Polyrus' photos

...but there is something not quite right with it. It's either inside-out, back to front or upside down. Irrespective of my confusion, I wish everybody HFF.

Mendip Vale, Somerset

By the side of the A36 road near Chitterne, where the fields are anything but plain.

I was precariously balanced on the back of a wooden bench, so that I could take an uninterrupted shot over the 2m high fence ...of the marvellous Battledown Flyover (built 1897), when out of nowhere a steam hauled train encroached on the scene. Such is life. HFF!

St Mary the Virgin, Parish Church of Swanage. HFF folks!

1D or 50p, two eras in one plus it's doubling as a mail box!

...and Brandon Hill Park fence, in Bristol. HFF!

The brickwork gives a sense of scale yet I think the fence is to to deter scaling. HFF!

HFF to all.

...on the East Lancs Railway in 1995. This loco colloquially known as a 'crab' was built in 1927 and withdrawn from service by British Railways at the end of 1966. Almost twelve years later it was rescued from a scrapyard in south Wales and restored. HFF!

The scene looking through my window into the next plot. The demolition of the nice 1950s bungalow took 3 months and on the same footprint the construction of 4 x 3-storey town houses will take another 3 months! All this follows on from a similar project which lasted for 4 months over the winter in the plot on the other side of here. Not exactly a comfortable environment but many have a far greater suffering to contend with. It is unlikely I will be able to reply to all comments today but I will try. HFF with best wishes to all.

...with the last passenger service to Hayling Island 03-11-1963 A scan from an acquired Agfacolor slide still in its original card mount.

A scan from the original Agfa slide showing the A1X 'Terrier' loco 32636 leaving Havant with the last "Hayling Billy" branch line passenger train to Hayling Island 3rd November 1963. The line was soon ripped up after this event and the bridge across Langstone Harbour was blown up, although the foundations survive to this day. So does the Terrier loco which was withdrawn shortly after this day and was at the time the oldest locomotive working on British Railways (having been built in 1872). It is now preserved on the Bluebell Railway in East Sussex where it arrived early in 1964. HFF and enjoy the day, although the UK weather is not expected to be as good as in this November shot.

HFF to the people!

...fenced off from the jungle. HFF!

...at Chinnor station. HFF! Explored!

HFF! Surprisingly Explored!

A French styled Benedictine Abbey designed by a French architect. Napolean lll rests inside, in a crypt paid for by Queen Victoria. I would have preferred to have stood further back so as to include more of the gargoylantuan building, but that would entail chopping down a few oak trees. Explored!