Coal heaps would be sprayed with water to keep the dust down. My father used to have to do it when he was on the footplate of steam locomotives because the draft of the loco moving through the air would bring the coal dust forward into the cab.
I had an older friend, years ago, who’d worked around both ship and train boilers most of his life… first in the navy, very young in WWII, then for the railroad till retirement.
He said it was incredibly hot, dirty dusty work. That’s kind of what I was going off of… And the clothes on the fellow on the picture.
He never lost that adjustment to working in the heat… He was always cold, except in hot weather… wearing a jacket on beautiful spring days… and he hated drafts.
Hot dirty work, yes, but they would try to keep the dust down mainly for the reason Tigressy says.
I have a cousin who started work in kitchens after leaving school, he was the same with the heat. I was the opposite, I’d be in a T-shirt in -5c weather. Used to be fun when we’d meet up, he’d be complaining it was cold in 20c weather, and I’d be complaining it was too damn hot!
A lot of the history about the second global disagreement tends to focus on London, most people these days can be forgiven for thinking that it was not country wide. Where I live there is little industry, but there was a lot of airfields (Both RAF and USAF) due to it being flat farmland. There was a lot of bombing even in this rural area because of it.
A naighty French postcard, of a vintage that a WWI doughboy might bring home, hidden in his pack.
I discovered that the P.C in a circle is the logo for Papeteries d Levallois-Clichy, which published a variety of real photo postcards, including not only pretty models, some nude, but also scenic views, and holiday cards, well into the 1920s.
According to Google Lens:
The image shows the Golden Bridge (Cầu Vàng), a stunning pedestrian walkway located in the Ba Na Hills resort near Da Nang, Vietnam.
French high fashion, about 1919 or 1920. The lighter colored dress is daringly short, but that length will soon be popular.
The prints are showing the influence of Eastern European peasant design, interpreted by Art Deco…
It was a craze through the early 20th century, after the Russian revolution, and the Art Deco staging of the smash hit play, Sheherazade. Then, too, there came photos from battles on the Eastern front.
Weird perspective… Is that bread on top of the dryer or on the floor?
I understand a mess…
But this is a disaster.
Food purposely spread out all over the floor, interspersed with all kinds of soap and cleaners? The baby’s teething rattles next to the spilled kibble?
Do not cry. Do not give the baby a bottle of dish soap.
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“Patience, young grasshopper”
Pretty fancy… like medieval leather armor, or maybe more like the fantasy version of it
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And what are we supposed to find among all these geese?
The one that lays the golden eggs.
Paté?
I dunno… But I’ll take a gander at it.
🙄
lol.. that’s actually pretty good
Foie Gras
The duck?
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Same.
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“Incoming!”
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I think I’m glad that I can’t hear what she’s saying!
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“Boiler room, Glazier Stove Company.” Chelsea, Michigan, ca 1901.
Dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
Just imagine the heat and coal dust in that room, and the back breaking labor of the job.
Either they keep it very tidy, or they cleaned it up for the picture, but take a look at his clothes.
They have to keep the place tidy – otherwise the coal dust may explode when in the air.
Coal heaps would be sprayed with water to keep the dust down. My father used to have to do it when he was on the footplate of steam locomotives because the draft of the loco moving through the air would bring the coal dust forward into the cab.
I had an older friend, years ago, who’d worked around both ship and train boilers most of his life… first in the navy, very young in WWII, then for the railroad till retirement.
He said it was incredibly hot, dirty dusty work. That’s kind of what I was going off of… And the clothes on the fellow on the picture.
He never lost that adjustment to working in the heat… He was always cold, except in hot weather… wearing a jacket on beautiful spring days… and he hated drafts.
Hot dirty work, yes, but they would try to keep the dust down mainly for the reason Tigressy says.
I have a cousin who started work in kitchens after leaving school, he was the same with the heat. I was the opposite, I’d be in a T-shirt in -5c weather. Used to be fun when we’d meet up, he’d be complaining it was cold in 20c weather, and I’d be complaining it was too damn hot!
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Moses’ still got it!
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Liverpool, England….
Wayville Close, Mossley Hill.
Early 1940s, after the blitz and how it looks, rebuilt, in 2022.
I didn’t know Liverpool got hit!
That’s what it said in the commentary I found under the picture… That most people didn’t seem to know.
A lot of the history about the second global disagreement tends to focus on London, most people these days can be forgiven for thinking that it was not country wide. Where I live there is little industry, but there was a lot of airfields (Both RAF and USAF) due to it being flat farmland. There was a lot of bombing even in this rural area because of it.
As an important harbor…
Major port, and close to industrial areas.
,.,.
Coles’ Notes — the early years…
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Floozies …God Bless ’em.
A naighty French postcard, of a vintage that a WWI doughboy might bring home, hidden in his pack.
I discovered that the P.C in a circle is the logo for Papeteries d Levallois-Clichy, which published a variety of real photo postcards, including not only pretty models, some nude, but also scenic views, and holiday cards, well into the 1920s.
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According to Google Lens:
The image shows the Golden Bridge (Cầu Vàng), a stunning pedestrian walkway located in the Ba Na Hills resort near Da Nang, Vietnam.
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Definitely not your peasant class.
French high fashion, about 1919 or 1920. The lighter colored dress is daringly short, but that length will soon be popular.
The prints are showing the influence of Eastern European peasant design, interpreted by Art Deco…
It was a craze through the early 20th century, after the Russian revolution, and the Art Deco staging of the smash hit play, Sheherazade. Then, too, there came photos from battles on the Eastern front.
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She looks like a more modern version of Betty Rubble.
Forget the baby bottle. How is that phone ringing if there’s no cord attached?
It’s a cordless?
Not with a dial.
After all this time you’re starting to take me seriously???
Yes! I guessed the same, even
Weird perspective… Is that bread on top of the dryer or on the floor?
I understand a mess…
But this is a disaster.
Food purposely spread out all over the floor, interspersed with all kinds of soap and cleaners? The baby’s teething rattles next to the spilled kibble?
Do not cry. Do not give the baby a bottle of dish soap.
I think the real bottle
Nah…. That one is round, and has a pink, knurled cap.
The one
Too bad the cap with the nipple is hidden by the broom.
You can see the blue cap, just not the white nipple.
Or this comment, I imagine….
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From yesterday.
A belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! !
Thank you Alexi!
And it’s not really belated. We get the Friday strip at dinnertime Thursday, but it doesn’t mean Thursday is over.
The reality is that I’m still up at midnight on my actual birthday, posting on tomorrow’s page…. And so are you.
Mary Hopkin is now 75.
One of my all-time, absolute favorite movies.
A mark a yen a buck a pound
That is to say:
a mark a yen a buck or a pound,
Money makes the world go around!
Pacific Wren surfing on a leaf.
I think that would be a Winter Wren over here…
I want to thank everybody for all the birthday greetings yesterday!
Very kind of you all.
You’re welcome.
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Dave Stamey has a pretty good outlook on it.
I wish I’d known there was a warranty…
I’d have taken some parts back for repair or replacement before it ran out!
Yes, always have spares handy