Thursday 26 September 2019

Nether Alderley Mill volunteers win an award!

The volunteer millers and guides at Nether Alderley Mill have
won a Marsh Award for volunteering, which celebrates the work and achievements of museum volunteers. In our case, the win celebrated our success at gaining certification this year (a process which began as soon as the restored mill re-opened in 2013) to sell to our visitors the flour we produce at the mill.
A group of volunteers and National Trust staff went down to the British Museum on Monday of this week to be presented with the Award as North West Regional winners. Nether Alderley Mill will benefit from the prize of £500, which will be used to improve our facilities and equipment for milling and bagging flour.
This is an amazing achievement for Nether Alderley Mill, and we were told that we had faced considerable tough competition to win the prize.

The group at the British Museum, London, Monday 23rd September 2019. Left to right: Mike (guide), Terry (guide), Vince (guide and miller), Bill (miller), Anne (guide), Darren (National Trust), Sharon (National Trust, with our certificate), Bruce (miller), Jennifer (National Trust), Carolyn (guide).







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Saturday 21 September 2019

High Legh Railway

Great day at High Legh Railway today, including driving this lovely beast. 'Bennu' was an ancient Egyptian deity apparently. This one is a very smokey deity (we were burning house coal!). It's a 7.25" gauge live steam loco big enough to enable one to sit in the tender to drive it.

Great fun, but it'll be better when run on steam coal when there'll be less chance of driver asphyxiation!








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Sunday 15 September 2019

'Lindow' in welsh Wales!

Wrexham Model Engineers are holding their 'Diesel Day' this weekend, so on Saturday morning I packed my little diesel-outline electric loco 'Lindow' into the car and Malc and I headed off down the M56 into Welsh Wales.
The Wrexham track isn't the biggest or the most demanding, but is in a delightfully rural location, and on a superb day such as yesterday made for a great day out.
Sale Area Model Engineering Society member Jason was there making a video of the event (for his 'LMS 4767' channel on YouTube), which you can watch by clicking on this link: Wrexham Diesel Day


Lindow at Wrexham track


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