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A collection of Printer’s compositor equipment used by the users father, who worked for the same company for 52 years.

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Not sure if I posted this one before. My Dad’s compositors equipment. Helpfully he labelled a lot of it up. My Dad worked for the same firm for 52 years.

@hushkit.bsky.social Dublin. Prob early 70s

@hushkit.bsky.social Dad’s shot. Possibly Eire. Maybe here…

Tonight I fired up a 60s Halina Viewer from my wife’s side and used it for a box of Dad’s slides. Old skool magic.

Yes. I will do a scan for family names but would’ve thought I would know of this if “us”. In the 90s we received some items from an estate where the spouse or parent was RFC. I know the name so will check that too.

Those wooden huts..🤣 Our leaders regularly let us play crab football on the always terribly dusty floor. We were always kicking out the tube lights smashing them across the floor.

Paw 4 damager?

Out of one of Dad’s books. He never mentioned any WW1 family history from his side. Feels original not repro. @sommecourt.bsky.social

I think you’ll find it’s Alison Limerick. 😉

I’d love to see a count. Our small town of 10,000 has three replica barbers. Two largely empty. There were already at least four local barbers. I passed a corner shop in the city on way home emitting enough light for the football stadium. Next door to a similar “barbers” of course. 🤣

Got mine! Saving it for Christmas! Thank you! ✍️🎨

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Quite a few IWM entries for that battle hey? One of the films has an M10. Apparently shot day before.

65th ATR, RA.

Letter from the Typographical Association welcoming Dad to the guild. Certificated 12 Feb 1951. He was 17. @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social

1950s Leaflet promoting a factory music system to help boost productivity. Found in my father’s collection of printing industry ephemera.

Inside a copy of “The British Printer” is a leaflet extolling the virtues of a factory music system!

A slightly jaded but intact copy of the 1888 British Printer’s gazette. Volume 1, issue 2.

@loreandordure.com @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social @typejunky.bsky.social wife is going to kill me but I’ve found another box of my Dad’s printing ephemera!!

Commando comic entitled “Flying Destroyer” with a Molins gun equipped Beaufighter on the cover. This may not be historically accurate. It’s a comic.

My stupid idea to build a Commando Comic wall piece just based on editions featuring the Beaufighter has, predictably, resulted in me trying to find them all. So far I’ve identified 21 comics.

Oddly absolutely none of them show a Banff or North Coates Strike Wing aircraft with the stripes.

Arnhem image in the IWM I’d not seen before.

Thanks 🙂. I was trying to get a good matching image off the D-Day film but lots of people coming through.

M4 Sherman tank named “Willie Pusher II” on display in the Imperial War Museum London.

One for @robertglennie.bsky.social - I enjoyed listening to parents teaching their kids absolute nonsense today. Apparently WW2 was the first time troops encountered tanks. “Imagine seeing that for the first time”. So close..

Likewise 🙂

With the caveat Ukrainian forces withdraw to the west of Paris probably.

“Binder II” is the aircraft name?

Time for the chairman to move on I think.

One of the more distinctive pillboxes out near Thorney. Sits on the Cat’s Water ditch, looking down Bukehorn Road. #WW2

One of the best aviation videos and music choices ever 👍

I interviewed an old neighbour about his FAA service and he told me his step Dad was killed in this attack. MIA. Merchant Navy. SS Fort Athabaska.

I’ve been buying Commando comics with Beaufighters. I was happy I’d found nine. Nice number for framing.
Damn it I think this is ten…

Mother-in-law born 1958, has deformed feet due to polio. She’ll still forward the same FB nonsense though due to her overdosing on the Daily Mail.

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