CBG c'est la Cuisine de le Barracks pour le Grognardes!

I shot two! This one is even better, it is one of the theatrical stage-set boxes and is quite sublime, but you feel the removal of the figures would somehow be a crime, leaving it more as an ornament than a set of 'toy' soldiers!

Box lid; set 587 Cuisine . . . aaaaand - that about covers the box lid, so moving swiftly along now, mind your heads . . .

. . . isn't it lovely? I wonder if this has a liitle more age than the previous post's set, if only because the guy swabbing here has a far more realistic mop than the chap in yesterday's group, who's mop looked like I made it! maybe they were done by out-workes and some have err . . .  better technique than others!

Eyes left; and it seems Minot went into vin ordinaire as well! Who's ever seen advertising hoardings - real or imagined - in a military facility? That aside; the oven is superb (see below) and the whole set oozes charm.

Eyes right; one of the carrying poses from yesterday's set and a bit of sharp-knife action! Lovin' the carrots and the pig looks all too realistic! Thanks again to Adrian Little (Mercator Trading) for letting me shoot the two sets, a real treat!

This Victorian (or possibly Georgian, it may be later, Edwardian; it's all in the crown?) combined range/oven/open-hearth fire was still extant in Fort Tourgis on Alderney in the Channel Islands back in 2007 when I shot this. I don't know if they are still there, there was a plan to clean them up for the incomer-workers on the internet gambling sites (which I think have moved-on) and another plan to turn it into a hotel (which has been tried before), and there may have been initial work which finally did for these old fittings?

I think BO is for British Ordnance? And the old government-arrow is a nice touch, as if you could slip it done your trousers and wander-off with it; it's survived generations of squaddies, German occupiers, Italian immigrants after the war, several building plans and 70-years of vandals and neglect! But then it was built when the whole world came to us for railway locomotives, ships and cranes, now, we go to them, but the Brwreakshiteers haven't worked it out for themselves yet? Without Europe behind us; we'll pay more, not less.

The Germans heavily fortified Tourgis in the war with large emplacements and bunkers built-into the lower ramparts, while A/T guns and FlaK were stuck up on the walls and roofs, both covering Platt Saline beach against invasion and providing AA-support for the big gun-position 'Blücher' behind the beach, so maybe a billeted German used this, as his Waterloo allies might have 120-years earlier?

HMS Rodney took out the big emplacement (remains above photographed earlier this year) after D-Day to stop it firing on US troops advancing out of the beachhead. The ruins make you realise how much the Airfix ones' walls need to be thickened-by!

I'm not sure how I got from colonial barracks to long-range naval artillery but there you are, never a dull moment!