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Forum: Idle Banter 21-10-18, 04:34 PM |
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This day in 1805 the English Navy defeated the combined French and Spanish Navies at the Battle of Trafalgar. The news of the victory was conveyed to Falmouth aboard HMS Pickle and from there by a... |
Forum: Idle Banter 14-04-18, 08:40 AM |
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Forum: Idle Banter 08-04-18, 07:47 PM |
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8th April 1968 Barbara Jane Harrison, aged 22, was a flight attendant on Flight 712 to Sydney, Australia from Heathrow. Within a minute from takeoff number 2 engine on the Boeing 707 caught fire and... |
Forum: Idle Banter 14-08-17, 09:33 AM |
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50 years ago, H M Gov banned offshore pirate radio.Have somewhere a photo of Radio 270 which sailed out of Scarborough but it's lost somewhere in the puny archive of fame! This action led to the... |
Forum: Idle Banter 29-04-17, 07:44 PM |
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29 April 1942 the Germans inflicted their Baedeker Raid on York. Bar Convent was severely damaged, but not as much as Sir Ralph Wedgwood: |
Forum: Idle Banter 26-08-16, 08:49 AM |
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2500 years ago a slave call girl from Sardinia named Gedophamee (pronounced Get-offa'-me) was attending a great athletic festival in Greece. This festival had no name. In those days the... |
Forum: Idle Banter 30-07-16, 08:30 AM |
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Surprised nobody has yet mentioned a certain game of football that took place 50 years ago . . |
Forum: Idle Banter 04-05-16, 08:22 AM |
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Forum: Idle Banter 05-03-16, 10:53 AM |
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This day in 1936: At 16.35, first flight of K5054, prototype Spitfire http://i582.photobucket.com/albums/ss267/punyXpress/070508c1-0c19-4521-9175-3ed91a627284.jpg... |
Forum: Idle Banter 29-01-16, 10:56 PM |
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Forum: Idle Banter 22-12-15, 05:03 PM |
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Forum: Idle Banter 26-10-15, 10:23 AM |
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Forum: Idle Banter 09-08-15, 10:17 AM |
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Seventy years ago today, the second A-bomb was dropped, this time on Nagasaki. Surprised these earth moving ( in more ways than one ) events have not yet been mentioned. They, probably more than any... |
Forum: Idle Banter 16-12-14, 09:54 PM |
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One hundred years ago today, the German Navy bombarded Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool. Contrary to rumour, I wasn't there, neither did I take the picture.The wife of the owner of this shop in... |
Forum: Idle Banter 04-04-14, 08:41 AM |
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Lots of facts really - a veritable history lesson: Where did "P1$$ Poor" come from? Interesting history. They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot. And... |
Forum: Idle Banter 20-01-14, 11:10 AM |
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. . . bit like global warming / climate change or whatever it's called today? |
Forum: Idle Banter 04-10-13, 01:38 PM |
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Forum: Idle Banter 20-09-13, 12:02 PM |
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Last flight of VC10 today, in fact landing in just over an hour: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-24165590 :( |
Forum: Idle Banter 08-09-13, 10:51 AM |
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Today in 1963 Jim Clark won the Formula One World Championship, appropriately at Monza. |
Forum: Idle Banter 28-08-13, 09:07 AM |
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Forum: Idle Banter 15-08-13, 03:28 PM |
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Forum: Idle Banter 12-08-13, 12:16 PM |
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Forum: Idle Banter 08-05-13, 09:59 PM |
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You're welcome! I have the advantage of being older than most of you so wont have to put up with so much. ;) |
Forum: Idle Banter 01-05-13, 10:14 AM |
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Forum: Idle Banter 19-04-13, 07:13 PM |
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Dickie Bird 80 today - former footballer, cricketer & cricket umpire. Who made the cake? |
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