Join: Jul 25, 2008
Name: JimTLonW6
Gender: Male
Hometown: Oxford UK
Location: London, UK
Videos Watched: 982
Subscribers: 27
Channel Views: 2964
Books: Three Men in a boat, 1066 and all that, Adolf Hitler - My part in his downfall, The Great Jelly of London.'Is this a man?'
Movies: Umm er, I enjoyed Mussorgsky's 'Khovanschina' and Janacek 'Cunning Little Vixen'
Music: Schubert, Ravel, Faure, Finzi, Vaughan-Williams, and lots of others.
Hobbies: Beer, Cheese, More Beer, Walking, Sleeping, Hide and Seek
Hi, I've taken a few videos of old machines, mainly beam engines but there are others, also birds at the London Wetland Centre.I also take photos around London and Blenheim (Oxfordshire, England), which you can see on my website.Owing to spam I've had to restrict e-mail to contacts, however if you put a comment on your vids and your user name isn't something like 'sexyhotgirls4u' I'll pick it up from there and reply!Videos (56)
Crossness engines 3
- Length: 0:20
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 2 people
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- Author: JimTLonW6
Tags: beam Crossness engines London pump sewage steam
The flywheel of the 'Prince Consort' Engine.Crossness has flywheels on its engines, unlike older beam engines, the flywheels provide momentum and also place a limit on the travel of the pistons (older engines are at risk of blowing the top off the cylinder if not carefully controlled!). The Pumps...
Crossness Engines 2
- Length: 0:12
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 1 people
- View Count: 1044
- Author: JimTLonW6
Tags: Beam Crossness engine London pump Sewage Steam
Beam of the 'Prince Consort' Engine seen on the beam floor of the Crossness engines
Crossness engines 'Prince Consort' 1
- Length: 0:54
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 3 people
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- Author: JimTLonW6
Tags: beam Crossness Engine Pump Sewage Steam
Cylinders of the 'Prince Consort' engine at the Crossness site. These engines used to pump London's sewage, and are the largest rotative beam engines in the World.
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Retro Steam n the Lune Gorge
- Length: 9:48
- Rating Average: 4.91 from 43 people
- View Count: 7992' favoriteCount='79
- Author: RailMon
Tags: Coast Line LMS Main Railways Steam Vintage West
Some fabulous vintage footage of steam activity between Greyrigg Bank and Tebay in the 1950s. Of particular interest, the water troughs at Dillicar. People who know the area will be interested to note the absence of the M6 motorway.
Gardener's World - Chegworth Valley Segment
- Length: 2:31
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 2 people
- View Count: 374' favoriteCount='1
- Author: chegworthvalley
Tags: Apple Chegworth Gardening Juice Superfoods Valley
An extract from Gardener's World's special program on Superfoods where David and Linda Deme are interviewed.
Plandampf Hohenlohe, September 30 - October 3 2006
- Length: 9:59
- Rating Average: 4.83 from 12 people
- View Count: 1976' favoriteCount='7
- Author: ronik24
Tags: DB Germany locomotive passenger Plandampf railroad steam train
Steam trains between Hohenlohe and Odenwald regions in Germany with two 23, one 64 and one 38 class steamer.P.S.: At the end, that wasn't me... ;-)