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A Douglas Dakota of BOAC, silhouetted by night at Gibraltar by the batteries of searchlights on the Rock, as it is prepared for a flight to the United Kingdom, ca. 1942.
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A Douglas Dakota of BOAC, silhouetted by night at Gibraltar by the batteries of searchlights on the Rock, as it is prepared for a flight to the United Kingdom, ca. 1942.
14 foot crocodile trapped at the Wyndham Meatworks in Western Australia 1926
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https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...1_final-64.jpgIMAGE SOURCE,NEIL MARTINSON
During the 1970s and first half of the 80s photographer Neil Martinson recorded the lives of those who lived and worked in Hackney, east London.
At that time, children still played in the street and on old bomb sites yet to be developed.
Indeed, some of the pictures were taken when Martinson himself was still at school, using a Zenith-E camera, which he describes as "everything a boy could want from a camera".
"It had lots of knobs and dials and they all had a satisfying clunk when operated," he says.
"Hackney was a place to leave, with its crumbling council estates and high unemployment.
"Yet there was vitality and resilience among local people.
"Few people owned their own homes.
"There were no gated communities and no gastropubs.
"Students, radicals and artists started to move into Hackney.
"It was an exciting time to be a photographer and activist."
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Image caption,Giorgi’s Cafe, Bethnal Green Road, 1971
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Image caption,Dalston, 1971
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Image caption,River Lea, 1971
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Image caption,Graham Road, 1971
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Image caption,A family living in Rachel Point, Nightingale Estate, 1974, one of the high-rise housing blocks being built in the area
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Image caption,"It was common to see children playing on the streets in the 1970s," says Martinson. "The lack of traffic, and very different attitudes, gave children a freedom that seems quite remote now. My own memory was of going out to play all day long and my parents having no idea of where I was or what I was doing."
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Image caption,The Telsner family, Stamford Hill, 1981, photographed for a book on Jewish life in Britain
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Image caption,Ridley Road Market, 1981
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Image caption,Martinson photographed these nurses, protesting over pay outside Bethnal Green Hospital, for the Hackney People's Press
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Image caption,Inside Lesney's factory, where Matchbox cars had been produced since the late 1950s. At its peak, it employed 3,600 people, mostly women, but when this was taken, production had all but ceased, with closure coming a year later
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Image caption,Garment factory, Shacklewell Lane, 1981
Hackney Archive: Work and Life 1971-85, by Neil Martinson, is published by Hoxton Mini Press.
Dire . . . made even worse by being in black and white
FTFY.Quote:
Originally Posted by panama hat
Great series of pictures. Thanks !!
True . . .Quote:
Originally Posted by Saint Willy
^ What part of "interesting black and white pictures" do you not understand, Oh Oh's brother? :)
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Kal Xmas 1895
^ Ha! Took me a minute to figure who they are.
photograph of Billy the Kid (top hat). Playing cards with his accomplices. 1877
(the amazing thing is that Paul Newman was in on the game too!)
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Anyone know where this pic is?
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^Nostell Priory Pyramid/Obelisk Gatehouse, Wakefield, UK (Googled it)
I was thinking Pedro Pascal from Narcos.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ukan Kizmiaz
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Economy Class On Pan Am 747 In The Late 60's:
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The Gimli Glider.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ukan Kizmiaz
Gimli Glider - Wikipedia
Stjepan Filipović, a Croat Yugoslav communist defying nazis before his execution.
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Ran out of fuel midway to its destinationQuote:
Originally Posted by pickel
Interesting.Quote:
The accident is commonly blamed on mistaking pounds for kilograms, which resulted in the aircraft carrying only 45% of its required fuel load.
Colditz escapees?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ukan Kizmiaz