Monthly Archives: July 2009

Living in a cardboard box

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Shades
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Living in a box

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Shades

My earliest memories of caravan holidays were at Crimdon Dene in the early 70s. They were week long holidays with our local Boy’s club (of The Idiots fame) and it was a carful of boys with the Club leader (Doug, … Continue reading →

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Belated pictures of Whitby Bridge

Posted on July 25, 2009 by Shades
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The birthday bridge

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Shades

According to the 2009 Whitby Calendar up on our wall, today is the centenary of Whitby’s swing bridge. There is some confusion over when the bridge was built but the official celebrations will be next month. Sat 08 Aug 2009     Whitby Swing … Continue reading →

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Navy Blue Knickers

Posted on July 11, 2009 by Shades

(Sometimes, finding images to illustrate posts can be tricky as it is all to easy to breach copyright. Fortunately, Google has a useful new feature for bloggers: looking for images that can be reused under Creative Commons with attribution. I … Continue reading →

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