I love thatI completely realise this will trigger the mandatory **** taking. Ra ra here here blah blah and all that (to confirm I’m a very working class Northerner!)
However I have to admit to having an interest in the old, history and objects.
So how’s about showcasing your interesting old objects? I mean we drive Maserati’s so there’s gotta be a touch of ‘class’ within us all right?
Todays find for me, a very old stage coach journey flyer from the Horse and Griffin in Whitby (still open to this day).
A 14 day journey to London. 1794. “All last wills should be made before departure”!
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Some of them are a bit cheeky!Here are the wee bottles. Need to find out about them.View attachment 98675
Thank you sirThere are hundreds in the collection in Preston, could be useful for research. There some similar ones in this photo. View attachment 98701
Here are the wee bottles. Need to find out about them.View attachment 98675
Have you been to the Science Museum in Manchester Ryan?I completely realise this will trigger the mandatory **** taking. Ra ra here here blah blah and all that (to confirm I’m a very working class Northerner!)
4 to 8 cm ish.What size are they? Don't look as if they would hold much wee.
Have you been to the Science Museum in Manchester Ryan?
I only went once. About thirty years ago, when I lived in Manchester.
I imagine that it's much bigger and better now. Even then, it was
quite impressive.
lol, hard to miss! Whose autograph is that? I stopped watching F1 years ago, when I found the race build-up with Mssrs Walker and Hunt etc more interesting then the racing. Keep meaning to get back to it. At least for Silverstone and Monaco. So, I've no idea who races for who, these days.Whilst not in the antique theme but more collectors item. My F1 treasure, if you zoom in on the ‘pic within the pic’ you may notice a cool little detail!
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Rather alarmingly that looks like me in a wig …I have a bunch of portraits of distant relatives, including one of Robert Knight by George Knapton, painted in about 1748.
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lol, hard to miss! Whose autograph is that? I stopped watching F1 years ago, when I found the race build-up with Mssrs Walker and Hunt etc more interesting then the racing. Keep meaning to get back to it. At least for Silverstone and Monaco. So, I've no idea who races for who, these days.
You have exquisite taste sir. As an Ulsterman should
The Museum of Science in Manchester used to hire recent graduates for guiding roles and the team was split roughly 50/50 gender-wise. I dated one of the guides who worked there for a year or so and she told me that certain machines, particularly the large steam driven ones, with huge pistons as big as a person, would send vibrations into the surrounding floor and get the girls rather hot under the collar, on those days when they were feeling susceptible. As the months passed, I got quite adept at recognising which days my girlfriend had spent mostly in the hall filled with steam engines. On some days, it was impossible not to know