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"Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results."

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This site is a diverse collection of articles, pictures, reviews and software about history, railways, engines, computing, science and anything else that can be shoe-horned in. From Nature to Nostalgia and Local History to something else beginning with 'L' , it's all here (somewhere!).

If you think you could be missing something you could visit the Help or Sitemap pages. If you spot any links that don't go anywhere sensible or if you have any comments please
get in touch.

Some of the main section pages (for example if you click the 'Local History' link at left) have a slideshow of the images that appear in that section. If you look along the bottom of each main section page you'll find the links to the articles.

Enjoy your visit

 

Site News

  • Busy With Stuff! Long delay in updating the site due to being busy with other projects.... more to come very soon!
    Posted ‎‎9 Jun 2009 06:10‎‎ by Collected Interests
  • Symbols, Fields & Carpets Added another perplexing item to the 'strange symbols' page and took a look at some vanished hedgerows (oxymoron alert).Also uploaded a free little program to generate tileable background images
    Posted ‎‎27 Dec 2008 05:21‎‎ by Collected Interests
  • Glimpse Into The Workshop of the World I came across an old poster and wanted to find out more about the subject portrayed. Take a look.
    Posted ‎‎19 Dec 2008 07:51‎‎ by Collected Interests
  • Tokens I like tokens and other items that can be directly linked to people that have gone before. Say hello to Mr Phillipes, Mr Rushbrooke and Mr Pearson.
    Posted ‎‎14 Dec 2008 02:28‎‎ by Collected Interests
  • Railway stories Added more info to the Four Ashes page and a few other bits and bobs.
    Posted ‎‎11 Dec 2008 04:25‎‎ by Collected Interests
  • Updates and additions Updated the free to use software page and added yet more benchmarks, village views and local history content. Phew!
    Posted ‎‎9 Dec 2008 03:35‎‎ by Collected Interests
  • Here we go Amalgamated all previous sites and made the site live
    Posted ‎‎7 Dec 2008 10:05‎‎ by Collected Interests
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Recent Comments

I really like your work and working methods, I have decided to favourite your site so that I can come back and study it at my leisure -Ralph

Excellent, well worth the visit -Phil

Excellent site -Paul

Well done -Tel

Watched you flounder about on your various projects and admired the end results. Despite the lack of all the latest gizmoes, you are the epitomy of a true model engineer mate - Circlip

I like your builds on your site here very much and my next trick when I get home is to do one or two similar - Jack

Found this site via link from HMEM. Will mark it in my Favorites and be back - Don

I really like your engines, basically fairly simple, made from METAL and displaying a high degree of skill, care and precision- great! Now how about a bigger one (to power a boat perhaps??) - Bernie

Great Site - Mark

Great work and site, thanks - Lennard Bristow