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Identify this famous old fella in the hat.

(http://photo-history-books.co.uk/th3a.jpg)

I've got 3 photographs of him. The last should be a big clue. I'll put the rest up over the course of the day.

Guess away  :)

Its tikay obv.

Dunno about the guy in the hat, but the other guy looks just like Fagin from the film 'Oliver'

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Old Charlie Chaplin?

Not sure of the Gents identity, but if it helps to elimninate "suspects", it is NOT a London Bus.

The RT's, RTL's, & all RM variants did not have that window detail - they had little stainless steel "turn handles", the windows hinged at the bottom, & were not "sliders".

So, probably not taken in London.

That should narrow it down.

Is it tikay's great-great grandson?

Great Bus knowledge Tikay. Your right not London.

next

(http://photo-history-books.co.uk/th3.jpg)

He's got off the bus, & now is heading to work. The location is a clue to his identity.

Lowry?

Member of the Guiness family ?  :dontask:

Correct Kin 

you win a round of ;applause; ;applause;

the last one was Lowry at work, in his studio.

(http://photo-history-books.co.uk/th3b.jpg)

I've spent the past few days reading about him. An interesting fella, spent most of his working life as a rent collector.

also from Wikipedia.

I've spent the past few days reading about him. An interesting fella, spent most of his working life as a rent collector also from Wikipedia.

Didn't know Wikipedia was around in Lowrys day. How much was thier rent.

A total shot in the dark, but that picture - in particular the beautiful brick-built viaduct - reminds me very much of Stockport.

And here is a Stockport picture, with precisely the same Bus variant & livery, in shot, lower left. And trams, fascinatingly.

It certainly is.

Just done a bit more research, and can tell you the name of the photographer and the year it was taken:

L. S. Lowry Sketching Stockport Viaduct, 1961, by Crispin Eurich (1936-76).

And, 47 years on, that Viaduct remains in use to this day, still carrying the West Coast Main-Line.

I was the RC Subbie in the 70's for a hideously ugly office block alongside that River, almost underneath the Viaduct, (I think it's the Mersey), which I doubt still stands.

More of these sort of Threads please Tonji, it's wonderful, & evocative.

By the bye, Stockport dignitaries claim that their Viaduct is the 2nd largest brick-built structure in Europe, but personally, I very much doubt it's in the Top Ten.

I thought you'd be fascinated by that. ;)

My friend google tells me that the Stockport Viaduct was constructed in 1847.

161 years old, & still doing the job is was designed to do.

Typical Victorian engineering.

bit like you then really

;applause;

Never mind that, go turn your System Restore off. It was so obviously "Sysetm Restore", I'm amazed you never thought of that, sigh.

Never worry about my age & stamina, I can still go like a train. It just takes a bit of time, that's all. Especially to recover.

Oh Lowry the painter :D  I was wondering where in the UK Lowry was :blonde:

yep, I sold the prints last week.

nice work
YouTube: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SnRX6_Txpaw

Tonji, I don't know whether you're just interested in old photo's or old photographic bits and pieces in general but I worked in the photographic business  for a good few years and collected one or two things that you might find interesting.

Here's a couple of old exposure meters I managed to pick up.

(http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/2492/beemeter001tt9.jpg)  (http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5638/beemeter003tg1.jpg)

(http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5619/beemeter004jt7.jpg)

I don't think they are worth a great deal but they look nice.

Hi Wader, interesting bits, but not really my line of business though, I buy & sell the images, not equipment. Try looking at finished Ebay auctions to get an idea of value if your looking to sell them.

Sorry mate did it sound like a sales pitch, not after selling them just thought you might have been into that sort of stuff too.
Got quite a few glass negs as well, collected them more out of interest than for selling on tbh.

Here's a squashed bike
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and a squashed plane
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I've got a lot of views and scenery too and 1 or 2 of cricketers late 1920's early '30s i'd guess.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LVeJwXUg98Q&feature=related

my favorute song from a musical ever

That will be another 3 points for Tikay then...

Not funny!

I am due in Court (it got adjourned last week) in January for that traffic light affair, sigh.

I did stop, honest, M'Lord.

a warrant was issued in 1934

not at all Wader.

love the squashed plane, air travel was so unconformable in them days!

Post some more up :)up

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I can imagine a black bloke just to the side of them and them shouting at him: "BOY YOU BEST FIND MY DANDY NEW POCKET WATCH IN THAT THERE MUD LEST THERE BE SOME WHIPPING TONIGHT"!!!!!