Kevin Gibson

I've met them, but wouldn't say no to more!

An area that still looked much the same twenty five years ago, but has now changed beyond recognition.

Have you seen The Blue Lamp? Filmed around Paddington and White City. Most of the locations are now under the Westway.

Swindon?

I wonder if the up line was slewed north as part of this in order to reduce curvature. This would require demolition of the original platform, and would also explain the narrowness of the new platform compared to the District Line one.

I'd always thought it ironic that the one station on the Bow to Upminster section to have its LTS platforms reopened was also the only one where they were demolished after closure. Had no idea that they closed more then two decades earlier than the others.

That wasn't standardised then either. The Central London Railway had a centre positive rail and return through the running rails. It still isn't completely standard as the (outside) positive rail is mounted higher than other lines in order to fit the slightly smaller tunnels.

Looks like a certain South Coast town that contains a rather special 1930s pavilion.

Looks dangerous!

Thanks Lady Lim! Hope you are good too. 🐬

One for @reblambert.bsky.social too.

The case of an Amiga 600 in a sink, covered in soapy water.

Bath time

DX7, D50 and Atari ST 🐬😎

Frosty field with trees on the horizon

Ruralshire

Nice Eduardo Paolozzi piece next to that too.

Three computers. Beige and black Aquarius, with a chicklet keyboard on the left, Aquarius II on the right, with a proper keyboard. Commodore Max behind on silver, with a membrane keyboard.

Three rare machines: Commodore Max, Mattel Aquarius, Mattel Aquarius II

Large rack mount computer in a dismantled state. Motherboard top, huge power supply bottom.

Quantell Paintbox

Large beige computer with the lid removed. Power supply top right, motherboard top left. Hard drive bottom left.

A few photos from Retro Computer Fest at the Centre for Computing History: SPARCstation

A pub, painted externally with a Christmas scene: Snowmen, trees and presents.

Early festive pub, Cambridge

White lettering on red sign. Text reads COVID -19 Maintain social distance

Perfectly preserved COVID pavement sticker. Mill Road, Cambridge @raynewman.bsky.social

Green field, grey sky.

Ruralshire

This research and the planning vision it reveals is really quite something ...

Has to be Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, or the extended version of Memorabilia - with a rap by Cindy Ecstacy.

Nine Elms is very much "what the hell happened here?"

Certificate of immunity from listing... 🐬🙄

Forever 21. Still have my 21st birthday cake. Said cake is now 24 years old. 🐬🫣

They clearly didn't appreciate CLASP construction.

Plasma cutter. Open and cooked in one.

Have you seen the other St. Paul's (Bow Common)? Totally different, but just as stunning.

The post war LCC out country estates seem to be rather green, Harold Hill especially so. Merstham, where I grew up seemingly remained many existing trees when the estate was built, but a fair few were lost in 1987 and not replaced.

Dolphin hugs 🐬