our artists impression. I will probably bring it along to the AGM.

Not quite finished, but take a look anyway:

Part finished or not, Im impressed, makes me want to play with me Hornby,...ooh er, perhaps I should rephrase that!

[phildunford]

Well, this is what it will look like - just need to build it now!

[starseeker]

Well, this is what it will look like - just need to build it now!

Looks really good.

[Vic]

Well, this is what it will look like - just need to build it now!

A brilliant way to set the mood for the era, with what looks like water colours and please give the artist a pat on the back from me.
I like the telegraph poles they add to the scene and fit in well, didn’t someone from around here have have a hobby collecting antique telephone equipment?

[phildunford]

A brilliant way to set the mood for the era, with what looks like water colours and please give the artist a pat on the back from me.
I like the telegraph poles they add to the scene and fit in well, didn’t someone from around here have have a hobby collecting antique telephone equipment?

Thanks Vic... Pat will be given!

All the power to the Wells site was supplied by overhead wires and we have recovered several of the poles complete with insulators.

We will include these on the buildings if only as dummies, though it might be possible to actually supply power on them...

[phildunford]

Here's an old picture of Joyce Green where you can see the supply cables and blast walls, bright side on the right black side on the left

[crystal palace fireworks]

who`s the artist?

[Bob Twells]

The scale model and artist's impressions both look great, good work!

[phildunford]

OK, just done a bit of an update on the website:


www.wellsatamberley.org

Please take a look, tell your friends, tell your family, facebook it, anything else it, and generally let the world know!

Edited by phildunford, 16 March 2011 - 03:41 PM.

[fruitfulsteve]

Quick update on this. Arthur Brown and myself visited Amberly today to check up on the condition of the huts.

 

Good news: they are still in surprisingly good condition !!

 

Bad news: they still need a home and manpower to move them there !!

 

Any volunteers and/or suggestions ??

[Bob Twells]

Happy to help with manpower when possible. No new ideas on where to move them to though

[fruitfulsteve]

Thanks Bob

[Mortartube]

Would the Waltham Abbey gunpowder mills be a possible site? They have lots of room.

[Bob Twells]

Would the Waltham Abbey gunpowder mills be a possible site? They have lots of room.

Discussions along those lines have been underway recently, along with some other locations, but no positive news as yet.

[Vic]

I believe it didn’t get of the ground, it would need to be a commercial venture and that costs a lot.

I don't know what happened to the money that was raised by donation.

 

The sheds were in a pretty dilapidated condition probably hardly worth saving. It's a shame that it didn’t happen.

Edited by Vic, 13 January 2015 - 10:29 PM.