Workmen painting girders in Liverpool Street Station London August 1935
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Probably no bad thing in that case but have you ever seen the song and dance that Openreach blokes have to go through to use a ladder. If they were window cleaners they'd have to stick to bungalows.
makes me cringe just to look at the photo
Another amazing photo, but not so old
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incredible shot. Always promised myself a flight on her, but sadly never happened
Mike
I remember seeing Concorde just like that, my husband and I were at the long stay carpark at Heatherow back in the mid 80s, we were just heading out on foot, when the ground started to shake, and the sun was blotted out, AND THE NOISE. [2010] We looked up to see Concorde right above us, heading upward. It was quite an experience. [1080]
I saw one at Manchester Airport not that long ago when it was out on a runway. I think it's kept in a hanger normally, but you can have a tour round it for £40 ' ish :cool:
There's one down at East Fortune as well, at least there was a few years back.
Yes - I toured it a few years back. One fascinating thing - the carpet was specially woven to cope with the fact that at operating speed and altitude (despite the air being very cold) Concorde stretched 12" from skin friction
Mike
Quote from: Michael Rolls on June 27, 2022, 12:35:12 PMincredible shot. Always promised myself a flight on her, but sadly never happened
Mike
Yes, my next door neighbour always wanted a flight too. He actually looked into the price of it,(and from our local leeds/bradford airport too) there were two "trips", one supersonic and another one subsonic at considerably less. Even though he had the money he still couldn't justify/warrant the cost (so typical of Eric) so never did it. Poor guy died not long after. How i wish i could've talked him into doing it...
I think as we get older its the things we didn't do that we will remember?
well, I never scored a century at Lords
Mike 😥😥😥
Quote from: klondike on June 26, 2022, 10:11:15 PMProbably no bad thing in that case but have you ever seen the song and dance that Openreach blokes have to go through to use a ladder. If they were window cleaners they'd have to stick to bungalows.
That's because the H & S rules are made up by desk-jockeys who've never used a ladder.
UK H & S regulations was the reason that Pfizer closed it's plant in Sandwich, Kent & moved production to either India or South America.
E.g. It would cost £100 to erect a small scaffold when a 10 ft ladder for a 10 minute job would have been more then adequate.
By the time the new production installation was abandoned & the entire plant shut down, the cost for scaffolding alone had reach nearly £1 million.
Woosies. What could go wrong :grin:
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The Concorde at Manchester Airport is in a big hangar next to the cafe. It's very tight in there and I'm not sure there's even room for it to come out.Maybe if they shifted all the picnic tables.
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We've seen some horrendous things in India (I bet Crabby has seen more). One memorable one was a man, with a long handled electric hedge cutter, standing on the back of an elephant to trim a tree.
Electrical junction boxes were crazy. I took a photo of one in our hotel to show the electrical engineers where I worked.
Quote from: klondike on July 02, 2022, 09:43:51 AMWoosies. What could go wrong :grin:
When the couple across the road had Sky installed the dish was fitted on the same wall as their front window & a foot above the top of the window so around 8ft.
The installer went up a very short ladder, installed an anchor bolt, secured the ladder to it, went back down the ladder to get the dish, came back up the ladder & carried on fitting it to the wall.
Lol. :grin:
Quote from: Sheila on July 02, 2022, 10:00:47 AMWe've seen some horrendous things in India (I bet Crabby has seen more). One memorable one was a man, with a long handled electric hedge cutter, standing on the back of an elephant to trim a tree.
Electrical junction boxes were crazy. I took a photo of one in our hotel to show the electrical engineers where I worked.
India & South America are becoming the countries of choice for pharmaceutical companies because of the non-existent H&S regulations.
Again, using Pfizer as an example, my last job, before Pfizer pulled the plug & moved to either India or South America, was installing three vacuum transfer units which were used to transfer the base powders into the production vats where they were mixed with the solvents.
This was so that no operative came into contact with the chemical powders.
However, each of these three units cost £3 million.
As the plant was being closed down the guy who was in total charge had worked at pharmaceutical plants in India & said that workers would carry bags of the chemicals & manually dump them into the vats.
Also any scaffolding that was needed was erected with bamboo, strapped together with plant vines.
Quote from: -Oy- on July 02, 2022, 09:54:47 AMThe Concorde at Manchester Airport is in a big hangar next to the cafe. It's very tight in there and I'm not sure there's even room for it to come out.Maybe if they shifted all the picnic tables.
You make me doubt myself Oy ! My " not that long ago " could be 10 years, and I saw Concorde on a runway from the window of a plane I was sitting on waiting for take off....................................or was I landing ? 😁
I have seen her in the sky when she has flown over..
Very impressive..
Coming into Heathrow from Dublin at dusk we were still in sunlight but the ground was in near darkness - then Concorde emerged into the sunlight - this beautiful a/c gleaming white against the dark - fabulous sight.
Mike
Any guesses for this building ? 1920s.......
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Greenwich observatory?
Quote from: Michael Rolls on July 04, 2022, 04:33:12 AMGreenwich observatory?
No, but you're not far out distance wise.
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Quote from: Alex on July 04, 2022, 03:38:08 PMNo, but you're not far out distance wise.
Is it UCL in Bloomsbury? It has a dome which was completed before 1926?
Quote from: Ashy on July 18, 2022, 01:10:20 PMIs it UCL in Bloomsbury? It has a dome which was completed before 1926?
Old Wembley tower 1923
Of course, Wembley. Home of English flowers.