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[Lizzie_Zoom]

Looking at that St.Julien advert for cigarettes - i had no idea how open victorian society was to homosexuality 

Have a look when you can BJ at the Camp Coffee adverts!!  Talk about a hidden signals!!

It is I am sure where the term and description "camp" for certain men came from!

[The Red Baron]

All say ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!





I know we're skint but bubbles for dinner? Kinnel.



Right. Let's see how long this little bastaard can hold it's breath.

brilliant.

[The Red Baron]

signwriting is something i took up at an early age, ive done a few shop signs & many a static steam & loco/ engine lining out mainly for bass museum. not done owt for years now though.
so, not a totally lost skill.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

signwriting is something i took up at an early age, ive done a few shop signs & many a static steam & loco/ engine lining out mainly for bass museum. not done owt for years now though.
so, not a totally lost skill.

Now that is a skill I admire RB!  On the Mid Hants Railway I used to watch the experts line out, and transfer up engines and their tenders, a few of them having done it in BR days.  What a delightful art, and the results on a well painted loco were stunning 8-) 8-)

[The Red Baron]

& almost theraputic/relaxing tbh. i really did enjoy it.
i remember one day when i was at bass lining the robey tandem compound engine out, a lady came in & thought i was one of those dummies that museums have, until i moved, ha did she scream. 
i was good friends with ernie taylor, an ex br signwriter. he has done many a loco all over the country. strange how br laid him off then he went back to derby loco(when it was there) contracting painting loco,s.  8-)

[Auto Addict]

When I was a lad, a couple of roads away was a company called The Patent Enamel Company, who used to make those signs.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

When I was a lad, a couple of roads away was a company called The Patent Enamel Company, who used to make those signs.

You may then be interested in this piece on that company AA which I found fascinating:
http://streetjewellery.org/home/patent.html

[Auto Addict]

When I was a lad, a couple of roads away was a company called The Patent Enamel Company, who used to make those signs.

You may then be interested in this piece on that company AA which I found fascinating:
http://streetjewellery.org/home/patent.html

Thank Lizzie

[Lizzie_Zoom]

This is to me a prime, lovely and beautiful example of loco lining out at its best that Red Barron has touched on. 

It is U Class 31806 on "my" railway, the Mid-Hants Railway at Ropley.  One of many I have seen patiently lined out by hand by the experts, although the BR crest is in transfer form, but has to be applied with great care.



and Bullied West Country Pacific Bodmin 34016 also at Ropley



 8-) 8-) 8-)