In Almeria even the street grids are posh ….. and come with a bit of history

I have never made a secret of my fascination for street furniture, and of all these it is the humble cast iron cover which take pride of place in my collection.

They come in all shapes and sizes, bear the name of the municipality who made them and give access to a cornucopia of tunnels, drains and electrical installations.

And so well known is my fascination that friends send me pictures when ever they encounter one on a holiday or business trip.

All of which is a lead into these two fine grids.

They come from Almeria and Nijar.

My Wikipedia tells me that “Almería is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of the same name. The city lies in southeastern Iberia, extending primarily in between the eastern fringes of the Sierra de Gádor and the Andarax riverbed along the coastline of the Gulf of Almería, a large inlet of the Mediterranean Sea. The municipality has a population of 201,946”.*

While Wikipedia also records that "Níjar is a Spanish municipality in the province of Almería, Andalusia. It lies in the eastern part of Almería, in the Sierra de Alhamilla and the south-eastern Mediterranean coast, in the Campo de Níjar, near the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park.

The main sources of income are agriculture, especially in the growing of greenhouse crops, and tourism, especially the water sports centre of San José".**

To which I should add Almeria was the setting for the sixth season of Game of Thrones.

But enough of their collective histories, geography and much more all of which are out there for any one to find.

So instead I am back to the grids, both of which are posh enough to sport the coat of arms of their respective local authority which is a nice link to their past, leaving me just to include the inscription and translations on the covers “Saneamento Ayuntamiento Almeria” which translate into the less romantic “Sanitation Almeria City Council”, and “Ayuntamiento De Nijar Saneamiento” or “Nijar City Council Sanitation”.

And that is it.

Although just say to I am always looking out for covers for my collection.

Location; Almeria and Nijar

Pictures; grids from southern Spain, 2026, from a friend

*Almería, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Almer%C3%ADa

** **Nijar, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%ADjar

Street furniture from a holiday ……

There are many ways to share a holiday ….. from picture postcards to instant mobile photos and of course the post trip presi.

Madrid, 2025

And then there are those from my old chum, who knowing my fascination for street furniture and trams will send me regular items for the collection.

So, over the last few years I have added trams from Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy and Switzerland, along with heaps of street grids from everywhere.

And having received a sanitation cover from Porto last week he came up  trumps with this delightful one from Madrid, the inscription which runs "Ayuntamiento de Madrid" and "Alumbrado Publico" which roughly translated is “Madrid Town Hall” “Public Lighting” .

I can not better the pictures and have only this sad looking post from outside the Library, which reveals that behind that black layer of resin is a rusting bit of metal.

All of that said, there is an importance to all such street furniture, some of which has long since been relegated to the dustbin of history as technology has made them redundant but still can be striking to look at and have a story.

Chorlton, 2025

I just await his collection of Roman lead pipes and aqueducts.

Location; Madrid, and Chorlton

Pictures; from Madrid courtesy of a chum, 2025 and Chorlton, 2025 from the collection of Andrew Simpson

On the trail of a bullet holed ambulance ........ somewhere in Stalybridge

Now the connection between a bullet holed ambulance in Stalybridge, and a British nurse caught up in the Spanish Civil War is intriguing. 

Miss Addy in Spain, 1938

I first came across the presence of the ambulance while writing about Madge Addy who in her early 30s went out to Spain and served as a nurse on the Republican side in the Civil War which had begun with an army insurrection against the democratically elected legitimate Government.*

She was the last British nurse out of Spain just before the Government was defeated by General Franco and his allies.

She then went on to serve as a secret agent in the S.O.E in occupied France smuggling vital information across Europe and was awarded the OBE, for her work.

Miss Addy, 1938

But history hasn’t been kind to this remarkable women and it has taken  a few of us to begin to bring her out of the shadows.

It began with an approach to help research the early years of her life as a part of a campaign to get a plaque installed in a house in Chorlton where she had worked a hair dresser in the 1930s.

That campaign was co-ordinated by Chris Hall and I am pleased to say was successful and that in turn has led to the idea that there should be a book about Ms Addy.

It is in its very early stages, and will involve Chris, myself and her grandson who lives in Norway.

And that brings me back to the ambulance, which was seen by a very young Margaret Riley who told me, “I saw her bullet holed ambulance when she returned from Spain. Always remembered it.

The only ambulances I’d seen were the Disney printed ones, which would pick children up for tonsillectomies in the morning and bring them back in the afternoon.  I couldn’t see why this one had holes in it, and I can’t remember where I saw it, as I was taken to Stalybridge via Dukinfield and Ashton”.

Unveiling the plaque in Chorlton, 2018

Now we know that Ms Addy had both written about her experiences while still in Spain and that she also took part in tours across Britain, highlighting the plight of the Spanish people and the atrocities committed by the Nationalist forces of Franco.

So the Stalybridge ambulance story is a find which must be followed up.

Given that she was from Manchester, there might be a reference to the event in the Manchester Evening News, the Manchester Courier, and Manchester Guardian, but I am betting there will also be something in the newspapers covering Tameside.

So, in the fullness of time I will take the tram from Chorlton up to Ashton to investigate.

That said if there is anyone who want an important walk on part in the project and is happy to while away the time in the library pouring over copies of the local papers from 1937 through to 1938, we would be very happy.

Bath, 1939

And just after the story went live, Chris sent me an extract from a bath newspaper dated January 1939 which described a concert held for Basque children who had been brought to Britain from Catalonia the previous year.  All were orphans and they took part in the non political concert to raise money to support the children and cover the cost of their final settlement in Switzerland.

The concert was part of a national tour involving the children who travelled through Bath in a bullet riddled ambulance.


Location; Stalybridge, Spain, and France

Picture; Nurse Madge Addy giving a blood transfusion; Daily Worker, November 11, 1938 and Madge Addy, 1938, the plaque unveiling ceremony on May 12 2018,  from the collection of Andrew Simpson and the newspaper article supplied by Chris Hall.

*Madge Addy; https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Madge%20Addy

Dancing the light fandango ….. by a Spanish bandstand

And the title says the lot.

The purists will point that it is highly unlikely that anyone would be dancing a fandango by a bandstand.

After all as my Wikipedia tell me a “fandango is a lively partner dance originating in Portugal and Spain, usually in triple meter, traditionally accompanied by guitars, castanets, tambourine or hand-clapping. Fandango can both be sung and danced”.*

And that very likely would knock over a few of the chairs around the bandstand and upset Mrs. Trellis of Cleckheaton. 

But as the dance  originated in Portugal and Spain and today’s bandstand image is from Tenerife, there is a sort of logic to the title and Tony’s picture.

According to one source on public parks, the bandstand owed much to the 19th century’s fascination with the Orient.  The basic design may have been copied from “the raised –platform kiosks seen in Turkey and across the Ottoman empire” but was overlaid with influences from Indian palaces and temples.**

The French had shown one of these Turkish stands off at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1855 and what followed was a succession of developments over here with the first unveiled at the Royal Horticultural Show in South Kensington and later moved out to parks in Southwark and Peckham where I came across them as a young boy in the 1950s.

And almost 70 years after I encountered my first bandstand Tony Goulding came across this one in Tenerife, and knowing my fascination for them took time out from his holiday to snap front and back.

‘Nuff said

Pictures, 2024, from the collection of Tony Goulding

*Bandstands, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Bandstands

**A Walk in the Park, Travis Elborough 2016, pages 155-56

Always look down …….. travels across Tenerife encountering the interesting

Over the years I have inducted into the Street Furniture Hall of Fame, the historic, the bizarre and the nondescript and today it is the turn of a humble access plate for Alumbrado Publico Funca.

Now not speaking Spanish I assumed Alumbrado was a place, but it turns out to be the word for lighting, leading me just to   offer up the full translation ….. Funca Public Lighting.

And that is almost that, other than to thank Tony Goulding who wins this weeks commendation for recording the plate while on holiday in Tenerife and sharing his puzzlement at his second image of a circular plate arising from the bare earth on top of a concrete lump.

Happily his final offering was both easy to discern and an amusing mix of Spanish and English …….. “Loro Parque  El must de Canarias” “Parrot Park, The must of the Canary Islands”

So I await the holiday snaps of green parrot's grey lizards and offerings from the souvenir shop along with the menu of suitably themed meals from the the restaurant at the end of the Park, which judging from their site is more extensive and exciting than the poster would suggest.

For here they tell me "Modern zoos are embassies for animals and the ideal showcase for bringing the natural world closer to people.

We have been conceived as a place for animal care, scientific study, and awareness of the global environmental crisis, we are one of the most active links in the current animal and environmental protection not only in the Canary Islands, but throughout the world".*

And for those who might want to take the adventure, tickets in J

Location Tenerife tickets in June and July run from €42 for adults to €30 for children.

Pictures; the Spanish additions to the Street Furniture Hall of Fame, 2024, from the collection of Tony Goulding

*Lor Parque https://www.loroparque.com/en/

Madge Addy ....... nurse, and war hero was remembered in Chorlton .... one year ago

Over 50 gathered

The sun shone and over 50 people gathered to watch the unveiling of a plaque to Madge Addy.*

I have written about Madge who was the last British nurse to leave Republican Spain as the legitimate and democratically elected Government was about to be defeated by the forces of a military insurrection led by Franco.

She went on to work as a secret agent in occupied France during the last war and despite being awarded the OBE has slipped into the shadows.

And there are only a few references to Madge Addy.

Cllr Eddy Newman

She appears in newspaper accounts in the Daily Worker and wrote of her own experiences in Spain to raise awareness of the Civil War and the brutal actions of the Franco forces and crops up in books on the International Brigade.

But given that she worked here in Chorlton as a hairdresser in the 1930s it seemed fitting that she should be remembered with a plaque on the place where she worked.

Chris Hall and others dedicated to maintaining the memory of those who went to Spain to fight for democracy have worked hard to raise the money and organise the placing of the plaque at 34 Manchester Road.

Chris had originally asked the late Shelia Newman to help and it was fitting that the plaque was unveiled by her three children, and that amongst the speakers was Cllr Eddy Newman who was Shelia’s husband and the present Lord Mayor.

Chris Hall and Jeff Smith MP

The unveiling was followed by a social event across the road in the Library where there was food, music, and information panels telling the story of the Spanish Civil War, the involvement of the International Brigade and the men and women who went from Greater Manchester.

Anyone wishing to know more about the plaque can contact Chris at, christoff_hall@yahoo.com or on 0161 861 7448





Location; Chorlton

The plaque

Pictures, the plaque unveiling on May12 2018, pictures from the collection of Andrew Simpson
















*Madge Addy, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Madge%20Addy

Boring pictures after the lock down …. no. 5 .... empty streets and bedding plants ......... Barcelona

Now that lock down has been relaxed, the 2 meters distance has shrunk and you can again visit Primax and Top Shop, the new series is launched.

Boring pictures after the lock down, invites everyone who is out and about to offer up their own photograph.

The only qualifications are that it should be by you, and be boring.*

And this is Barcelona, taken by Lyn who told me, tells "Out and about near home, with two sights unusual for Barcelona: a normally busy street with no traffic, and a colourful display of bedding plants".

Location; Barcelona

Pictures; Barcelona, 2020, from the collection of Lyn Shepherd

*Boring pictures after the lockdown, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Boring%20pictures%20after%20the%20lockdown

Pictures from a backroom, on a moment of self-isolation ..... a welcome return

Just when you thought it was safe to look out of the backroom window during lock down .... the series returns.

I thought there were no more people willing to offer up their own view, but then Lyn sent in this one, with the comment

"And pity the couple who live in the studio flat on the left. At least being on the 7th floor, of 8, there is a certain amount of natural light but not for those on lower floors".

This is a welcome addition to her earlier picture, looking out from her balcony.

Location; Barcelona

Picture, the view from our "study", Barcelona, 2020, Lyn Shepherd

Pictures from a backroom, on a moment of self-isolation ..... the balcony, the breakfast and a spot of opera

This is Lyn's balcony in Barcelona, where she "steps outside to have breakfast on the balcony some mornings".

But Saturday was too cold and so like all of us, Lyn was forced back inside and to other things.

Which in her case includes means "lots of opera being streamed from the Met and Vienna and Berlin".

The upside for me is the fine view down on to the patios, which Lyn says "are private although the one in the middle is the roof of a gym so is occasionally used in normal times.

The part with artificial turf is the gym. Bottom right is the playground of a nursery ( for toddlers...by 3 they are at preschool), that is actually the only part with " life" during the week".

Location; Barcelona

Picture, the Barcelona balcony and the view below, Barcelona, 2020, from Lyn Shepherd

A bullet holed ambulance, and a shadowing story of a secret agent ....... Madge Addy from Chorlton

The story of Madge Addy is a fascinating one, not least because there is still more to discover.*

Madge Addy, 1938

On Saturday over 50 people gathered in front of number 34 Manchester Road to remember a very remarkable woman who was an active participant in two wars, was awarded the OBE and briefly worked here in Chorlton.

She remains a shadowy figure and until December 2016 I knew nothing about her, and even now the references to her work as a nurse during the Spanish Civil War and then her role as a secret agent in occupied France are fairly limited.

She wrote articles about the Spanish war which appeared along with her photograph in the Daily Worker, and there are fleeting references to her in books on both the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War.

And then like so many war heroes, she fades from the limelight.

But now there is a plaque which was unveiled on Saturday at 34 Manchester Road, which was attended by Cllr Eddy Newman, the Lord Mayor, and Jeff Smith MP for Manchester Withington, along with a representative from the British Legion.

In Marseilles

And interest is building.

Chris Hall, who organised the efforts to get the plaque, received a picture of Ms Addy with Wilhelm Holst during the Second World War, possibly in Marseilles.  Mr Holst was Madge Addy’s second husband and the picture comes from his grandson.

In time I am sure some of the gaps in the story will be filled, and only today I got an email from Margaret Riley who commented that Ms Addy was “Inspirational” and went on to say “I saw her bullet holed ambulance when she returned from Spain. Always remembered it.

The only ambulances I’d seen were the Disney printed ones, which would pick children up for tonsillectomies in the morning and bring them back in the afternoon.  I couldn’t see why this one had holes in it, and I can’t remember where I saw it, as I was taken to Stalybridge via Dukinfield and Ashton”.

The unveiling, 2018

Now I find that memory fascinating.  The news value of that bullet riddled ambulance will have been immensely useful in making the public aware of the war in Spain, and in particular, the illegal act staged by a group of the military against the democratically elected Government of Spain.

So, given that the date must be around 1938, a trawl of the Daily Worker and even the local Manchester papers may turn something up.

We shall see.

Picture; Madge Addy from the Daily Worker, 1938, in the company of Wilhelm Holst, date unknown, courtesy of Mr Host’s grandson and at the unveiling of the plaque, May 12, 2018 from the collection of Andrew Simpson

*Madge Addy, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Madge%20Addy

Another piece in the story of Madge Addy ...... secret agent, Civil War nurse and resident of Chorlton

Madge Addy was a remarkable woman who not only went out to Spain during the Spanish Civil War but went onto serve as an agent in occupied France.*

It is a story I have been uncovering for a while and was prompted by a request from Cll Shelia Newman to research the life of Madge Addy who lived in Chorlton.**

Interest has grown in Ms Addy since Chris Hall suggested that there should be a memorial plaque to this brave woman and there may be some who also have knowledge of Madge or would like to make a contribution to the cost of the plaque and if so please contact Chris by email at christoff_hall@yahoo.com or on 0161 861 7448.

The campaign for the blue plaque is fully supported by Chorlton's three councillors.

And as part of that campaign I wrote a short article in the Chorlton edition of Open Up and here the story takes a twist.***

My old friend Ida read the story and  was in the process of reading Silk and Cyanide by Leo Markes about  the operations of the British Special Operations Executive.

In a previous conversation Ida had suggested that this was the book which might offer up a clue about MS Addy

And sure enough in a one line sentence there is a reference to an unnamed agent who carried secret documents from Denmark to Sweden on a German civilian aircraft.  It might not be Madge but we know she did travel this route during 1940.

So perhaps a little bit more has come to light.

Location; Chorlton, Spain, France


Picture; Nurse Madge Addy giving a blood transfusion; Daily Worker, November 11, 1938 and Madge Addy, 1938

*Madge Addy, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Madge%20Addy

**Cllr Shelia Newman, cllr.s.newman@manchester.gov.uk  0161 234 1841 (Town Hall)

***Open Up, http://openupmagazines.co.uk/chorlton/

Remembering Madge Addy at the Town Hall this Sunday

Now Miss Madge Addy was a remarkable women.

She went off to Spain at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, served as a nurse on the side of democratically elected Government who were fighting a Nationalist insurrection and was the last British nurse to leave the country the war zone.

She then went on to work as an agent in occupied France during the Second World War, assisted escaping allied prisoners of war and smuggled secret documents on German civilian aircraft.

But despite these achievements few people have heard of her.

And so this Sunday there be is an event to raise money for a plaque to commemorate her work, which it is hoped will go up on the wall of the house she lived in on Manchester Road in Chorlton.

The campaign to bring Miss Addy out of the shadows has been led by Christoper Hall who writes, that Madge is to be honoured as part of the "annual Jarama  commemoration and this year we are concentrating the on the lives of two local Spanish Civil War volunteers Madge Addy and George Brown. 

I am doing the talk on Madge. The Clarion choir will be singing song from the period and wreaths will be laid at the memorial in the Town Hall to those Greater Manchester men who died fighting Fascism in the Spanish Civil War. There will be a bucket collection at the event to raise money towards Madge's blue plaque.

I have also on our website setup a fund raising page for Madge Addy see http://www.international-brigades.org.uk/catalog/conferencestalks “

So it would be good to see you all at Manchester Town Hall on Sunday February 26.

The event will last from 10.30 through to 11.30.

Location; Manchester

Picture; Madge Addy, 1938

Looking for Madge Addy from Chorlton

Now the search for Madge Addy has got just that bit more complicated and that is problem.

Madge Addy, 1938

In 1938 she was working in Chorlton cum Hardy before she left for Spain and a hospital ward where she tended the sick and wounded during the Civil War.

Later she went on to work for the Special Operations Executive in occupied France risking her life aiding escaping allied soldiers and carrying secret documents even travelling on German commercial flights.

For these brave exploits she was awarded the OBE.

She died in 1970 but her passing appears to have gone unrecorded by the media and so because of this and her remarkable work in Spain and France there is moves to place a blue plaque here in Chorlton.

And here is the rub because so far all attempts to locate where she lived in Chorlton have drawn a blank.

Ms Addy doesn’t appear in the directories for 1938 or the 1939 Register, leaving just an appeal for anyone who might know her and there are no references to her address on the newspaper article of the time.

And all this matters because there are moves to commemorate her with that blue plaque which it is hoped could be fixed to the house she lived in.

So at present that leaves the appeal for anyone who may have known her.

Location; Chorlton-cum-Hardy

Picture; Miss Addy, 1938

Remembering the Spanish Civil War .......... one to do next year

The Spanish Civil War began eighty years ago when a group of generals declared war on the democratically elected government of Spain.

Aid for the Basque People, 1936-39

It finished three years later with the defeat of that government and the establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship which lasted until 1975.

It was for many at the time the fault line which divided progressive Europe from a repressive authoritarian and conservative set of values which many had thought shattered by the French Revolution.

And added to this was the participation of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany on the side of the Generals marking the war a test of whether the dark forces of totalitarianism would triumph over democracy.

Here in Britain as well as around the world men and women of all classes chose to support the legitimate Government.

Some were active in raising funds for food and medical aid while others made the difficult journey to Spain to fight or work in the hospitals.

I had quite forgotten just how strongly I felt about that war until recently when in the space of a few days I began researching the story of Madge Addy and met Dolores Long the daughter of Sam Wild who was the last commander of the British Battalion of the International Brigade.

Liberty's Volunteers, 2017

Miss Addy volunteered to serve in a Republican hospital, was active in promoting the cause of the legitimate Government writing detailed letter home about the conditions she encountered and she was the last British nurse to leave Spain as the Nationalist Generals succeeded in defeating the Republic.

Dolores kindly agreed to share information on Ms Addy along with her own work in maintaining the publics’ interest in the Spanish Civil War and the role of the British men and women who went out to help.

All of which leads me to an advance notice for a conference on the war early next year.

It will take place in March in the city centre and details are available by following the link, http://www.international-brigades.org.uk/

And nearer the time I will return with more details along with some articles from Dolores.

Location; Manchester & Spain

Pictures; the poster Aid for the Basque Heroes, S H Prives, from The Palette and the Flame, 1980 and poster of the conference courtesy of International Brigades Memorial Tust

Stories from Spain nu 2 ...... the explosion

Now one if the fascinating things about the blog is that it travels and increasingly it brings forth fresh stories.

So here is one from my new friend Emma.

"This is just a personal story, but reminded the other day mentioning the walls of houses falls. 

I worked nearly two years in a small company in which they were painted shirts and signs. Every day I left my house at 6:20 to catch the train in time to go to work 7:00. 

One day we were told that the next day at 8:00 saluted as they once did in the winter. That same morning, soon, an explosion was heard near my home and then report because here the ETA attacks (terrorist group) were still expected. 

It was not a bomb. 

It was a gas cylinder which exploded in an old house that I used to pass just at that moment. 

I believe that fate has saved my life. 

The most incredible thing is that man, I think he was older, saved because at that time was sitting on a couch."

Location; Spain

© Emma Gilarranz Gutierrez, 2016

Picture; Emma Gilarranz Gutierrez, 2016

Storie dalla Spagna nu 2 ...... l'esplosione

Ora, una delle cose affascinanti sul blog è che viaggia e sempre più si porta avanti storie fresche.

Così qui è uno dalla mia nuova amica Emma.

"Ciao. Questa è solo una storia personale, ma ha ricordato l'altro giorno menzionando i muri delle case cadute. Ho lavorato quasi due anni in una piccola azienda in cui sono state dipinte camicie e segni. 

Ogni giorno ha lasciato la mia casa alle 06:20 per prendere il treno in tempo per andare a lavorare 07:00. 

Un giorno ci hanno detto che il giorno dopo alle 8:00 salutò come facevano una volta in inverno. Quella stessa mattina, presto, una esplosione è stata sentita vicino a casa mia .Miré l'orologio (06:22) per segnalare poi perché qui gli attacchi ETA (gruppo terroristico) erano ancora attesi. Non era una bomba. 

E 'stata una bombola di gas è esplosa in una vecchia casa che ho usato per spendere solo in quel momento. Credo che il destino mi ha salvato la vita. La cosa più incredibile è che l'uomo, credo che era più vecchio, salvato perché in quel momento era seduto su un divano che si trovava nel piccolo piano di sopra che era senza affondare."

Luogo; Spagna

© Emma Gilarranz Gutierrez 2016
Immagine; Emma Gilarranz Gutierrez 2016

Ghost signs from Spain

Now you can never get enough ghost signs, and it seems nor does my new friend Emma who lives in Spain.

So having read a story on a ghost sign from Chorlton yesterday she found one just round the corner from where she lives.

It says “Daily” and Emma went on to say that,"I  found one that is next to my house. I bought this dairy retirement until it closed about twenty years.

Now the owner, Amparo (Amparito) lives with his sister, also very old in the adjoining house. Not if the local is still yours but I know that nobody uses"

And that is about all I have to say, except thank you to Emma.

Location; Spain









Picture; a ghost sign from Spain , 2016 from the collection of Emma Gilarranz Gutierrez

segni fantasma dalla Spagna

Ora non si può mai ottenere abbastanza segni di fantasmi, e sembra che né la mia nuova amica Emma che vive in Spagna.

Quindi, dopo aver letto una storia su un cartello fantasma da Chorlton ieri ha trovato un proprio dietro l'angolo da dove vive.

Si dice "Daily" e questo è tutto quello che ho da dire, tranne che grazie a Emma.

Luogo; Spagna








Immagine; un segno fantasma dalla Spagna 2016 dalla collezione di Emma Gilarranz Gutierrez

A story from Spain ......... from Emma

Now I like the way the blog crosses countries and continents.

I first met Emma after she had sent me a postcard destined for Chorlton which never left Spain.

It had made its way to a paper factory and there hung a series of stories.

And as ever I asked Emma if she would like to add some stories and pictures, and this is the first, featuring the railway museum near where she lives.

It has to be said that her English is better than my Spanish but with the help of google translate we will there there.

Added to which just for that bit of fun it is being posted twice.  Once in English and once in what I hope is not so bad Spanish.

Well I hope so.

She commented that “the prices are usually too high but it is easy to find weird things and even if only to see the trains it's worth it to see it. 

If you only to see the museum that better not be when it's the fair because one of the trains is coffee shop and you can take something in a wagon of old style.”

And I have to say that her pictures capture perfectly the sort of railway museum I would love to visit.
Here are a selection of the locomotives and rolling stock reflecting everything from the height of luxury down to the messy and dirty end or railways.

And as someone who likes all sorts of museums it is interesting to see how other cities and countries do it.

But of course where ever you go you can be sure that there will a shop and a cafe and that if you have kids you are unlikely to escape without spending lots of money.

So over the next few weeks I will be featuring more of the pictures of the museum and I hope other photographs and stories from Emma.

Pictures; a railway museum, 2016 courtesy of Emma Gilarranz Gutierrez

Una historia de España .......... por Emma

Ahora me gusta la forma en que cruza el blog países y continentes.

Conocí a Emma después de que me había enviado una postal con destino a Chorlton, que nunca salió de España.

Se había hecho su camino a una fábrica de papel y hay colgado una serie de historias.

Y como siempre me pregunté Emma si le gustaría añadir algunas historias e imágenes, y esta es la primera, con el museo ferroviario cerca de donde vive.

Tiene que ser dicho que su Inglés es mejor que mi español pero con la ayuda del traductor Google nos voluntad hay allí.

Añadido a la que sólo por eso poco de diversión que está siendo publicado dos veces. Una vez en Inglés y

una vez en lo que espero no es tan malo español.

Bueno, eso espero.

Ella comentó que "los precios suelen ser demasiado alto, pero es fácil de encontrar cosas extrañas y aunque sólo sea para ver los trenes que vale la pena verlo.

Si sólo permite ver el museo que mejor no ser cuando se trata de la feria porque uno de los trenes es una cafetería y se puede tomar algo en un vagón de estilo antiguo ".

Y tengo que decir que sus imágenes captan perfectamente el tipo de museo del ferrocarril Me encantaría visitar.

Aquí hay una selección de las locomotoras y material rodante que refleja todo, desde la altura de lujo hasta el final o ferrocarriles desordenado y sucio.


Y como alguien que le gusta todo tipo de museos que es interesante ver cómo otras ciudades y países lo hacen.

Pero, por supuesto, donde quiera que vaya, puede estar seguro de que no va a una tienda y una cafetería y que si usted tiene niños que tienen pocas probabilidades de escapar sin tener que gastar un montón de dinero.

Por eso, durante las próximas semanas voy a estar con más de los cuadros del museo y espero que otras fotografías e historias de Emma.






Imágenes; un museo ferroviario de 2016 cortesía de Emma Gutiérrez Gilarranz