“The Beard Garden”, “The Great Gatsby”, 73-75 Division Street, Sheffield, 19/03/15.

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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

Tony Benn’s Pipe, St. James Barton Roundabout, Bristol, 21/08/14.

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Bristol, Fear, Hope, pipe smoking, Pipes, Public Transport, Quotes, Tony Benn

Close up.

Apologies for the poor quality of this photograph, but I was taking it from the top deck of a double decker bus, which was driving around a roundabout at the time, so I feel fortunate to have managed to photograph it at all! 

The Tony Benn quote reads: “Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself”. 

How true. 

The view from my seat.

 

A War Household or A Photograph of Photographs 17/05/14.

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1940s House, British Army, British History, Ephemera, interior design, Military History, old photographs, Photography, pipe smoking, RAF, Royal Marines, Second World War, studio portrait.

A photograph incorporating twelve individual portraits, in a range of styles and frames, with enough space left for two vases of flowers and some interesting period features; how could I resist?
At some point the photograph has been cropped, cutting off some writing that was on the back; presumably a description of what we’re looking at [curses]. We have been left with the date however; July 1945.
Whoever took this photograph must have had a very stressful Second World War with the welfare of what looks like five soldiers, three airmen and a Royal Marine on their mind for the duration! I wonder how they’re all related?
Note the soldier who is so addicted to his pipe that he wont take it out of his mouth to have his photograph taken!
For those interested in interior design, note the textured wall paper, the rather bulky lock on the door, the bannister rail and the bakelite light switch.