31 Tuesday Mar 2015
Tags
allegorical figure, beard, Dundee, moustache, Persian slippers, Queen Victoria, sculpture, slippers, statue, Statue of Queen Victoria, turban, Victorian., Victoriana
Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Photo Archive.
22 Sunday Mar 2015
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beard, Beard Garden, beer garden, black and white, cocktail bar, cocktails, Food and Drink, moustache, pipe, pipe smoking, Sheffield, smoking, Street Art, The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby Sheffield
Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Out and About., Yorkshire.
08 Sunday Feb 2015
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Beverley, Beverley Minster, face, Hull, Hull City of Culture 2017, interactive displays, knight, moustache, Museum Quarter Hull, Museums, please, stone, stone carving, stone work, touch
Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Hull and Hullness, Photo Archive.
19 Wednesday Nov 2014
Posted in Hull and Hullness
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commuting, Hull, Hull City of Culture 2017, moustache, Paragon Interchange Hull, Public Transport, Train stations, Trains.
What were the chances?
Another commute to Beverley from Hull and another train with a moustache waiting for me on Platform 7. I might have mistaken it for the first train with a moustache [see: A Train With a Moustache, Paragon Interchange, Hull, 08/11/14], but then I remembered that I’d written down the number of the first train in my diary, so I could know for sure. This is moustache train 158792 (or should that be moustache train 57795? I didn’t think to look up what numbers railway enthusiasts actually record!) were as the first moustache train had 158795 written on the front. Perhaps trains with moustaches are quite common place after all?
08 Saturday Nov 2014
Posted in Hull and Hullness
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commuting, Hull, Hull City of Culture 2017, moustache, Paragon Interchange Hull, Public Transport, Train stations, Trains.
Charming.
The title says it all really, it’s a train with a moustache, the highlight of my commute to Beverly this morning. Why? I have got no idea why! I am not sure what numbers railway enthusiasts record in their notebooks, but I did notice and record that the moustache train had the number 57795 painted on the side of it in white and the number 158795 painted on the front in black, so look out for it!
27 Wednesday Aug 2014
Posted in Out and About., Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion.
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Blackwell's Bookshop Bristol, Book shops, Books, Box, Bristol, Cardboard box, Herge's Adventures of Tintin, moustache, Snowy, The Cardboard Box Book, Tintin, window shopping.
“Hello! I’m a box”
The Cardboard Box Book” by Roger Priddy, looks like a great book; I even contemplated buying it for my nephew, but I was concerned that he’d fill my sister’s relatively small house with boxes from floor to ceiling with boxes! I spotted this moustachioed and bespectacled box in the window of Blackwell’s Bookshop on Park Street, Bristol. Also note the kennel for Tintin’s dog Snowy, of “Herge’s Adventures of Tintin” fame, on the right of the photograph.
27 Sunday Jul 2014
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bow ties, Ephemera, F G Paget, High Road Ilford, Ilford, moustache, old photographs, studio portrait.
Exactly how this photograph made its way up to Lincolnshire from Ilford we will probably never know, but on the reverse is written “Alf & Billie, 1920”, so presumably it was either delivered to them by hand or in a letter that the photograph has long since been parted from.
The photographer, “F. G. Paget, 195 High Road, Ilford“, must have had quite a substantial studio, because that is a very impressive backdrop behind this charming couple. I think Mr. Paget must have taken on a lot of wedding related commissions, because the couple’s wedding rings are clearly on display and the composition of the photograph reminds me of the signing of the register photographs common to most modern wedding albums (either that or the position of the hands is a complete coincidence).
Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Ephemera.
20 Sunday Jul 2014
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football., Grimsby, Grimsby Town FC, moustache, National Fishing Heritage Centre, Sporting History, The Mariners
The Mariner.
I don’t remember the National Fishing Heritage Centre having a permanent Grimsby Town Football Club display, so this must have been part of a temporary exhibition I went to see. I don’t know much about the club’s history, but these early players lack the vertical black and white stripes that characterise the more modern team shirts. These early players also wear the arms of Great Grimsby as their team emblem (the more modern emblems features a complicated design incorporating vertical black and white stripes, a fishing trawler and three fish).
Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Photo Archive.
31 Saturday May 2014
I spotted this in Leeds back in January and I was so taken aback by it I didn’t even think to making a note of which shop this striking window display belonged to (but I have a feeling it was on Great George Street).
Also, note the moustache…
Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Uncategorized, Yorkshire.
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