Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

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Jump of the wildebeest at the Mara river

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1987 mod rally to Blackpool

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The unbroken seal on Tutankhamen's tomb, 1922.

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The image, unearthed in Fresno, California, is only the second confirmed picture of the outlaw – the other sold for $2.3m in 2011





Henry McCarty, known in Wild West lore as Billy the Kid, lived a brief and violent life, stealing and killing before his death in a gunfight aged 21. He lived with a gun in his hand – and sometimes, it seems, a croquet mallet.

In a surprising historical twist, the second photo of McCarty ever to be authenticated shows him and his posse, the Regulators, playing the sport in New Mexico in 1878.

The faded image was among a pile of photos inside a cardboard box at a junk shop in Fresno, California, unearthed by a collector in 2010. Randy Guijarro paid $2 (£1.30) for the image, which is now estimated to be worth millions of dollars. The only other confirmed photo of Billy the Kid, from 1880, sold for $2.3m (£1.5m) in 2011.

The photo was authenticated by a San Francisco-based Americana company, Kagin’s, which identified Billy the Kid along with several members of the Regulators, as well as friends and family. It was taken after a wedding in the summer of 1878, just a month after the gang took part in the brutal Lincoln County war.

When the photo was first brought to the company, its experts were “understandably sceptical”, said David McCarthy from Kagin’s. “An original Billy the Kid photo is the holy grail of Western Americana.

“We had to be certain that we could answer and verify where, when, how and why this photograph was taken. Simple resemblance is not enough in a case like this – a team of experts had to be assembled to address each and every detail in the photo to ensure that nothing was out of place.”

The team spent a year investigating the photo, and even found the location where it was taken, in Chaves County, New Mexico. There they unearthed the remains of the building shown. “We found the old lumber underneath,” said Jeff Aiello, director of a National Geographic Channel documentary on the find, scheduled to be broadcast this month. “We found those exact rock piers are still there.”

Liz Larsson, from the UK’s Croquet Association, said the series of photos from the scene left little doubt what game was being played: “It’s clearly croquet. You can see the hoops, the balls, the mallet, the centre peg. They’re all there. It’s a fascinating picture.”

The first croquet club in England was founded in 1865, the same year the game was immortalised in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Larsson said.

“Croquet became popular in the 1860s because it was the first sport that women could play on the same terms as men, and men and women could play each other. It had a huge boost in its popularity.” In the UK, however, it was still not a game for the masses: “Not really. You needed a lawn, and a fairly large one.”

Things were, however, slightly different in the US, where companies making croquet gear created a smaller-scale version of the sport, which could be played on rougher turf, using cheaper, lightweight equipment.

During the 19th century, the game in America had a somewhat different image to the genteel, cucumber-sandwich stereotype of Britain, according to a history by the United States Croquet Association: “Croquet as a public sport suffered a setback in the 1890s when the Boston clergy spoke out against the drinking, gambling and licentious behaviour associated with it.”

All types of Americans played. In 1867, General George Custer wrote to his wife, Elizabeth, from his frontier fort in Kansas, asking her to “bring a set of field-croquet” when she next visited.

Thom Ross, a US artist specialising in historic scenes, has previously painted both Native Americans and cowboys playing croquet, saying this is based on extensive historical research.

Multimillion-dollar photo of Billy the Kid playing croquet was $2 junk shop find | US news | The Guardian

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Those mods were bloody wankers weren't they.

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TeakDoor mods?...Is that how many there are?...

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The image, unearthed in Fresno, California, is only the second confirmed picture of the outlaw – the other sold for $2.3m in 2011

He's the guy on the right, yeah?

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Yes, that is Billy. Now there is talk of 5M US dollars for the pic. Are people with that much money REALLY that STUPID?

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Are people with that much money REALLY that STUPID?

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5555555555, HAHAHA.............. Yes they are.

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A pic of Butterfly with his kit or thegent on the BTS after Gulliver's would be priceless...

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A pic of Butterfly with his kit or thegent on the BTS after Gulliver's would be priceless...

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Danny Trejo

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Sean Connery, Mr. Universe competition, 1953.

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Between 1969 and 1972, the housing and homelessness charity Shelter commissioned photographer Nick Hedges to document the truly appalling living conditions that some UK families were having to endure.

In Glasgow, Hedges, shooting mainly in the Gorbals and Maryhill, found some families living in truly Dickensian conditions.

At the time, the photos were used to lobby government and local councils, to try to get them to speed up new social housing projects.

Hedges, ever the gentleman, and hoping to protect the privacy and dignity of his subjects, has, since then, always refused to allow the images to be exhibited.

Now, with many of the adult subjects dead, and the children in the pictures all now, probably, parents or grandparents, he has agreed for them to go on show; partly to highlight the UK’s ongoing housing problems and partly in the hope that he can possibly track down some of his former subjects, to find out how life has treated them.

The exhibition, Make Life Worth Living, organised by Shelter Scotland, will run at St Andrew Square, Edinburgh until October 31.

Brilliant as the photographs are, they still have the power to shock and shame. This isn’t ancient history, it’s how and where some of us were raised.

Here’s hoping the show also finds a suitable exhibition space in Glasgow.

Once on the link, click on the first picture, to make it full size, and then you can flick through the gallery, and read Hedges’ comments on the images.

Nick Hedges's Make life worth living photographs


The thing about people living in slum housing is that there is no drama…it’s about the absolute wearing down of people’s morale in a quiet and undemonstrative way.
Nick Hedges


Mr and Mrs C lived with their large family in what was virtually a derelict flat in one of the last Gorbals Tenements. "There’s nothing now that you can get angry about. You’ve said it all before". Two of the elder girls in the family. One was unemployed, the other about to leave school with no prospect of a job


To the north-west of Glasgow city centre I discovered Maryhill. The tenement blocks here were thickly populated, and the courtyards ankle deep in rotting garbage.


They are the grimmest environment that I’ve encountered. This has something to do with the size of the stone used in their construction, the entry to them through the cave like entrances, the deep and dark stairwells and the relentless pattern of streets. The tenements are built around a courtyard which becomes a battlefield and refuse dump.


Mr and Mrs P came back from England to look after her father, a retired miner.

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^ that kind of a post demands a present day update.

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^ that kind of a post demands a present day update.

Get to work, start a thread on it.

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The image, unearthed in Fresno, California, is only the second confirmed picture of the outlaw – the other sold for $2.3m in 2011

He's the guy on the right, yeah?

Yes, correct.

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Alan Denney’s Photographs of Stoke Newington During the ‘Winter of Discontent’ In 1979

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Between 1969 and 1972, the housing and homelessness charity Shelter commissioned photographer Nick Hedges to document the truly appalling living conditions that some UK families were having to endure.

In Glasgow, Hedges, shooting mainly in the Gorbals and Maryhill, found some families living in truly Dickensian conditions.

At the time, the photos were used to lobby government and local councils, to try to get them to speed up new social housing projects.

Hedges, ever the gentleman, and hoping to protect the privacy and dignity of his subjects, has, since then, always refused to allow the images to be exhibited.

Now, with many of the adult subjects dead, and the children in the pictures all now, probably, parents or grandparents, he has agreed for them to go on show; partly to highlight the UK’s ongoing housing problems and partly in the hope that he can possibly track down some of his former subjects, to find out how life has treated them.

The exhibition, Make Life Worth Living, organised by Shelter Scotland, will run at St Andrew Square, Edinburgh until October 31.

Brilliant as the photographs are, they still have the power to shock and shame. This isn’t ancient history, it’s how and where some of us were raised.

Here’s hoping the show also finds a suitable exhibition space in Glasgow.

Once on the link, click on the first picture, to make it full size, and then you can flick through the gallery, and read Hedges’ comments on the images.

Nick Hedges's Make life worth living photographs


The thing about people living in slum housing is that there is no drama…it’s about the absolute wearing down of people’s morale in a quiet and undemonstrative way.
Nick Hedges


Mr and Mrs C lived with their large family in what was virtually a derelict flat in one of the last Gorbals Tenements. "There’s nothing now that you can get angry about. You’ve said it all before". Two of the elder girls in the family. One was unemployed, the other about to leave school with no prospect of a job


To the north-west of Glasgow city centre I discovered Maryhill. The tenement blocks here were thickly populated, and the courtyards ankle deep in rotting garbage.


They are the grimmest environment that I’ve encountered. This has something to do with the size of the stone used in their construction, the entry to them through the cave like entrances, the deep and dark stairwells and the relentless pattern of streets. The tenements are built around a courtyard which becomes a battlefield and refuse dump.


Mr and Mrs P came back from England to look after her father, a retired miner.

Composite photograph showing six Red Road multi-storey flats being demolished in a controlled explosion in Glasgow, Scotland, as part of Glasgow Housing Association's plan to regenerate communities across the city. Danny Lawson/PA Wire

A solution that became a humanitarian disaster..

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/how-g...k-estates-sunk

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