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Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts
Saturday, 24 June 2023

Nostalgic telegram service is proving popular in Leamington and Warwick

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Nostalgic telegram service is proving popular in Leamington and Warwick The last of my backlog of posts from 2021 features another piece of ...
Wednesday, 11 November 2020

100-year-old carrier pigeon message found in France

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source - The Guardian 100-year-old carrier pigeon message found in France It seems suitably fitting on this Remembrance Day to feature this ...
Monday, 26 October 2020

Black WW1 pilot's ID bracelet smashes estimate at Kent auction

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  Black WW1 pilot's ID bracelet smashes estimate at Kent auction With the BLM movement still very much at the forefront of people's ...
Wednesday, 30 September 2020

For he's still a brolly good fellow

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For part two of my umbrella-themed post we pick up from where we left off in part one with a further fictional proponent of umbrella self-d...
Friday, 18 September 2020

My heroes: Leutnant Werner Voss (German Air Service) 1897-1917

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For this post I thought I would do something a bit different and publish a little essay I first wrote nearly 17 years ago, on the 23rd Novem...
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Monday, 24 August 2020

Footage shows 'forgotten' aerodrome from before WW2

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Vintage aircraft footage of 'forgotten' pre-war aerodrome Here we have another interesting article both in and of itself and a...
Monday, 29 June 2020

Demolition firm puts vintage steam engine back to work

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source - theconstructionindex Demolition firm puts vintage steam engine back to work More steam-powered goodness now, from a time...
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Thursday, 18 June 2020

Dame Vera Lynn: 1917-2020

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Dame Vera Lynn: Forces' Sweetheart dies aged 103 Still helping the country pull together in hard times right up to the end.  RIP. ...
Tuesday, 7 April 2020

Music to watch the world go by

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Period sleuthing (and bow ties) are the order of the day! TV schedulers have a somewhat macabre sense of humour, I've decided.  In t...
Saturday, 14 February 2015

28.5-litre Fiat S76 runs for first time in over 100 years

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28.5-litre Fiat S76 runs for first time in over 100 years Back in November 2011 I wrote a long post about the history of the aeroplane-...
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Sunday, 21 December 2014

Britain's first ever sci-fi film 'Message from Mars' restored

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Britain's first ever sci-fi film 'Message from Mars' restored You could be forgiven for thinking I had decamped to Mars myse...
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