Category: Oddments
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The Cementation Furnace. Sheffield.
This odd structure sits just off the main road where I live on a road called Doncaster street. Named, not after the nearby city, but after the steel factory which once stood here. It’s even more of an oddment now as it stands in the middle of derelict land which is awaiting development. There were…
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In Bruges.
It’s a fairy tale town, isn’t it? How’s a fairy tale town not somebody’s f****** thing? How can all those canals and bridges and cobbled streets and those churches, all that beautiful f****** fairy tale stuff, how can that not be somebody’s f****** thing, eh? A line spoken by Ralph Fiennes in the 2008 movie…
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Budapest Line 1
During my stay in Budapest I didn’t really use the public transport for the first few days of my stay. The reason for this is that it seemed confusing and I’d read online that every trip something or another needed to be validated or you’d get a huge fine. In fact everything I’d read online…
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Statues In Budapest.
I’m back home in the UK and going through all the photos on my phone. There’s a lot. While I’m working on a couple of other things about Budapest I’ll drop of a few photos of various statues that I encountered in the city. This statue called Mother Earth by Nandor Wagnor is by Buda…
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Memento Park, Budapest.
It was a bright day when I started out. Sure I’d seen a very red sky at sunrise but dismissed this completely. I’d read about Memento Park several times but never made it the last time I was in Budapest as it seemed a little far if I wasn’t driving. I had no idea how…
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A Few Random Photos From 2022.
Wherever I go I take photos. A lot of photos. Occasionally I’ll find a building and think it looks amazing and has a great history. Only it turns out it can probably be written about in just two lines. Sometimes they may end up as part of a blog, sometimes I’ll drop them in as…
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Classic British TV Behind The Scenes.
I’ve always watched a lot of TV. Throughout the 70s and 80s I watched a lot of TV both with and without my family. We would all gather to watch shows like Blakes 7, Star Trek, Doctor Who, The Two Ronnies, Spike Milligan’s Q, On The Buses, Space 1999, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Starsky and…
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The Return of Ten More Interesting Photos from History.
I’ve curated ten more interesting photos from history. Sometimes I’ll find them while browsing for something else, in the case of quite a few of these, they are photos that have burned themselves in my retinas that just need to be seen. The fearless ‘Three Jacksons,’ acrobats, Jarley Smith, Jewell Waddek, and Jimmy Kerrigan perform…
The History Hunter 