Archive for July, 2009
Living in a cardboard box
Living in a box
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, who apparently was a kiddy fiddler). The caravans were a lot more basic back then, [...]
Belated pictures of Whitby Bridge
The birthday bridge
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 Bridge 100 Celebrations
Lots of events today to celebrate our grand old lady’s 100th birthday.
From 12.30 Swing [...]
In: Architecture, Techy, history
Navy Blue Knickers
(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 tried it out with shool uniforms and was slightly taken aback to find some that certainly [...]



