With Ann on Saturday
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World War I Hospital Trains
The trains that saved soldiers in WW1 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32695829
Elvington Air Museum
Pictures from Saturday’s trip to the former RAF station near York.
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Elvington Air Museum on Sunday
It was nice to see Ann and the dogs at the weekend. Also good to see the Dakota and the Devon out of the hangar undergoing engine tests.
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Scarborough
With Ann, planes and trains…
Man City vs Norwich on Sunday
I think I’ll have a bet on the draw. According to the BBC
and the Official Barclay’s Premiere League website
it’s a foregone conclusion.
Man City aren’t that sure though.
A lovely present
From Ann, of course…
New watch
Thank you Ann…
Google60 – Search Mad Men Style
http://www.masswerk.at/google60/ It really was like this. We sometimes had to use hand held mechanical card punches, even in the late 70s. Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee on Twitter for this.
Hi-Fi News
December 1960, Vol. 5 No. 7, Price: 2/-
A frequency meter…
Just a thing I have in my dining room.
8mm film transfer
All those trains on Saturday were so I could take a 50 year old standard 8mm film projector to Ann’s where Adam was to transfer some old home movies to video. Ann took some pictures of the process…
After eventually re-discovering how to thread the film onto the projector (it’s not right in the photos above!) he managed to produce some quite acceptable results…
This was taken around 1964 and contains the only moving pictures I know of my father, he was nearly always the cameraman.
Swift Matches
By Maguire & Paterson (N.I.) Ltd.
Concorde
The Corgi model…
In BOAC livery in which it never flew.
Yes, it’s on its original stand.
No, I didn’t keep the box.
No, it’s not complete. Many wheels are missing.
No, it’s not for sale.
ConvAirCar, 1946-1948
Real flying car for sale
Slide Rule
A useful tool I rediscovered today…
The logo for the manufacturer, British Thornton, is one I hope will appear in that iPhone app everyone seems to be playing.
Yes, I am of an age that knows how to use one…
Rockin’ Brian…
Written in galaxies. Thank you to Bizibuilder.
http://mygalaxies.co.uk
Helen’s Bay, Co. Down. August 1936.
This is a photo of my mother as a bridesmaid at a family wedding in Helen’s Bay…
My mother had written the location and date as above in the album it was in. I thought I’d try to find a more exact location. Being a wedding, Church St seemed a good place to start looking and with Google Street View I rapidly found this house opposite the Presbyterian Church. It’s lost a chimney sometime in the last 76 years but I believe it’s the one in the background above.
Following the cricket…
… on good old fashioned Ceefax, the North East of England being one of the few regions still receiving this service.
Rockin' Brian 