The Gun

I can remember at school reading a book written by C S Forester about a huge gun that was dragged around Spain during Napoleon's Peninsular War and used as a siege breaking weapon. Well I have just bought "A Gun", do not know much about it but it took my fancy, very heavy steel, it is a model of the much larger real thing.
After a bit of research we believe it is a model of a coastal defence gun made at the end of the 19th century.
It has wheels underneath at right angles to the gun, but at a slight angle so that it could be set on a pair of curved rails so that it could be moved to follow a target out at sea.
I always call these sort of items "Boys Toys"

The Gun

The angled wheels on the under carriage

Edinburgh Trunk, a life time of travel

When I was in Edinburgh last week I took the photo below of a row of shops in Hanover Street just where it meets Princess street because I have a wonderful early 19th century trunk with a label inside showing a luggage shop in the same location.

The bottom of Hanover street with The Royal Scottish Academy just in view at the T junction.

If you look diagonally across the road where you can see the two telephone kiosks is where A Boswell Brush Trunk Port Manteau & Carpet Bag Manufacturers ran their business.

The shops without the modern front extensions and The Royal Scottish Academy to the left

The Trunk could tell some great stories of where it has been and how many times it has been loaded on and off the Coaches in the 19th century

Georgian Leather Bound Trunk