the Photo thread

[TANGODANCER]

Yer very own Rumworth clog-hoppers performing outside the Man and Scythe.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou0_Zyt4OgA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bruce Rioja]

Yer very own Rumworth clog-hoppers performing outside the Man and Scythe.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou0_Zyt4OgA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Dujon]

With a crowd of one, as best I can gather, TANGO.

Nah, I once wore wood and leather clogs for a couple of years. The originals were metal tipped and heeled. Whilst I most assuredly didn't try that sort of tapping I'm told that I found that I could generate sparks by clipping the toe pieces against the pavement and annoy the girls walking in front of me. They, the metal bits, were changed rather smartly to some sort of rubber. Life was never quite the same after that.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Yer very own Rumworth clog-hoppers performing outside the Man and Scythe.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou0_Zyt4OgA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

very Lancashire stylee that.

[Bruce Rioja]

This is pretty bloomin' incredible. Pics from the D-Day landings and 1944. Click on the pics for a 'then and now'.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign ... WEML6619I2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Thanks Bruce. Incredible indeed.

[thebish]

This is pretty bloomin' incredible. Pics from the D-Day landings and 1944. Click on the pics for a 'then and now'.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign ... WEML6619I2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

great find Bruce - fantastic!

[Bruce Rioja]

Glad you enjoyed them. I really can't get my head around the contrast in the third one down. Absolutely incredible.

[TANGODANCER]

Great pics mate. My dad came back from Dunkirk and was put on guard duty at Barton Bridge. I can remember the barrage balloons being an amazing sight to us kids. About the same effect as Dan Dare coming down in his spaceship.

[Dujon]

Thanks for the 'heads up', Bruce. My father went in the 'second wave' to Dunkirk (I think it was a couple of days after D-Day, but I'm not quite sure). He was a second lieutenant in the REs. Any anecdotes he told to me were of odd or funny times and not more than that. Those pictures, especially when compared to post-war images, bring home to me what our soldiers went through.

[thebish]

Nice pics. The Morris men are Stone the Crows and they've performed on Bolton town hall square and outside the Man and Scythe. .

nope - actually they were the Grimspound Border Morris Team... native to Dartmoor...

http://www.grimspound.org.uk/

[TANGODANCER]

Nice pics. The Morris men are Stone the Crows and they've performed on Bolton town hall square and outside the Man and Scythe. .

nope - actually they were the Grimspound Border Morris Team... native to Dartmoor...

http://www.grimspound.org.uk/

I 'll take your nope and double nope it: . Actually they were Stone the Crows as I said. Scroll to the bottom of the article:
The pics are Bolton town hall square and The Man and Scythe.

http://darkmorrisdancer.wordpress.com/tag/beer/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[bobo the clown]

The Morris men are Stone the Crows and they've performed on Bolton town hall square and outside the Man and Scythe. .

Really ??

Fck, Maggie Bell's let herself go.

[thebish]

Nice pics. The Morris men are Stone the Crows and they've performed on Bolton town hall square and outside the Man and Scythe. .

nope - actually they were the Grimspound Border Morris Team... native to Dartmoor...

http://www.grimspound.org.uk/

I 'll take your nope and double nope it: . Actually they were Stone the Crows as I said. Scroll to the bottom of the article:
The pics are Bolton town hall square and The Man and Scythe.

http://darkmorrisdancer.wordpress.com/tag/beer/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

what?? only because that article is not about the Grimspound Border Morris Team...

my photo is of the Grimspound Border Morris Team - a (locally) well-known group who hail from Dartmoor. I am sure you have seen others and there is a group called Stone the Crows - but my picture was not of them.

Stone the Crows is a Border Morris team based in Leyland, Lancashire.

The Grimspound Border Morris Team are a Devon-based group. On the day I took my photo of the Grimspound Border Morris Team (in Kingsteignton, South Devon), Stone the Crows were performing at Clitheroe Castle for the Canadian Cultural Exchange Event...

they are both Border Morris groups (and so they wear similar garb and both have blacked-up faces) - but they are different groups - like BWFC and BRFC are both Football Clubs but different clubs.

[TANGODANCER]

^
You could have mentioned that in one line and said you took the pic. They are almost identical in appearance.

edit: You did say you took the pics. Apologies.

[Bruce Rioja]

Some more 'then and now' shots from the D Day landings and 1944, these are from The Huff.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06 ... 1402052492" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[TANGODANCER]

Some more 'then and now' shots from the D Day landings and 1944, these are from The Huff.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06 ... 1402052492" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thanks for those. It's just come to me (with a bit of a shock) that had my dad been alive tody he'd have been 102. Staggering.

[thebish]

One sunny carpet spot in the entire house? My dog Lucky nails it every time!

[Montreal Wanderer]

Some more 'then and now' shots from the D Day landings and 1944, these are from The Huff.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06 ... 1402052492" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Those are rather weird.

[TANGODANCER]

Some more 'then and now' shots from the D Day landings and 1944, these are from The Huff.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06 ... 1402052492" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Those are rather weird.

I think it's rather a clever complex. Memories of that time, then, and something the modern world can relate to, now. For me, it's a good way of combining the two and losing nothing.