watching it now…………..

mildly interesting

history is good though

It's a shame that steam powered larger loco models were not covered in greater detail – model engineering is far too complicated for the BBC.

An interesting bit of social history.  Not really my thing but I can admire the skills.  Nice to see Mike Sharman and his Cramptons though, as I have his book. Does anybody know which programme the clip was from?

I may be wrong, but I am getting the impression that there is less derision being poured on people who have technical interests these days – perhaps as a reaction to the failures of the money manipulators?

Rod

Edited By Roderick Jenkins on 24/01/2013 09:31:29

Gray,

Thanks – I did wonder as we had a clip of Bob's talking head but I couldn't remember the name of the series. I used to watch it but I was probably more interested in model aircraft at the time. I didn't know that some were YouTube, I''ll have a search.

cheers,

Rod