Bland Tavern Nursery, Graizelound, September 2017

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One of those locations you chance upon on the way somewhere else, only to find out afterwards that everyone else went here back in 2013. Including the Daily Mail. Oh well. Given the exposure it had a few years ago it’s perhaps unsurprising that some of the best treasures from earlier reports (CB Radios, the NCB Jacket the stuff from the shop) are no longer present.

This Bland Tavern was called The Railway Tavern Inn until 1974 when it was closed by John Smiths brewery. At some point after this the pub was converted to residential property. The faded sign out the front of the property actually reads Bland Tavern Nursery and there are numerous listing online for a nursery by this name at this location, presumably using the farm land behind (which now seems to be in use by someone else).

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Great first post, thanks for sharing and welcome to the forum.

The help yourself magazine proper made me laugh.
 
Thanks for the message and the welcome! Yeah, help yourself made me smile too!
 
Nicely recorded. Did I spot the remains of a garden railway. The rails were in a cardboard box along with a Meccano power supply.

Yes there was plenty of track there. I also think there may have been some trains left if I’d done a bit more digging...

edit: not big enough for a garden Railway I don’t think tho. But I’m no expert!
 
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Awesome first post, that stove is absolutely amazing, reminded me of wallace and gromit a little bit haha!

Ha! Cheers Snailsford. Been a member for a while and being doing this for ages but somehow never got around to doing a report until now...
 
Did I spot the remains of a garden railway. The rails were in a cardboard box along with a Meccano power supply.

The track work is Hornby 'O' gauge track for their clockwork children's railway sets - these were based on tinplate, twin axle stock and engines, produced from the '50's onwards and based on the prewar items. Prewar there had been some near scale 'O' gauge electric train sets and stock produced, running on 3 rail track that had an insulated 3rd centre rail fitted to the otherwise similar clockwork 'O' gauge track sleepers. These sets were definitely not 'garden railway' in the accepted meaning of the term - yes you could run both the electric and the clockwork varieties outside, but get them rained on and they rusted like hell and the electrics were certainly not designed for outdoor use. The Marshal power unit is a controller for the HO or Hornby Double O electric train sets and provides 12v DC for the locos and 15v AC for electric point work. Hornby's original 3 rail centre contact OO gauge track work looked very out of scale when compared to the Trix or Tri-ang equivalents, and I remember many school boy arguments over the subject - I went down the 2 rail Tri-ang path for my sins.
 
The track work is Hornby 'O' gauge track for their clockwork children's railway sets - these were based on tinplate, twin axle stock and engines, produced from the '50's onwards and based on the prewar items. Prewar there had been some near scale 'O' gauge electric train sets and stock produced, running on 3 rail track that had an insulated 3rd centre rail fitted to the otherwise similar clockwork 'O' gauge track sleepers. These sets were definitely not 'garden railway' in the accepted meaning of the term - yes you could run both the electric and the clockwork varieties outside, but get them rained on and they rusted like hell and the electrics were certainly not designed for outdoor use. The Marshal power unit is a controller for the HO or Hornby Double O electric train sets and provides 12v DC for the locos and 15v AC for electric point work. Hornby's original 3 rail centre contact OO gauge track work looked very out of scale when compared to the Trix or Tri-ang equivalents, and I remember many school boy arguments over the subject - I went down the 2 rail Tri-ang path for my sins.

You certainly know your train sets!
 
You certainly know your train sets!

They were no more than the i-phone or tablet of their day - if you nose around today it is old buggers like me who play with 'train sets' these days. Albeit very expensive miniature builds of certain routes and no longer a kiddies toy. My five year old grand daughter gets more out of our tablet and i-phone than I do or CAN! Classic case of 'what you are brought up with'.

I actually frequented this place when it was trading and work took me past the place.
 

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