Like totems from a bygone age, forgotten now but once so common they were unseen. Even when the fabric of the houses were well into demolition, these totems remain: black steel and wire spiders against a grey sky
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Excelsior Forgotten
This photo of my mother sat on my fathers' Excelsior motorbike dates, I think, from the 1940s. It was taken at our house on Southmere Dr...
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The Isle of Man still has a steam railway. It is not a pretend heritage line run by well-meaning volunteers, but a proper, functioning, ... -
Y ou can spend too long sat inside reading old newspapers and cataloguing old postcards. There comes a time in the affairs of man when he s...
And separate aerials for different channels. Aerial affluence and analogue aspirations!
ReplyDeleteOnce in a while, I'll see a random antenna left on an old house, and it makes me smile.
ReplyDeleteReminders of growing affluence during my childhood.
ReplyDeleteThey were/are ugly things. It saddens me to see demolition going on even though I know it is necessary in some cases but that was someones home once.
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