Tag Archives: Wiltshire

stories of cranes trains and model planes

Way out West

3 Mar ’13

Stories of cranes, trains and model planes…

Grail Trail

17 Aug ’12

Afterwards, nothing would quite be the same again…

Sub Depot 3 Monkton Farleigh was the largest of the WW2 Central Ammunition Depots of Wiltshire. Districts 19 and 20 remain unconverted to modern storage, and plenty of artefacts have survived the years of vandalism and metal theft. Titular source

This way to the Crown Jewels

14 Nov ’10

Though we were 60 years too late!

Pupae

8 Oct ’10

The giant insect slipped back into it’s brick-lined bore and slumbered…

MOD Stores

3 Oct ’10

At one time, this street in a Secret Underground City somewhere out west, would have been full of Mods, buying the latest in fish-tailed khaki fashions. Sadly shut since 1994.

Beyond Crane Country

29 Sep ’10

We’re hanging out with Shacklepot Neddy, undisturbed for over 50 years.

incline

18 Sep ’10

The presence of a large fault meant that the quarry was worked on two levels. This is one of the two inclines that connected the upper and lower levels.