Paddington

It's an incredible station with considerable history.  It's also still quite busy today.  

Take a look here for more photos and an interesting book on Paddington's history

Night Flight

Messerschmitt BF 110G-4 equipped with radar for use as a night fighter.  

RAF Museum in London, UK.

Open Road

 Taken on a drive through the Pennines. I'm not 100% certain, but I believe I'm facing North here and that's Kirkhaugh just off to the right. 

On the porch, chatting with neighbors

Because, Race Plane!

RAF Museum in London, UK.  Note the lack of ailerons; this was a wing warping design!

Multitool!

Seen in the Leeds Industrial Museum.  

Can you imagine the sound of the belts slapping?  Just think of all the oiling around necessary each day to keep all the shafts and idlers spinning smoothly.  

I'm reminded of a comment I saw in "Cathedrals of Steel" a small book about the railroad roundhouses at Galesburg, IL.  One 'old timer' noted that the biggest improvement ever made to the roundhouse was the introduction of electric machine tools.  Rather than running a big lineshaft system all the time you had considerably less noise by powering individual machines with individual motors that could be switched off when not needed.  

Palace Garden

Soot and steam

According to my 1943 copy of 'British Locomotive Types' this inside cylinder 0-8-0 was originally designated class G2 on the London and North Western Railway prior to being grouped in class 7F of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, presumably in 1923.  

Here is its datasheet.

Inversion

The Keep

Carlisle castle.  Note the beginning of a long, shallow staircase on the right.  When gunpowder and cannons overtook swords and archers on the battlefield the keep was no longer provided suitable defense against attacking forces.  You didn't need to scale the enemy's walls if you could blow them down from afar.  

  The staircase was added to enable the movement of artillery to the roof of the keep. On the inside, a wall was built, bisecting the keep in order to provide reinforcement for the guns on the roof.  The result is a series of rather odd, narrow rooms.  Not the sort of place you would find comfortable for very long.