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+ Boles, IL. Johnson County. Photo by S Bahnsen, May 2013.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
I purchased this TS Tavern Lantern from Timmy Stepford. Decided I wanted a unique post to hang my recent acquisition and instead of buying something, I created my own lamp post. This is my first complete creation, concept, build and texture.
Nemaha County. Photo by S Bahnsen, Sept. 2013.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
11.06.2009 gg. 2 Uhr Schöneberger Str. 11 .
Berlin Tempelhof .
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Umbekannte steckten am frühen Donnerstagmorgen Kleinlastwagen der Deutschen Post in Brand. 7 Wagen brannten völlig aus. Das anliegende Gebäude, welches Denkmalgeschützt ist, erlitt ebenfalls einen erheblichen Schaden. .
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Foto: ANNE MEYER
Luzerne County. Photo by E Kalish, Mar. 2011.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
Los Angeles County. Photo by J Gallagher, Feb. 2005.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by Alexander D. Henderson of 90, High Street, Maybole, South Ayrshire, Scotland. The card was posted in Prestwick, Ayrshire using a 2d. stamp on Monday the 21st. August 1944. It was sent to:
Miss Heather Pope,
57, East Avenue,
Bournemouth,
Hants.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"21st. Aug. '44.
Lovely to be north again -
the air is so bracing.
Had my first battle for a
year y'day and played 12
holes of golf.
I'm feeling a lot better
than when I woke up.
With love,
David."
The Battle of the Falaise Pocket
So what else happened on the day that David posted the card?
Well, on the 21st. August 1944, the Battle of the Falaise Pocket ended in an Allied victory.
A Sinking in the English Channel
Also on that day, the Canadian corvette Alberni was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel by German submarine U-480.
The Scuttling of a U-Boat
Also on the 21st. August 1944, German submarine U-230 ran aground at Toulon and was scuttled.
A Canterbury Tale
Also on that day, the British comedy-drama film A Canterbury Tale starring Eric Portman, Sheila Sim and Dennis Price premiered in the United Kingdom.
Eric Portman
Eric Harold Portman, who was born on the 13th. July 1901, was an English stage and film actor. He is probably best remembered for his roles in three films for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger during the 1940's.
-- Eric Portman - The Early Years
Born in Halifax, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Portman was the second son of Matthew Portman (1868–1939), a wool merchant, and his wife, Alice, née Harrison (1870–1918). His birth was registered with the middle name of Harold, but he later adopted his mother's maiden name as his middle name.
Eric was educated at Rishworth School in Yorkshire and, in 1922, started work as a salesman in the menswear department at the Marshall & Snelgrove department store in Leeds.
-- Eric Portman's Acting Career
While working in Leeds Eric performed with the amateur Halifax Light Opera Society.
He made his professional stage debut in 1924 with Henry Baynton's company. In 1924, when Robert Courtneidge's Shakespearian company arrived in Halifax, Portman joined the company as a 'passenger,' and appeared in their production of Richard II at the Victoria Hall, Sunderland. This led to Courtneidge giving him a contract.
Portman made his West End debut at the Savoy Theatre in September 1924, as Antipholous of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors.
He was engaged by Lilian Baylis for the Old Vic Company. In 1928, Portman played Romeo at the rebuilt Old Vic. He became a successful theatre actor. In 1933, Portman was in Diplomacy at the Prince's Theatre with Gerald du Maurier and Basil Rathbone.
In the 1930's, Eric began appearing in films, starting with an uncredited bit in The Girl from Maxim's (1933) directed by Alexander Korda. In 1935, he appeared in four films, including Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn with Tod Slaughter.
He also made Hyde Park Corner with Gordon Harker and directed by Sinclair Hill; Old Roses and Abdul the Damned.
In 1936 Portman had a stage hit playing Lord Byron in Bitter Harvest. After Hearts of Humanity (1936), he played Giuliano de' Medici in Hill's The Cardinal (1936).
Portman made another film with Tod Slaughter, The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936), and was in Moonlight Sonata (1937).
Eric went to the US and played in Madame Bovary on Broadway for the Theatre Guild of America. He also had a small role in The Prince and the Pauper (1937), but disliked Hollywood, and did not stay long.
He was back on Broadway in I Have Been Here Before by J. B. Priestley. Portman's last London stage show was Jeannie.
In the semi-autobiographical play Dinner with Ribbentrop by screenwriter Norman Hudis, a former personal assistant to Portman, Hudis relates a claim made often by Portman that in 1937, before the start of the Second World War, he had had dinner in London with Joachim von Ribbentrop (then the German Ambassador to Britain).
Portman claimed that Ribbentrop had told him that:
"When Germany wins the war, you will
be installed as the greatest English star
in the New Europe at a purpose-built
film studio in Berlin."
In 1941 he had his first important film role playing Lieutenant Hirth, a Nazi on the run, in Powell and Pressburger's 49th. Parallel, which was a big hit in the US and Great Britain. Portman was established as a star, and signed a long-term contract with Gainsborough Pictures.
Portman was in Powell and Pressburger's follow up, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942), which reworked the story of The 49th. Parallel to be about Allied pilots in occupied Holland.
Eric played a Belgian resistance leader in Uncensored (1942) from director Anthony Asquith, and a German pilot in Squadron Leader X (1943) with director Lance Comfort.
Portman was a sailor in Asquith's We Dive at Dawn (1943) and a factory supervisor in Millions Like Us (1943) from Launder and Gilliat.
He was in another war story in Comfort's Escape to Danger (1943), then was back with Powell and Pressburger for A Canterbury Tale (1944). Portman had the lead in Great Day (1945) with Flora Robson and in the expensive colonial epic Men of Two Worlds (1946).
In 1945, exhibitors voted him the 10th. most popular star at the British box office. He maintained that ranking the following year.
Eric made some thrillers – Wanted for Murder (1947), Dear Murderer (1947), and The Mark of Cain (1947). He was a hangman in Daybreak (1948), then made Corridor of Mirrors (1948) and The Blind Goddess (1948).
He made two films for the new producing team of Maxwell Setton and Aubrey Baring, The Spider and the Fly (1949) and Cairo Road (1950).
Portman was one of many names in The Magic Box (1951) before making an Ealing comedy, His Excellency (1952), playing a trade unionist who becomes Governor of a British colony.
For Baring and Setton, he made South of Algiers (1953) then had a big hit on stage in Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables and on film in The Colditz Story (1955).
Portman had a supporting part in The Deep Blue Sea (1955) and Child in the House (1956). He had the lead in The Good Companions (1957).
He played the bogus Major in Terence Rattigan's play Separate Tables in 1956–57 on Broadway. For this performance, he was nominated for a Tony Award (Best Actor (Dramatic)). In 1958 he appeared on Broadway in a short-lived production of Jane Eyre as Rochester.
Portman had better luck the following year in a production of Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet, which had a long run. In contrast, Flowering Cherry by Robert Bolt, with Portman in the title role, only lasted five performances on Broadway.
Later film roles included in The Naked Edge (1961), Freud: The Secret Passion (1962), West 11 (1963), The Man Who Finally Died (1963), The Bedford Incident (1965), and The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966).
In 1962 Portman was in a stage adaptation of A Passage to India that ran for 109 performances on Broadway.
Near the end of his life Eric played character roles, including Number Two in the TV series The Prisoner, appearing in the episode "Free For All" (1967), as well as films including The Whisperers (1967) and Deadfall (1968), both for director Bryan Forbes. His final film was Assignment to Kill (1968).
-- Eric Portman's Personal Life
In the early 1920's Portman was an amateur in Halifax Light Opera. While there he was romantically involved with Eliza Jane Thornton, his leading lady.
After appearing in The Silver Box together, they both went to London to work professionally, though eventually Thornton returned to Halifax.
Decades after Portman's death in 1969, it was suggested that he was homosexual, and that assistant director Knox Laing (1913 - 1974) was his partner.
Portman died at the age of 68 at his home in St. Veep, Cornwall on the 7th. December 1969 from heart disease. He was laid to rest in St. Veep parish church.
Culberson County. Photo by E Kalish, Aug. 2012.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
Crittenden County. Photo by S Bahnsen, May 2014.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
Former site. Waukesha County. Photo by J Gallagher, May 1992.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
McHenry County. Photo by S Bahnsen, Jul. 2012.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
I really like digging with one of these. One is able to make a good clean hole.
This is where the "Pool/Mid-Drive" box goes.
June 07, 2014:.
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Toronto,
Residential Development,
Post House Condominiums,
105 George St,
Alterra Group of Companies,
21s,
Wallman Architects,
Anchorage Borough. Photo by E Kalish, Nov. 2016.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
Magome is a post town in the Kiso Valley, which served travelers of the Nakasendo, a major route connecting Tokyo with Kyoto during the Edo Period. Magome's main street is lined with wood and plaster Edo-style buildings, most of which date from the 20th century as the originals fell into disrepair or were burnt down in the frequent fires that affected both towns. Look out for the stones which hold down some of the wooden roofs.
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