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sandeha
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« on: January 27, 2006, 05:28:35 AM » |
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Some years ago I picked up a few oak picture frames and stashed them away in the loft. Here's what one of them contained ...  and a newspaper cutting used as lining paper ...  In the Town and Country Talk section to the left there are some curious stories ... a chemist fined 2 Pounds for selling cyanide of potassium to a woman who used it to commit suicide; a vicar fined 1 Pound (including costs) for assaulting a coal miner; a labourer sentenced to 15 years penal servitude for attempting to murder a policeman; a woman who had just reached her 101st birthday; a ten year-old boy playing with an old muzzle-loading gun killed his sister, aged seven ... Anything changed much? :lol: |
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LarryD
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« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2006, 05:38:37 AM » |
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The more things change the more they are the same. Intersting.
Larry
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Film photography and the Soviet Union are not dead. Just downsized.
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Graham Serretta
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« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2006, 06:25:13 AM » |
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Except for the hats! Thanks Sandeha.
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Mike Kovacs
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« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2006, 06:29:04 AM » |
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The bride and groom are really tiny people! I do like the smirk on his face, like he is anticipating the release of years of Victorian oppression shortly.
All three women in the front row must be sisters, and several of the men look closely related too. Must have been a real family affair, just as today.
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sandeha
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« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2006, 07:55:52 AM » |
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Ha, yes, the groom's looking forward to the time of his life, but what is the bride thinking? Did her dad, I presume the big beardie on the right, just lean his shotgun down against the wall, out of camera view?
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Mike Kovacs
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« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2006, 08:30:17 AM » |
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Dad clearly has his revolver hidden inside his hat.
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« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2006, 08:58:28 AM » |
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Something has changed. The last coal miners have become unemployed and the mines have closed all over the western Europe, and Dr Tibbles' Vi-Cocoa has become Uncle Sam's Coca-Cola.
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« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2006, 09:23:59 AM » |
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Could you explain what a "colour sargent" is?
The picture is nice and a good document. The bride seems a bit concerned. The newspaper is also quite interesting - a weekly?
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Mike Kovacs
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« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2006, 09:37:24 AM » |
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The colour sergeant was an actual special rank accorded to the person who's job was to attend to the "colours" (flags) of the regiment.
But why they chose to use a colour sergeant for the ad is beyond me. Maybe signifies that he'll always be ready to strike the colours of Britain!
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NicolasD
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« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2006, 09:46:48 AM » |
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Hmmm... maybe it's something else that Dr Tibbles' aphrodisiac Vi-Cocoa allowed the colour sergeant to be always ready to strike !  |
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LarryD
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« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2006, 10:25:42 AM » |
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Colour sergeant was an almost first sergeant but not quight ready. because te Firtst Sergeant had not yet been killed so he was cooling his heals and waiting for his turn. in the American milatary it is a Frock Sergeant
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Film photography and the Soviet Union are not dead. Just downsized.
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sandeha
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« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2006, 10:39:55 AM » |
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The bride has probably been told she should "lie back and think of England" ...
This was long before D.H. Lawrence, so she was possibly terrified. Mind you, the bloke does look a shilling short of the full pound.
The soldier pitch was probably due to the ongoing Boer War. "Our Boys", etc, etc ... ...
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« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2006, 11:15:37 AM » |
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LOL! But I think the bride's drugged - did they have valium then? Probably to keep her from imagining the years of drudgery and relentless child-bearing ahead of her. The groom just looks goofy, and I think the bride's father looks like he can't wait to run to the pub! The couple standing beside the groom can't be his parents, can they, they look too young.
Great find, Sandeha.
Nancy
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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
- Yousuf Karsh
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Mike Kovacs
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« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2006, 12:25:48 PM » |
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Sorry Nancy, Valium didn't come out until the '60s. Opium and cocaine were in widespread use in the early 20th century. Sigmund Freud was a supporter of cocaine use. (and a user too)
If not for me, for King, God and country?
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Santiago Montenegro
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« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2006, 12:45:35 PM » |
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This picture reminds me of a collection I once saw... photos of dead people. To me, several member of this party seem to be dead. The others just had toothaches. [/img]  |
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