Crewe – David M's photoblog

Tuesday Photo Challenge – Transport

16/01/202025/01/2020 David M6 Comments

This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Transport.

I had a couple of ideas for the challenge before thinking about two of the slides I had made digital copies of over the Christmas period. They were of old fashioned transport used to ferry goods in the past.

A row of restored classic commercial vehicles on display at a steam rally in Cheshire, England.

Tuesday Photo Challenge - Transport

A hire fleet of narrowboats on a canal in Cheshire, England. These are modern narrowboats with steel hulls. Narrowboats were originally made of wood and built to carry goods such as coal on the canal network.

Tuesday Photo Challenge - Transport

October Squares: Pinstripe Lines

18/10/2019 David M4 Comments

My contribution for day 18 of Becky’s October Squares: Lines photo challenge.

Pinstripes on the spokes on a wheel of a steam traction engine.

October Squares: Pinstripe Lines

Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Display

18/06/201925/09/2019 David M4 Comments

This is my contribution to the Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Display.

A male Yellow-headed Blackbird displaying to attract a female near Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Yellow-headed Blackbird male displaying.

Old commercial vehicle display, Queens Park, Crewe, Cheshire, England.

Old commercial vehicle display.

A pair of Great Crested Grebes performing the weed waving part of their courtship display in the spring, Hurleston Reservoir, Cheshire, England.

displaying Great Crested Grebes

Canada Day firework display, Wiarton, South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.

Fireworks for Canada Day.

Traction Engine Wheel Detail

09/05/201925/09/2019 David M1 Comment

This week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge is Wheel.

I have already posted a contribution to the challenge but decided to post a second.

This is part of the rear wheel of a steam traction engine.

Wheel detail.

Tried and True Technology

03/05/201926/09/2019 David M5 Comments

The new Tuesday Photo Challenge is Technology.

I had a few ideas for the challenge and went with some old technology still in use today at steam fairs and rallies.

Some of the technology in use on a steam traction engine.

Detail of a traction engine.

A final polish.

04/02/201914/02/2019 David M5 Comments

This week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge is Toys.

I had a few ideas for the challenge before thinking of my photos from a steam fair in Cheshire, England in the 1980s. Taken early one morning, the exhibitors were either lighting the fireboxes of their machines or were giving them a final polish. There’s four people polishing various parts of this steam roller.

Big boys and their big toys.

Polishing a steam roller.

Raising steam.

13/09/201814/02/2019 David MLeave a comment

Throwback Thursday travels back to Cheshire, England in the 1980s. I visited the Crewe Steam Fair early on Sunday morning before there was many people about. The exhibitors with machinery were busy firing up the boilers or giving the brass work a final polish.

This traction engine has just had the firebox lit judging by the smoke coming out of the smokestack.

Raising steam.