THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WAS IN full swing when “The Queen,” the early steam locomotive that transported Queen Victoria between Windsor and London, was constructed. In fact, Victoria was the first British monarch to travel by rail, making her maiden voyage on June 13, 1842.
During her long reign, from 1837 to 1901, Victoria traveled by train dozens of [...]
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“The Queen” Locomotive – Windsor
15 Comments CherryPie on Aug 11th 2022
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Header Images
My Most observant readers will probably notice that my header images have changed. The previous ones were part of the Wordpress template and I have been meaning for some time to change them for my own photographs. I finally took the plunge and did a bit of Photoshop work to convert the images to pictures [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 13th 2009
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Access Denied
I have decided not to mess about trying to get the rest of my posts here (from blogger), life is far too short for going backwards and forwards with tech support and quite often reaching a dead end after all the effort. Whilst I was experimenting I had managed to collect most of them [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on May 2nd 2009
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Welcome
…to my new blog.
All my old posts, can be found on my original Blogspot Blog. Due to firewall restrictions on my web space, I decided to leave them there rather than transfer them here.
To make it easy for people to find old posts that they might be interested in I have listed all the tags [...]
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