An interesting little bit of history today; one of the few surviving bits of film of a British warship under sail to be taken while she was still part of the Royal Navy.
First laid down in Devonport in 1810 and launched just before Waterloo in 1815, HMS St. Vincent – a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line – managed to hang on as an armed training vessel until she was scrapped in 1906.
Continue readingIt was a totally different world back then…
A set of images from the 19th August, 2023 Malton stop of Deltic 55009 – renamed and renumbered for this trip as 55013 ‘The Black Watch’ – as part of the Kings Cross to Scarborough Coronation Railtour. Apparently it broke down it’s the way home and the tour ended up getting in very late.
Continue readingA couple of shots of what remains of the Banana Warehouse on Piccadilly. When I was younger I used to be fascinated by the Sinclair C5 that used to sit on the pavement outside. Apparently it was later moved out of the elements and onto a shelf inside the building.
The car park to the left has already gone.
Continue readingI’ve added 572 additional map images of Brecknockshire from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series to the mapping project.
Interesting places covered this update include:
And, having found another old video of York on YouTube, it’s time for another Tour of Old York. Alas, the the YouTube video doesn’t seem to be embeddable on any old random website but – in better news – it does seem to be tagged with a permissive licence that allows me to rehost it here…
Continue readingOn January 20th, 1998, Netscape laid off a lot of people. One of them would have been me, as my “department”, such as it was, had been eliminated, but I ended up mometarily moving from “clienteng” over to the “website” division. For about 48 hours I thought that I might end up writing a webmail product or something.
That, uh, didn’t happen.
Jamie Zawinski
York in flood during (apparently) the late 70s. At about 30 seconds in there’s a lovely shot of a very wet pre-flood defence Marygate. Later on, at around one minute forty, you get a shot along Wellington Row and across the River – notably showing the build that there before the construction of the General Accident (now Aviva) Building. There are also some nice shots of The Kings Arms and the bottom of the Museum Gardens in flood.
Sometimes it’s hard to remember the initial panic and horror that surrounded the 9/11 attacks or possibly you were even yet to be born. Either way, Archive.org’s Understanding 9/11 TV timeline is a good place to start your understanding what it was like to watch things unfold on that day.
Taken from the BFI archives.
Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955) – Kenneth Fairbairn
Snow (1963) – Geoffrey Jones.