User contributions for Oldnoccer
A user with 2,943 edits. Account created on 16 November 2006.
13 August 2024
- 20:3120:31, 13 August 2024 diff hist +139 Minera Lead Mines →Transport: Railway didn't male sop much sense while the Minera quarry was in use. Different these days, now its an SSSI.
- 14:1814:18, 13 August 2024 diff hist +71 Minera Lead Mines →Transport: Can't fgind a definitive statement when phase 2 of the plan was shelved, but the railway was mentioned from 1990 to at least 1992 as part of the development plan
- 13:0313:03, 13 August 2024 diff hist +127 Minera Lead Mines →Restoration: It no longer looks as good as it did. For want of a bit of creosote now and then the replica woodwork was allowed to rot, and has been removed. I don't know if it will ever be replaced.
11 August 2024
- 10:0010:00, 11 August 2024 diff hist +1 m Minera Lead Mines →History: closing bracket
- 09:5109:51, 11 August 2024 diff hist +251 Minera Lead Mines →Transport: The opereation of the branch line from the 1920s to the 1960s is a bit of a mystery. Photos of the track exist from 1962 looking usable, but no photos of locos or rolling stock.
1 July 2024
- 11:1411:14, 1 July 2024 diff hist +339 List of Austin motor vehicles →Lorries: Better explanation of the effect of the BMC merger current
- 11:0711:07, 1 July 2024 diff hist +114 List of Austin motor vehicles →Lorries: A few more dates added
30 June 2024
- 23:5823:58, 30 June 2024 diff hist +108 List of Austin motor vehicles →Lorries: Filled some gaps, mainly be reference to other pages detailing individual models (cited)
- 23:2423:24, 30 June 2024 diff hist 0 m List of Austin motor vehicles →Lorries: typo
- 17:2117:21, 30 June 2024 diff hist +83 List of Austin motor vehicles →Lorries: Just found and advert from February 1939 for the new Austin trucks, swb 2-ton, lwb-2 ton and lwb 3-ton (so the K3 was launched in early 1939 alongside the K2.
- 16:5816:58, 30 June 2024 diff hist +51 List of Austin motor vehicles →Lorries: I have just been loooking at an advert for new Austin 2 ton and 5 ton trucks from 1949. And the advert shows the early type - not the Loadstar. So the Series I K2 and K4 were made until the Loadstar was launched in 1949/1950.
- 16:3816:38, 30 June 2024 diff hist +130 List of Austin motor vehicles →Lorries: Added a few more and links to the Loadstar page
29 June 2024
- 11:2111:21, 29 June 2024 diff hist +31 List of Austin motor vehicles →Lorries: Added K2 - came out before the war as civilian truck, but a lot went to the military
- 11:1511:15, 29 June 2024 diff hist +284 Austin Motor Company →Commercial vehicles: No idea why just a single BMC model (the FG) should deserve mention here - but at least other commercial models are covered in the provided link
1 April 2024
- 21:1021:10, 1 April 2024 diff hist +381 User talk:Oldnoccer →Avonside Locomotive Works: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 21:0621:06, 1 April 2024 diff hist +443 Avonside Engine Company →Preservation: Although in the list of surviving Avonside locos I thought the oldest one probably deserved a mention on this page too
10 March 2024
- 10:0510:05, 10 March 2024 diff hist +331 Fractal compression →History: I was clearing out some papers and found the 1988 Byte paper on Fractal Image Compression by Barnsley and Sloan, which states the sponsorship for the project and some other details that I thought might be worth adding here.
4 March 2024
- 22:3222:32, 4 March 2024 diff hist +1,358 Mothball →In popular culture: I was curious about the origins of the verb 'mothball' as applied to ships, aircraft, and all manner of machinery. I think I found the origin, as several papers in 1939 said the SS Normandie was 'packed in mothballs'
2 March 2024
- 22:4422:44, 2 March 2024 diff hist +356 Sherbet (powder) →History: I thought an extra citation might hrlp, especially as the chemist John Richard's claimed to be the inventor of sherbet powder. I cannot add any clarification to the quotation that follows - I don't have the source or know the date
24 February 2024
- 18:4018:40, 24 February 2024 diff hist +14 m Sheppee →Sheppee International: Sections started with 'This' and it wasn't immediately clear what it referred to current
- 10:5110:51, 24 February 2024 diff hist +12 m Sheppee Dates for FH Sheppee's distinguished father
2 January 2024
- 22:2622:26, 2 January 2024 diff hist +16 m List of shipwrecks in January 1836 →28 January: Link to Carmel Head
- 22:2322:23, 2 January 2024 diff hist −273 List of shipwrecks in January 1886 →Unknown date: The unnamed barque reported sunk at Carmel Point was the James Kenway - which already had an entry.
- 22:2022:20, 2 January 2024 diff hist +10 List of shipwrecks in January 1886 →9 January: From the Board of Trade Inquiry - this was lost at Carmel Head, though initial shipping intelligence accounts say East of Holyhead Bay (not far away). Two men drowned when the ships boat got to the shore.
- 22:0822:08, 2 January 2024 diff hist +278 List of shipwrecks in January 1886 →9 January: Correction - with reference - The James Kenway was lost at Carmel Head not Holyhead Bay.
- 21:4721:47, 2 January 2024 diff hist +16 m List of shipwrecks in October 1885 →5 October: Link to Carmel Head
- 17:4017:40, 2 January 2024 diff hist +539 List of shipwrecks in 1890 →November: Found another one to add. A Swedish barque built in 1867.
- 15:0215:02, 2 January 2024 diff hist +46 Carmel Head Too much text, needed dividing into sections
1 January 2024
- 16:5016:50, 1 January 2024 diff hist +19 m Carmel Head links
- 16:2816:28, 1 January 2024 diff hist +153 Carmel Head Another wreck added
- 12:0912:09, 1 January 2024 diff hist +116 Carmel Head Another one
- 01:0501:05, 1 January 2024 diff hist +543 Carmel Head It seems quite a few vessels have been lost here. I am not sure if all these require newspaper references, as it will be tedious to do.
31 December 2023
- 18:0618:06, 31 December 2023 diff hist +7 m Carmel Head Correct spelling of Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy and make a link
- 18:0318:03, 31 December 2023 diff hist +413 Carmel Head The mine sale in 1883 reveals what was there - though it may have been closed for many years before the equipment was sold. Certainly it was being promoted in 1872, so some activity then.
- 12:0012:00, 31 December 2023 diff hist +1,103 HMS Hilary (1940) →Pre-War Service: Info on the grounding in April 1939. She was off to Brazil again in May, so damage was minimal.
- 09:5209:52, 31 December 2023 diff hist +340 HMS Hilary (1940) I intend to add some information on her running aground at Carmel's Head in 1939, but discovered there was nothing here on her pre-war service (maybe because this page was originally created on the assumption she was built in 1940?)
- 09:4009:40, 31 December 2023 diff hist +1 m Carmel Head typo
- 09:3409:34, 31 December 2023 diff hist +744 Carmel Head Thought some info on ships running into trouble at Carmel Head might be of interest
- 00:2300:23, 31 December 2023 diff hist +740 Carmel Head Copper mine details
30 December 2023
- 15:1515:15, 30 December 2023 diff hist +530 Anglesey Mining →Parys Mountain: Different zone namings can cause confusion, especially as Morfa Du has been introduced, and Central Zone is also new.
- 15:0215:02, 30 December 2023 diff hist +784 Parys Mountain →Modern day: The resource statement is now out of date, but will be updated in 2024 at which point its probably worth highlighting here just how much unmined metal has so far been identified.
28 December 2023
- 09:4809:48, 28 December 2023 diff hist 0 m Parys Mountain Moved info on Anglesite mineral to the Geology section (strictly mineralogy)
27 December 2023
- 18:0518:05, 27 December 2023 diff hist 0 m Parys Mountain →History: typo
26 December 2023
- 10:2710:27, 26 December 2023 diff hist +169 Robert Parys Two periods as Chamberlain, which makes sense as the gift of Parys Mountain appears to date to c1405 current
- 00:0600:06, 26 December 2023 diff hist +191 Robert Parys Back reference to Parys Mountain, reputed to be named after him - which required the fact he was Chamerlain of North Wales to be recorded here
25 December 2023
- 23:5823:58, 25 December 2023 diff hist +20 m Parys Mountain More links
- 22:2822:28, 25 December 2023 diff hist +442 Parys Mountain →History: Needed a little bit on the impact on the local port
22 December 2023
- 13:4513:45, 22 December 2023 diff hist +922 Parys Mountain →History: More on comapnies that formed and vanished in the late 1920s
19 December 2023
- 21:2521:25, 19 December 2023 diff hist +13 m Anglesey Mining →Parys Mountain: tidying
- 18:0118:01, 19 December 2023 diff hist −333 Parys Mountain Tidying up the dewatering info
