7mm Pencarrow - Cornish BR(S)

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Yorkshire Dave

Yorkshire Dave

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Stubby47 said:
Re the sloped path. When wandering around many of the Cornish towns & villages, it's quite often a path will turn in to steps rather than be just a slope.This may be due to the steepness of the terrain, and your path may not need steps, but maybe a test piece could be used to view the options?
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After studying the historic photos and track plans from earlier in the thread I would be inclined to go for steps as the sloped path crosses the track which would have entered the large building at the end.

Unless of course the sloped path was added after the track modifications which in reality would have been unlikely as the contractors would have wanted to do the minimum work as possible to unconnected earthworks.

However, rule 1 applies!
 
Paul Cambridge

Paul Cambridge

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In the village of Broadbottom, east of Manchester, there is a path quaintly called Gibble Gabble. It descends the steep side of the Etherow valley to the Main Street. The surface is cobbles! The steepest part at the bottom is cobbled steps which are really uneven. There is a retaining wall there with a wonky handrail. When it’s wet, descending the path is quite hair raising. If a path was built at Pencarrow, then it could date from the time of the warehouses, circa 1830. So cobbles could be a possibility. As an aside, Broadbottom has a station on the former Woodhead route, to put its location into context.
 
simond

simond

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Horses, donkeys and the like can walk up and down stepped paths, particularly cobbled ones, reasonably easily (they even make it to the higher floors of buildings under construction in India, as I discovered to my surprise, when inspecting our new soon-to-be offices some years back) but carts don't like steps. Is there any reason why a cart should need to go up or down that path?

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Simon
 
Pencarrow

Pencarrow

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Weird happenings... Or a timewarp?

Yesterday morning I ordered some bits from York Model Making. They arrived today. Fantastic service.

That's not the weird thing though...

I was about to recycle the envelope and I noticed that one of the stamps was marked 10 1/2p. Strange I thought. So I've just looked up the stamp and it's two companions...

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From left to right they appear to have been issued 25/01/1978, 01/01/2000 and 10/04/2002.

Surely it's not usual to post letters using 40 year old stamps?! Has somebody in admin found the owner's mint stamp collection and mistook it for the ones to use.
 
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Peter Cross

Peter Cross

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Stamps unlike coinage do not have a best before date. As long as they have not been franked they are worth their face value. As far as I can remember from my collecting days.
 
Pencarrow

Pencarrow

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Just seems strange to have stamps sitting around unused for 20-40yrs. Their value mint, unused seems to be about twice the face value. Pity they used them. I do remember getting the 1978 one as part of a first day cover set.

I've sent York Modelmaking an email asking them to put me out of my misery and explain where they came from.
 
Paul Cambridge

Paul Cambridge

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Pencarrow said:
Just seems strange to have stamps sitting around unused for 20-40yrs. Their value mint, unused seems to be about twice the face value. Pity they used them. I do remember getting the 1978 one as part of a first day cover set.

I've sent York Modelmaking an email asking them to put me out of my misery and explain where they came from.
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You should of seen what we found when I cleared out my late father’s house. Old unused stamps from the year dot. Also packs (about 20) of 50 x 1/2p coins from 1971 when decimal coinage came in! Then there was the fiver in an Easter card that they were supposed to share with myself and my family from goodness knows when. Also Christmas cards from 1963 because one of the ladies they received one from died the following February. Nowt so queer as folk as they say in Yorkshire.
 
Pencarrow

Pencarrow

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Had a reply from York Modelmakers... They were indeed part of a large family collection. Dealers offered about 1/10th of the face value so they have been using them for postage. Such a shame that collections such as that have no real value these days. Goes to show that if you do collect stuff it's best to enjoy it in your own lifetime.
 
Peter Insole

Peter Insole

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Nice one Chris! There is a perfect link between your "quick sketch", the 15 1/2p stamp and your comment about lifetimes?!

Life is indeed short, and 1978 can feel like it was only yesterday, yet look where we have come since then? That stamp was made back in the day when there were almost innumerable commercial artists and illustrators in proper employment at studios all over the place!

We can do no more about that than simply sigh and shrug our shoulders.

Mind you, apparently, the dodgy dealers are still around and doing just fine by the look of it though?

Bitter and twisted; me?

Pete.
 
Pencarrow

Pencarrow

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Not done much at all in the last few days as have felt decidedly off-colour. I have however gone through the Pencarrow thread and added a load of "threadmarks". Should help me find stuff!
 
Paul Cambridge

Paul Cambridge

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Pencarrow said:
Got one on order with LLC... In green...
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As a spotty youth growing up in Cornwall, the sight of another D63xx brought an internal groan. Westerns and Warships please! I suppose all of those responsible for the cutting of 6319 are no longer of this world. I’ve got no one to vent my spleen at now. Still, maybe the group trying to build one may succeed.
 
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