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16 February 2021

Blue Enamel Nameplates are rare but glorious, surprisingly quite a few have survived.  Railway Cottages were built in 1889 by the London and North Western Railway for its employees. It's nice that the modern, reddish bricks (it's a pity they couldn't find old stock to match) shows that at least someone made the effort to preserve the sign.

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