Historical Photographs thread

[Woodsey]

and here is that naked girl today

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Lancaster "S for Sugar" decorated with a quote from Goering and over 100 bombing missions recorded on the nose

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New York's 11th Ave. 1909 [

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[Woodsey]

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Man balancing on a board on top of a skyscraper,

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What a great photo

Jimmy Page performing "White Summer" live with Led Zeppelin c. 1975

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Wirths Circus arrives at platform 9, Spencer st station in Melbourne, Australia, 1948. Alice the 102 year old elephant helps unload the trains.

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Elvis Presley signing autographs to some kids in Memphis, somewhere between 1955 and 1960.

[Kev B]

Mum, me, my sister and Great Grandad. Taken at his cottage in Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, Ireland. Taken probably 1964.





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My Great Grandad Jimmy Burns was born in Scotland. My Great Grandmother died and he was left with the kids. The story I'm told was that in those days in Scotland it was not the done thing for fathers to bring up children on there own, and there was a threat of them being taken into care. He located a job in Ireland managing grazing farmland where cattle could graze and be held over ready for market. Here there was no threat of the family being split up. We visited him on a few occassion during the 60's. There were no roll on roll off ferries then and cars had to be lifted on by crane. The ferries were not as stable as those now and sea sickness was awful.

 The things I remember most about the cottage was there was no electricity and no running water. Water had to be fetched in buckets from the nearby well. By the door was a stand full of canes, I always chose the one with the silver top. These were needed to shoo the cattle from around the well. I have many more pics of us on top of hay stacks etc.

[MANTIS01]

I didn't know Jodie Foster batted for the other side

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Mum, me, my sister and Great Grandad. Taken at his cottage in Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, Ireland. Taken probably 1964.





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My Great Grandad Jimmy Burns was born in Scotland. My Great Grandmother died and he was left with the kids. The story I'm told was that in those days in Scotland it was not the done thing for fathers to bring up children on there own, and there was a threat of them being taken into care. He located a job in Ireland managing grazing farmland where cattle could graze and be held over ready for market. Here there was no threat of the family being split up. We visited him on a few occassion during the 60's. There were no roll on roll off ferries then and cars had to be lifted on by crane. The ferries were not as stable as those now and sea sickness was awful.

 The things I remember most about the cottage was there was no electricity and no running water. Water had to be fetched in buckets from the nearby well. By the door was a stand full of canes, I always chose the one with the silver top. These were needed to shoo the cattle from around the well. I have many more pics of us on top of hay stacks etc.

Fabulous! I love it.

More of this kind of stuff please peeps.

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I didn't know Jodie Foster batted for the other side

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She told me in confidence.

[Kev B]

Love Woodsey's pic of the napalm girl then and now.


I wouldn'd say this about many men but wasn't Elvis Presley beautiful.

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Roy Campbell vs. Dick Hyland 1913

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Cambridge undergraduates 1926