Monday 18 March 2024

Sunday 17 March 2024

Ryan, filling the Diving Pool

 

There's quite a few pictures of this pool, in various states of empty/fullness.

This one ... is today's.

Sorry,  I'm not very talkative today - Overnight, my right know seems to have decided to experience extreme pain for any motions.

Bonus -  Remember - There was no CGI 81 years ago... 


Saturday 16 March 2024

Distant Words with the Family

 

One of the delights of this here slide-collecting lark is finding images like this. Just a quick captured moment in a life.

What a great image.

Bonus - 


Friday 15 March 2024

"Are you 'aving a Giraffe?"

 

Friday is sometimes Zoo Day, here at The Slide Guy.

And these are ....checks notes .... Giraffes.

Bonus - 

Americuh!

Thursday 14 March 2024

Wednesday 13 March 2024

"Beat Girl"

 

This slide from 1964 had a note on it "Me in Waterlow Park".

Not me, as in this blogger, obviously.

This girl certainly looks "beat", so I'm guessing she had a suitably fitting name - Flip or Kath, or Mizzy.

Nice.

Bonus - 


Tuesday 12 March 2024

The Escarpment

 

An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations.

The terms scarp and scarp face are often used interchangeably with escarpment. Some sources differentiate the two terms, with escarpment referring to the margin between two landforms, and scarp referring to a cliff or a steep slope. In this usage an escarpment is a ridge which has a gentle slope on one side and a steep scarp on the other side.

Bonus - Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground

Monday 11 March 2024

Whoa!, I'm Gonna To Ibiza

 

It's been a while since the last "School Holiday At Easter" slide, so here's one from 51 years ago.  The  Easter 1973 Trip to Ibiza."

However, this one looks more like the pre departure, pale skin version of Thora and Margaret.

I've never yet figured out which school it was - so if you recognise any of these girls...please get in touch.


Bonus -

Mokusatsu

Sunday 10 March 2024

School Field Trip to Dove Valley

 

Some lovely girls on a school trip to the Dove Valley, back in 1970. Whether it was for a geography project, or just as a day out .... who know?

In response to very nearly one comment, yesterday's meal out at Seven was fine.  Good food, but a bit noisy for an old fart like me, and a PITA prepubescent waiter who had a sky high opinion of themselves.

Bonus - Security...



Saturday 9 March 2024

Meal Out With "The Gang"

 

Yup, this evening is a meal with the gang. Great.

This image above is NOT an image of us, for so many logical reasons, but I know that the blog followers like to see a vaguely relevant image.

Bonus : Swedish Special Forces

Thursday 7 March 2024

A Boy and his Locomotive

 

The lad?  I'm calling him Simon. He looks like a Simon.

The Locomotive - No info on the slide, but it only took seconds to identify this as 46115 Scots Guardsman (LMS 6115 & BR 46115).

The sky - grey and lifeless.

Simon's Anorak - The Junior Fieldman, by British Home Stores.

Bonus - 


Wednesday 6 March 2024

Kiddy Tank

 

or "How we used to play."

Yes, play was a lot more fun in the days before Sonic The Bandicoot, or whatever.

Bonus - Tragic And Mysterious Elephant Burial Ritual Witnessed by Scientists    

Tuesday 5 March 2024

The Impossibility of Music in the Mind of a Duck

 

Hopefully I don't have to explain, but Yes, this was a slide with a SEVERE colour cast / fade, and this is just a single RGB channel extracted from the digital image.

Not sure about the duck, to be honest.

Bonus -