Tar tunnel and Hay incline in Coalport near Telford. #tourism #coalport #taytunnel #hayincline #telford #samsungs10 #samsung #rural #countryside #industrial #instalike (at Coalport) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnbyRxKoSZt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
The Shropshire Canal at Coalport was created in 1793 to allow tub boats of coal from the Shropshire coalfields to be transferred onto river boats (called ‘sprys’) in order that it could be sailed down to Bristol and then on to the worldwide market. Workers were needed to operate this riverside trans-shipment port and so dwellings were built to house them – and thus the village of Coalport…
I had to put the trains away yesterday because my Christmas vacation ended and I had to go back to work, but I took one last video for the autistic trans girls in my phone before I did. Enjoy this short video of a pair of road diesels pulling a mixed freight.
The Bethgon Coalporters are empty because I don't have loads of coal to put in them, and I don't have enough to make a full coal train, so I supplemented them with some boxcars and covered grain hoppers. Every train I run at the moment is a mixed freight because I don't have enough freight cars of any given type. Alas.
Jeweled Coalport Porcelain Demitasse Cup and Saucer, England, late 19th century, quatrefoil-shaped cup with square saucer, each with ivory ground decorated with raised gold scrolled foliage bordering white jewel framed cartouches polychrome enamel-decorated with birds, printed crown mark
Beautiful figurines of Anne Boleyn and her daughter Elizabeth in their Coronation Robes. Anne was actually marketed as Lady Jane Grey, but without doubt, that is Genevieve Bujold as Anne from the film Anne of The Thousand Days 👑👑 Anne was crowned at Westminster Abbey by Archbishop Cranmer on June 1st 1533 when she was approx 5 months pregnant with her daughter. With Elizabeth, there was a slight problem in actually finding a Bishop to crown her (as the Archbishop of Canterbury had rather inconveniently decided to die on the same day as Mary I). Eventually the Bishop of Carlise was "persuaded" to perform the ceremony and Elizabeth was crowned on January 15th 1559. Anne figurine by Coalport, Elizabeth by Royal Worcester