Picture This!

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Arran

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Old Glasgow

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Just because

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Upper Clyde Shipbuilders  1971

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Ena Sharples surveys a bleak industrial Manchester, an absolute cracker of a photograph:

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Ena Sharples surveys a bleak industrial Manchester, an absolute cracker of a photograph:

That's one of my all time favourites

[Gordon]

Ena Sharples surveys a bleak industrial Manchester, an absolute cracker of a photograph:

Love it - very atmospheric, as black and white pics tend to be: in may ways it was a very different world when that was taken.

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Roman era jewellery found in UK

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Happy Easter, Happy Spring, Happy Happy Everything

[SteveH]

Stockport viaduct from Wellington bridge in the early 60s. The bloke in the hat is LS Lowry. This is the view I remember from my childhood and youth in Stockport. It had a certain charm, but bloody planners have ruined it. The graceful curve of the road has disappeared under a bus station, and the Victorian terrace and group of industrial buildings were demolished long ago.

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The same view today. The steps are nowadays unofficially known as "The Lowry Steps".

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Hmmmm....

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Detail of one of my favourite buildings in Glasgow, the Hatrack

https://www.walkingheads.net/hatrack-art-nouveau-beauty/

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And just round the corner from it

[Outrider]

And just round the corner from it

I stayed in student accommodation in something not entirely unlike those buildings, on Hillhead Street, opposite Great George Street. Perfect location - view of the university's main gates down the hill, student union round the back a two minute walk in one direction, and Greggs for lunch two minutes in the other...

O.

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I stayed in student accommodation in something not entirely unlike those buildings, on Hillhead Street, opposite Great George Street. Perfect location - view of the university's main gates down the hill, student union round the back a two minute walk in one direction, and Greggs for lunch two minutes in the other...

O.

Had a flat on Gibson St at one point.

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The camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique and iconic view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth in August 2015, from a distance of 1 million miles.

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Ballachulish Bridge yesterday

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Picture of the Statue of Liberty getting struck by lightning

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The Supremes, Paris, 1965

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Leonard Nimoy & Basil Brush. That was a timeline I didn't see coming:

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Mary Barbour's plaque

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Friend's dogs

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OK, OK my formative years were scarred by Carry on films (this is not photoshopped):

[jeremyp]

OK, OK my formative years were scarred by Carry on films (this is not photoshopped):

The Guardian report is interesting

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/01/canada-phallic-iceberg-photo-newfoundland-dildo

As he flew his drone overhead, Pretty, who hails from the town of Dildo...