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Happy St. David's Day

I had planned to post this first thing this morning, but computer problems prevented, and then grim news seemed more important. We all could use some music and laughter about now, I think. The four countries of the United Kingdom are of such great antiquity that they can't mark a...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 1, 2012 8:33 PM

Talyllyn Railway: "The Railway with a Heart of Gold"

Amongst the cache of educational short-subject films available at the Internet Archive, I came across this documentary of a narrow-gauge railway in northwestern Wales, the Talyllyn Railway, being kept alive by preservationists. The documentary was released in 1965, but was filmed in the early 1950s. The railway opened in 1866...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 17, 2011 4:06 PM