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Nine years later

On 10 Apr 2020 By geoffspagesIn NT and EH, PhotographyLeave a comment

On 10 April 2011, we visited the “Victorian Town” at Blists Hill – another little outing that never made it to the blog. As well as the usual attractions, there was a visiting troupe of red-coated soldiers, who seemed far to ancient to be much military use.

Blists Hill Victorian Town

McClures General Drapers and Outfitting
A quiet moment by the canal
One horse power
It's a hard life
Mine in the woods
Old soldiers

Blists Hill: cold but sunny

On 09 Nov 201909 Nov 2019 By geoffspagesIn NT and EH, PhotographyLeave a comment

Friday: it’s a better day – bright and sunny, great for photography. It’s also very cold – we won’t hang around. Apart from one or two groups of schoolchildren, it’s quiet at Blists Hill. I think all the visitors are in the several houses – the doctor’s house, the squatters’ cottage, the toll house – in front of their warm fires.

Blists Hill Victorian Town

Canal Street end
Canal and mine
Ice-breaker
Poster wall
Back yard
Locksmith
Street scene
Bakery
Window
Spry Gloster
Cottage window - inside
Cottage window - outside
Squatter!
Needs a repaint?
Toll house
Coming home from work
Not today, thanks.
Two of a kind
Up the hill
Down the hill
Pork pies
Print shop
Way out

Blists Hill: a sunny afternoon

On 26 Mar 2019 By geoffspagesIn NT and EH, PhotographyLeave a comment

Monday 25 March: I arrived just as the school parties were leaving… It’s a bright sunny afternoon – perfect for a wander with the camera

Blists Hill Victorian Town

Iron merchants
Corbett and Co
Canal St. Post Office
Ready and waiting
The canal and Canal Street
Jack Crabtree
Looking out
Locksmith
Swingboats
Modern Supreme Pastimes
Squatter's cottage window
Squatter's cottage
Toll House
Copper kettle
Roundabout
Happy pig
Chimneys
At my feet!
Collar and Harness maker
Noted Pork Pies
Visiting the bank

Quiet days at Blists Hill

On 06 Feb 2019 By geoffspagesIn NT and EH, PhotographyLeave a comment

After 45231 (see previous post) – a visit to Blists Hill, making the most of a pleasant, bright afternoon. It’s very quiet here at this time of year – apart from the school parties, and they’re well-behaved. Must be the Victorian discipline…

Blists Hill Victorian Town

Quiet streets
No-one about
I blame Amazon
Canal
Winding engine...
... at the mine
Crabtree's
Mantelpiece
Porky
Beefy
School's out
Surprised!
Squatter's cockerel
Squatter's cottage
Window dressing
Inside the tin chapel
Outside the tin chapel
Mafeking relieved
Another look at Crabtree's
More porkies
Canal Street cart

Blists Hill miscellanea

On 23 Oct 2018 By geoffspagesIn NT and EH, PhotographyLeave a comment

Sunday 21 October: a brief wander around Blists Hill on an afternoon that started sunny. If the sun had continued to shine, we’d have spent longer…

Blists Hill Victorian Town

Visitors
Spry
Teasels
Cheeky
Chapel
Vertigo
Canal
Reflections

A Blists Hill miscellany

On 16 Feb 2018 By geoffspagesIn NT and EH, PhotographyLeave a comment

We’re wandering around Blists Hill with the camera…

Blists Hill Victorian Town

A few cans
Soap
Jars
Topp's copper
Easter bonnet?
Tie a yellow ribbon
Allsorts
Street scene
The mine
Ground floor please
Ledsham's cart
Billy
What have they found?
Old glass
Oink!

Steam at Blists Hill

On 20 Aug 2017 By geoffspagesIn Photography, Railways..., VideoLeave a comment

Just published to Geoff’s Rail Diaries – photos and a brief account of our visit this afternoon to Blists Hill, to see lots of fascinating steam-powered machinery in action. Go to “Blists Hill in steam” – now!

Blists Hill: a moment in time

On 24 May 201625 May 2016 By geoffspagesIn NT and EH, PhotographyLeave a comment

Mostly concentrating on the minor details at Blists Hill this afternoon – the place is over-run with coach-loads of school-children…

Blists Hill Victorian town

Brick, iron and wood
Sowing
Apple blossom
Window on another world
Three of a kind
Aquilegia
Red and yellow
A long way to Holyhead
Cloth head
Spry
The deck
Mr Watt's invention
Oil lamp
Day's work done
Crabtree's
Still life with jerrycan

October at Blists Hill

On 10 Oct 201510 Oct 2015 By geoffspagesIn NT and EH, PhotographyLeave a comment

A wander around the museum with the camera, on a fine sunny afternoon.

Blists Hill Victorian Town

Doorstep
Wheels
Victorian town
Rowland Percy Smitheman
Sunflower
Canal
Jack Crabtree
Water colour
We are not amused
Spry 1
Spry 2
Teasels
Knitting
Dottie and Tottie
Up the hill
Brass
Conversation
Casey

July at Blists Hill

On 07 Jul 2015 By geoffspagesIn NT and EH, PhotographyLeave a comment

A showery day – perhaps not ideal for a long walk. How about Blists Hill? – we haven’t been there for a while, and there’s plenty of shelter if it rains. (It didn’t…)

Blists Hill Victorian Town

Oils
Steam
Funfair
Boathouse
Loco
Bedside
Pigsty
Flaky
Yellow
Crane
Catching the wind
Cart
Pink pills

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