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  1. Very good selection this week, tris. A couple have me really perplexed. But . . .

    Pic 7: A DH Dragon Rapide

    Pic 8: Telephone boxes. Check if any of them were made at Carron Ironworks — it usually says where they were made. Round the back, just above ground level.

    Pic 9: Singer was one of the first multi-national corporations.

    Pic 14: Port Ellen, Islay

    Pic 17: James Mason and Ursula Andress in the film Blue Max

    Pic 19: The English entertainer Roy Castle

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      1. Hi, DonDon. Sorry to be a pain, but No. 11 is a 271 Squadron aircraft, but it isn’t a Bombay. It’s the similar looking but bigger Handley Page Harrow, which was designed as a heavy bomber in the early ’30s and which like the Bombay was obsolete as a combat aircraft by the time war broke out.

        Both types were flown by 271 Squadron, as transports and air ambulances, and a dozen Harrows were still serving up to the end of the war in Europe.

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        1. Hi, Auld Touns. I didn’t venture a guess regarding the ships in Pic 20. Can you make out the pennant number on the nearest one? Any idea what it might be?

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          1. Hmmm… I’ve tried zooming in on the Pennant No., but it pixelates too much to be sure. It looks like ?75 or ?76, but maybe not, as I am more certain of the class – the nearest two vessels are Flower-class corvettes and the mast being before the wheelhouse identifies them as pre-1941 early builds. The Pennant Numbers of the Flowers were prefaced with K, but the K75 and K76 were later built versions with the mast behind the wheelhouse.

            Still puzzled … Maybe Munguin will explain!🥹

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            1. STOP PRESS!

              I have used the further assistance of Messrs Google etc al, and have found a listing of WWII RN Flag and Pennant numbers.

              It shows K75 as HMS Celandine as an early 1941 Flower-class, with the front mounted mast. That could be our girl.

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    2. Hi DonDon 🥹 It’s the bane of your life again…😞

      No. 14 is indeed on Islay, but the superb round church is in Bow more (good malt!)

      I don’t know if you spotted the RAF roundel on that Dragon Rapide, but that would make it a Dominie, which seems apt for us lot of Munguinites!

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      1. While I recognise that I am most likely wrong, but even if so the name Dominie seemed to me more appropriate.for a plane used on inter – island flights given the resonance of the title Dominie in Highlands and Islands education.

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            1. Headmaster =- only master.

              That makes me think of some books we read at school… or rather we read one of them in school and I read many more.

              Village School, by Miss Read.

              A series of stories set around a two teacher village school in the Cotswolds village of Fairacre in the 1950s.

              It sounds boring, but in fact the stories were good and beautifully told.

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            2. Message from Dave:

              Morning Tris

              Great response.

              Handley page Harrow on victuals delivery

              The RAF Dominie at Tiree, based at Abbotsinch.

              The corvettes are in Tobermory Bay, don’t know which ones by auldtounes will know.

              Dave

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          2. Others have replied to your question so will only add an old rhyme.

            “He gangs tae the pub on Setterday nicht

            He gangs tae the kirk on Sunday.

            And prays the lord tae gie him strength

            tae belt the bairns on Monday”.

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              1. My poor mother was told as a new teacher in 1939 that she had to buy a proper Lochgelly tawse to control the weans.

                This she did and was very proud of the fact that when she retired, she’s d only had to use it twice. She did however get it out of her desk drawer and quietly put it down in front of herself if things were getting rowdy… calm returned.

                She worked for a while in England and refused point blank to use the cane. She had seen it draw blood, and thought it beyond the pale. She didn’t need it anyway…

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                1. Good teachers rarely did, I think.

                  If you are teaching, you should be entertaining at the same time.

                  I guess not everyone is interested in your subject, but if you make it interesting and amusing, then perhaps you will turn some people… and the ones that still aren’t interested will be waiting for the next joke or funny story.

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        1. Because I seem to be always being picky over some of his identifications. It’s not deliberate – nothing to do with him getting in there first!😁😉

          I’m just slow and boring (and like old stuff – well, some old stuff) 👍

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          1. Ha ha ha ha…

            I’m not sure DonDon ever sleeps!!

            You’re not picky. You just know a lot of stuff and put research in to that which you don;t know.

            I’m sure DonDon appreciates that… There’s loads of stuff he knows about too.

            I never cease to be amazed by how much Munguinites know.

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          2. Auld Touns, I don’t mind being corrected in the least.

            Being “nearly right” isn’t good enough and we all know that Munguin has high standards.

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            1. Thanks, DonDon. I always prefer to be put right too; it’s all a learning opportunity 👍

              You’re right about dear Munguin; I’m not sure we can meet his demanding standards at all times, but the more we try, the more we’ll learn. (Wouldn’t want to get on his wrong side, though…)

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    3. 🙂

      It’s interesting to see so many of these old phone boxes being used as book swap places out in the villages.

      The replacement ones in town are being left to fall to pieces presumably because BT won’t spend the money removing them as it might eat into their gigantic profits.

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  2. The red car’s a 1958 Chevrolet, I think.

    Dragon Rapide (there used to be one at East Fortune back when you could pay 5p to sit in the Spitfire).

    Roy Castle.

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        2. There is a tale from the old Empire theatre days in Glasgow about a versatile entertainer who did various things in his act before picking up his trumpet whereupon a voice from the audience asked very loudly ‘ is there no beginning to this man’s talents?”

          Whether or not this tale related to Roy Castle, saddened by the death of someone who brought pleasure to people.

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          1. Better still, the Empire wit’s response to Mike and Bernie Winters…

            Following their usual schtick, Mike comes through the curtain first and starts his straight man routine with a song (received in silence). Then, as planned, Bernie (the big, daft/funny? one) sticks his head through the curtain to start the routine proper, only to bomb as the lone heckler cries “Aw, Christ; there’s two of them!”

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            1. That made me laugh out loud!

              A hard crowd to p[lease, which I always find odd, because Glaswegians are normally so warm and friendly (unless at the football).

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              1. The Empire (especially on Friday evenings) was the graveyard of English comedians and other performers. For example, Des O’Connor fared so badly that he feigned fainting on stage and had to be dragged off.

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            2. ” . . . . there’s two of them.” that made me laugh, thankfully I wasn’t drinking or eating anything.

              A story I heard of the Empire audience, was about an act that would imitate the sound of a trumpet playing different popular tunes. His heckler shouted over his shoulder as he left, “Why does he no jist buy an effin trumpit.”

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      2. Anent poor* Roy Castle, he was a much more rounded character than Brucie.

        He also acted – he was Dr Who’s assistant in the 1965 “Dr Who and the Daleks” movie. And did years as a likeable childrens’ TV presenter.

        As to the asterisk; Roy Castle was a lifelong non-smoker who died of lung cancer which he was convinced he contracted during the time he spent on the club circuit in the days they were constantly smoke-filled on-stage and off. He did a lot of charity work right to his end and seems to have been a really nice guy.

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        1. Yes. I remember reading that he had never smoked and yet got lung cancer.

          I suspect there were many people who sat in smokey offices, factories and hotels/restaurants/clubs, etc who got sick because of it.

          It’s hard to imagine only 20 years after we took steps…

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  3. No shortage of Chevrolets this week.
    As well as Pic2 – the previous year’s Bel Air models – buy one in every colour – we have 1958 Impala Sport Coupe in Pic4.
    Lovely.

    Pic17. Pour le Mérite…
    No idea who the actor is – but I think someone on this very blog just might do…

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    1. m0reg0, regarding Pic 17, I think this still must be from the end of the film. Spoiler alert, but judging from the plume of smoke in the background, George Peppard has just crashed and burned . . .

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      2. Thanks, Dondon.
        Aye, it was a very dark film I thought, conveying the brutal reality of war in general and WW1 in particular.
        No heroes in this one and the actor we see here (whoever he may have been…) played the cold Prussian officer very well.
        Peppard was good but a little mature for the role.
        Most of the ones involved in air combat were seldom more than boys.

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          1. At the height of the air war in the final year or so, new British pilots were said to have a life expectancy of three weeks.
            Often just out of school, many never got that far.

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  4. Two cracking buildings in this week’s selection, but very different. There’s the lovely circular Kilarrow Parish Church in Bowmore on Islay in No. 14, and the grandiose Victorian neo-Gothic Bradford City Hall in No. 10.

    Each one a gem in its own style. Nice 👍

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    2. Indeed Auld Touns, circular buildings were popular for a while. I wracked (sic) my enfeebled mind for the name of a youth hostel I stayed in the ’70’s in the Angus Glens, the Glen Isla. It was also circular (actually two circles joined by a short passageway). Other buildings on the original estate were also circular. It was said that they were built that way so that the devil couldn’t hide in the corners. There still were corners, but not right angled. A local who was related to an estate worker of the time said that the man responsible for the construction was “a mad b*st*rd”.
      Seems to run in the blood of some “aristocrats” (mostly ‘mad b@st@rds’) who built these, see also the Gordounston school circular building.

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        1. Indeed it is Tris, although there was no tennis court or other ‘modernising’ then. There was something about him being named Starkey twice, for a bet or a lot of money, or something.

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            1. Yes. Pretty good how so many people are laughing at the ridiculous man and his silly gimmicks

              What’s he trying to be there… down with the kids?

              The man is detached from reality.

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              1. Each time one of them tries to be street cool, it back fires. Casual talk, trying to be one of the boys while dispensing food. Fail.

                David Cameron saying he was “pumped up”. Fail. Same man pretending to be the lad, just supporting his football team, except that he said it was West Ham, forgot that it was supposed to be Arsenal, then corrected it, mid sentence.

                Leads me to think that the Spads are as distant from the voters reality as the leaders are.

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    2. Lots of people had them back in the day, before we just threw clothes away or gave them to the charity shops… what a wasteful place.

      Birmingham and Julie Andrews are bang on.

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  6. Pic no 17

    I have seen this film and I thought that he, JM, looked particularly Hubba Hubba in this picture.

    He had his hair close cut at the sides which showed off his beautiful sculpted cheekbones to perfection.

    His character was very masterful and ……oops…..I better stop or I may just melt……..again !

    As to rating film….sorry but when I watched it I was only watching and listening to JM’s character…..so cannot rate it as a film as not even sure what it was about LOL (joking obvs….as for me it was all about how lovely JM was looking and sounding as himself while playing his character in the film Ha Ha)

    Thanks for including him in this section of pics……another fine start to my weekend……

    This is way way better than yon politics malarkey LOL…..Bah Humbug to Politics I say Ha Ha….thankfully I am away next week to London so I will not be here in Scotland on the day of the GE…..getting train on Tuesday to London and I am going to see AC/DC at Wembley on Wednesday, Cambridge on Thursday (GE day) to see my brother and I will not be back in Scotland until next weekend…….warned brother that I do not want to talk about politics on GE day…..I just want to have fun….oh and dream of JM obvs ……….LOL

    Once again thank you so much for including JM pic today……made my day and week…..this is the best site like ever………….with best peeps on it too (minus me LOL)…..obvs

    Hope everyone on here has a fabby day

    🙂

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    1. Have a great holiday abroad, NMRN.

      Don’t drink the water. Buy bottles (preferably Italian or Scottish water) and stay well away from the Thames.

      Glad you liked JM…

      Thought you deserved it for all the jokes you put up.

      🙂

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      1. “Have a great holiday abroad, NMRN”.

        LOL…..do they speak Scottish there ?

        I will only drink bottled water while there….can I swim anywhere outside that has been filled with “bottled water” too ?…LOL

        “Glad you liked JM”…..

        “liked” is, as I am sure you know, an understatement ……LOVED IT….. is way way more appropriate….for sure.

        I’m spoilt I tell ye……spoilt !

        BTW he , JM, also had the exact same haircut when he played Rommel in the film The Desert Fox…….OMG does he, JM, suit wearing a uniform or does he not…..could he be more Hubba…..I bloody well think not !

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  8. I’ve never understood why people buy packets of cake mix as in Pic15.
    SR flour, sugar, margarine or butter with a handful of currants and you’ve got it all at a quarter of the price.
    My favourite to bake has association with jute, jam & journalism and can be made for much less than the price of a simple cake mix.
    Who was Mary Baker anyway?

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    1. Does seem a bit weird. I mean it’s not like the ingredients are that difficult.

      I suspect that Mary Baker wasn’t Mary Baker! 🙂

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      1. It was a time- and labour-saving measure, especially in the days before electric mixers and the wotnot.

        Older viewers will remember the TV cook Fanny Craddock, a rather domineering woman, whose husband Johnny used to assist her on her programmes (he wore a monocle. among other eccentricities, and was parodied by Benny Hill and Bob Todd on Hill’s own shows).

        The tale goes that, at the end of one programme, Johnny signed off to the audience with the line, “We’ll see you again soon. Until then, happy baking, and may all your fairy cakes come out looking just like Fanny’s”

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        1. Labour saving, as the ads will declaim?
          In spite of having a food-processor and a mixer, I still use a fork for creaming and a wooden spoon for folding-in Nigel, even for something as heavy as Christmas cake.
          Saves a lot of washing-up afterwards as the mixture gets into every crevice on the device…

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  9. It’s amazing to think that Julie Andrews has been performing in public since the 1940’s. Here’s she’s leading the national anthem at the Royal Variety Performance in 1948 (I know it’s not our thing these days, but then it was different, I suppose, and not long after WW2). She has a fantastic voice for a 13 year old.

    Life in Corvettes during time spent escorting Atlantic convoys must have been extremely uncomfortable but they helped win the Battle of the Atlantic. The Royal Canadian Navy had over 100 too. Here’s a very short video of HMS Crocus.

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    1. Good video, JH.
      Bigger than a tin bath, but not by much and constantly wet.
      Nicholas Monserrat set his WW2 novel “The Cruel Sea” on the fictional Flower-class corvette, H.M.S. Compass Rose.
      Not an easy read, nor was it meant to be, laying out all the dangers, hardship and discomfort of a brutal time.

      In the days before satellites and weather buoys, several of these craft were converted to weather ships, patrolling out into the middle of the Atlantic at all times of the year for a month at a time, radioing back information to help with meteorological forecasting.
      Out there in the depths of winter it would be like living on a rocking-horse…

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    2. Julie Andrews started around the same time as Pet Clark, which was 1942. They used to travel around England in trains, sleeping in the luggage racks. They were entertaining the troops. Julie’s Parents were in show business.

      Watching that Corvette ploughing through that water, I could feel the beginnings of sea sickness. 😦

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      1. I was there last year for the first time in over a decade.

        Time (and the covid-19 regs resulting in permanently closed businesses – I miss Digby Chick) has not been kind to Stornoway 😦

        Seems like they’re pinning their hopes on (yet another) relaunch of Arnish for fabrication and a deep water harbour for cruise ships. We’ll see.

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