K, your mention of bunkers triggered a memory of being requested to attend a rather large one, at a time when they were still part of the plan. Of course I could not find it, but created a bit of fun at the local town police station when I went in and asked for directions...!

I don`t have much in the way of old treasures, apart from the obvious... (-: A writing slope presented to my grandfather by some of those he trained in the military, old red driving licence, few thrupny bits and perhaps twenty or so old pennies. Other than that and perhaps more interesting in terms of valuing the past, some years back a friend of a friend of mine was shutting the doors on a long established ships engine manufacturers prior to building demolition, and gathered up the old photographs that were strewn over the drawing office floor. As my friend`s father had worked in the business man and boy, and was an engineer himself he thought my friend would like to have them.

I come into the story as the new owner of a computer with facilities to scan photographs, and thus was handed a pile of pics to digitise in the hope of preserving them to some degree. My friend has a wealth of knowledge of the works and we worked our way through the pics trying to catalogue the many and varied engines and works scenes.

Out of the collection one pic caught my eye more than the others, it is of and engine test run in the works, you can see the flywheel is blurred and there is one of the works cats in the process of attracting the attention of the engineer standing at the control station.... Apparently the nearby works tenement housing used to thrum during engine runs over the years, so I guess the mortar would have been pre loosened making demolition a simpler matter.

My friends father was the engineer tasked with rebuilding the PS Comet replica, the engine of which is held in the science museum in London, he spent some time with it in order to replicate it faithfully, the replica was sailed on the anniversary of the Comets first sailing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_Comet#:~:text=The%20PS%20%28paddle%20steamer%29%20Comet%20was%20built%20in,the%20first%20commercially%20successful%20steamboat%20service%20in%20Europe.

I seem to have rambled on a bit, as ever..

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