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Adrian
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English Longbow 90 lbs ,English Yew, Westminster Abbey Replica arrow
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An arrow discovered in Westminster Abbey is thought to be of late Mediaval origin , here I have made some approximations . The shaft is of Ash and " barelled" meaning that it is thickest at its centre 11.5 mm .The nock is 7.5 mm thick whilst the head end is 10.5mm . The arrow is shot from a self made 90 lb Longbow of English self Yew braced with a linen ( flax) string .
The Mid Hants Railway, Watercress Line and Meon Valley Railway 1981
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In 1981 , my Father and I walked the entire length of the Watercress Line . The following year we walked the Meon Valley Line in several stages. The following photographs are a record of how both railway lines where when we walked them.
Battle of Britain Film ,Duxford 1969 filming location. Me/Bf 109, Heinkel 111, Spitfire.
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8mm Film taken by my Father at Duxford Airfield 1969. He was a guest of the Chief Security Officer and witnessed the filming of scenes from the Battle of Britain Film as it took place on that day. Me/Bf 109s, Heinkel 111 and Spitfires where active .
Fairoaks Airport / Aerodrome Early 1970s. Ray Hanna Spitifire.
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8mm cine film of Fairoaks Aerodrome in the early 70s. My Father learnt to fly here and filmed the airfield as it was before the tarmac runway was installed ( late 70s) there is a some footage of the late Ray Hanna displaying his Spitfire at an Airshow on the airfield as well as some Tiger Moths and a Harvard. Note the Rollason Condors at the start taking of on a North /South Runway towards Cher...
Volvo Penta Archimedes 6 Instructions
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Volvo Penta Archimedes 6 hp. With instructions
Rocket launch Ireland
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Rocket Launch into very low Earth Orbit ( 500 feet) with an Estes " D" Rocket Engine and Key fob/ key ring camera attached.
Wooden Medieval Crossbow 120 lbs
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My attempt at making an early 13 Century Crossbow using native timber and materials gathered from the surrounding Countryside. Wych Elm for the Bow, Hornbeam for the nut, Hawthorn for the stock ,flax for the string . The bolts are made from Apple wood and Larch with fletching of Sycamore.
Making a Medieval barreled arrow by hand
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An arrow was discovered in Westminster Abbey and is thought to date back to the Middle Ages. The shaft is barreled and the thickest part is 11.5mm in diameter. Using authentic hand tools, techniques and materials this is my interpretation of how arrows may have been produced during the Medieval and Tudor periods.
Truly wonderful pictures you have shared.
I used to drink in the White Horse Inn in Droxford in 80s and 90s ! Nearly very night .( just a quick one while taking the dog for a walk ! I swear ! ) Lovely pub ! I suppose it's long gone now ?
I remember the Pub but never went in...in those days it would have been a lemonade outside for me! I don't think Children were allowed in back then !!... It would be sad if it closed.
@@Adrian-jk4kx In the Spit and Sawdust place around the I saw children ,but not very often !! It was more in the posh bit at the front ,the restaurant.
Wow, show the effort that went in to restore this railway. RIP for your Dad
@djburland Yes ,it's truly amazing. Thank you for your kind words.
How wonderful. What great memories for you with your father.
Thank you.
Was good to see the pic of the Wickham platforms, sadly not much left of them now. Last time i saw the platforms at West Meon a couple of years ago all the undergrowth had been cut back so looking like an effort in preserving them. I've walked parts of the Meon Valley trail many times but only recently noticed the remains of a platform where Mislingford goods yard was among the vegetation. Thanks for the video.
That's really interesting..I'm not sure We were aware of Mislingford goods yard at the time. We did however come across a few artifacts..such as sleepers, bolts old railway signs and even on old railwaymans waistcoat in a Gangers hut! It's always good to take photos. Everything changes in time.
Brilliant rare footage
Correction: at that time sandpaper was rare in Europe, so they probably used something else.
Very True.. Hunfish skin ( houndfish) used dry was used but as you say there was probably many forms of natural abrasives going back millenia .
For breaking into the buses and blaming another person I am banned from using the buses ever again
This is why i like youtube, ty
It would be easy to remove the magenta colour cast on these pics, and make them like how you saw it at the time
Miss you Royal Oak/White Hart Pubs X2 South Harting West Meon Stores/Cafe and Challengers Farnham RIP😭😥😢😿🥺
WOW, I'm quite amazed as to how completely different it all looked from when you took them cracking pictures in the early 1980s... A whole lot has changed over the past 4 decades for whom that meon valley line appears to be a path, and the watercress line is a terrific 10 miles long between alresford and alton... Jolly well done on this insightful video by the way.
Thats really interesting to hear...Time changes everything ..I'm glad we got some photos and that my Dad wrote captions of where taken etc. I'm so glad you liked the Video .
It is very sad that video of such quality that contains high quality, 120lbs power crossbow that was made out of natural materials earns just 50k views in 4 years.
Walked the line from Meadsted in 1982 with my school railway group happy memories
👍👍👍👍👍👍太棒了！希望再出一些关于你的弩的视频
Thanks.......I will he doing that . .
Wicked Bodkin arrow, would easily pierce armoured
Great memories of special times with your father. Thanks for sharing. The photos brought back memories of the late 1960s when a friend and I walked the Meon Valley line.
The Meon Vally line must have been so different when you walked it not long after it had Officially been closed !.... Glad it brought back good memories for you.
I make my fletches out of thin leather and paint the shafts red to help finding them
That a great idea..I must try leather fletcher next time ..I'm still wondering how the curved slots that were often cut to take the Fletching was done ..maybe just practice and skill?!
The Meon Valley line was used in the TV advert for Milk Tray chocolates...all because the lady loves MT ; it was used to test the Sadler Railcar in the late 'sixties.
That's very interesting .
Excellent
See "Model Rail" No.315 August 2023, for a feature on West Meon viaduct.
Is it on line !
Thank you for the memories. I lived in Fareham and recall the distress in the community at the closure of the Meon Valley Line. Perhaps the first local event which registered with me, apart from the Queen sweeping along the A27.
That's really interesting . I'm sure many people along the line were also saddened at the closure especially in 1958 when car ownership was probably a luxury for many !
Awesome pics. But I wonder, how did those tracks keep from getting flooded (esp in Spring & Summer) which would have disrupted train service? If those tracks froze over in Winter, how did service continue? Must have been a great ride but, somehow, I wonder how those hazards were avoided.
That's an interesting thought. But the Little River Meon which was never far from the line was a Chalk stream. So it was never really affected by flooding . The chalk beds act as a kind of sponge and the stream was fed from the water table rather than tributaries etc or so I understand!!
Great shooting and beautiful arrows
Thank you for sharing these with us. My paternal ancestors lived in the Meon Valley in the the 18th and 19th centuries. They were farmers and benefited greatly from being able to use the railway commercially.
That is so interesting. The Line and the Meon Valley itself seem to have so many stories to tell. I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
Just stumbled upon your channel. Great work. Keep it up!
Thanks ...glad you liked it !
Amazing video I live in Farringdon and have been looking in local shops to find information and photos on the line from the junction dawn to Farringdon and west meon and so on etc
That's really interesting.... strangely there was no picture of Farringdon Station. Perhaps we missed it or there was very little left ! I would be interested to know if you found any evidence !
@@Adrian-jk4kx it appears the line used to go through the trading estate so I wonder if you might have been able to board the trains from there possibly. A pub / hotel up the road towards west meon called the angel had lots of photos of the line but I think they have been taken dawn etc
@stuartsmith7618 that's really interesting..ring's a bell a bit..Perhaps the Station was gone even in 1982 ! It would be nice to gather more old photos together ..wish you luck with your research !
In the days before technology sucked the energy from the youth.Great pics.
Very True but quite sad! Glad you enjoyed it .
That brought back a lot of memories of both lines. Thank you for sharing.
I'm glad you enjoyed it and that it brought some memories back. I wish that I could have seen the Meon Valley Line when it was operational !
Miranda Sex Garden has excellent retro medieval songs for this.
Great historic record... especially of how far the volunteers of the MHR have come!!! Thanks for sharing.
Yes it's true..remarkable work they have done over the years. Always a work in progress ..hats off to them .
Going back many many years late 1930s/1940s my grandfather often drove this line starting from Guildford to Gosport, and for a while in the late 1940s my father was a fireman on this line.
That is remarkable. Guildford to Gosport. What great stories they must have had and hopefully passed on some to you.
@@Adrian-jk4kx One story about my grandfather again in the 1940s, not sure if it was this line, but if the German Luftwaffe were on a raid to London, he always hoped he could get his train to one of the many tunnels, and stop before they got his train,, after the war he drove the electrics until he retired in 1965.
I was living in Alresford in 1981. I had no idea the line was accessible all the way to Alton. Sections of the Meon valley line have now been levelled by adjacent landowners which is a real shame as it would make a magnificent heritage railway.
That's a shame that they are levelling some of the track bed. Thankfully the Watercress line didn't have the same problems as it was largely intact...However it was pretty inaccessible in places in 1981 ...My Father joked that in places it was like an assault course !!
Agreed, meandering along the river. You can walk most of the meon valley line, it's now a trail down to Wickham. Can't help but feel how much of a missed opportunity it is, but I have read reports that alluded that the cost of maintenance (being it's essentially on boggy silt) was a big reason. These photos you have probably could be of interest to the mid hants railway btw.
Was on course to be ! Was it David Shepherd and his Locos ? Or was it the Mid Hants who gave up and thought Ropley was a better site ? It was actually marked on an AA road map in the 70s as a Steam Railway from Wickham north,I think , though it never actually happened as far as I know !
A very lovely collection of wonderful memories. Love the sound with them.
Thank you , glad that you enjoyed it .
And this is really crosbow
Did the tunnels on the MVR in the 1990s . Privett blocked off but West Meon open. Bottled going thru it😊
I think we also got spooked on the curved one ! No light at the end of that particular tunnel ! So went over top as we had no torch !
In Book 4 of THE GEORGE MIRACLE STATIONMASTER series, the Royal Train parks in the yard behind Droxford Station two days before the D-Day landings. I've never seen footage of the line. Many thanks.
You just jogged my memory from all those years ago! I remember my Father saying something like that around the time we walked it.. really interesting ..Thanks.
I've walked on the Meon Valley trail many times. Great to see the pics. How overgrown West Meon Station platforms are in your pic to being cleared and kept for posterity now. Shame Wickham station platforms have not survived so well, very collapsed now and buried by undergrowth. You can walk through there and not know the platforms are there. I stumbled across the remains of a platform where Misslingford goods yard was just a couple of weeks ago. Walked past there many times and never knew it was still there.
A lot has changed because the preservation group moved in and brought this line as a heritage line and has been a heritage railway ever since the preservation group brought the line
Excellent video thanks 👍
Glad you enjoyed it.
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Thank you - special memories! I have a photo of Medstead & Four Marks from September 1984 when I visited with my wife, just eight months before we married. It is quite astounding how the station had been brought back to life just a few years after your visit.
Yes it is amazing . So much dedication and effort. It looks wonderful now.
Thanks for sharing. I visited the Mid-Hants Railway a few years ago and it has come along way.
Thanks for the memory, we did a sponsored walk from Ropley to Alton and back around about this time and have similar photos👍👍
Thats really interesting... you never know...we may have passed each other!!
What a wonderful adventure, a record of derelict lines now mostly brought back to life....A great tribute to our Dad.
Thanks for sharing your special day's out with your father and the images of a railway I have visited many times.
Delightful - thank you for sharing 😊
What a brilliant memory to have of your father, thank you for sharing. And, what an amazing job the Watercress team did and continue to do!
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The draw length need to be longer. You don't use metal prods here. Wooden prods crossbow would eventually evolve into composite prods crossbow. Even Skane crossbows were not that short. Even the picture you reference showed longer draw length closer to 12-15 inches.