Category: Ephemera
Double-Decker Bus Racing… Sponsored by Acorn Computers
Double-decker bus racing from 1982. I absolutely love that it’s sponsored by Acorn Computers a year after they launched the BBC Micro!
Trains of the Future, Trains of the Past
Here’s something to take the edge off that liminal space between Christmas and New Year; two nicely illustrated articles from Adam Rowe’s always fun 70s Sci-Fi Art.
First we have Trains of the Future…
…and then Trains of the Past.
Surfing Santas and Christmas Toppers in Hawes
A double-bill today; first, a surfing Santa and his knitted elves at Hawes bridge on Gale Beck.
Snowflake Balloon
There’s a rather festive snowflake hot air balloon just outside of Malton’s St Michael’s Church.
It’s a Festive Postbox Topper for Malton!
As we are merely days away from Christmas it seems entirely appropriate to drop some images of a fantastic Santa-themed topper in Malton.
Unlike most of the other toppers from Malton I have posted, this one can be found at the south end of The Shambles, just outside of Cosy Cottage Soap.
New Old Stock IBM OS/2 Warp 3.0
Abort Retry Fail has a really nice post on opening and installing a new old stock Red Spine release of OS/2 Warp 3.0.
Now, while I’ve played around with OS/2 Warp 4.0 and 4.52 as part of Period Sites in Period Browsers, Warp 3.0 is not one I’ve yet reached.
And how uncanny it looks! Familiar but alien. Windows 3.1 but not. I should really get an instance of this up and running just so I can really feel – rather than just see – the differences between how I expect it to work and how it does work…
Anyway, I strongly suggest going and having a read of the article and a look at the pretty pictures.
BSE, A 90s Chronology of Events
And here’s another interesting chunk of Archivery via Period Sites in Period Browsers that doesn’t appear to be online anywhere else – A mid 1990s chronology of the BSE outbreak in the UK as published by the MAFF.
Continue reading “BSE, A 90s Chronology of Events”It’s a Harvest Topper for Malton!
This blog’s slow descent into postbox topper fandom continues – this time with a nice ‘Harvest’ themed topper in Malton.
Minitrue
The Ministry of Truth building as represented in the 1954 Nigel Kneale adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
It’s a lovely bit of matt painting that really emphasises the scale of the Ministry of Truth when compared to the wreckage of the Houses of Parliament.
It also feels like a useful image to have kicking around.