Hello
Keith Ramsey wrote:
>
> There's a piece in today's "Western Daily Press" about a man from Holcombe,
> Somerset, who has a large collection of elderly cars and motorcycles which
> are kept underground at Blackpool colliery and are reached by a hydraulic
> platform which descends the pit shaft.
>
> I've never heard of this pit, and storing cars in an old colliery sounds a
> bit impractical to say the least. Does anyone know anything else about this?
my first thought was 'bullshit', but ...
... I am just archiving all my photographs taken during the last 20 years,
and came accross the following picture, I took in 1992 in Kaylor, Pennsylvania:
http://www.hfinster.de/tmp/kaylor-92.jpg
The advertisement reads:
Underground Storage
As low as 65$ per season
Security, Eliminates Winterizing, Climate Controlled
Boats, Campers, Vans, Antique Cars, Trucks
So, no bullshit ?-)
Greetings
Harald
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Dr.-Ing. Harald Finster / Aachen Germany
http://www.finster-stahlart.de industrial history and architecture
http://www.astrid-aix.de gallery: watercolours and oil paintings
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