Recent content by scarby

It absolutely was not. These people should have been nowhere near a classroom. They may have been feared but they did not control public behaviour. Those they meted out violence on were much more likely to then take it out on others. Society in this time was far more violent than today. In...

Undoubtedly, and a huge amount of it has been vastly reduced. These include: - smoking: was once commonplace, and was accepted in the past, but it is anti-social. - drunkeness: still exists as a problem but was without much more commonplace in public in past times, and of course drunkeness...

His career first-class batting average is just 31.62 in 151 matches, so yes, it has fallen this season but not by a great deal. What he has failed to do this year is cash in at all, with no tons; his ability to go big when it was his day has been his trademark.

My main issue with sections of the news media is when they present untruths, catastophise and set the agenda without any comeback for the damage they do. A recent example being earlier in the year, where news outlets repeatedly pushed that there was an aviation fuel crisis and that passengers...

The Clouded Yellow (1950) offers a smörgåsbord of rail locations including Newcastle Central station, Holborn underground station, the Liverpool Overhead Railway and a dockyard railway in Liverpool, plus lots of buses, trams and trolleybuses. The rail-related shots are brief but overall it's a...

Tread Softly Stranger (1958), filmed mostly in Rotherham, features short scenes early on at Parkgate and Rawmarsh station. Later there are quite a few short shots of a working loco at Parkgate Iron and Steel Company. The film is very evocative of the time and features Diana Dors at her stunning...

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Sorry I don’t fully understand this, perhaps you can clarify? As others have noted, if he is a British citizen and passport holder, why would they care? I have both British and Swedish passports, so I don’t of course use EES, so presumably every time I use the e-gate coming into the UK the...

Is it really "quite a few steps back" for "English cricket"? It seems to me that all these "incidents" around the England team have been relatively minor, if really anything at all. But the media and social media is pouncing on anything. On the other hand during this century we have had a...

This is how I feel but from an earlier era. I was born in the 1960s but there is something about the 1950s that strikes a chord. Like you, I most certainly wouldn't say it was better. It wasn't. But I would still love to just be able to have a day in the 1950s. Just one day. Realistically, I...

Currently Saltsjöbanan is especially isolated due to major rebuilding work at Slussen. Cut back to Henriksdal in 2016 with a short connecting bus, it has now been further truncated to Saltsjö-Jarla due to works in the Nacka area. I travelled on it yesterday and what a pleasure - I have never...

It isn't hard at all, but doing that doesn't mean that one should then side with a party that wants to scrap plans for sustainable living - in other words, progress - and fielded a candidate who called Putin and Jimmy Savile "working class heroes" and said the latter was a "role model of mine"...

When I watch films from the 1940s and 1950s I am fascinated to see the actors in close-up - their eyes darting around and their mouth opening and closing; it is then as if they are alive in front of me. I also look at the website Reelstreets, which is an incredible resource of film scenes in...

Tiger in the Smoke (1957) opens with some shots at Fenchurch Street, including a brief glimpse of now-preserved 80136.

Satisfying for who?