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Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim & Agfa CT Precisa 100 Cross Processed.
I won't be around for a a few days, so I'll leave you with this for a bit - round and round we go! ;)
A flickr day out in Cardiff with duckiemonster, ...meh... (of course), & slithy toves. It was hot, hot, HOT around Cardiff Bay! Thanks for being our tour guide duckie. :)
I don't know what's eating these but everyone in this area had been eaten , there where some very spaced out rabbits knocking around , maybe that's what Dylan the rabbit was on ?
And a trip down memory lane with Florance the little girl, Dougal the shaggy dog, Brian the Snail, Ermintrude the Pink Cow (NOW I know why I love pink!!), Dylan the Hippy Rabbit and BOING went Zebedee, "time for bed".
And if you aren't English, of my generation and slavishly watched the BBC at 5.55pm every night you have been totally lost.
But then everyone knows I am bonkers anyway!!
Back to an English photo and one from our trip to York.
Under sufference I went to the National Railway Museum, after all I AM very girly and whats the odds of seeing a Pink Steam Train?
BUT, I have to say I had a fabulous time in there and took, as usual a zillion photos.
Yes, I know its not a steam train but I just adored this very well restored Roundabout, satisfied the craving for a pink moment!
BOING went Zebedee, "time for a coffee" as this narcoleptic has just woken up.
And of COURSE I am going to say better large and View On Black
Source: Scan of an original.
Image: P32077.
Date: c.1972.
Copyright: © Swindon Advertiser.
Used here by very kind permission.
Repository: Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
i had to hold the camera above my head to shot this thats why there is a little shake and i only manages 20 sec. i did try and use the image stabilization feature in iMoive but i think the flash lights confused it and it made it look like there was an earthquake.
same sound track that i used on the film of the rubber duckies.
music is the theme tune from the magic round about, but a cover.
Avro Shackleton AEW.2 WR965 of RAF 8 Squadron at Waddington in June 1979.
8 Squadron operated the Shackleton AEW.2 at Lossiemouth from 1973 until the retirement of the type in 1991. Not bad, considering the Shackleton first flew in 1951! Sadly, WR965 was lost in a fatal crash on the Isle of Harris in 1990. These venerable aircraft were named after characters in the children's TV series The "Magic Roundabout", WR965 featuring Florence below the cockpit.
Scanned from a home-developed Ilford FP4 B&W film negative.
North West 200, May 1980
From: ( www.huewen.com/index.php?p=1_4_Race-Career )
(1980) I sold my share of Midland Automatic Transmissions to business partner Paul and became a full time racer. Still riding the same TZ750 Yamaha my biggest win of the year was on my debut at the International North West 200 on the roads of Northern Ireland, setting a new outright circuit lap record at 125.01mph in the feature race and beating former Grand Prix star and one of the sports nice guys, John Newbold, (#24), by a tyre width... [www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/nw200/clips/p007rbst]
John was killed in 1982 at the bend I'd overtaken him two years previously, (Juniper - now slowed through a chicane), to take the win.
See www.northwest200.org/ for details of this historic great race event.
( File: 1980-nw-200-17 )
Garden figure that reminds me of Brain from The Magic Roundabout, shows my age I guess
All images are copyrighted.
Source: Scan of a slide from our collection.
Image: P...
Date: November 1977.
Copyright: ©1977 SBC.
Repository: Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Left to right: Katy Oliver (Anna Labia), Emma Ashcroft (Chesty Prospects), Joel Dyer (Saucy Jack), Michael Loftus (Mirch Maypole), and Solaya Sang (Bunny Lingus). Photograph: Craige Barker.
Tickets www.greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk
As the audience settle back for an evening of cosmic cabaret, all is not well at Saucy Jack’s... The evil shadow of a serial killer looms over the bar; the acts are being killed off one by one, found stabbed by the heel of a sequinned slingback shoe. Can the Space Vixens, intergalactic agents of justice and style, crack the case and save the day?
These super fashion crime fighters from a groovier galaxy are part celebrity, part super-hero: strong, sexy, liberated...and all woman! Their mission is to fight crime and liberate the universe by harnessing the Power of Disco. The audience join these sassy space cops as they arrive on Frottage III to uncover the Slingback Killer and watch as they are drawn into a cosmic underworld where their unique powers promise justice, hope and unadulterated funk!
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens is an immersive musical comedy experience packed with bawdy innuendo, catchy songs and a colourful spectrum of LGBTQ+ characters. Part Rocky Horror, part Charlie's Angels and all hilarious! This former West End show is making its long overdue debut in Manchester's Gay Village.
Video interview with the cast: youtu.be/Skq-cse2ZZw
Trailer: youtu.be/j8hFOEPvw2U
Stagecoach Manchester/Bee Network 84227 (LF24 ZBD).
One of the new electrics for Oldham under Tranche 2.
If there's any justice, this one should get called "Zebedee" with a plate like that.
Manchester, Corporation Street, 25/03/2024. Posted 06/04/2024.
A pair of Go North East Mini Pointer Darts seen at Sunderland Interchange, with ‘Doxford Clipper’ 605 (NK54NUA) passing ‘Magic Roundabout’-branded 556 (NK53TKU) – 21st June 2007.
On December 31st 1999 I made a bucket list. One of the items was "to confidently drive around the Magic Roundabout". Twenty years later I still haven't plucked up the courage to do it!
Sculptures by Pierre Vivant, Ocean Way roundabout, Cardiff. (Known locally as "The Magic Roundabout".)
Source: Scan of an original mounted photograph in our image collection.
Image: P7803.
Date: c1913.
Copyright: © Swindon Corporation (SBC).
Photographer: Protheroe & Simons.
Repository: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.
Sculptures by Pierre Vivant, Ocean Way roundabout, Cardiff. (Known locally as "The Magic Roundabout".)
Another sculpture from the Fresh Air 2009 exhibition. This time a large scale sculpture by Giles Penny, entitled "Man with Reflection". This shot doesn't do the image justice in terms of its scale, it was 4.6m high and towered above everything else.
Check out his website here as his work is fantastic.
Plough Roundabout, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. A "magic roundabout"# of six mini roundabouts.
GOC Hertfordshire's walk on 9 December 2017, an 8-mile circular walk in and around Hemel Hempstead, including Gadebridge Park, Piccotts End, Water End (Great Gaddesden), Fields End, Pouchen End, Winkwell, Boxmoor, Water Gardens and Old Town. Tom M led the walk, which was attended by 16 people. You can view my other photos of this event, read the original event report, find out more about the Gay Outdoor Club or see my collections.
Approaching Swindon's Magic Roundabout, five mini-roundabouts in a circle making one big one. Created in 1972 from a design by Frank Blackmore it had, during its pilot phase, a policeman on each roundabout to make sure drivers could cope. Despite its complexity it does have a good safety record. It was originally named County Islands but has now universally been renamed after the children's TV series. The stadium in the background is the County Ground, home of Swindon Town FC.
Sculptures by Pierre Vivant, Ocean Way roundabout, Cardiff. (Known locally as "The Magic Roundabout".)
Another one from 'memory lane'.
Ermintrude the cow, from the BBC TV series "Magic Roundabout".
I came across this little soft toy whilst sorting out a box of old 'stuff'!
The BBC series was based on an original French series of short stories, the characters had different names and the British version was written and read by Eric Thompson. (Nigel Planer took over the role of narrator in later years).
It is thought that Ermintrude (Azalee in France) was loosely based on Eric Thompson's wife, the actress Phyllida Law.
1980 North West 200
See www.northwest200.org/ for details of this historic great race event.
( File: 1980-nw-200-23 )
County Offices + Central Library on left, 1960s. Old Police Station, 1935 on right.
Aylesbury is an old market town mostly known for its small ducks, which even adorn its heraldic crest. Most of the historic and picturesque buildings were demolished in the surge of ‘planning and civic’ improvements of 60s which also have the honour of producing major road building in and around the town ripping the town apart.
The strange thing about the piecemeal development is that sometimes an accidental throw of dice can reveal a story which historical writers would find difficult to imagine. I recently came across or noticed such an ‘occurrence’ which may also reflect my familiarity with this town.
Let me take you around a busy traffic ‘magic roundabout’ in the centre of Aylesbury, where within a few hundred yards, the pages of history open magically to tell an interesting story which like any good story contains pathos, tragedy and sometimes humour.
I would take an ‘anti-clockwise’ walk starting with a 1930s Police Station on one corner, then crossing the road to a 1960s concrete ‘monument’; further crossing will bring you to a strange blue glass ‘misshapen’ building from 80s and crossing of another busy road will bring you to the recently completed addition of a ‘forest’ imitation with many Walt Disney themes around it.
You are looking at the Civic heart of the town with AVDC’s offices and shopping centre at the back. The old County offices are hidden behind the buildings on right. This is the old part of Aylesbury which was cleared for the new developments.
The gentle brick structure on the corner is the Old Police Station designed under the County Architect C H Riley in 1935. This building is so low key and forgettable that I am certain that if you ask people what occupies this corner of the roundabout, they would not be able to recall.
The concrete building on the left is County Council Office building completed in 1960s under the County Architect, Fred Pooley, commonly disliked by most citizens and generally known as Fred’s Folly. Ian Nairn once called it ‘Fred’s Fort’. I suppose it will come close to being called a Brutalist building. The bold form of the building dominates the town and the whole of Aylesbury Vale. 1960s saw quite a few examples of Civic Buildings in tall structure, and to my mind this remains one of the best examples of this type of building of this era.
It was a fairly low cost building using Bison’s insitu/precast technique, cleverly designed to weather well but unfortunately rusting steel has blighted exposed aggregate panels in recent years.
Crossing the busy road at the roundabout followed by crossing of a bridge over a brook brings you to another famous building now known as ‘Blue Leanie’. Designed in 1982 by GMW Partnership, is a worthy partner of ‘Fred’s Folly’. This was designed as Head Office for an Insurance company which suffered badly in later years bringing untold misery of lost pensions to many.
Let us cross the road once again....... (to follow)
Architects; RHWL Arts Team, 2010.
Before we cross the next road, let me tell you that we are very close to the railway station. The Chiltern line (previously GWR -1860s) is connected to Marylebone in London and if it wasn’t for some recession or other Aylesbury would have been a station on Metropolitan Underground and a proper suburb of London. On crossing the road we will come to the termination of Grand Union Canal (1814) and this is a clue to the name of ‘Waterside Theatre’ we are visiting. I will show my hand immediately by declaring that I have been watching the construction of this ambitious project with trepidation for months, since all the visible architectural signs were, to say the least, alarmingly inexplicable and worrying.
The view from ‘Blue Leanie’ side of the road facing the Canal basin is supposedly displaying architects interpretation of a ‘Chiltern wood’ and a ‘pond’. Photo 5 showing tapered wooden vertical supports wrapped around the auditorium look well disciplined. The organic and tapered shapes have been in frequent use in recent architecture and are common currency in modern buildings.
Photo 6 shows all three buildings together from other side of the canal, so far so good but on crossing the canal, in front of the building you come face to face to a vision (photo7) for which my architectural taste buds with a life time of exposure to modern architecture were not quite prepared to take.
The bronze statue sitting and looking towards the building is much loved figure of a famous comedian, actor, writer, Ronnie Barker, who started his career in a Repertory Company in Aylesbury. British Flickrers may remember the famous sketch about “fork handles – four candles” beautifully delivered by this great man and here he can certainly see hundreds of fork handles out side and candles inside the buildings.
Looking at 7 and 8 please let me know that if I am over reacting when I say that this is one of the most ridiculous entrances to a Leisure / Public buildings I have ever seen. I almost felt like having a shower after passing the ‘threshold’ of these bulbous lips, eye or something else. The main/side elevation riding on surf like wave in rustic stone and moulded grey mosaic supports the ‘Mexican Wave’ roof riding on tapered wooden columns. The rectangular paraphernalia of theatre and clock tower are crowning glories to complete the composition which is likely to haunt you for some time to come.
This building is being well received by Aylesbury populace. The interiors are in keeping with ‘eclectic’ approach employed externally. I have yet to experience watching a performance or two to complete my comments about the main theatre space. I am certain that the interiors would fulfil their multi functional brief well –after all RHWL are known as experts in this field.