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Nearly-last quarter moon in the early morning haze today:-

In the early 1980s my old school St Georges Comprehensive performed an old style musical hall night in the upstairs function room at the Bartons Arms (I doubt a school could perform a show in a pub these days but.....). Here are a few photos - I will post some more tonight:-

Hi Lyn - its not in the MACE archive, although I assume you had already checked this.

Hi Richard - very close! Sutton Park station is on the left - the site is is now the Royal Mail sorting office. Sutton Coldfield station is in the middle, and Sutton Town station is on the right. 5 minute walk between each.

A closeup from a different angle of the signal pulley wheel mentioned in post #19 above:- Now I have looked at this wheel on a number of occasions - and until today never noticed that 6 ft to the right of it is another one:- Just goes to show there is always something else to find - and...

This building is remarkable considering it was closed 100 years ago - and still survives reasonably intact in the middle of a very built up area. The user of this ticket would no doubt have exited through this very building after spending their elevenpence:-:- The user of this eight-penny...

Next - Spaghetti Junction of rusting roof support bars:- Roof flashing trying not to go the same way as the roof:- Rotting roof beam complete with rusty nails and many colours of moss and mould:- Very new life on a very old wall:- Another window with branches growing through it:-...

More closeups:- Original window - joint and saw cuts still visible:- A newish rope on the old roof truss and gas pipe - even this is being reclaimed by spiders:- Gas / Electric pipe on one of the roof truss supports:- Rotting roof again - but lovely grain detail on the wood:- Window...

And some more:- Detail of one of the upper windows:- Top of chimney stack - note the different types and colours of bricks:- Rotting and crumbling roof:-

Now for some close ups:- A rope hanging from one of the roof support bars:- A bird nest in the corner of the roof:- Roof beam support:- Nature peeks through a high window:- Original window rope:- Nature creeps over the roof stonework:- Original gutter downpipe:-

And some more:-

And some more:- This could possibly be a ladder from an old signal post?? Fireplace in a waiting room:- View of the chimney stack through what is left of the roof:-

Today I had the chance to re-visit Sutton Town Station, equipped with something a bit better than an Iphone camera and without a dog on my arm. Here are some close up photos of the building and some of its remaining fittings, plus some detailed photos of the interior - apologies if any of the...

Nice "moonbow" again just after midnight last night:-

If your fence panels blow away from Kingstanding Lyn we'll try to catch them for you in Sutton Coldfield!! Howling a hooley here.....

Its all explained in this program:-

Fascinating how much the moon changes in just a couple of hours - this was the equator at around 19.00 tonight - look at the figure-of-eight crater pair:- And then by 21.30 a line of craters have appeared to the left - just hinted at on the earlier shot. This is the full 21.30 shot:-

As mentioned in post #52, the Moon and Jupiter are next to each other in the sky tonight - and it could not be clearer! Here is a shot from a few minutes ago:- Lots of detail visible - including craters not visible last night:- Oddly you can see better detail before it goes totally dark -...