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Capes on tour: Magpie Mine

by Pluvmantelo
September 15, 2025
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Looking back at all our posts with Clair The Cape Queen it’s clear there haven’t been enough red capes. Blues and greens and yellows tend to be the most featured shades so it’s time to give the red capes more of a look-in and especially …

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Capes on tour: Leek. Part 2

by Pluvmantelo
September 11, 2025
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Compare and contrast – here are black and white versions of the last post and there’s no es-cape-ing just how good they are. Yes, colour images, suitably knocked back to re-create those colour prints of the 1970s work well, but so does black and white. …

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Capes on tour: Leek. Part 1

by Pluvmantelo
September 8, 2025
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Staffordshire called once again for The Cape Queen who went in search of stationery to complete some much-needed correspondence. But before buying the necessary pens and paper – and some pencils for her drawing hobby – there was time for a stroll around the town. …

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Capes on tour: Stone in black and white. Part 7

by Pluvmantelo
September 3, 2025
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We’re continuing or visit to Stone thread but, this time, in monotone. And why not? A black and white image conveys something quite different from a colour one and there’s a real link with the past. Anyway, Clair The Cape Queen is looking to return …

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Capes on tour: Stone, Staffordshire. Part 6

by Pluvmantelo
September 1, 2025
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It’s a return to Stone railway station where Clair the Cape Queen had donned her Klepper cape for some industrial architecture exploring. Mid-summer it might have been, but the skies were grey, there were intermittent showers and the breeze strong, the latter causing Clair’s heavy …

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Capes on tour: Stone, Staffordshire. Part 5

by Pluvmantelo
August 28, 2025
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There’s something intriguing about a properly traditional Midlands town that then surprises with Brutalist-style concrete, and that was the case here. Clair The Cape Queen discovered this canal path under a bridge, complete with latter-day urban graffiti. We know that capes and concrete go well …

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Capes on tour: Magpie Mine. Part 2

by Pluvmantelo
August 25, 2025
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Clair The Cape Queen’s at home in the great outdoors, whatever the weather. Of course a cape makes that out door enjoyment even more so. And as we’ve already seen the weather wasn’t so good the day Clair made the long journey to this top-class …

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Capes on tour: Stone, Staffordshire. Part 4

by Pluvmantelo
August 21, 2025
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Back to Stone and Clair The Cape Queen came across a proper car accessory shop. Once a common sight in almost any high street many have suffered as motorists go online to buy their car’s needs. Of course, that means a motorist doesn’t get that …

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Capes on tour: Magpie Mine

by Pluvmantelo
August 18, 2025
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Head into the heart of Clair The Cape Queen’s domain and you’ll find Magpie Mine, Derbyshire’s last working lead mine. Situated high up in the Peak District it’s a fantastic survivor and one that’s a reminder of the nation’s past, closing in 1958. But while, …

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Capes on tour: Stone, Staffordshire. Part 3

by Pluvmantelo
August 14, 2025
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Railway station architecture: the earlier British station design was a thing of majesty, sometimes taking styling cues from churches. And in many ways railway stations of the Victorian and Edwardian eras really ways cathedral of steam, moving people and goods en masse before the internal …

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