Eye-catching black and whites

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Cyprus

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Wall to wall BMC tat. 🤣 God bless the empire.

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Beetle infestations across Europe

Helsinginkatu Street, Helsinki, 1971.

Outside Tati in Paris.

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Clarnico Sweet Factory made candied peel, progressing to marmalade, jams and sweets. The trading name was formed from the surnames of Clarke, Nicholls and Coombes.
At the height of their success in 1899 they employed 2,000 people at their factory making sweets and boxes. Clarnico was sold to Trebor in 1969.

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Guggenheim Museum, 5th Avenue between 88th & 89th Street, Noo Yoik,1959.

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Mr. L. Wing drove his Metz Model 22, to the rim of the Grand Canyon, the first car to do so. This stunt was part of the 1914 'Metz Car Adventure' publicity campaign.

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3 hours ago, martc said:

Clarnico Sweet Factory made candied peel, progressing to marmalade, jams and sweets. The trading name was formed from the surnames of Clarke, Nicholls and Coombes.
At the height of their success in 1899 they employed 2,000 people at their factory making sweets and boxes. Clarnico was sold to Trebor in 1969.

Thanks you for bringing back a family memory! My Grandfather used to keep a bag of mint clarnicos with him and it was treat for me to have one when I saw him! It's fummy how these memories stick with you, even after some 60 years! Somehow I can't see my daughter allowing me to give my grandson a mint clarnico-too much sugar! 

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7 hours ago, martc said:

Mr. L. Wing drove his Metz Model 22, to the rim of the Grand Canyon, the first car to do so. This stunt was part of the 1914 'Metz Car Adventure' publicity campaign.

Also it was the invention of air brakes. Mr L Wing thankfully figured out at the last minute that they were not what he’d originally thought they were.

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7 hours ago, martc said:

Mr. L. Wing drove his Metz Model 22, to the rim of the Grand Canyon, the first car to do so. This stunt was part of the 1914 'Metz Car Adventure' publicity campaign.

Started a trend. We STILL get people sitting or standing at the edge of Beachy Head like that. Not all suicides are intentional.

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19 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Shouldn't this one  be in "Up the arse corner" ?

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 Kingston Upon Hull

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21 hours ago, Remspoor said:

 Kingston Upon Hull

Corner of Spring Bank and Princess Ave - 'Botanic Gardens' railway crossing. The traffic directing copper on the left was the last one in Hull - replaced by lights in the 1980's!

Gwenap sold saucy underwear. To the left of Gwenap was Apex Insurance - every youth for miles around went there for moped/motorbike/car insurance as they were by far the cheapest and also had a 'pay monthly' scheme.

The 'Socialist Bookshop' just before the crossing on Spring Bank often had it's windows stoved in.

All these reminiscences are from the '80's, not from the time of the photo (the crossing went in the '60's, but the Botanic Gardens loco maintenance dept is still there and anyone who has had 'Jacksons'  bread will be interested to know that the factory is built on the other side of the crossing).

 

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Washington Heights, 1985.