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Christmas Eve

  • 7 hours ago
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Ann was up in Billingham to exchange presents and take her mother down to the East Riding for Christmas Day. Ali was visiting too and we all took George for a walk in the snow...

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Ann and I shared a couple of little bottles of wine...
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There's a few more pictures in the collection, click below...
Christmas Eve 2009
Christmas Eve 2009
and Ann has pictures she and Ali took on her blog.






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Merry Christmas

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Don't panic!

  • 4 days ago
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For all those people worrying about last minute Christmas shopping or other festive arrangements I present this WWII poster...

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KeepCalm
This poster has become well known but, fortunately, was never actually used during the war. Apparently 2.5 million were printed to be displayed if Germany invaded the British Isles. Most were pulped after the war and only a few originals remain. One was discovered in a box of second hand books by Barter Books of Alnwick, Northumberland in 2000. They sell reproductions and many souvenirs based upon it.
The other two posters in the series were displayed at the outbreak of war...
FreedomInPeril
FreedomInPeril

Yourcourage
Yourcourage


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Up to date info from the Daily Telegraph

  • 5 days ago
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Have a close look at this screengrab from The Daily Telegraph's website...

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Yes, it claims it was published in 1931...
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A Couple More Winter Pictures

  • 5 days ago
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In the last couple of decades we haven't often had snow which has lasted more than a few days in the Tees Valley. Hope you're not bored with this stuff!
First photo is from my mother's front garden...

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The second I took in my local's summer beer garden as I was locking up tonight...
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An icicle

  • 6 days ago
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Lit by flash from the front and sodium street lighting from above and behind...

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1930s BBC television

  • 7 days ago
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As filmed off air in New York in November 1938...

Thanks to the Alexandra Palace Television Society's YouTube channel which has many interesting archive recordings..

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Snow

  • 7 days ago
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Some pictures from last night...

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Billingham Weather

  • Dec 17, 2009
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Real time weather information from Billingham. (Love the info, hate the Comic Sans!)
This weather station contributes to the Weather Underground named after the 1960s/70s radical group who, in turn, were named after Bob Dylan lyrics...



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Ghost Signs

  • Dec 17, 2009
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This is an excellent blog dedicated to recording hand painted advertising signs (often at risk of being erased).

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GhostSigns
Here's an example of a recent loss at Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1...
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GilletteCriterion

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There is currently a flickr group to which you can add examples of this art (craft?) and there is to be a national archive which will be launched in the New Year in collaboration with HAT - the History of Advertising Trust.
I can think of a couple of local examples, and no doubt will find more when I start looking.

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