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Old 7th August 2018, 11:12
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How things Change

Some may remember BBC Interludes from back in the 50's in order to fill up TV airtime. One from 1953 was a speeded up rail journey from London to Brighton in four minutes.

They did it again in 1983 and then again in 2013. Thirty years between films, cover 60 years in all. They've put the films side by side and done a good of syncing them up … quite spectacular to see the changes … and the none changes:

https://youtu.be/tGTwSNPqAqs
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Old 7th August 2018, 18:06
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The Talking Pictures TV Channel are repeating some of those interludes now. It's quite good fun seeing how great things really were in those days, compared to how wonderful our memories make them seem.
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Also known as Trade Test Transmissions. One that springs to mind was the Aussie road train. We used to watch them at lunch time at home and then leg it to school before the bell.
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What a fascinating comparison...Good old Beeb!
What it does show to me is the handiwork of Beeching - far more rails apparent in '53!
Nevertheless Bob - thanks for posting - good find.
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Sometimes, when you're feeling a bit knackered, and it's getting a bit much, my advice would be to watch this … and think positively for a while.

https://youtu.be/3R3-YwDZrzg
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Old 10th August 2018, 11:55
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A marvellous posting Bob. Many thanks. It certainly gets the old circulation pumping just watching;-)
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Putting the ladders up would definitely be worth watching. And then taking them down
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Aarrrrrrggggghhhhhh.
My hands are still clammy.
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Old 10th August 2018, 17:01
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He was quite a character ….
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Jeez, Bob! My seat cushion looks like mount Vesuvius from all the "puckering"!! Still, I did manage to watch it all. (I DO NOT like heights.)

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What Mr Dibnah never showed us in the film was the spiral steel staircase on the other side of that chimney....
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Thanks for that Bob, I never climbed ashore but did many times on ships masts and loved it, you had to be casual about it.
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Old 11th August 2018, 08:43
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That is some chimney. Those Victorians just didn't see any limits when they built stuff did they ?

Anybody know where it is ?
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The chimney is the India Mills chimney at Darwen Lancs.

It is still there and is a listed building.

https://lancashirepast.com/2015/02/2...ian-machinery/
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Old 11th August 2018, 15:06
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..............memories..........Blaster Bates talking to our conference in Cheshire, just as good as his records.

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Old 11th August 2018, 17:18
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You look at a chimney like that, it must be better to maintain it, lowering down 5 ton stones can't be easy. They would make a dent when they fell.
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Thanks for that info. I managed to find it on Google Earth. In fact on street view you can get right up alongside it by entering the India Mill Business Centre !!! (whatever that may be.)

That's a very serious chimney. You'd need a bloody big brush to sweep it …
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WOW !!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur...mpaign=bbcnews
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