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  1. Shangas

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    Just out of curiosity - what's wrong with it?
  2. Shangas

    Hotel Windsor to Close in 2018 (?)

    I think there is, but that doesn't mean it'll be saved. Not sure what'll happen to it, really. As far as hotels go, it's pretty small, I think, so it really struggles to keep going. I mean compared with other hotels of the same generation... It has one bar, one restaurant, a ballroom, about...
  3. Shangas

    Hotel Windsor to Close in 2018 (?)

    http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/windsor-hotel-to-close-tower-plans-dumped-20150710-gi9i6v.html Opened in 1883, The Hotel Windsor is Australia's (and Melbourne's) last great Victorian grand hotel. It's been around so long, it's actually older than a lot of other, far more famous hotels...
  4. Shangas

    Question about Nitrocellulose Film & Fire Safety

    Lizzie you are a goldmine of information :) My thanks for your answers!!
  5. Shangas

    WWI British field officer's trench whistle. J. Hudson & Co. Birmingham - 1915!!

    I've examined Warwhistles.com more closely, and I've figured it out, now. Their whistles ARE faithful reproductions of WWI & WWII-era British service whistles. All the stampings and markings are identical to the originals, because the same company manufactures them, and uses the original...
  7. Shangas

    Question about Nitrocellulose Film & Fire Safety

    Hey folks, I'm busy writing a piece about ivory, and this involves the discussion of early plastics, specifically celluloid, and its combustible nature. According to one source, transporting nitrate film-stock on the London Underground was illegal, due to the high fire-risk. Did a...
  8. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Not a flea-market find or anything. This was given to me by an older man who just didn't want it. He said he bought it 30 years ago in a country-town antiques shop and had no idea why the hell he did so, since his area of collection has nothing to do with whistles, or WWI. When he saw that I...
  9. Shangas

    WWI British field officer's trench whistle. J. Hudson & Co. Birmingham - 1915!!

    Here's a war-vet you don't see every day... Celebrating its 100th birthday this year is my newly-acquired WWI officer's trench whistle! Manufactured by the famous Joseph Hudson Whistle Company, this nickel-plated brass whistle was given to me by a gentleman on the other side of the...
  10. Shangas

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    If you post photos of them, I'd be happy to guide you through it?
  11. Shangas

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    I repaired this sewing machine (1916 New Home vibrating shuttle) for a friend. It belonged to her grandmother.
  13. Shangas

    What are you wearing today??

    Haha!! Thanks BM :) Been carrying one nearly 10 years now.
  14. Shangas

    Golden era restaurants & cuisine of the era

    Don't get me started on gourmet fish and chips...
  15. Shangas

    What are you wearing today??

    Don't post in here too often, but, this was me at dinner last night...
  16. Shangas

    Show us your photography

    Silver ARP badge. Brass Metropolitan police whistle. Both from the 1930s. ...Yes I'm aware that actual ARP-issue police-whistles came with "ARP" stamped on them. I don't have one of those in my collection...yet.
  17. Shangas

    Question About German Rationing during WWII

    Are there any good English language websites around about the German home-front or rationing in Germany? Most that I find are about the 'states or Britain.
  19. Shangas

    Question About German Rationing during WWII

    Hey folks, Need your help to confirm or deny something I read (or thought I read) a number of years ago. I THINK it was on a thread in this forum, but it was so long ago, I don't remember. In a couple of months' time, I'm going to be writing an issue of my history magazine which will...
  20. Shangas

    Sterling Silver ARP Warden Badge (1939)

    I don't have much 'militaria', and I'm not even sure you'd classify this as militaria. But it is related to WWII, so here it is: Hallmarks on the back... ...indicate Sterling Silver. London. 1939. (Can't read the maker's mark).
  21. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    This particular Ball (Model 435 with the 24-hour dial) was one of the last model railroad pocketwatches certified for use on the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the 50s.
  22. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    It says "Canada" inside and the movement was made in Switzerland. I think this watch was used on the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
  23. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    The watch (the one at the top, that is) is my daily carry timepiece. It's a Ball from the 1950s.

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