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Reading Routemaster bus

Gauges on a triple-expansion steam engine

Longer-term residents of Reading, Berkshire, may recognise this bus. The route shown on the...

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Uploaded on Jul 1, 2009

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On the Hathorn Davey engine at Twyford Waterwords near Winchester, Hants.

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Uploaded on Apr 26, 2009

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Open Font Library: new interface

Web of paper on a Fourdrinier machine

Coming to OFLB soon

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Uploaded on Nov 17, 2008

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At the Frogmore Mill, Apsley, Hemel Hempstead. This paper was liquid pulp about thirty seconds ago...

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Uploaded on Oct 28, 2008

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Wedges

Underneath the Castle

Iron wedges holding together the valve-gear of one of the stationary steam engines at Crofton...

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Uploaded on Oct 18, 2008

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Obiously not a stone castle with knights inside it. Taken at 'Steam' – the museum of the Great...

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Uploaded on Oct 18, 2008

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o keys

Full caps or not?

The o fell out the other day. Thanks to The Book Yard in Liverpool I was able to get another one...

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Uploaded on Oct 2, 2008

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I've now got two of these Bakerloo line route diagrams (unfortunately the mid-1990s one is...

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Uploaded on Sep 1, 2008

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Fishplates

Crops

At Bodmin

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Uploaded on Jul 19, 2008

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Uploaded on Jul 19, 2008

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A pile of rocks

Punches

At Portland Bill, Dorset. Pretty much in the middle of this view.

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Uploaded on Mar 15, 2008

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Type punches (Four-line size, I think) from the Caslon collection at St Bride Library. More at...

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Uploaded on Feb 23, 2008

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New shelves

Sea wall at Dymchurch

A unit from the rolling shelves installed at St Bride Library, London, in November 2007

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Uploaded on Dec 20, 2007

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Uploaded on Sep 24, 2007

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Show me the way to go home

Tyrannosaurus rex

Information overload on a roadsign in Gort, Co. Galway, Ireland

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Uploaded on Sep 11, 2007

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In the University Museum of Natural History, Oxford

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Uploaded on Aug 5, 2007

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Brownies

Look Mum, no wires

Yum.

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Uploaded on May 13, 2007

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It's all too much like the real West Coast Main Line. Triang 00 model about to zip round...

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Uploaded on Apr 24, 2007

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