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[Daggers]

I used to get up in the morning at half-past-ten at night, half an hour before I went to bed, Eat a lump of freezing cold poison, work 28 hours a day at mill, and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work. And when I got home our dad used to murder us in cold blood, each night, and dance about on our graves, singing hallelujah.

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[Granfan]

Not sure this picture is old, weird, funny or interesting but it's a close up of beautiful creatures.  Hard to believe people would hunt them down with dogs to kill them

 

[Wymsey]

2 hours ago, davieG said:

Imagine if kids and teenagers were asked to go to the trenches these days; some would probably be quivering in their beds and checking social media in the hope of that it's a false alarm..

Edited 8 December 2024 by Wymsey

[davieG]

1950

[AyewJoking]

Didnt know Freddie Mercury was that old

[davieG]

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A boy enjoys his ice cream as he sits on a sea mine washed up on the beach at Deal in Kent, February 1940

 

[Free Falling Foxes]

4 hours ago, davieG said:

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A boy enjoys his ice cream as he sits on a sea mine washed up on the beach at Deal in Kent, February 1940

 

I can imagine his mam saying, 'If that thing goes off, don't you come back running to me'.

[foxile5]

On 07/12/2024 at 19:38, Parafox said:

 

Not one of them has a mobile phone.

 

Jeez that must've been tough.

They'd all have anxiety and need emotional support snails with them nowadays.

[Parafox]

5 hours ago, foxile5 said:

They'd all have anxiety and need emotional support snails with them nowadays.

 

We make fun, a bit, but sadly the modern tech age is not doing our kids any favours in terms of socialising with peers and society in general.

[davieG]

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The Marylebone Workhouse. London 1901…

[Foxdiamond]

7 minutes ago, davieG said:

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The Marylebone Workhouse. London 1901…

My Great Great Grandfather must have been a tough old bloke. Carpenter by trade. Lived till age 92 ending his days in a workhouse in Kent in 1902. 

[SkidsFox]

On 11/12/2024 at 09:23, davieG said:

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A boy enjoys his ice cream as he sits on a sea mine washed up on the beach at Deal in Kent, February 1940

 

Yikes. Balls of steel.

[davieG]

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Class Divide: A Snapshot of Britain in 1937

On July 9, 1937, outside the Grace Gates at Lord’s Cricket Ground, photographer Jimmy Sime captured an image that would become a poignant symbol of Britain’s class divide. The photo, taken during the prestigious Eton vs. Harrow cricket match, features two sharply dressed upper-class Harrow students on the left and three working-class boys on the right.

The Harrow boys, Peter Wagner and Thomas “Tim” Dyson, were awaiting Wagner’s father to take them to their family’s country home in Surrey. Tragically, Tim Dyson’s life was cut short just a year later when he fell ill while visiting his father’s military post in Trimulgherry, India, dying at the age of 16. His family endured further heartbreak when his father, captured by the Japanese during the fall of Singapore in 1942, died in a Japanese prison camp in Korea that same year. Peter Wagner went on to work at his family’s stockbroker firm, married, and had children, but his life ended at age 60 in Hellingly Psychiatric Hospital in East Sussex in 1984.

In contrast, the three working-class boys—George Salmon, Jack Catlin, and George Young—led longer and seemingly more stable lives. George Young started a window-cleaning business, providing work for his four sons. George Salmon lived a full life before passing away in 2000. Jack Catlin, widowed and remarried, lived to be 85, passing in 2011, survived by a loving family.

This photo not only highlights the visual differences

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Atomic Leisure — Las Vegas, Nevada, 1955

On July 17, 1955, at precisely 5:30 a.m., swimmers at the Desert Inn pool in Las Vegas paused mid-dive. A mushroom cloud rose in the distance—65 miles away at the Nevada Test Site. The atomic blast, part of Operation Teapot, was visible from the Strip, and locals had gathered with lawn chairs and sunglasses to witness the spectacle. Children floated on inflatable rings, couples sipped coffee, and lifeguards pointed skyward. The juxtaposition was surreal: leisure and annihilation sharing the same horizon. For many, it was a symbol of American optimism, blind to the dangers of radiation. For others, it was a haunting reminder of the Cold War’s reach. That morning, Las Vegas became the only city in the world where you could sunbathe beneath a nuclear sunrise.

 

[Free Falling Foxes]

3 hours ago, davieG said:

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Atomic Leisure — Las Vegas, Nevada, 1955

On July 17, 1955, at precisely 5:30 a.m., swimmers at the Desert Inn pool in Las Vegas paused mid-dive. A mushroom cloud rose in the distance—65 miles away at the Nevada Test Site. The atomic blast, part of Operation Teapot, was visible from the Strip, and locals had gathered with lawn chairs and sunglasses to witness the spectacle. Children floated on inflatable rings, couples sipped coffee, and lifeguards pointed skyward. The juxtaposition was surreal: leisure and annihilation sharing the same horizon. For many, it was a symbol of American optimism, blind to the dangers of radiation. For others, it was a haunting reminder of the Cold War’s reach. That morning, Las Vegas became the only city in the world where you could sunbathe beneath a nuclear sunrise.

 

Mmmmm, not a single person in that photograph is watching that mushroom cloud.

[davieG]

9 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Mmmmm, not a single person in that photograph is watching that mushroom cloud.

seen it before so many times they were bored with it like LCFC fans, how long before no one's watching them

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Mmmmm, not a single person in that photograph is watching that mushroom cloud.

 

I wonder how many would go on to develop cancer?

[Phil Mitchell]

[Parafox]

4 hours ago, Phil Mitchell said:

 

Where was this?

[Phil Mitchell]

27 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Where was this?

 Church gate. Phil

[Otis]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

 

Where was this?

Filbert Street 

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, Phil Mitchell said:

 Church gate. Phil

 

3 minutes ago, Otis said:

Filbert Street 

 

Erm?

[Otis]

8 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

 

Erm?

Club shop on the corner of the old main stand.

[davieG]

56 minutes ago, Otis said:

Filbert Street 

Yeah the church gate one was in a row of other shops.  I think it was called Turnstile and was not an official shop. I think my son worked there on Saturdays. 
 

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In the 1980s, there was a sports shop on Churchgate that sold Leicester City replica kits, but it was not an official club shop and its name is forgotten

. This store, owned by the Mallinger family, was the only one in town at the time selling the kits and was a hub for fans to get updates on match scores. The official club shop was located at Filbert Street, the team's former stadium.