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Fuel pumps at the Subaru garage
The pumps like the car brands above appear to have fallen by the wayside. An interesting feature none the less.
Image: © Michael Trolove
Taken: 22 Feb 2009
0.06 miles
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Subaru Dealership, Olney
Another far eastern connection is next door with Olney Oriental Carpets.
Image: © Michael Trolove
Taken: 22 Feb 2009
0.06 miles
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Shops, High Street South, Olney
The town was extraordinarily busy on this first Sunday in December. There is a farmer's market on the first Sunday of every month, there may have been something special about this last one before Christmas.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 5 Dec 2021
0.07 miles
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W E & J Pebody Ltd, chrome tanners, Cowper Tannery, Lime Street, Olney
Was home to a W H Allen steam engine driving an alternator. Subsequently removed. The satellite image shows that the plot has been cleared.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 30 Jun 1990
0.08 miles
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Steam engine at Cowper Tannery, Olney
W H Allen Sons & Co Ltd compound engine built in 1948 and stopped c1986. Now for sale at Preston Steam Services near Canterbury.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 30 Jun 1990
0.08 miles
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Steam engine at Cowper Tannery, Olney
W H Allen Sons & Co Ltd compound engine built in 1948 and stopped c1986. Now for sale at Preston Steam Services near Canterbury. The cylinders are 12" & 18" bore by 7.5" stroke with piston valves. It developed 150 brake horsepower at 500 revolutions per minute on steam at 100 pounds per square inch. The flywheel is 42" diameter and the engine is direct coupled to an alternator. The device in the bottom right corner is the DC exciter to supply the field coils of the alternator.
The original colour slide is dark and this is better in monochrome.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 30 Jun 1990
0.08 miles
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Steam engine at Cowper Tannery, Olney
W H Allen Sons & Co Ltd compound engine built in 1948 and stopped c1986. Now for sale at Preston Steam Services near Canterbury. The cylinders are 12" & 18" bore by 7.5" stroke with piston valves. It developed 150 brake horsepower at 500 revolutions per minute on steam at 100 pounds per square inch. The flywheel is 42" diameter and the engine is direct coupled to an alternator. The device on the extreme right is the DC exciter to supply the field coils of the alternator.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 30 Jun 1990
0.08 miles
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High Street, Olney
Looking down the southern end of High Street in the village centre of Olney, an outlying area of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England.
Image: © Steven Haslington
Taken: 8 May 2014
0.08 miles
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Dolls' house room with hare and triplets, shop window, High Street South, Olney
The hare triplets are an allusion to the leverets - young hares - adopted by the poet William Cowper, who lived in Olney between 1768 and 1786, and whose house nearby is now a museum.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 23 Sep 2020
0.08 miles
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The Bull Hotel, Olney
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 30 Oct 2022
0.09 miles