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Derby Poppies: Weeping Window
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tickmike:
Remember the the poppies (Made in Derby) that where at the tower of London, now some of them have come back to Derby, I was looking at the Derby Peregrine web cam.
http://www.derby.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/conservation/peregrines/peregrine-camera-1/
and noticed part of the display ... look towards 1 on a clock face and you see the tower near the river with the poppies on it.
https://www.1418now.org.uk/commissions/poppies-weeping-window-at-derby/
enjoy . :)
Edit. note the tower is called the shot tower, that is the place lead shot was made a long time ago by poring molten lead from the top and by the time it had hit the bottom it formed in to round balls or lead shot.
burakkucat:
--- Quote from: tickmike on June 21, 2017, 12:20:23 PM ---Edit. note the tower is called the shot tower, that is the place lead shot was made a long time ago by poring molten lead from the top and by the time it had hit the bottom it formed in to round balls or lead shot.
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Thank you for the link.
My understanding is that such "shot towers" had a tank of cold water at the bottom so that the lead was slowed in the final moments of its decent and also cooled rapidly.
tickmike:
I did not know (or forgot ) .
The silk mill was a industrial museum, it got emptied a few years ago with the government cuts as DCC could not afford to run it, It used to have lots of Rolls Royce engines and a RB211 engine, which I think is still there,
https://youtu.be/M-9DxIJOHBY
there was a fully working 'Strowger' telephone Exchange demo, also some stuff I used to work on to do with the APT train.
https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/72796000/jpg/_72796719_aaaadvancedpassengertrainpa.jpg
I think we slowed down to about 150MPH for the station. ;D
My father used to take me to the museum to look at the model train layout a long long time ago. :)
There is talk about opening it up again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-26065529
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