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AussieJimG:
Welcome Baron. What's wrong with being grumpy?

Jim

BaronJ:
Hi Guys,
Not too much to tell really.  I have a Myford ML7S that I bought new over twenty years ago.  Long bed, gearbox, power feeds all on a cabinet stand.  A Myford ML8 that came into my possesion a little over a year back.  A Chineese mill that my wife bought me for a wedding aniversary.  A few useful tools for both metal and wood working.

I live near Leeds in the north of England.  Not done anything over Christmas other than relax and enjoy a beer or three.

I'm currently researching information on stationary steam engines with a view to building one from ideas picked up.  I also have made one or two tools and have a simple tool grinder under development.

Indeed now I have started to write things down here, I have realised that there are a number of things in some partially constructed state.  New Years Resolution:-  Finish what I start.  :-)

Anyway,  Happy New Year to all.  Lets make 2014 a good one.

awemawson:
hey, another Leodiensian  :ddb: :ddb: :ddb: :ddb:, but it's many years since I left Leeds

Andrew

BaronJ:
Hi Andrew,

You probably would'nt recognise Leeds if you visited now !  The road layout has changed, one way systems all over the place, paved zones, buskers on most street corners.  All the old surplus supply places gone.  Dark arches now a big car park for the trendy apartment dwellers.  The new "Trinity" centre.  Basically an enormous covered area that used to be Bond street.  You can stand and look down on the Church from the higher floors.  About the only thing still familier is the bus station and markets.  Even that is slowly morphing into another shopping centre.

Progress I suppose...  Everything seems to be speeding up,  I,m just getting slower. ;-)

awemawson:
Baron

I used to walk from the Grammer School past the Town Hall, and down the Headrow to the Quarry Hill flats where I took the tram to Roundhay, thereby saving a 6 penny bus fare. The added advantage to a school boy was that the route went past City Varieties, recently home of 'The Good Old Days' music hall TV programs, but then it was a strip club with saucy pictures outside  :ddb:

The market was always worth walking through - incidentally it was where Mr Marks & Mr Spencer came together and formed their famous company.

In a visit a few years back I saw that they had demolished the Quarry Hill flats - at the time they were the biggest public housing block in the world !

Andrew

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