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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Tom Waits For No One » 01 Feb 2018, 08:37

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I can't remember which of Sarah's friends these belonged to, but, golly, they were yar



My Dad was a merchant seaman and he brought one of these home from one of his voyages to the Far East.
A wonderful engraved silver piece, covered in Chinese (?) writing and a portrayal of someone running by a stream. If I can find a pic I'll send one to you.
It was always referred to as Dad's Opium Pipe which was a touch ironic as he was one of the most drug opposed people I've ever know.
My sister has dibs on it when Mam goes.
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 01 Feb 2018, 19:50

In part one, the last of the summer visit to West Wales, and a trip to Kent. It's a bozo fest

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Phil the Villain

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Bombed

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Visiting Vicky

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Time Out

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One Last Look

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Mast
The transmitter at Alexandra Palace, North London

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Relaxed
A visit to Canterbury to see Celia ended with a trip out to Adi's house in Littlebourne.

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The Lad Himself

Tomorrow, back to London, and lots of pics of me
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 01 Feb 2018, 19:51

Part Two

is out and about in London in the late 1980s

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Hammersmith Bridge

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Riotous Assembly

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Geese

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Upriver
Low tide on the Thames near Fulham

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Blue Radiant
Mathematical tiles on a 1930s office block in Central London - Upper St Martin's Lane, somewhere round there

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Capital Triumph
Cranes dwarf Westminster Abbey and Palace

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Block Party
From the tower of Westminster Cathedral

more tomorrow
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 02 Feb 2018, 18:05

Late 80s in part one, early 80s in part two

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Shot Silk

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Champ
Darkie had won the London Dogbee championships the year before. She belonged to a guy who ran a stall in the Portobello Road next to a mate of mine.
Sometimes she let me throw for her

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On the Heath

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In the Ferns

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Faces

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Theme and Variations
My favourite selfie, not least because it took a lot of working out and came out better than I could have hoped

Tomorrow, something a little less hubristic
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Postby Rayge » 02 Feb 2018, 18:07

Part Two
It's the Early ’80s and the druggy Fools are out in force

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Shambles
An afternoon smoke in the Mansions

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Matters Arising

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Iconic

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Down the Hatch
That's a blotter of acid on the tip of my tongue; pic by Jim Boone

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Partner in Crime
The man himself

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Soulful/Smug Selfies

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby clive gash » 02 Feb 2018, 20:51

Fantastic!
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...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 03 Feb 2018, 19:19

The old Switcheroo today: Part one is the continuation of the early 1980s/possibly earlier section, Part Two is later in the decade

So, dog knows when, but all in the Mansions

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Star Turn

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Sidelight
All together now, "White eyes, shining like, um, headlamps?..."

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Crystals

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Red Light Disjunct

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Sunglasses After Dark

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Memories of the Matterhorn

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Still Life with Stegosaurus

Tomorrow, further shenanigans in London and Brighton
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 03 Feb 2018, 19:21

Part Two
More like the mid-80s at the moment, rather than late. I'm going for 85 or 86

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Morning Jungle
The view from my bed in the Mansions

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Tootsie
Named for having just one white toe amid the general blackness, she soon belied the name by acquiring this fetching milky muzzle

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Summer in the Suburbs
Golders Hill

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Switchback
Always meant to be seen together, or in quick sequence as slides

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Parklife!
Which park, which people, haven't a clue really, which serves as a metaphor for the whole endeavour :D

Tomorrow, and indeed a couple of days after, a trip to Dawlish to stay with Jim Boone at his mother's house
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 04 Feb 2018, 19:19

Right, let's get this done. Same pattern as yesterday, content as promised.

Part the first

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Pontification
Shaky at the Mansions

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Jet Spoor

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Broken Doll
Brighton

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Pink Moon

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For the Turnstiles
Dollis Hill Lido

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Hobbit

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Wrong
Mike and Katrina at the Mansions
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 04 Feb 2018, 19:21

Part Two
Is briefly on holiday in Dawlish in the mid-1980s

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Fishing

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Late Afternoon Shaft

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Offers

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Evening

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Goblet
The pulpit at Kenton Church

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Devon Colours
Also Kenton

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Postby Rayge » 05 Feb 2018, 20:50

Part One begins in London but soon goes up to That Yorkshire, around 1981 or so

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Coolie Hat

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Covered Market Cover
Leeds

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Kate
Kate was my line boss in the ad agency I worked in 1976-79. She was headhunted by Asda and went to their HQ in Leeds. This is her flat near Roundhay Park.

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Flame On
After visiting Kate, I went across Leeds to hook up with my old uni friend Frankie, and her husband Paul, who were staying at her parents' house not far
from Elland Road. Frankie had been hennaing her hair for a while even then, although it was not yet the magnificent shade of orange she currently sports

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New Tricks for the Old Goat
Paul -perhaps the most urban man I ever met - gambols in the rocks somewhere in Yorkshire limestone country - Malham Tarn, perhaps

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Up Top

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Coming Down
Frankie Demonstrating excellent bum-surfing technique
Tomorrow in Part one the international playboy visits Dollis Hill, Taunton and Penrhyncoch
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 05 Feb 2018, 20:51

Part Two
Still on holiday in Dawlish and hinterland some time a bit later in the 1980s

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Sea View

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Estuary
Of the Exe. From Mamhead

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Oz

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Just Visiting
Ashcombe Church (I think)

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Only Sleeping

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Jurassic Coast
Lyme Bay curves away

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Another Way to be Green

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Looking Down on the Town

Tomorrow, the end of the Dawlish trip
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 06 Feb 2018, 19:04

Starting today with the earlier archive material, as things get horny at the beginning of the Eighties

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Shakygate
Taunton. Former junkie beatnik leftie hooligan bus conductor just started work as a teacher at a private school in Somerset. But he still played the sax in a rock & roll band, hence...

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Shaky's Horn

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Bell

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Keys

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Brand

And a rare pair of portraits of the Operation Mindfuck acid freestyle team enjoying a pause for refreshment of the fruity kind
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Eyes Like Roadmaps
Seriously, more veins than whites there
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There's Always One

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Her Again
In case you were wondering, that's a plastic toy hard hat she's wearing, and the granular look to her skin is to do with my forcing the picture a bit

Tomorrow in Part 1, more landscapes and bozos
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Postby Rayge » 06 Feb 2018, 19:28

in an extended PART TWO I'm still trucking around Dawlish, Devon, in the mid-1980s

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An Evening on the Lawn

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The South End

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Look Out
As that's me in the picture, I'm guessing Jim took this

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Nephew
Jim's, that is

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In the Pink

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Layers

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Low Tide at Coryton Cove

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Sparkle

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Goodbye to All That

Tomorrow - gaspo! - part two hurtles back into the really quite recent with last month, and the same old stuff
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Postby Rayge » 07 Feb 2018, 20:32

from the archives, a selection of bozos from around 1980 or so. But first...

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Leftover Rarebits
Two bits of 1981 West Walian scenery out of place

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The Cat Who Got the Cream

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Draw

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Crocodilian Epaulettes

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Butter Wouldn't Melt
Frankie's baby brother Andrew, who died three years or so ago, aged 55, leaving two children under 6

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Wide Boy
Chrissy was from Leighton Buzzard

More of this vintage tomorrow.
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Postby Rayge » 07 Feb 2018, 20:33

Part Two

And suddenly it's 2018, and as the year begins we're still struggling with the viruses that laid us low over Xmas.
Anyways...

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Winter Wonderland

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Frosty

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Sunny Spell

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Oops
Fallen boughs across the permissive path

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Coffee Bar Kids
Buggies not vespas

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Brackets

More sodden shots from January tomorrow
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Postby Rayge » 08 Feb 2018, 20:39

Part one today is in and out and round and about in London in the very early 1980s

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Nightlife – the Red Light District

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Bamboo and Spiderlings

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High Tide

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Pinnacles

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Old and Faithful Servants

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This Desk Says Fuck Off

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Nightlife- Tivoli or Dreamland?

Tomorrow, a bit of art and some uggoes. Maybe tomorrow, maybe not. Soon come though
And here's ...
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Postby Rayge » 08 Feb 2018, 20:40

Part Two
Still casting about for something interesting to picture in this most imprisoning of months

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Muck and Mossy Ruin
The damn dog stepped out of shot just before I took it

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Wrapped Up and Gifted

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Rain and Ruin
This is effectively the last of Two Tree Island, because both trees are down and the new owners of the field through which
the Creedy runs have wrapped electric fencing round it, denying access.

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Traventine and Lapis / All Things are Refined by Fire

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Burst

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A Bit of a Blow
Wild weather on the coast at Teignmouth

Tomorrow (maybe the day after), more brown seas, back-flying gulls and general inclemency in Teignmouth
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 09 Feb 2018, 19:50

Oh well, got half an hour, might as well post today after all – maybe have Saturday off...
Anyway, archive first, then more from January in Part Two

Early '80s and I'm playing the selfie art game at the Mansions – where all today's pics were taken. I really liked that shirt
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Magritte Stylee

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Munch Moment

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Profile Lighting

These next two are digital scans of transparencies of the projection on my living room wall of other transparencies, taken by someone else entirely
on a hilltop in Somerset, hence the, ahem, unusual quality.
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Sunset Sal

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Leaping Billy

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Back Room

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A Clock That Smiles is Right All the Time

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Postby Rayge » 09 Feb 2018, 19:52

Part Two
We're hardy folk, we Devon Dwellers, happy to be beaten about the head by onshore winds as we dodge the chocolate-coloured breakers.
Teignmouth and its delightful pier

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Incoming

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Groyned

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Northward

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Sea Horses

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A Succession of Sheds

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Support System

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The Pet Shop

I'll be back with more from the inexhaustible supply some time over e weekend. Probably. Depends on the NLD result
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