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John Chapman
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 Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:36 pm Post subject: Hi from John Chapman |
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As Rog. has started the trend for introductions I thought it was high time I joined in.
I was born in St Columb Minor in Cornwall in 1947. I presume that makes me an early post war utility model. The family moved to Bexleyheath in Kent when I was still at school. On leaving school I joined the Post Office and became a telecomms. Engineer, a career that took me to Nottingham in the mid seventies. A couple of years ago I took early retirement (great aint it Rog?). Recently I moved back to Cornwall with my wife Jenny, this time to St Columb Major.
My first steam engine was an SEL Junior I was given as a Christmas present when I was ten years old, back in 1957. I have always had an interest in steam, presumably kindled during train spotting days in the fifties and early sixties. About four years ago I visited Steam Toys In Action in Leicester and that re-kindled my interest and started me collecting. I have exhibited a couple of times at STIA and in the process made some good friends. Whilst doing an Open University course I learned HTML and that led to me creating a website as a project. It is still going so please feel free to visit www.steamtoys.co.uk.
I get my bus pass next month and if I watch “Grumpy Old Men” on the TV I tend to agree with nearly every thing they say, must be getting old.  |
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IndianaRog
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Yup John,
We Grumpy Old Men have a certain kinship and toy steam seems a great place for it grow even stronger. Thanks for sharing YOUR life story...you left out only one bit...you are a hand/street organ collector and you and the wife can both play them as I recall. THAT is not a common hobby any more than collecting steam toys!!
As for retirement...just hit the 3 year mark for me (2 years for you)...it IS all it's cracked up to be, totally enjoying having my time to dole out as I see fit. Spending a bit of it on this forum and finding it is time well spent.
cheers,
Rog
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SillyBilly
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Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
There are introdutions been added by the hour! |
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Chris
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Great website. The electro-magnetic engine looks very interesting. It is interesting how the first engines powered by electricity were based on how steam ones worked. Never realised that.
Any chance of a video of it in action?
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John Chapman
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Chris wrote: | Great website. The electro-magnetic engine looks very interesting. It is interesting how the first engines powered by electricity were based on how steam ones worked. Never realised that.
Any chance of a video of it in action? |
Be a pleasure, assuming a. I can find out to take video with my camera and b. How to upload the video to the forum. |
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John Chapman
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| IndianaRog wrote: | ...you left out only one bit...you are a hand/street organ collector and you and the wife can both play them as I recall.
cheers,
Rog |
Ah! My secret is out!
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MTA
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Ahh organs. I've always liked them, a fair/fayre wouldn't be the same without at least one organ playing merrily in the background!
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James
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How much would one of them organs cost in England?
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IndianaRog
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John,
You look the part of a hand organist from a century ago and are wearing a very satisfied smile...in American vernacular, we'd say "you're a happy camper".
Great pic of you and the missus...and the organ ain't bad either!!
cheers,
Rog
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John Chapman
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| James wrote: | | How much would one of them organs cost in England? |
About £2300 James. That one was made by Peter Trueman in Derby but a guy called Alan Pell also makes them in Spalding http://www.alanpell.com/ |
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£2300? 
Ok I'll pass 
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John Chapman
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| tmuir wrote: | I would love to get one of those old hand organs but in Australia I would have more luck collecting hens teeth.  |
If you fancy building one from a kit, such a thing exists in Australia - http://www.castlewoodorgans.com/ |
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IndianaRog
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John,
Just visited the Pell site you provided link for...darn those sound nice...I listened to the Hello Dolly example and found it very charming. I wonder if a person could transfer a sound file like that to a cell phone, making it the ring tone??? Wouldn't that be an interesting bridge between old and new technology and likely your ring would stand out in a crowd!!!
thanks for sharing,
Rog
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| You didn't tell everyone you dress like a victorian! You look very mutch like victorian people in books in that picture. |
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