Thursday, February 15, 2024

 The Spalled brickwork, Then and Now



Toddington Station building, needs a few things putting right, hopefully they will all be done over time.

We recovered the old gas lamp fittings to go back into Andrew Goodmans Tool van, they are relitively complete apart from the missing glass globes.

They are a masterpiece of the work of the time, representing many years of fine tuning, before the common use of electric lighting.

I am looking at new glass globes to be blown if that is possible, I think a large bell jar or glass cake cover could suffice, they would have to be 27 cms or 9" in diameter to fit.


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