Niall Devitt

This is an advertisement for hair curlers. The text says the curlers use light compression to produce curls in ten minutes. A box of four can be purchased from a dealer for sixpence or free for seven stamps. There is a picture of a woman with her hair curled. Hinde's Hair Curlers LADIES WHO VALUE THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF THE HAIR WILL USE PATENTEES. USED OF WITHOUT HINDES' BRUSHES. HEAT. PATENTED THROUGHOUT EUROPE. THESE little instruments, composed entirely of smooth bright metal, will, simply by light compression, produce the fashionable wavy curls within the space of ten minutes. Mrs. Langtry writes : “ I find them invaluable.” SIXPENCE THE BOX OF FOUR, obtainable of all Fancy Dealers in the three Queendoms, or SAMPLE BOX CAN BE HAD POST FREE for SEVEN STAMPS of the Manufacturers. See that the words "Hinde's Patent" are on the box, as imitations are offered which are absolutely useless, and lead to disappointment. HINDES' Patent Curlers wave or curl without heat in ten minutes. Sixpence the box, of all dealers everywhere; or free for Seven Stamps. HINDES, Ltd. (London), Metropolitan Works, BIRMINGHAM. “I keep Hindes' Hair Curlers on my toilet table, and when I arise roll three or four in my hair. When taken out after my ablutions, my coiffure has the desired ondulations."-Extract from the HON. MRS. CLAXTON'S letter.

Dec 1890: Hair Curlers ad from Hindes

(+Hindes' Brushes)

«Hinde's Hair Curlers»

Escape from New York (1981) Directed by John Carpenter.

West German #referee Albert Dusch, a FIFA referee in the 50s and early 60s @refbooks.bsky.social

cooper's landing family restaurant, independence, oregon, 1987

cooper's landing family restaurant, independence, oregon, 1987

NEW EPISODE - What was #ColdWar #BritishArmy #Conscription really like?

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#nationalservice #complusory #militaryservice

Hearing aid kit including box, main unit, holder, ear pieces, instruction book, etc.

Two hearing aid batteries in red and black packaging of the Zenith brand.

Zenith Radionic Hearing Aid and Batteries (1943)
Images: National Museum of American History

The grave of the woolstapler, William Marsland in Wakefield Cemetery who died 30th September 1880. Born around 1794 in Ardsley, Wakefield he was a hosier on Kirkgate in 1841. In 1851 he was a hosier worsted yarn manufacturer employing /1
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Field of Dreams (1989)
Director: Phil Alden Robinson

Alien (1979) Directed by Ridley Scott stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright and Harry Dean Stanton.

Top 10 best-looking German aircraft Supergeile deutsche Flugzeuge

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King of New York (1990)
Director: Abel Ferrara

The Conversation (1974) Written, produced, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola starring Gene Hackman with John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, and Harrison Ford in supporting roles.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Directed by Don Siegel.

Welcome to the priory church of St. George in Dunster on a very grey wintry day. C15 but with echoes of earlier C12 and C13 buildings. Cruciform with south porch. Mouse heard tell of amazing things inside #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset

Barbarella (1968) Directed by Roger Vadim starring Jane Fonda with John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg and David Hemmings.

Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa's, Throne of Blood (1957).

Elaborately battlemented single stage porch, with diagonal buttresses. Tomorrow we PIFAP. You will not be disappointed #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset

Prolific "old timey" artist Grandma Moses (1860-1961) captured folk life in America in more than a thousand paintings during her life. This fabric was part of the Riverdale Fabrics collection that adapted her paintings onto cloth #folkart #folkartist

The #referee is António Garrido (Portugal).

Last Man Standing (1996)
Director: Walter Hill

Do your dreams change as you age? A young child's dreams and an elderly hospice patient's dreams can be very different. What has research found about how our dreams change over time?

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“Verticalità”: New York, 1955, by Fabrizio La Torre.

The original art by Giles for one of his many, and uniformly splendid, charity Christmas cards for the UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

Outside The Big Tent, by George Bellows, 1912.

A (clearly wonderful) detail of Dorothy Rolph’s 1932 photo of New York, “Under The “El”.

Beginning in 1964, the Sixties saw three rather thoroughly splendid Dalek Books published for the Christmas Annual market. Because nothing says “X-Mas” so much as Daleks, bless their Dalekanium armour.

"THE DALEKS by TERRY NATION as featured in the BBC TV series "DR. WHO"" ("TV21" issue 46 (dated 04/12/65)). #DoctorWho

Michael Hordern dressed in white tasseled nightcap and brown gown, leaning out of a window.

Experienced ghost botherer Michael Hordern as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1977)

I’m noticing a big differentiation in Scrooges is whether they have nightcaps or not. Personally I like my Scrooges capped, and this one’s a fine example.

You there boy! What day is this?

It’s 5th December.