The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Snailbeach District Railways

a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsmEARPU8LKG5rRlBKCIx0k9h9-i6f_RWmZ4QS0uO1qGVMoLCNK-9otCgCGO7hbXScGoJGanSHAwZ5OxlsJ3pOYmXkLuGrQeGxeZT9NGawyGiq9hiZSAayK29pGM7kxxcDQsxn16nVGyu3/s1600-h/snailbeach3.jpg"img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366631261446221218" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsmEARPU8LKG5rRlBKCIx0k9h9-i6f_RWmZ4QS0uO1qGVMoLCNK-9otCgCGO7hbXScGoJGanSHAwZ5OxlsJ3pOYmXkLuGrQeGxeZT9NGawyGiq9hiZSAayK29pGM7kxxcDQsxn16nVGyu3/s400/snailbeach3.jpg" //aBack in the early 1980s I a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2008/09/friends-institute-birmingham-and-some.html"worked in Birmingham/a on 2/6 a week. This taught me many valuable lessons - notably, not to work in Birmingham on 2/6 a week.br /div/divbr /divOne of the best sources of free entertainment was the city art gallery. Because it has a superb collection of Victoria art, I developed an interest in the Pre-Raphaelites./divbr /divAs a href="http://disgruntledradical.blogspot.com/2009/08/desperate-anachronisms.html"Disgruntled Radical/a observes, the immensely enjoyable drama series a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/07/desparate-romantics.html"Desperate Romantics/a concentrates on the three major figures of the Brotherhood: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt./divbr /divBut there were seven members in all. Back in the eighties I could have reeled them off for you; these days I need a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood"Wikipedia/a to refresh my memory./divbr /div/divdivThe other four members were Dante Gabriel's brother William, Thomas Woolner, James Collinson, and Frederic George Stephens./divbr /div/divdivBut what is the connection with Snailbeach and the Shropshire lead industry?/divbr /div/divdivThe a href="http://www.hfstephens-museum.org.uk/colonel-stephens-railways/snailbeach-district-railway.html"Snailbeach District Railways/a were one of many narrow gauge and minor railways operated by the famous Colonel Stephens. That is, Holman Fred Stephens, the son of Frederic George Stephens (and presumably named for Holman Hunt)./divbr /div/divdivRead more about the Colonel and his wonderful collection of improbable railways at a href="http://www.hfstephens-museum.org.uk/"The Colonel Stephens Railway Museum/a./divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-2595642855281484054?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div

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