During the Victorian period the town prospered, with quarrying, weaving, mining, cotton spinning and shoe manufacturing providing a variety of occupations for the population of the town, and the natural geography offering a wealth of resources for businessmen and women to utilise to it’s fullest potential. Famous History graduates include Louis Theroux (documentary filmmaker, author), Jonathan Ross (TV presenter), Joe Biden (US President) and Gordon Brown (ex-British Prime Minister). Particularly useful are down-to-earth (pun intended), "obvious once you think about it" ideas such as the above. As a breadth study, The Tudors allows students to understand the history of over 100 years in a thematic approach.

The teachers of that school became the nucleus of the new staff at the Bacup and Rawtenstall Secondary and Technical School (later to change its name to Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School) which opened on the present site in 1913. The Festival’s main aim is to attract and expose visitors to the beauty, heritage and culture of Rossendale. g. required to be where battens will be) and ensuring a steady curve that also included a curved crossover that did not fall below the minimum radius of at least 600mm.

Understanding past events and people and their significance gives students a better insight into the world around them. In the study of The American Dream: reality and illusion from 1945-80, students will undertake a depth study into the challenges faced by the USA at home and abroad as it emerged from the Second World War as a Superpower. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. At present, it is simply laid out with lengths of SMP flexi positioned roughly, to get an idea of what it will look like.

Anyway, I hope that these give a bit better idea of what the aim is, even if everything is at the same level at the moment. I am notoriously bad at updates so the next time I post could be months down the line and a whole lot done.

As such, I am sure that my trackwork will shock those with knowledge of such things and I am sure that I will need to revisit certain elements of it at a later date but it is giving me immense satisfaction to be starting with a bag of bullhead rail, a bag of PCB and a length of solder and end up with a turnout that seems to work. only to block it from view) but from the normal operating position, the view that is provided will enable me to see the vast majority of the railway. I originally intended to use Peco Code 75 throughout but I knew that it would always annoy me that it doesn't look quite right so I have bitten the bullet and am making my own pointwork (in OO, so still not right.

Anyway, I thought I'd take a couple of shots with my iPhone (camera is still kaput) and ask whether what I am planning makes sense and also which layout of the houses looks better.The station is without a doubt the most complex structure on the layout and as mentioned, if I didn't get that looking something like then there was no point in continuing.