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Post by philbirch on Dec 26, 2014 0:48:45 GMT -5
N for Nice bloke Frank Bruno at a sports dinner at Old Trafford. He had all the time in the world to talk to his fans and was lovely and respectful. A true gentleman.
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Post by philbirch on Dec 26, 2014 0:51:13 GMT -5
O for Onion Seller. Taken at 2014's 1940's weekend at Bury
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Post by genazzano on Dec 26, 2014 6:48:24 GMT -5
I wanted to do a real Portrait of our big Maine Coon, Nuvy, an 18 pound arm load of cat. David
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Post by genazzano on Dec 27, 2014 10:48:56 GMT -5
The QRS K-1 From old negatives found inside camera showing GM building: The GM building as shown in brochure:
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Post by philbirch on Dec 27, 2014 16:43:47 GMT -5
This rag and plastic material is weirdly beautiful.
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Post by philbirch on Dec 27, 2014 16:57:13 GMT -5
R for Royal Liver Building Liverpool (pronounced Lyver not Livver). Taken with my Pentax SP1000 with Pentacon 35-70zoom. Home to the Royal Liver Assurance Company, the building was completed in 1911 and was one of the first reinforced congrete buildings in the world. It is 300 feet high (90m) and the clocks at 25 feet wide (7.6m) are bigger than the Big Ben clock. The famous Liver Birds (cormorants) perched atop are 18 feet high. If the birds were to fly away, the city of Liverpool will cease to exist. Hence they are chained by the feet to the towers.
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Post by philbirch on Dec 27, 2014 17:06:11 GMT -5
S for Sooty's House. Home to Matthew Corbett, the man who's hand Sooty keeps warm. Sooty was out for a stroll when I took this picture.
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Post by mickeyobe on Dec 27, 2014 17:25:24 GMT -5
T for TTC Toronto's beloved Red Rockets. Mickey
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Post by philbirch on Dec 27, 2014 18:03:14 GMT -5
Oh, dear Mickey, are you getting confused? look at the attached image - it may help
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Post by genazzano on Dec 27, 2014 18:13:20 GMT -5
Please... Who is Sooty?
Phil, that Royal Liver Bldg has some very interesting details. I must google this one.
Mickey, where was that hippy neighborhood back in the 60's?
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Post by philbirch on Dec 27, 2014 18:31:01 GMT -5
Sooty is the guy in the Santa hat. Google 'Sooty and Sweep' for full biographical details.
Oh, by the way, Hippy neighbourhoods tend to stay in the same place for decades. Most neighbourhoods do. Mine has been here since 1979 - not sure where it was before though...
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Post by genazzano on Dec 27, 2014 18:43:13 GMT -5
I'm not sure, Phil. Hippy neighborhoods tend to become populated by those who replace the beautiful old tall windows with wide triple glazed energy efficient ones as the hippies became stock brokers and then retired at 50 sold the Porsche and house to a 20 something gamer. I used to go up there once in a while to cover some street stories as a stringer.
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Post by mickeyobe on Dec 27, 2014 21:28:36 GMT -5
Please... Who is Sooty? Phil, that Royal Liver Bldg has some very interesting details. I must google this one. Mickey, where was that hippy neighborhood back in the 60's? I was not much of a hippy. I was too busy raising a family. I think Toronto's hippy hang out was Yorkville. It still exists and is a pleasant tourist attraction with some decent if overpriced restaurants. I don't know what happened to the hippies though. They are probably sitting in their rocking chairs with shawls on their shoulders gumming their porridge and dunking their toast in warm milk. The Liver building is very beautiful but the name could have been better chosen. Heart or Bright Eyes or Empire Provinces Building or The Cormorant Arms I can see its splendid clock better than my own wristwatch. Mickey P.S. Your red pram looks like Dr. Doolittles Pushmepullyou.
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Post by mickeyobe on Dec 27, 2014 21:43:11 GMT -5
Oh, dear Mickey, are you getting confused? look at the attached image - it may help Philbirch, Back about 1939 when the originals were fist introduced 30 mph probably seemed like a rocket. I think though it was probably sarcasm which has stuck even though Toronto's congested traffic makes 5mph seem like rocket speed now. A few years ago some politicians advocated getting rid of them in favour of busses. There was a great furor. They were not re-elected. The dummies. By the way in Toronto they are called streetcars. A pram is a baby carriage. Youse English! Tch Tch. When will you learn the language? Mickey
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Post by philbirch on Dec 28, 2014 10:02:21 GMT -5
Trams can have a lot of nostalgia for some, so its hardly surprising that the politicians' proposals were unpopular. Well done citizens of Toronto! The TTC bus drivers should go back to driving school and learn what red lights are for. link and linkMost trams in Britain were discontinued completely after WW2 in favour of buses. Just a few small places kept them, Blackpool being the most notable, indeed many retired trams went to Blackpool and were put into regular use along side the familiar cream and green single and double decker units. Blackpool has the only open top trams that I know of. Manchester got trams again about 20 years ago. They originally ran along old disused railway lines and had new track built through the city centre. There was a furore when it was decided that an Italian company would win the contract to make them. The sad thing was that no English companies actually bidded. Now they are made in Poland. New lines are being added. Mostly those that run along old railway lines get a good speed on. There are dedicated roads in the city centre for them so they are pretty quick anyway. I can't imagine my home town of Warrington getting trams again. Sometimes its quicker to walk home rather than wait for a bus and crawl through badly managed traffic. Many cities are re-introducing tramways. Perhaps they are greener. When I go to my wife's home town of Łódź in Poland, the tramway system never fails to impress me. Cheap, fast and on time with a super variety of routes. What more do you need? Ashton-Under-Lyne had trolley buses until the mid 60's. They were a novelty to me. A lovely quiet, smooth ride. Pram is as you say, a short word for perambulator: a baby carriage or a surveyor's wheel. I don't remember using the word pram though...
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