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Tim Shields

@ttshields.bsky.social

Curator, transport manager and occasional writer. Snapshot of vehicles, heritage & other interests. Views my own.

21 Followers  |  25 Following  |  13 Posts  |  Joined: 21.12.2024  |  1.6694

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Feeling #insideout..! #ManVic @doublearrow64.bsky.social

20.11.2025 12:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Hangover from a time when you could pop into WHSmiths for a copy of Dante's Inferno and the latest Engineering publication...!
#ColwynBay

01.11.2025 19:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Above all else, you must know where the fire exit is...! #Hull @doublearrow64.bsky.social

20.10.2025 09:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

..perhaps an afterthought? It looks like the comp slip has been roughly cut with a pair of scissors!!

29.06.2025 20:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Rejecting my usual dislike for novelty First Day Covers, a chance 50p antique shop purchase in the form of a Railfreight Distribution novelty card, commemorating the first freight train through the channel tunnel... #BritishRail #BRB #1994
@mikeyashworth.bsky.social @doublearrow64.bsky.social

29.06.2025 19:51 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Quite fond of #Calais! - Mainly for the postwar architecture and 1970s-90s retail vibe...!!

20.06.2025 18:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Slowly being consumed by sand dunes...! - Remnants of #Boulogne Aéroglisseur station and the Hoverspeed buildings that once served the now long departed hovercraft service to the UK 🇬🇧

19.06.2025 19:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Where office workers now reside, the finest cars made in #Dudley we're once on display! 11a Regent St, SW1. - The former #London showroom of Bean cars...

26.04.2025 08:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In the land of hand-cut Perspex signs of yesteryear...! 😎 #Malta

13.03.2025 08:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Coincidentally, the latest vehicle acquisition @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social is an ex Mitchells & Butlers (Leyland Beaver) Dray, built in 1949...! 😍

24.02.2025 16:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Heritage on the move..! Vehicles from @BCLivingMuseum Transport Collection on display yesterday @ikeaunitedkingdom.bsky.social #Birmingham

19.01.2025 10:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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With temperatures expected to fall as low as -20C in parts of the UK over the next two days, I thought I'd dig out my copy of Black Winter. The story of the storms and floods of 1946-47 and of the devastation on the land which followed. Published by Farmers Weekly, 1947

08.01.2025 18:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Easier to drive (no crash gearbox to master) but far more complex to maintain (containing both an engine and a motor)... 💨⚡️

26.12.2024 12:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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