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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 8:55 pm
by Alan R
Hi guys----------- have been sent this from a fellow biker..........You may have to scroll down a bit to read the titles, then clik on your pointer to reveal the same place to-day..... SCALY, watch out for a genuine, in-service despatch rider's bike...................................................
http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/201 ... l?ww2-dday
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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 9:24 pm
by Scalyback
That was really something and thank you for posting Alan.
I also marvelled at the way the pictures faded in and out as you clicked on them.
Spotted the bike by the church. YAY!
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:02 am
by Alan R
Quite eerie really---- it's as if yesterdays people have re-appeared........How many of those children would remember those particular moments ?............ My favourite is the second one in Moreton....The pub still has that lamp bracket on the wall, but the lamp is now on top......The camera positions must have been painstakingly researched because they are EXACTLY in the same place............
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:42 am
by Chris Tindal
Wow, that's pretty amazing.
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 12:52 pm
by Scalyback
Looking at Morton closely and that clock tower, it seems something(the bell maybe) is missing now!.
I guess it was a bell there, but the modern picture has more 'see through' than the old.
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:56 pm
by Les
It looks like the Royal Marine Commandos invented the mini moto