A daily updated blog typed by someone with painty hands, oil under his fingernails and the smell of solder in his nostrils who likes making all sort of models and miniatures. And fixing things.
Sunday, December 01, 2019
Warley 2019
Warley this year nearly didn't start for me. Arriving on Friday afternoon on the train, I walked across the bridge connecting the NEC to the station. Passing through the security scanner, I set off the metal detector.
Not a real surprise, I've usually got metal things on me so I opened my bag to show the guards the collection of cameras and stuff I was lugging. All went well until they found my penknife.
Oh dear. It seems they had confiscated one earlier in the day.
I wasn't about to give it up. For a start, I bought this in Canada. It's a long way to go and get another.
Besides, it wasn't like I was going anywhere where sharp tools were rare.
Plan A formed. I could nip back to Wh Smith, buy some stamps and a jiffy bag and post it to myself.
Plan B. Just walk around the hall and go in the big doors.
Plan C - They radioed for someone to come and escort me to the hall. It seems that there was a kids event taking place, hence the enhanced security.
Anyway, once in the hall I met lots of people and did lots of chatting and took photos of models.
And I did the same on Saturday. Lots of chatting, and even more product photography.
On Sunday I processed all my photos and wrote many stories for World of Railways. With a Warley roundup newsletter going out on Monday, I needed to come up with at least 6 pages - I managed more than this!
All of which means I didn't see the show. At a guess, there is at least 1/4 of the hall I didn't find at all. There's a layout and 2 significant traders I missed entirely for a start.
So, all the photos I took were pretty much in passing. You can see them on Flickr.
Except, one job was to find some weird stuff - and you can read all about this here.
At least it wasn't an expensive show. I'll tell you what I bought tomorrow.
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3 comments:
What a wonderful model of an early M&GN loco. A Sharp Stewart originally built for the Cornwall Minerals Railway but taken back by Sharp's and converted to tender use and sold to the Lynn & Fakenham, one of the constituent parts of the M&GN. The last of the "Cornish Minerals", No. 12 was withdrawn in 1902. Nice to see East Anglian coal wagons from Moy and Fulcher in the background. Lovely !
Phil
The link to WoR doesn't work as you have misspelt weird
Link now fixed. Thanks.
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