A Watershed in Vending
(Featured picture – an old Bristol, e.g. made by Bristol Commercial Vehicles, not just operated in, bus in cornea straining CityLine livery). Wandering about Bristol […]
Workshop ‘blog
Magini tal-Bejgħ ta’ Malta (u Għawdex)
(Vending Machines of Malta (and Gozo)) It’s the post I didn’t think I would be doing, done! Malta certainly has a complicated past, and from […]
Summer Holiday!
(Look out, Cliff!) We’re off for a hopefully less tragic summer holiday for a couple of weeks. When back the visit to the German Automation […]
Magyarország ital- és snackautomatái
(Vending machines of Hungary)….or to be more precise, no further than Budapest! The machines of Budapest that we snapped were all pretty modern. There’s no […]
Any number of things you might find interesting
First up, something we’ve barely scratched the surface of yet is our Fisholow / GKN wall mounted vending machines. We did restore two for use […]
Automaten van Amsterdam & einer in Deutschland für Glück
(Vending Machines of Amsterdam & one in Germany for luck) Amsterdam is the ultimate cycling city yet visitors are actively discouraged from casual participation, but […]
Bristol: The Greenbank Chocolate Factory History & Happy New Year 2026!
Happy New Year! No waffle today, straight to the chocolate! Many residents of Bristol had no idea there was a chocolate factory hidden away in […]
Merry Christmas!
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful new year from the whole team at Rose […]
The December Post Was In September
It’s true that I pretty much did the Xmas thing in two big posts around September, both the xmas lights and Coronet Lanterns features. But […]
It’s Going to be a Vintage Xmas!
I confess, you’ve got me. Banged to rights guv’nor. It’s a fair cop. I’m the sort of person who would frequently get a bit uppity […]