Any old Pics - replicating google images, one post at a time (Part 1)

Best you could hope for was to land on the kids who were spectating.

VB

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The Balfron Tower in Poplar was designed by architect Ernő Goldfinger in 1963

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About the same time as the film then?

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film was 1964, but of course the character existed in the book which was published in 1959

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Who did the Odd Jobs?

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The caretaker,i like to think he wore a bowler hat

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doesn’t look too much different from when I was using it to get to school in the 1970s - (when it worked on time) -

Yes, remember getting the central and district lines as a kid in the 60s,think those armrests were leather…bloody luxury.

Too good for the likes of you lot.


London peasouper 1952

An Eliot 803 at the then Hatfield College of Technology - taken in 1964. Strangely despite many refurbs and different usage over time, this room is now one of our labs again…

A slightly later picture of the Elliot - note they got a printer.


Arsenal match at Highbury.

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Surely not. It’d have been your Granddad telling you about them.

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Opium smoking room, Shanghai, 1936

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His granddad used to work for Ikea :+1:

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in the days before projectors etc…an imaginative way of displaying programming to a class

mid 1960s I’d guess

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My old school pictured in 1912

and, shortly before it was demolished in 1972

Happy days!

He would have been 60 today if I have my dates right.

Looks like Steve Earle nearest to the camera :grin: and the new head of the FBI Mr V. Putin on the extreme left (:rolling_eyes: I know, I know).

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Are they all sitting on one of those gate-to-plane buses at Dulles ?

VB