Sydney Harbour Bridge during construction, late 1920's.............. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Image take from the Botanical Gardens .......... please log in to view this image please log in to view this image New Years Eve celebrations ........ please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image a kaleidoscope of colors.............. please log in to view this image
Great aeriel photo, amazing that St Paul's was virtually unscathed amongst the devastation all around it...
Sooper, here are some Bomb Plots from an Bomber Command operation in 43. You can see the city outline and the river for both Munich & Boulogne ..............
please log in to view this image Mum & kids look down from the balcony of their new highrise in Shoreditch at the old community waiting for the bulldozer , soon to be just a Cockney memory.
After the Highland pictures on the 'Not Historical' thread here's some historic film from Scotland in 1936 in colour...
Wow ................. what where they thinking. If one child falls, splat. Wow. Footnote - I worked for a national playground company for several years, designing & installing. I can tell you that picture above is downright scary. please log in to view this image
We never had anything like that. As a 7 year old me and my mates used to play on building sites. Seriously.
As kids we used to play on bomb sites which seemed to be everywhere locally. Most of them were not fenced off and often had old prams dumped which we used to take away and make into go carts with old orange boxes we'd find in Brixton Market. My first bike was put together using parts from a couple of old bikes found on such sites, I bought the wheels and gears from the local bike shop but the rest was made from cannibalised bits found dumped. We certainly learned a lot of 'skills' from being able to do our own thing, it'd never happen these days like many things from our childhood...
Constructed by a British Company. The very same Company I worked for out in Hong Kong building this beauty
Happy days. I used to get the boat to / from work from Discovery Bay to Chek Lap Kok every day and sail under the Tsing Ma bridge whilst it was being constructed. '96 / '97 if my memory serves me right