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Title: Come, and take me by the hand - Streets of London 1876
Post by: Syt on August 01, 2013, 03:17:44 AM
http://www.retronaut.com/2013/07/street-life-in-london/

:Dickens:
Title: Re: Come, and take me by the hand - Streets of London 1876
Post by: Syt on August 01, 2013, 03:34:24 AM
And a follow up, more for RH and Brazen who may remember those days - the Underground in the 70s/80s:

http://www.retronaut.com/2013/08/london-undergound/
Title: Re: Come, and take me by the hand - Streets of London 1876
Post by: Brazen on June 02, 2014, 10:12:49 AM
Quote from: Syt on August 01, 2013, 03:34:24 AM
And a follow up, more for RH and Brazen who may remember those days - the Underground in the 70s/80s:

http://www.retronaut.com/2013/08/london-undergound/
Just found this on a trawl for something else London-related  :lol: :bowler:

Ah yes, it was all clowns and punks in those days. Smoking on the Tube seems unfathomable now, but I remember smokers rushing to get up the right end for the smoking carriages. Can't remember if you could smoke on the platform too. I presume so as the Kings Cross fire was started by someone dropping smoking materials on the wooden escalator.
Title: Re: Come, and take me by the hand - Streets of London 1876
Post by: The Brain on June 02, 2014, 10:38:04 AM
Quote from: Syt on August 01, 2013, 03:34:24 AM
And a follow up, more for RH and Brazen who may remember those days - the Underground in the 70s/80s:

http://www.retronaut.com/2013/08/london-undergound/

Brazen doesn't remember the 80s. :mad:
Title: Re: Come, and take me by the hand - Streets of London 1876
Post by: Brazen on June 02, 2014, 10:52:38 AM
Quote from: The Brain on June 02, 2014, 10:38:04 AM
Brazen doesn't remember the 80s. :mad:
True, I was drunk for most of the latter half.
Title: Re: Come, and take me by the hand - Streets of London 1876
Post by: Grey Fox on June 02, 2014, 10:54:31 AM
Quote from: Syt on August 01, 2013, 03:17:44 AM
http://www.retronaut.com/2013/07/street-life-in-london/

:Dickens:

2nd picture. That's one hell of a short leg.
Title: Re: Come, and take me by the hand - Streets of London 1876
Post by: merithyn on June 02, 2014, 11:25:05 AM
Is that cowboy the same guy that stands at Speakers' Corner and tells everyone they're going to hell?
Title: Re: Come, and take me by the hand - Streets of London 1876
Post by: alfred russel on June 02, 2014, 11:34:15 AM
Quote from: merithyn on June 02, 2014, 11:25:05 AM
Is that cowboy the same guy that stands at Speakers' Corner and tells everyone they're going to hell?

I once visited my brother's college and they had a idiot guy like that outside the student union.

"You girls are whores that are going to hell!"

I thought, unfortunate the students have to hear this.

"Actually, you girls are lower than whores. At least whores get paid. You just give it away for free."

Okay, that was funny.
Title: Re: Come, and take me by the hand - Streets of London 1876
Post by: Tonitrus on June 02, 2014, 04:16:17 PM
But wouldn't that make it more altruistic, therefore better? :hmm:
Title: Re: Come, and take me by the hand - Streets of London 1876
Post by: Valmy on June 02, 2014, 04:23:54 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 02, 2014, 04:16:17 PM
But wouldn't that make it more altruistic, therefore better? :hmm:

Pretty sure God thinks Jesus is lower than a loaves and fishes whore.