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pigtin
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 Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject: Paradise garden. |
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I was trolling through u-tube for some of my favourite pieces of music when I came across this. Depicting Britain in the 40/50s. Around the middle of the clip is a procession of cars passing through a village, they look a bit shiny, but it could well be film of the time.
It's worth watching, even if you don't like this sort of music. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zv3BCSnzMo |
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Uncle Joe
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| That film really makes me feel homesick.... |
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Dirty Habit
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And I look around me now !!!
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pigtin
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Uncle Joe wrote: | | That film really makes me feel homesick.... |
We can never go back to those times, makes me want to weep. But at least I lived through them, and the war we fought to keep it like that. But in vain... the enemy was within.
I'm beginning to sound like ON, but that's not such a bad thing.  |
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peter scott
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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When did you last see a haystack?
Very nice!
Britain in the 50s. An age of innocence, leastwise so it seemed for those in the film.
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Penman
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
If it was '59-'60 it could be me driving that Austin 10/4 through Abinger Hammer. |
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Dirty Habit
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| peter scott wrote: | When did you last see a haystack?
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Funny you say that. But just a mile from where I live now, I can remember as a child a haystack in a field. What is there now ? Three large recycle container that nobody empties. A sign on a lamp post declaring the area as a Non Drinking Area with beer cans all around it 
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peter scott
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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Ah but what were the goings on behind haystacks? 
Seriously though, they were nice to see. Especially the groups of round ones.
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PAUL BEAUMONT
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| Great isn't it. The era when you could pick a wild flower without threat of being arrested, cricketers didn't look like American footballers and the council hadn't drained the pond for safety reasons!! |
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peter scott
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Yes, it's my birthday soon and my wife's present to me is a flight in a Dakota.
Apparently this is the last opportunity for fare paying passengers to flight in Dakotas. I asked my brother-in-law, who has a CPL, why this was and it seems that the Dakota does not conform to recent anti-terrorist measures such as armoured door into the cockpit etc etc.
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pigtin
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Are they still using Dakotas in the Carribean? I remember flying into Saint Juan (I believe it was) airport in 1978, Dakotas in various states of cannibilization stretched for about half a mile alongside the runway, they were considered a strange anachronism even then. |
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peter scott
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Well the Caribbean may be a more appropriate place for them to fly. Talking to my brother-in-law he told me that the last time he flew in a Dakota he was in the co-pilot's seat and the rain was lashing down and not just outside.
The hatch above the pilot's seat was leaking and water was pouring down the instrument panel and also down the pilot's neck.
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