Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 1:04 pm
They're wearing helmets and hi-vis - can't possibly be dangerous
They're wearing helmets and hi-vis - can't possibly be dangerous
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They're wearing helmets and hi-vis - can't possibly be dangerous
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 1:45 pm
That is how scaffies were when i was a kid minus the high viz. I remember gritting was two men on the back of a flat bed shovelling the grit onto the road.
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 1:59 pm
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 3:28 pm
Just saw this on local FB group, queuing for the plane and bloody freezing as been delay.
Explains why as many folk come here now as in the height of summer.
Nice warm day today
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Explains why as many folk come here now as in the height of summer.
Nice warm day today
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 4:18 pm
Hic
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 7:11 pm
Meh, -2 degrees when I left the house this morning, I was still in my shorts, s'all a state of mind man.
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 7:47 pm
That's always been the Canaries' thing - the weather's pretty much the same no matter when you visit!
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:52 pm
Slightly below zero at work today, I was putting a roof on.MrLongbeard wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 7:11 pmMeh, -2 degrees when I left the house this morning, I was still in my shorts, s'all a state of mind man.
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:54 pm
Jumper would be more effective.
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2025 10:15 pm
Ministry of Information motorcycle dispatch riders on 350cc Royal Enfield motorcycles outside Senate House at the University of London in1944.Source: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images..
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:34 am
That is doing myOCD no good whatsoever....they should have got the numbers in sequence!Taipan wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 10:15 pm Ministry of Information motorcycle dispatch riders on 350cc Royal Enfield motorcycles outside Senate House at the University of London in1944.Source: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images..
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:04 am
By the time he was 35, he was the country’s principal hangman. Mr Albert Pierrepoint
Between 1932 and 1956, at least 433 men and 17 women died at the end of his rope. His personal record included 17 hangings in one day - of which he said, ‘was my arm stiff!’ Diminutive, always immaculately-dressed and with a penchant for cigars, boxing and coin tricks, Pierrepoint became a publican in 1946. The irony of the Hollinwood hostelry’s name - ‘Help the Poor Struggler’ - can’t have been lost on him; some claimed a sign in the pub read ‘No Hanging Around the Bar’, although he always denied that. The Struggler, supplied by defunct Salford brewery Groves & amp; Whitnall was on Manchester Road in Hollingwood on the old tram route to the city - but was pulled down in the nineties to make way for the M60. By the time Pierrepoint’s name went up above the door of The Struggler he was well-known for his work executing Nazi war criminals. Tourists would visit the pub to see him, though until he left it, he was always discreet about ‘t’other job’, which brought him into contact with some of the 20th century’s most notorious characters.He hanged several high - profile murderers including John Christie ( the Rillington Place murderer) and William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) , as well as Ruth Ellis , the last woman to be hanged .
Between 1932 and 1956, at least 433 men and 17 women died at the end of his rope. His personal record included 17 hangings in one day - of which he said, ‘was my arm stiff!’ Diminutive, always immaculately-dressed and with a penchant for cigars, boxing and coin tricks, Pierrepoint became a publican in 1946. The irony of the Hollinwood hostelry’s name - ‘Help the Poor Struggler’ - can’t have been lost on him; some claimed a sign in the pub read ‘No Hanging Around the Bar’, although he always denied that. The Struggler, supplied by defunct Salford brewery Groves & amp; Whitnall was on Manchester Road in Hollingwood on the old tram route to the city - but was pulled down in the nineties to make way for the M60. By the time Pierrepoint’s name went up above the door of The Struggler he was well-known for his work executing Nazi war criminals. Tourists would visit the pub to see him, though until he left it, he was always discreet about ‘t’other job’, which brought him into contact with some of the 20th century’s most notorious characters.He hanged several high - profile murderers including John Christie ( the Rillington Place murderer) and William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) , as well as Ruth Ellis , the last woman to be hanged .
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:22 am
I watched the film a couple of years ago. Really enjoyed it.Taipan wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:04 am By the time he was 35, he was the country’s principal hangman. Mr Albert Pierrepoint
Between 1932 and 1956, at least 433 men and 17 women died at the end of his rope. His personal record included 17 hangings in one day - of which he said, ‘was my arm stiff!’ Diminutive, always immaculately-dressed and with a penchant for cigars, boxing and coin tricks, Pierrepoint became a publican in 1946. The irony of the Hollinwood hostelry’s name - ‘Help the Poor Struggler’ - can’t have been lost on him; some claimed a sign in the pub read ‘No Hanging Around the Bar’, although he always denied that. The Struggler, supplied by defunct Salford brewery Groves & amp; Whitnall was on Manchester Road in Hollingwood on the old tram route to the city - but was pulled down in the nineties to make way for the M60. By the time Pierrepoint’s name went up above the door of The Struggler he was well-known for his work executing Nazi war criminals. Tourists would visit the pub to see him, though until he left it, he was always discreet about ‘t’other job’, which brought him into contact with some of the 20th century’s most notorious characters.He hanged several high - profile murderers including John Christie ( the Rillington Place murderer) and William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) , as well as Ruth Ellis , the last woman to be hanged .
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:28 am
I read his book years ago. Very interesting.
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:35 pm
I still love these concrete machines. Never saw them in uk.
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:51 pm
When I go for my work lunchtime walk I pass a Putzmeister unit with a yard full of them.Yorick wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:35 pm I still love these concrete machines. Never saw them in uk.
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 5:32 pm
If they're all in the depot that'll be why Yorick never saw themKungFooBob wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:51 pmWhen I go for my work lunchtime walk I pass a Putzmeister unit with a yard full of them.Yorick wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:35 pm I still love these concrete machines. Never saw them in uk.
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 8:12 pm
Concrete pumps, we had a couple on a site I was shuttering on in KeswickYorick wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:35 pm I still love these concrete machines. Never saw them in uk.
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Well, one at a time but two different size pumps with the bigger one for the longer reach
Theyre usually on the bigger sites but in this case it was just me, Alan and Darby shuttering a 3 metre high retaining wall.
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 7:03 pm
IYKYK...
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 8:25 pm
1974 Series 1 Granada.( possibly Consul).
What do I win?
What do I win?