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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12968

    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    Now that cover is misleading - the image of Tower Bridge make it clear that this is a London scene, but when child David knew Micawber, he was working in the bottle blacking factory, and didn't have any books. (When he did have books, he was a scholar in Canterbury - and was a young man when he became reacquainted with Micawber, who worked for Mr Wickfield, also in Canterbury.)
    ... o, it's much worse than that. David Copperfield came out in 1849/50.

    Tower Bridge dates from 1886-94...




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    Last edited by vinteuil; 22-02-16, 10:40.

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      ... o, it's much worse than that. David Copperfield came out in 1849/50.

      Tower Bridge dates from 1886-94... .
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • Ferretfancy
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        • Nov 2010
        • 3487

        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
        It was opened by the future Edward VII in 1895. My mother's oldest sister aunt Kit was there as a schoolgirl, apparently they had a special stand for local schoolchildren. My mother's family of six sisters were born in Bermondsey, just behind the hospital. Kit was a very old lady when she died.

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26575

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          OMG! Action Transfers!!!

          SPLAT, the Society for the Preservation of Letraset Action Transfers, presents a gallery of images showing Letraset's rub-down Instant Pictures; rub-ons, rub-offs, as well as other kinds of dry transfers, including products from John Waddingtons, Patterson Blick, Kalkitos, PrestoMagiX, Thomas Salter and others. We feature a chronological record of every series and set, and articles discussing them in detail. There is also a section for online games.


          Originally posted by Roslynmuse View Post
          Haven't thought about these for 40 years!
          ... I almost wrote that sentence in my own post!

          Ferney - you obviously buried your young nose in 'Serialism Today' rather earlier than Ros and me....
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Ferney - you obviously buried your young nose in 'Serialism Today' rather earlier than Ros and me....
            Oh, yes - I know it back to front.
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • Bryn
              Banned
              • Mar 2007
              • 24688

              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              Oh, yes - I know it back to front.
              You may have got that upside down.

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              • Tevot
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 1011

                Originally posted by jean View Post
                You can get homogenised I think, but the silver top isn't.
                Ernie - The fastest Milkman in the West...

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                • Tevot
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 1011

                  and while we're at it ...

                  Dick Emery

                  Benny Hill

                  Stanley Baxter

                  Dave Allen

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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37876

                    Baxter's still going, isn't he?

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                    • Eine Alpensinfonie
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20576

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post

                      Tower Bridge dates from 1886-94...

                      I think there's an earlier version in Asterix in Britain.

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                      • Ferretfancy
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 3487

                        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                        Baxter's still going, isn't he?
                        Yes, he lives near me and I've spoken to him a couple of times. He still does narration on radio.

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                        • MrGongGong
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 18357

                          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                          ... o, it's much worse than that. David Copperfield came out in 1849/50.
                          .
                          I must have missed that chapter
                          brave thing to do in that climate though

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                          • Tevot
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 1011

                            A Finger of Fudge...

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                            • teamsaint
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 25234

                              international Stores.
                              I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                              I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                              • jean
                                Late member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 7100

                                Home & Colonial.

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