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"Saturday Flashback" this week is again a recent photo, but going way, way back in time.
I found this hand tool lying on the ground in the orchard of the Moroccan hotel I stayed in last week. For days afterwards, I kept an eye open for anything similar and never saw anything else like it. It fitted my hand to perfection as a cutting tool, with a knapped and sharpened edge, just like flints that are sometimes found in the UK.
I have had a good rummage around the internet and Manchester Museum has also been consulted. However, there is far less knowledge about ancient African tools and finds than there is about European. It seems likely that the material is actually quartzite, a hard rock that was originally sandstone. Dating is an entirely other matter.
It could conceivably be "acheulean" taking it back hundreds of thousands of years to Neanderthal times. Or it could be "mousterian", roughly between 300,000 and 30,000 years back. THE FACT IS WITHOUT REAL EXPERT SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE I JUST DON'T KNOW AND PROBABLY NEVER WILL.
I'll just call it "very old" and wonder whose hand held it before mine??
How could I resist, especially with that slightly 'arabic' opening!!!
BITH'S JUKEBOX #210
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN "THE CUTTER"
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Maisy Battery was featured in the recent BBC Timewatch documentary “Bloody Omaha” hosted by Richard Hammond.
Maisy Battery is a previously forgotten German gun battery - part of Hitler's Atlantic Wall in Normandy near Omaha Beach. The buried site was discovered by military enthusiast Gary Sterne after studying a wartime officer's map of the area marked 'Area of High Resistance'.
The Maisy Battery was a headquarters complex for the coastal defence of Omaha Beach and its guns included four 10.5 cm cannons – three in casements and one in a field, it had six 155mm howitzers in open emplacements, a British 25pdr cannon captured at Dunkirk, two 50mm KwK anti-tank cannons, two Renault Tank turret tops mounted into casements – not to mention many machineguns, mortars and rifles.
On D-Day and for two days afterwards, the Maisy Battery fired on American soldiers landing on Omaha Beach - 'Bloody Omaha' - as it has been ever afterwards known. On the morning of the 9th of June 1944 Maisy Battery was captured by the 5th Rangers.
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Photograph from the Smithsonian Channel & BBC Timewatch filming of the first excavation of Stonehenge in almost 50 years.
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Another legacy of the British Empire was the construction of railway systems and a typically palatial railway station at the hub of the system. KL Railway Station, an intriguing mix of western and eastern architectural styles, was completed in 1910. I don't have an exact date, but this photograph must have been taken shortly afterwards.
Today the building is still in use. However, it has been downgraded to a relatively minor station, one stop and a few hundred yards down the line from KL's main transportation hub of Sentral Station (sic). To be truthful, it doesn't look that special from inside as your train breifly stops there and few passengers get off or on. However, from the outside it still looks rather marvellous (see below).
Photograph from the Smithsonian Channel & BBC Timewatch filming of the first excavation of Stonehenge in almost 50 years.
To read blog posts and see video live from the excavation from David Royle, Executive Vice President of the Smithsonian Channel, view his Smithsonian Channel Community profile here.
To learn a great deal more information about the excavation, including videos, visit the Smithsonian Channel Stonehenge
here.
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This week's "Saturday Flashback" goes back to the summer of 1947. It shows the National Health and Insurance card filled in for my mother when she was working. During World War 2, like many other women, she was employed in a heavy engineering factory doing jobs that previously had been undertaken by those men who were diverted into the Armed Forces. However, once those men were demobbed, many women became out-of-work as the pre-war patterns of employment re-established themselves.
Below, you can see where stamps were affixed each week until she left that employment. In her case, as far as I know, she left as a result of being three-months pregnant rather than for the reason explained above.
A separate card, not shown here, shows a similar set of Unemployment Insurance Stamps.
Welcome to this week's Saturday Flashback. "The Last Picture Show" continues to be one of my favourite films. So I was delighted to find this cinema that started out as a mom-and-pop establishment in 1942 in Marble Falls, TX. It only closed it's doors to film in 2003, reopening a year later primarily as a music venue which it still is to this day.
BITH'S JUKEBOX #235
HANK WILLIAMS SR "COLD COLD HEART"
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This week's Saturday Flashback features the Blue Bonnet Cafe, Marble Falls, TX.....an 83 year old tradition. Kim's grandfather, who will reach his century in a couple of weeks time, used to deliver coffee here early in his career shortly after the estabishment first opened.
They still serve mighty fine pie and coffee!
(This is the third of a weekly series of flashback photos. I apologise in advance for the inevitable poor quality. This one is scanned from a rather faded 35mm slide).
I was attracted to post this not-so-old Cheshire photo (only 27 years old!) by the telephone number "Church Minshull 372". Amazing how ye olde telephone system has changed in such a short number of years!!
I have not been able to find any information about this building or business. If somebody knows any of the history, I would be delighted to read about it below.
This week Hurricane Sandy devastatingly trashed America's eastern seaboard, in some cases even inland for hundreds of miles. From what I have been reading it came as a bit of a shock being so late in the hurricane season, being so far north and being so strong in it's intensity. Frankly, I am genuinely and mightily relieved not to have had to experience such power of nature this season down in the more traditional hurricane hotspot of the Gulf Coast.
Today's "Saturday Flashback" photo shows the high-water mark from Hurricane Ike in downtown Galveston, Texas, where ferocious winds also took a mighty toll en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike . As I have mentioned in a previous post, Kim, 50 miles inland was without power for three weeks in September 2008.
The photo below gives more of a context to the height that the water reached. By the way, the lower plaque reads "1900 Survivor Storm" referring back to a previous major disaster in which some 8000 people died en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
Clock, designed by Henry Van de Velde, famous Art Nouveau architect and interior decorator. St.Hubertus Lodge, 1916, house of the Kroeller-Mueller family, Dutch industrialists and art patrons, founders of the Rijksmuseum Kroeller-Mueller in Otterloo.
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This week's "Saturday Flashback" poses an intriguing question. I can't find any evidence to back it up. However, I've been told that the outside of many bars in Spain were originally painted "wine red" because this was an easy way of informing an illiterate population that vino tinto and other alcohol was on sale.
This week's Saturday Flashback goes back more than a century to a classic era of American railroads.
Great to see this facade preserved on a historic building that still stands in Galveston.
The letters stand for :
Galveston, Houston & Henderson (Railroad)
International & Great Northern (Railroad Company)
Missouri, Kansas & Texas (Railroad)
A tv screen grab taken from Tony Robinson's "Walking Through History" series. The original is actually an English Heritage / RAF still photo taken in 1950.
The pillbox in the main photo posted above can be seen in the bottom left corner adjacent to the tv "pause" symbol. The huge tower is described as "the receiving array of the Ringstead Chain Home Station" The transmitting towers were about half a mile to the east and not in this photo. Although there are plenty of other derelict WW2 buildings in the woods, I couldn't find any evidence remaining of the tower and do not know at what date it was demolished.