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visit to my
Little toy steam website
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To help keep this website online, and to help me to
Preserve the information here which has taken me Many many years to
accumulate
My name is Michael, I was born, and still live in a small
town called Chesterfield
In the county of Derbyshire, England,
Chesterfield is a historic town which came
to prominence in
1204 when it was granted a "Market charter" by King John
Chesterfield is also famous for its Christian church "The crooked spire"
Which was Built in the 14th century.
Not surprisingly though
Chesterfield's oldest surviving building is a Inn
Which dates back to the 12th century and was originally a rest-home for
the
Knights Templar during the years of the Crusades.
As you can see Chesterfield
is steeped in history and growing up in this lovely town
As left its mark on me my interests don't lay in the distant past though
But in the near past and with the preservation of toy steam engines.
My very first
recollection of a steam engine was when I was given one
For my birthday in 1972, and for a ten year old boy this was the best
present ever
And that's where it all began, and my love of toy steam has never faded.
Ohh and just in case you
are wondering what this very first steam engine was
It was a Meccano horizontal steam engine.
And of course when I
received my birthday present I did what any curious
10 year old boy would do, I
painted it black, attached four wheels and a drive band
To it and enjoyed many long
and hot sunny days driving it up and down our yard
I still have my Meccano steam engine which is currently being restored to
its former glory
And all that hand brushed black paint has now gone
And when finished she will be placed into retirement after many years
Of hard and loyal service.
I hope you enjoy my
website, please
feel free to leave your comments
Steam engine stories, or suggestions in my guestbook for others to read and
enjoy
Thank you for your time
Best wishes
Mike.
My website is a none
profit making website
All donations are used to pay for server space
And
domain name
This currently costs around
£100 a year.
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My mother and
me
My father and
me
I had just been born
My
teddy bear and me
(Teddy was knitted by my mother)
My sister Lisa
and Dolly
Me with my toys
Me
on holiday
Me
and the neighbours child taking a bath
Times where hard when I was growing up
We had to share bath water
In the winter the bath would be moved
Inside the house
