MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Stanley
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No China. think small, very small! (I've given it to you haven't I!)
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Yes, you have given it to me now.
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Wow, quite impressive.
I know I'm in my own little world, but it's OK... they know me here.
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Crikey, that is impressive, a good one there Stanley.
Gloria
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Now an Honorary Chief Engineer who'd be dangerous with a brain!!!
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- Stanley
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Next one?
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
- Stanley
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One for Tiz! If he holds back and lets you have a go, where is it and why is it in the news?
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Upper Nile?
- Stanley
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No China but you are on the right continent.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Stanley's View
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I would have agreed with Chinatyke - there's a dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile.
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- Stanley
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Close but no cigar Tiz.
Word has come back from Steve, the old bloke is, as we thought, almost certainly Jeremiah Coleman.
Word has come back from Steve, the old bloke is, as we thought, almost certainly Jeremiah Coleman.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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There isn’t much that can’t be found out about on here is there?
Gloria
Now an Honorary Chief Engineer who'd be dangerous with a brain!!!
http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk
http://www.lfhhs.org.uk
Now an Honorary Chief Engineer who'd be dangerous with a brain!!!
http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk
http://www.lfhhs.org.uk
- Stanley
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That's it, the Kariba Dam. In the pic it shows the water level at only 10% of capacity.
Next one?
Next one?
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
- Stanley
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Today I give an image of Colonial transport. Steve showed it to me years ago and told me it had been edited and altered. My question is, what was changed? Not easy and I won't let it run too long...
Stanley Challenger Graham
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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I don’t suppose it’s that one of the guys hasn’t got any shorts on.
I know I'm in my own little world, but it's OK... they know me here.
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Were the two trucks added to the original painting for advertising reasons?
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Did he have a whip in his hand rather than a pipe?
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Or was the person in the foreground originally female?
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Don't think any of the workers had shorts on.
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I told you it was hard and I don't think anyone will get what the alteration was. I shan't prolong the agony, I'll see if there are any more posts. As for the trucks, they were the point of the poster which was to contrast crossing the river in a canoe with the improvement of the bridge and trucks in the background.
This was another from the series. Clue, think racism and bad behaviour towards the natives.
This was another from the series. Clue, think racism and bad behaviour towards the natives.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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Was he carrying a rifle?
Gloria
Now an Honorary Chief Engineer who'd be dangerous with a brain!!!
http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk
http://www.lfhhs.org.uk
Now an Honorary Chief Engineer who'd be dangerous with a brain!!!
http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk
http://www.lfhhs.org.uk
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Were the natives in chains?
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- Stanley
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You've all got the idea and are hovering around it. Here's what Steve said when I reminded him of what he had told me.
"Ah, yes! That Empire Marketing Board poster, in my Buy and Build book. It was part of the usual five-poster set to go up on public hoardings, as it eventually did for two months Dec 1930-Jan 1931. The two large images represented 'East African Transport Old Style' and a supposedly contrasting 'East African Transport New Style'. The former shows 'natives' trekking through grasslands, carrying stuff. The latter image is of a bridge over a river with a truck approaching, and Africans unloading a canoe on the river bank - but they are presided over by the dominating figure of a white guy in solar topee, with pipe in hand. At the request of the East Africa Trade Commissioner, the pipe was a late replacement for the whip which had been in Adrian Allinson's initial design."
So there you are. A little known fact for you. Did you like that?
"Ah, yes! That Empire Marketing Board poster, in my Buy and Build book. It was part of the usual five-poster set to go up on public hoardings, as it eventually did for two months Dec 1930-Jan 1931. The two large images represented 'East African Transport Old Style' and a supposedly contrasting 'East African Transport New Style'. The former shows 'natives' trekking through grasslands, carrying stuff. The latter image is of a bridge over a river with a truck approaching, and Africans unloading a canoe on the river bank - but they are presided over by the dominating figure of a white guy in solar topee, with pipe in hand. At the request of the East Africa Trade Commissioner, the pipe was a late replacement for the whip which had been in Adrian Allinson's initial design."
So there you are. A little known fact for you. Did you like that?
Stanley Challenger Graham
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scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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So Wendy was right all along?
Nullius in verba: On the word of no one (Motto of the Royal Society)