Bill Ward’s Brickpile

On my old Web site/blog, bill.wards.net, I have a lot of LEGO postings which used brickshelf.com for image hosting. Although I copied all the images to Flickr some time back, I never updated the listings to point to the new image location. Now that Brickshelf is going offline (edit: it came back, but I still prefer Flickr), however, I need to do that. And rather than update them on the old site, I have decided to move them to Brickpile instead. This is the oldest LEGO posting on that site:

Unlike the rest of my models, this was not built using my own LEGO collection. During a trip to Germany in August 2001, I visited with some German LEGO fans and we built some accessories for their train layout.

• More pictures from my trip to Germany can be found on my website in the travel section.
• Pictures posted by Holger were on Brickshelf - not sure where to link to them now. But I have saved a copy of them, and may post them somewhere if he doesn’t.
• LEGO’s official home page.
• The international LEGO Users Group Network.
• I met these German LEGO fans on the 1000steine.de website (steiene means “bricks”). There is a discussion forum, where I posted: “any German LEGO fans want to meet me?”.

Click the big picture to go to the set page on Flickr, or you can view a slideshow of the photos.

Brickshelf has returned, but with a prominent notice saying “Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31. Please save your files to your computer.”

I copied all my LEGO photos to Flickr some time ago, plus I kept copies on my hard drive, so I think I’m OK for now - though I will take this opportunity to find out. I suggest everyone take advantage of this opportunity to make backups if you need to!

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