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  1. nightandthecity

    1940s House on PBS

    I watched this series when it first came out. It followed the success of a series called Victorian House. I had - and still have - a real problem with the whole concept. Look at it this way, if you took a family from the Victorian era or the 1940s and isolated them in a 2006 house they‘d have...
  2. nightandthecity

    OK - I'm new here!

    wow! That makes me feel old - or backwards - or maybe both! I've always wet shaved, and it's still fairly common here in the UK. Even my hyper hip teenage son wet shaves. I've felt a similar reaction to similar FL postings in the past. There was one about line drying once which talked as if...
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    Old Town

    The Old Town range is superb, and I hardly dare let myself visit their mouthwatering website. But if you can afford the stuff don't hesitate to buy, you won't be disappointed, the fabrics, patterns and workmanship are top notch.
  4. nightandthecity

    IRVIN NUTS?...the ULTIMATE thread for those who love 'em!

    There are short sections on the Irvin in several WW2 flight gear/vintage jacket books but nothing substantial. I've often thought of writing such a book myself.......
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    What do you look like?

    It's not that I'm vain and egotistical.... ...but on mentioning this thread to Mrs Night she said she had a couple more pix of me on the family PC. I had to post them, I think they really capture that depressed unemployed 1930s worker look. I was propping up the front door waiting on someone...
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    BATTLE OF BRITAIN (1940) - Respecting THE FEW.

    Churchill knew how to turn a phrase! As did the pilots - many of them were owed large amounts of back pay and they turned that into "..has so much been owed to so many by so few" !
  8. nightandthecity

    A CLEANING QUESTION ...

    I read recently an AAF vet saying they used to dunk their OD wool trousers in petrol or aviation spirit and then air them
  9. nightandthecity

    BATTLE OF BRITAIN (1940) - Respecting THE FEW.

    Battle of Britain Day today, Sept 15th, is Battle of Britain day. It's the official day of rememberance, but nothing much ever happens. Every now and then someone suggests it should be a public holiday, but heaven forbid that Brits should actually stop working now and then. Anyway, I always...
  10. nightandthecity

    An annoying term.

    I think I read somewhere that there is a direct line from West Indian quadrille dance calling to Jamaican toasting to rap......and another line running from the tradition of improvised mock sermons in England. everything comes from somewhere. Everything has roots.
  11. nightandthecity

    An annoying term.

    a lot of terms that are - or used to be - hip US slang turn out to be of venerable useage in Britain. I grew up with "Fly". And "Cool" and "man" go back to the middle ages..."blue"/"the blues" and "wicked=good" into the 18th century. "Honky" is archaic southern English dialect for a "low idle...
  13. nightandthecity

    What do you look like?

    Marc...please don't reply "FANKS"!
  14. nightandthecity

    What do you look like?

    MORE ON HIPPIES! ...mind you, they know some pretty clever stuff handed down over generations of spiritually wise English peasants or leant from ancient Anglo-Saxon runic inscriptions......for starters, THEY CAN LEVITATE THEMSELVES!!
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    What do you look like?

    A STUDY IN SARTORIAL DEGENERATION Unfortunately i have very few digital pictures of myself. Looking through them I found to my horror a record of sartorial degeneration of which I was previously unaware. It began with a DB suit worn unbuttoned soon I was to be found unshaven and without...
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    English Macs

    http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=8851&page=3
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    English Macs

    it's a copy of the British Army officer 1952 pattern macintosh or "riding mac". I posted some pictures of an original recently, I'll find the link
  19. nightandthecity

    What do you think of this coat?

    well they can start to smell like burning tyres when they get hot. But I wouldn't let that put you off! Just don't get hot! This modern coat doesn't look too bad in the pix but personally I would want to see one before I shelled out my cash. There's plenty of modern repro and "vintage style"...
  20. nightandthecity

    Tanker Jackets?

    so BR does the patch pocket model? I didn't know. I shall have to check that out (I've never been a slash pocket man).
  21. nightandthecity

    Apparently there's a rockabilly revival in London...

    gnash gnash gnash...... still it might mean more work even for us ugly old men
  22. nightandthecity

    Breastfeeding In Public

    I can think of all sorts of reasons to prefer breast, and I'm sure some mothers here can think of others... Babies like the real thing better..the feel of their mum etc. Mother and baby bond better its way more convenient...no bottles to sterilize, no messing around with pumps etc. and...
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    Breastfeeding In Public

    actually this raises a point that no one has mentioned yet -when a baby's got to feed it's got to feed. The alternative is deeply unhappy kids and that earpiercing cry. Unless you want mums to all stay at home...... Like Marc, I really do find it hard to understand why anyone could...

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