She bought the model as a surprise gift for a friend who is a lifelong HST fan and railwayman, and who will soon be celebrating a milestone birthday.

The gneissic granites (sample Ms04) and massive granites (sample Ms05a) are widespread in the Nankan Island. Gneissic granite has coarse-grained texture and gneissic structure.[…]The massive granites (sample Ms05a) with fine-grained texture in the Nankan Island are intruded by later diabases (sample Ms05b).

That all the best archers of the north / Sholde come upon a day, / And he that shoteth alderbest / The game shall bere away.

At present, successive coats of yellowwash fill up the rich decoration of this doorway, so that its beauty is not brought out to the eye of the unpractised visitor.