The Worst Security In The World
You’ll see a fair number of these machines, in various guises on eBay. And, we are selling this one! They are not exactly ‘Royal Mail […]
History
British Rail Sandwiches
Now that we’ve got our site back up and running (and on that note we highly recommend StablePoint – so far at least!) I just […]
An April Fools Day Tale for the Autumn
Autumn is on the way, which is reassuring since (in my opinion) there are parts of this story, which we’ll call The Yorkie Bar Story, […]
View Point Telescopes
Sometimes vandalism (or in this case, just as likely decay) has a minor positive benefit and it’s only now that I can finally see for […]
Other people we like (22 of 69)
At the risk of sounding like a Peter Kaye impersonator, hands up who remembers The Secret Life of Machines, a fairly early on Channel 4 […]
Oh no it isn’t!
It’s a bit late for pantomine (although, in years past the more successful ones would only stop by being kicked out for summer seasons to […]
Website Updates
First off, our web hosts are at last and after many delays and false starts upgrading their server on the 16th February 2022 [all done […]
The Knowledge Base
We’ve recently (as you can see a tiny bit of here in the form of a late 1960s LocWil flyer) got hold of a bumper […]
Fancy a hot dog?
This is indeed a hot dog vending machine – installed later at Grand Central Station, Manhatten, New York, USA. There must have been at least […]
The ‘Ever Open Shop’ at the Automat
Introducing an opportunity to own [Sorry, SOLD!] a great example of a class of machines that appeared with great fanfare, but pretty much disappeared just […]