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  On 15/09/2024 at 12:25, egg said:

Middle aged rant, do you remember how Brits used to stand in photos? Face forward, a bit confused, arms loosely hanging at the side.

Now.

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I think she is just asking "Does my bum look big in this?"

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  On 17/09/2024 at 08:30, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

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I've this fellow at Harewood. He always leaves long black lines at the start and smokes the tyres over the finish lineIMG_5940.JPG.ace423403600a9f76e56456a4ef82bea.JPG

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  On 17/09/2024 at 10:07, egg said:

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I love pictures of new Underground stations. There's always so much space around them. Compare that to the constant traffic jam that is there now. You kind of imagine London has always been there but you see pictures like this and realise a lot of it hasn't been. 

This is the Picadilly line northern extension so about 1933. At the time London Transport had the foresight to build stations practically in the middle of nowhere and wait for London to be built around them. Much easier to build them that way. Nobody will do that anymore which is why modern transport projects are so difficult and expensive as they have to try and thread them through all the places that are already there. 

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  On 17/09/2024 at 12:44, Yoss said:

I love pictures of new Underground stations. There's always so much space around them. Compare that to the constant traffic jam that is there now. You kind of imagine London has, always been there but you see pictures like this and realise a lot of it hasn't been. 

This is the Picadilly line northern extension so about 1933. At the time London Transport had the foresight to build stations practically in the middle of nowhere and wait for London to be built around them. Much easier to build them that way. Nobody will do that anymore which is why modern transport projects are so difficult and expensive as they have to try and thread them through all the places that are already there. 

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Yes absolutely. Just like proper town planning, who'd have thought.

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Got this laaarvly Merc 'ere, cheap at arf the price...

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Or 'ow abaaaat this larvely XJ fowty? Larvely mow'ah.

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  On 17/09/2024 at 10:10, myglaren said:

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Tell me you vote for Trump, without telling me...

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  On 17/09/2024 at 12:44, Yoss said:

I love pictures of new Underground stations. There's always so much space around them. Compare that to the constant traffic jam that is there now. You kind of imagine London has always been there but you see pictures like this and realise a lot of it hasn't been. 

This is the Picadilly line northern extension so about 1933. At the time London Transport had the foresight to build stations practically in the middle of nowhere and wait for London to be built around them. Much easier to build them that way. Nobody will do that anymore which is why modern transport projects are so difficult and expensive as they have to try and thread them through all the places that are already there. 

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The Greenbelt put an end the building of Metroland estates.  The line to Alexandra was supposed to be integrated into the Underground but the low passenger numbers caused it to be abandoned.

http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/Northern_Heights_7.html

 

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Credit to a friend of mine for sending me this, this is superb 10/10 for me, location (University of Kent)/period etc.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DAF9x6vsadq/

Here's a classic snapshot from June 1973, when campus looked 'a little' different. A group of students showing off their cars in the Giles Lane car park. Check out How open everything was, with hardly any buildings around (and just a glimpse of the library in the background!).

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