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« Reply #36885 on: March 24, 2014, 10:00:22 AM »

Seventy years since The Great Escape.

I spent the evening watching Dickie Attenborough, Charles Bronson and co tunnelli g their way to...twenty feet from the trees.

Mcqueen never stood a chance. He could never beat the entire German army when he couldn't beat Edward G Robinson in a game of cards.

Watched it, epic film. I read the book about Holzminden POW where some of the ideas came from. We have the original plans for that escape Smiley I scanned them a while ago for a blog.



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« Reply #36886 on: March 24, 2014, 10:03:58 AM »

the programme on an hour after the film, "the real great escape" on ch5 was fantastic.

the escape from holzminden in 1917, with very little in the way of tools and resources

the film itself was based on the 1944 escape attempts from stalag luft
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« Reply #36887 on: March 24, 2014, 10:07:10 AM »

the programme on an hour after the film, "the real great escape" on ch5 was fantastic.

the escape from holzminden in 1917, with very little in the way of tools and resources

the film itself was based on the 1944 escape attempts from stalag luft

ahh ***** i missed it, will have to see if i can catch up on it..there goes my evening Smiley
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« Reply #36888 on: March 24, 2014, 10:27:24 AM »

Seventy years since The Great Escape.

I spent the evening watching Dickie Attenborough, Charles Bronson and co tunnelli g their way to...twenty feet from the trees.

Mcqueen never stood a chance. He could never beat the entire German army when he couldn't beat Edward G Robinson in a game of cards.


I can't believe it's been on every Christmas for 70 years.
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« Reply #36889 on: March 24, 2014, 10:41:00 AM »

Seventy years since The Great Escape.

I spent the evening watching Dickie Attenborough, Charles Bronson and co tunnelli g their way to...twenty feet from the trees.

Mcqueen never stood a chance. He could never beat the entire German army when he couldn't beat Edward G Robinson in a game of cards.


I can't believe it's been on every Christmas for 70 years.

Good luck
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« Reply #36890 on: March 26, 2014, 09:30:23 AM »

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2014/mar/25/royal-mail-open-mail-rail-public-in-pictures?CMP=fb_gu

Royal Mail planning to open the Mail Rail to the Public Tikay - some good old pics as well.
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« Reply #36891 on: March 28, 2014, 08:52:15 AM »

Places to go before you die?

I'm assured that neither of these 2 photographs are photo-shopped. The first one is in China, the 2nd in South America.

Extraordinary.

There are another 30+ such photographs here, on a website Anna showed me last night.



http://distractify.com/culture/32-surreal-places-that-actually-exist-on-earth-i-cant-believe-this-isnt-photoshopped/



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« Reply #36892 on: March 28, 2014, 09:13:16 AM »

It's where I'm going after I die that worries me.
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« Reply #36893 on: March 28, 2014, 09:40:55 AM »


Apparently, Mount Everest is NOT the tallest mountain on earth. It is the HIGHEST mountain on earth, though.

The tallest mountain? Mount Kea.

All these years I thought Everest was the tallest. Bang out of order.

It seems "highest" & "tallest" are very different.
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« Reply #36894 on: March 28, 2014, 09:56:38 AM »

Sorry to digress.

I sometimes chuck some concrete tales Mr K's way, and thought this would be of interest.

No photos sadly, but I gather plenty on net. We are looking at using one of our machines in the crossrail project and I had the mind blowing experience of going down the stepney green mineshaft earlier this week, a truly awesome and somewhat scary experience. Its basically where a few of the crossrail tunnels converge and it puts it into the same, but different league as some of the photos just post by Mr K.

Just found the site but still dont know how to post a link. Apols.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=stepney+green+crossrail+shaft&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=u0E1U8jRIfLb7Ab3lIGYDA&ved=0CF8QsAQ&biw=1366&bih=667
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« Reply #36895 on: March 28, 2014, 10:01:09 AM »

Places to go before you die?

I'm assured that neither of these 2 photographs are photo-shopped. The first one is in China, the 2nd in South America.

Extraordinary.

There are another 30+ such photographs here, on a website Anna showed me last night.



http://distractify.com/culture/32-surreal-places-that-actually-exist-on-earth-i-cant-believe-this-isnt-photoshopped/



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I have visited one of those places (probably less than a mile away) and didn't even know it was there. 
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« Reply #36896 on: March 28, 2014, 11:09:45 AM »

Thought you may like this Gramps....

(Well once I learn how to post the picture)
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« Reply #36897 on: March 28, 2014, 11:16:03 AM »

Thought you may like this Gramps....

(Well once I learn how to post the picture)

Fascinating Post, Dylan. Fascinating.
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« Reply #36898 on: March 28, 2014, 11:19:59 AM »

Thought you may like this Gramps....

(Well once I learn how to post the picture)

Fascinating Post, Dylan. Fascinating.

Unfortunately I am not as tech savvy as you sir, just comes out with a link and no picture, confused.com

I will send as a iMessage to you now

By iMessage I meant email instead :-)
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« Reply #36899 on: March 28, 2014, 11:28:14 AM »

Thought you may like this Gramps....

(Well once I learn how to post the picture)

Fascinating Post, Dylan. Fascinating.

Unfortunately I am not as tech savvy as you sir, just comes out with a link and no picture, confused.com

I will send as a iMessage to you now

By iMessage I meant email instead :-)

Got it.

Jeez, is that you stood in the field, crapping yourself?

Photo taken near the Brecon Beacons, I assume?


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