Tag: historylovers
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10 Odd Historic Photos.
I find myself looking at historic photos a lot, every day in fact. Sometimes I stumble upon some very odd photos. I’d like to share some of those with you now. You may have seen some of these photos before or this may be the first time you are seeing them. A couple of these…
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A Sombre Trip to Ypres.
When I was a teenager my father told me a story. I must have been around 13 and learning about the First World war at school. I couldn’t quite grasp how devastating the war must have been on the families of England and how so many young men lost their lives in a needless war…
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Memling Cinema, Bruges.
When most people go abroad the first thing they search for is restaurants, supermarkets, museums etc. Me? Well, I look for abandoned and closed down cinemas. Bruges was no exception. I’d started hunting down old cinemas in Bruges a couple of weeks before I even got there. There was just one. The Memling Cinema. In…
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Buda Tower.
They say that you should do something every day that scares you. With that in mind I climbed many, many stairs to find myself at the top of a huge tower that I walked past after leaving the Military Museum in Budapest. I have a huge fear of heights by the way. Little did I…
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Fiume Road Cemetery, Budapest.
Regular readers willl know that whenever I visit a new city the two things I seek out are Old Cinemas or Cemeteries. Budapest, oddly, has no old, abandoned, repurposed or derelict cinemas. All of the cinemas in the city are either newish and operated by the Cinema City comany or still standing from the 80’s.…
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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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Yet Another 10 Strange Photos From History.
I’ve mentioned it before but I have seen many, many weird and fascinating things on the internet over the years. Some of the photos I’ve chosen this time are some that piqued my interest or I found interestinh or even just downright odd. 5mb of Memory being loaded onto a Pan Am Airline in 1956.…
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Scala, London.
Just around the corner from The London Lighthouse and just down the road from King’s Cross Station is the Scala. A nightclub with a long history that has always been fascinating to me as a cinephile. Originally opened as the Kings Cross Cinema in 1920, construction was delayed for a few years by the start…
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Wharncliffe Fire Clay Works
In the centre of Sheffield lies this rather unique and wonderful building. It’s the one time shop and showroom for Wharncliffe Fire Clay Works. The works itself where the tiles were made was in Deepcar which is about 10 miles outside of Sheffield. The Deepcar Works from the air. Taken in 1937. The building was probably…
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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…
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