Westborne Park station, London. Photo: 06.07.2024. #London #station #RailwayStation
@ranaroth
Random postings of stuff on an ad-hoc basis. All book covers scanned from my personal collection. All non-archive photographs taken by me. "All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension."
Westborne Park station, London. Photo: 06.07.2024. #London #station #RailwayStation
St. Mary's Cemetery Chapel, Battersea Rise, Wandsworth, London. Photo: 26.10.2024. #London #cemetery #chapel
Bristol Temple Meads. 302 PHOENIX (99531). Parlour First. Preston Park, Brighton, 1952. Pullman livery. Underframe from 172, Metro Cammell, 1927, body destroyed by fire Micheldever 1936. Ex. restaurant, Lyon, France. Photo: 09.06.2021. #Bristol #coach #railway #Pullman
Barry B. Longyear, Beyond Apollo, Orbit/Futura, 1975. Cover: Tony Roberts. Victims of Space: The Ceres Disaster from Stewart Cowley, Spacewreck. 1973 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Winner: Best Science Fiction Novel. #BarryLongyear #TonyRoberts #StewartCowley #TerranTradeAuthority
Klaus Porschka. Auf dem Mond ist nie was los. Illustrating Robert Heinlein's Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon, 1949. From Peter Wilfert (ed.), Tor zu den Sternen (Gateway to the Stars), Goldmann, 1981. #KlausPorschka
David Lawson. Space Shuttle. From a card set called The Race Into Space, Brooke Bond, 1971. #DavidLawson #BrookeBond #SpaceShuttle
West Kilburn, London. War memorial. Photo: 06.07.2024. #London #memorial #WarMemorial
St. Mary's Cemetery, Battersea Rise, Wandsworth, London. Photos: 26.10.2024. #London #cemetery
Bristol Temple Meads. 301 PERSEUS (99530). Parlour First. Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co. (BRCW), 1951. Pullman livery. Photos: 09.06.2021. #Taunton #coach #railway #Pullman #BRCW
Barry B. Longyear, The Homecoming, Walker & Co., 1989. Cover: Alan M. Clark. #BarryLongyear #AlanClark #dinosaur
Map: Ice Reaches and the New Tarsian coast. #Map
David Lawson. Soyuz. Russian-designed, three-module spacecraft and launch vehicle family. First launch 23.04.1967, last launch 27.11.2025. From a card set called The Race Into Space, Brooke Bond, 1971. #DavidLawson #BrookeBond #Soyuz
Wakefield Gardens, London. Sundial. 1990 designed by John Chitty. Sculpted by Edwin Russell and Lorne McKean. Photo: 06.07.2024. #London #sundial #JohnChitty #EdwinRussell #LorneMcKean
Paddington Square, London. Skull. Photo: 26.10.2024. #London #skull
Taunton, Somerset. 351 Sapphire (99351). Parlour Second. Metro Cammell, lot 3281, 1960. Ex. Bounds Green, 1995; Crewe Basford Hall, 1996; Southall, 2000. Pullman livery. Photos: 29.08.2021. #Taunton #coach #railway #Pullman
Barry B. Longyear, Manifest Destiny, Orbit, 1986. Cover: Peter Elson. Collection of stories written 1979-80. Includes Enemy Mine made into a film in 1985 dir by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Dennis Quaid. #BarryLongyear #PeterElson
Klaus Janson. From a graphic adaption of Ray Bradbury, Frost and Fire, DC Comics, 1985. #KlausJanson #RayBradbury
David Lawson. Soviet Space Tracking. Originally named Genichesk, 1966-67, named Kosmonavt Vladimir Komarov, 1969-89. Built 1966. Decommissioned 1989. From a card set called The Race Into Space, Brooke Bond, 1971. #DavidLawson #BrookeBond
Verde & Company, Brushfield Street, London. C18. Photo: 06.07.2024. #London
Siddons House, London. Originally Abbey National Building Society. 1920s by John James Joass. Photo: 26.10.2024. #London #JohnJoass
Taunton, Somerset. 99125 Jessica. Originally 3113. Mk 1 First Open. Swindon, lot 30697, 1962. Ex. Bluebell Railway, 1991; Bounds Green; Carnforth 1992. Photo: 29.08.2021. #Taunton #coach #railway
Ray Harryhausen was guest of honour at the 45th World Science Fiction Convention, 1987 held at Brighton, England. I told my brother I'd get his autograph. He scoffed at that. I did indeed meet the man, get his autograph (the other two are Arkady & Boris Strugatski) and a five minute chat to boot.
Barry B. Longyear, Manifest Destiny, Orbit/Futura, 1982. Cover: Tim White. Collection of stories written 1979-80. Includes Enemy Mine made into a film in 1985 dir by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Dennis Quaid. #BarryLongyear #TimWhite
Map: Earth Tree. #Map
David Lawson. Skylab. United States' first space station. Launched 14.05.1973. Deorbited 11.07.1979 with debris landing about 300 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. From a card set called The Race Into Space, Brooke Bond, 1971. #DavidLawson #BrookeBond #Skylab #SpaceStation
Urban Baristas, Shepherds Bush, London. Photo: 06.07.2024. #London
Clapham, London. Photo: 26.10.2024. #London #Clapham #pig
Loughborough, Great Central Railway. E 81343. Mk 1 Gangwayed Full Brake. Pressed Steel, lot 30400, 1957. Photo: 09.08.2006. #Loughborough #coach #railway
Barry B. Longyear, Circus World, Orbit, 1982. Cover: Tim White. Collection of stories written 1978-79. A planet descended entirely from the population of a crashed spaceship carrying a circus. #BarryLongyear #circus #TimWhite
Kierye Kvi. Galaxy Space. #KieryeKvi #space #painting #galaxy