utterly random picture thread.

[David]

Maybe he/she should stick to pottery?

[Horse]

Where ski resort cable cars go for their summer holidays.

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[rodbargee]

some nice pics round and about Askrigg Pick any season in the day, most available!

[Taipan]

[the_priest]

Ah yes, the boxed cat schrodinger question.... I think they were too scared to close this box up!! Death would come to the closer, not the kitty!

[gremlin]

Took a drunken stumble back to London Bridge station last night, via the walkway that runs along the Thames between Tower Bridge and London Bridge. The low hanging clouds hid the top of the Shard...

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[gremlin]

London Bridge from the walkway. Don't often get to see it from this perspective.

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[gremlin]

And Tower Bridge...

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I love London. It's a great city.

[Taipan]

And Tower Bridge...
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I love London. It's a great city.

Me too! We're supposed to work 3/2 days on site/at home, but I've gone for 4/1 days on-site as I just love being back in London!

[David]

I did a boat trip (Zaandam to Battersea wharf ) in a biggish motor boat 3 years back and was astonished at the bridges,,,,clean, well painted and lit up...yes, its a great city..not sure i would want to live there,.....

[rodbargee]

Anyone good with cap badges this photo includes Mrs Rdbgee's grandad we have no idea what unit he was in.. most appear to be in the same lot the officer has a fusileers emblem We think. Gdad was in the ranks he refused a commission we believe. His son Mrs rdbgee dad was a Dunkirk veteran and had a rough war he and his dad never mentioned anything that had happened to each other.

One of our early Easter tours included the trenches at Vimey Ridge, My wife's dad asked us where we'd been on hearing about the trench tour he related that they had stopped off there and had a look round for the afternoon with the BEF on the way into europe in 1940 before they were eventually driven into the sea at Dunkirk, Vimey ridge was already a memorial you could visit even then The opposing trenches were a cricket ball throw away from each other Not to mention one of the biggest explosions the mining soldiers put up Bloody huge hole. It was very moving even for us.

he's the rough looking chap! second row second in from the left

[slowsider]

You could narrow it down with more info

One of them looks a bit like this:

https://www.britishmilitarybadges.co.uk ... rn-47.html

[Yambo]

I'm on my phone sitting on Fahretin's bar after doing Remembrance so can't get a good view but there ara a number of cap badges in that photo.

There's certainly a Fusilier's cap badge but from my time they were identified with a feather hackle, different colours, different regiments. The problem is that there were a lot of County regiments (without identifying hackles!) with similar cap badges.

I'm no expert, and I've been out longer than I was in ifyswim but it's not gonna be easy.

[Taipan]

Royal Sussex Regiment had the Roussillon Plume on their cap badge...

[rodbargee]

You could narrow it down with more info

One of them looks a bit like this:

https://www.britishmilitarybadges.co.uk ... rn-47.html

will try and find out bit more, thanks,

[rodbargee]

You could narrow it down with more info

One of them looks a bit like this:

https://www.britishmilitarybadges.co.uk ... rn-47.html

will try and find out bit more, thanks, Turns out he was an ex miner from Stanley in Durham. so local to that. Durham something? Durham Light infantry seems the most likely. he didnt hack coal for a living in the mines we think manager...

[Yambo]

The officer, front row with the swagger stick, is I agree, a Fusilier. The guy, next to back row 2nd from the right appears to be Royal Army Service Corps but could be Devonshire Regt (similar Star of India with Kings Crown). At the moment your relative's regiment is unidentified.

They're a disparate bunch though and surprisingly older guys. With so many different units I'm curious as to the background of the photo. They are certainly not a unit from the same regiment so how were they brought together? You have to wonder what they'd been up to, no weapons for example, there's even a guy with no cap badge and the Sergeant is the only one with medal ribbons. Your boy is not wearing a DLI cap badge, that's for sure, there doesn't appear to be one in the photo.

I think there's a story there.

[slowsider]

The officer, front row with the swagger stick, is I agree, a Fusilier. The guy, next to back row 2nd from the right appears to be Royal Army Service Corps but could be Devonshire Regt (similar Star of India with Kings Crown). At the moment your relative's regiment is unidentified.

They're a disparate bunch though and surprisingly older guys. With so many different units I'm curious as to the background of the photo. They are certainly not a unit from the same regiment so how were they brought together? You have to wonder what they'd been up to, no weapons for example, there's even a guy with no cap badge and the Sergeant is the only one with medal ribbons. Your boy is not wearing a DLI cap badge, that's for sure, there doesn't appear to be one in the photo.

I think there's a story there.

King's Own Mustachio-ed Volunteers, looking at some of them

[slowsider]

You could narrow it down with more info

One of them looks a bit like this:

https://www.britishmilitarybadges.co.uk ... rn-47.html

will try and find out bit more, thanks, Turns out he was an ex miner from Stanley in Durham. so local to that. Durham something? Durham Light infantry seems the most likely. he didnt hack coal for a living in the mines we think manager...

Northumberland Fusiliers ? Badge doesn't look like that.

Northern Cyclist Battalion ?


http://www.durhamrecordoffice.org.uk/ar ... h-Soldiers

https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/re ... 1914-1918/

[rodbargee]

The officer, front row with the swagger stick, is I agree, a Fusilier. The guy, next to back row 2nd from the right appears to be Royal Army Service Corps but could be Devonshire Regt (similar Star of India with Kings Crown). At the moment your relative's regiment is unidentified.

They're a disparate bunch though and surprisingly older guys. With so many different units I'm curious as to the background of the photo. They are certainly not a unit from the same regiment so how were they brought together? You have to wonder what they'd been up to, no weapons for example, there's even a guy with no cap badge and the Sergeant is the only one with medal ribbons. Your boy is not wearing a DLI cap badge, that's for sure, there doesn't appear to be one in the photo.

I think there's a story there.

We think so too, the photo is actually a postcard with a date of 2/01/1919( written on the back) so prob at the end of the war by the time it ended up on a postcard the 1919 date would be right (maybe a demob photo?) it has a message from our Man to his misses. We need to get into his service record to see what he/ they got up to.He lived till the early fifties 1950's that is. they dont look at their best thats for sure. Perhaps they had just done something of note, and it was recorded we reckon he was 31 in the photo ( hard paper round ) perhaps the BG is a monument/memorial of some kind.

annoyingly it seems a lot of the 1st WW records got blown up and burnt in the second WW.