Don't know about that Allan, they're  ten inch, 45 deg, I think they look steeper in the pictures……anyway,  we have strong legs in Wales :lol:

Phil

Painted, with some bits added.

 

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Phil, you've done some really brilliant work on the bridge with the stone steps and the surrounding scenery is very good, the large Leigh poster is a nice touch. Keep the photo's coming and keep up the good work.

Thanks Barney, but caught you out with the Leigh poster, it's actually Raleigh :lol:

 

Phil

Hi Phil,

The bridge looks fantastic and it will look even better once it is bedded in properly. The painted brickwork is first class. :thumbs

Cheers, Gary.

Thanks Gary, the hand railings should add a bit, also foliage,  ivy and anything else I can think of, any ideas?

 

Phil

 

Good stuff these Wills sheets!

 

That's a fair cop Phil, I should have noticed the corner of the poster drooping over. Teach me to pay more attention to detail in future! :oops:

Solved the space problem but i'm stumped as to what to put in the new area?

 

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Miners cottages…! These could back onto the railway line with small yards, market gardens, trash etc. The workers need to live somewhere and you now have provided a pedestrian bridge for these hard working folk to get to the mines… Oh, the hard working folk also need a place to drink, so a pub could go in too… ;-) Good place for the pub would be to the lower left hand corner of the 'new baseboard', right below and opposite the stairs and the cottages along the front, to the right of the pedestrian ramp.

Cheers, Gary.

Thanks Gary i'll check that out, in fact I was brought up in a miner's cottage, two up and two down with a lean-to kitchen. Toilet outside and a tin bath. My father added hot water later and a real bath.

Bedroom furniture had to go in through the bedroom window as the stairs were in the corner of a room and the winding type and very narrow!.

We had electricity but some houses were still using paraffin lamps, every house had a coal fire/stove.

 

Here's the street where I lived although before my time :lol: my house is the first on the right.

 

Phil

 

Love those old social history photos Phil.It's great you've got a photo of your old home.

Alan, it brings back lots of memories, although that picture is way before my time there, the pavement is the same one as I used top play with my toys on.

There was a tarmac road there when I lived there, plus DRAINS!

 

Phil

DRAINS!!!!! that is going upmarket.

Is it still there Phil quest: Be interesting to see what it looks like now.

I looked up the house I was born in on Google street view, still there and looks much the same.

Ed

The houses where flattened in 1990/1 all that's left now are the remains of the roads, one chapel and a converted chapel. There were three streets, my mates lived in the other ones.

I took a picture a couple of years ago of how it is now and Photoshopped the old picture on to it (translucent) but I can't find it.

Phil

I've done that as well Ed,it seems a bit surreal looking up at a window knowing that behind it i was born 59 years ago.
Back to your thread Phil.Sorry.

I'm guesstimating that those houses are about 14' from the bottom of the door opening to the gutter, I assume the door opening to be 7', any ideas?

I also notice what looks to be a drain on the right, there are lines running down either side which looks like they have been recently installed?

 

Phil

I'm looking for embossed stone sheet (not card) for the cottages, Wills stone is too big, any ideas?

 

Phil

G'day Phil,

Have you tried Slaters Plastikard ? From code no. 0419 down.

see here ; https://slatersplastikard.com/plastikard/embossed.php

Cheers, Gary.

[user=753]Phil.c[/user] wrote:

I'm guesstimating that those houses are about 14' from the bottom of the door opening to the gutter, I assume the door opening to be 7', any ideas?

I also notice what looks to be a drain on the right, there are lines running down either side which looks like they have been recently installed?

 

Phil

Looking at the photo the doorways seem to be exceptionally high. The woman standing in one on the right must be roughly average height (5' 6" - 5' 8") so the doorway would be about 10'.

Had a look around the web and from pictures I've managed to find, the doorways appear to be about 7' with a fanlight above. Probably the other 3'.

That would make it nearer 20' from the bottom of the door to the gutter.

There again I could be totally wrong.

I know Metcalfe do embossed stone sheets as I've got some somewhere, not sure if the stonework would be too big though.


Ed