Can't believe it - just opened up my October issue of BRM & there on the back page is an obituary to Dave Shakespeare , creator of the legendary OO layout Tetley Mills . Apparently he died recently after an 18 month battle with cancer . Tetley Mills had been featured in the mags a few times over the last few years & Dave was building a new version of the layout in a new house he was building . It was an iconic & definitive recreation of railways running through the industrial northern landscape - just as impressive a statement in its way as Dewsbury Midland , but created by one guy in his house rather than by a team of people for the exhibition circuit . It was clear for all to see that he was a master of the art of railway modelling , especially in the recreation of those grimy northern buildings which were so prevalent in the Sixties . What a great loss . Ric
Great shame :(
I vividly remember the first issue of Model Rail with that layout featured prominently. RIP Dave.
How very sad. I always enjoyed magazine articles on Tetley Mills and Dave's straightforward approach/words to modelling. He captured the grimy atmosphere so very very well. R.I.P.
Can't believe it, was reading some old posts how he had done all sorts of major building work and was starting to get his latest layout under way
For those that don't know his work.
Unmissable OO gauge layout - Tetley's Mills - British Railway Modelling (January 2011) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZTsPnjLOLo#ws)
Thanks for putting that on , not seen it before , excellent . Owning up time.....I always had it fixed in my mind (for years) that it was called TETLEY Mills , now I find out the layout was/is called TETLEY'S Mills ! What a muppet !!! I've even got 3 mag articles on the layout in a box file with a folded A3 sheet of paper to keep them together , with 'Tetley Mills' written on the front . No hope at all ! (yet another senior moment) . Ric