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YoungManGoneWest: September 2014
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Archaeology : Architecture : Art : Cold War : Curiosities : Design : Eccentricities : Ekco : Engineering : Industrial Heritage : Military : Petroliana : Photography : Shed Wonders : Transporter Bridges : Vintage Technology. Kuwait - Kuwait Tower. The second tower is 482 feet high, and stores another million gallons of water. The third, 371 feet high, carries a number of lights to illuminate the two larger towers and their spheres, covered with 55,000 steel discs in eight different colours. The to...There...
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YoungManGoneWest: January 2015
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Archaeology : Architecture : Art : Cold War : Curiosities : Design : Eccentricities : Ekco : Engineering : Industrial Heritage : Military : Petroliana : Photography : Shed Wonders : Transporter Bridges : Vintage Technology. Newport - Transporter Bridge. And leaves the crossed waterway unobstructed. As such, these bridges can be better thought of as aerial ferries. The first working example, Puente Vizcaya. Grade I-listed in 1982, the bridge was closed in 1985 due to safety concerns. It cost £98,...In Ger...
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YoungManGoneWest: April 2015
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Archaeology : Architecture : Art : Cold War : Curiosities : Design : Eccentricities : Ekco : Engineering : Industrial Heritage : Military : Petroliana : Photography : Shed Wonders : Transporter Bridges : Vintage Technology. Loopwheels - Reinventing the Wheel. The springs are manufactured by KG Archery. Naturally, those of rear Loopwheels have a greater spring rate than those of front ones. The wheels can't unfortunately be fitted to a Brompton - there isn't enough room for the travel between the ...Loopw...
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YoungManGoneWest: February 2015
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Archaeology : Architecture : Art : Cold War : Curiosities : Design : Eccentricities : Ekco : Engineering : Industrial Heritage : Military : Petroliana : Photography : Shed Wonders : Transporter Bridges : Vintage Technology. An exhibition of work by Nobuyoshi Araki, the prolific Japanese photographer famous for his images of kinbaku, at Foam, the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. Hill Close Gardens, Warwick. The gardens fell into disuse in the early twentieth century, and the local council progressively bought ...
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YoungManGoneWest: July 2014
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Archaeology : Architecture : Art : Cold War : Curiosities : Design : Eccentricities : Ekco : Engineering : Industrial Heritage : Military : Petroliana : Photography : Shed Wonders : Transporter Bridges : Vintage Technology. Isle of Man - Douglas Head. Clearly visible is the Douglas Head Lighthouse, built in 1857 by David and Thomas Stevenson, and rebuilt in 1892. The tower is 66 feet tall, and provides a light at an elevation of 105 feet. The light, one of five on the island, was automated in 1986. Means...
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YoungManGoneWest: Wells Coated Ekco
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Archaeology : Architecture : Art : Cold War : Curiosities : Design : Eccentricities : Ekco : Engineering : Industrial Heritage : Military : Petroliana : Photography : Shed Wonders : Transporter Bridges : Vintage Technology. Four of Ekco's five round radios. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). He wonders frequently whether he is not without honour and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions bring varied, of course, with...
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YoungManGoneWest: Scarlett Chain Home, Isle of Man
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Archaeology : Architecture : Art : Cold War : Curiosities : Design : Eccentricities : Ekco : Engineering : Industrial Heritage : Military : Petroliana : Photography : Shed Wonders : Transporter Bridges : Vintage Technology. Scarlett Chain Home, Isle of Man. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). He wonders frequently whether he is not without honour and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions bring varied, of course, with...
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YoungManGoneWest: August 2014
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Archaeology : Architecture : Art : Cold War : Curiosities : Design : Eccentricities : Ekco : Engineering : Industrial Heritage : Military : Petroliana : Photography : Shed Wonders : Transporter Bridges : Vintage Technology. Wembley Stadium, Nil. He wonders frequently whether he is not without honour and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions bring varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exce...
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YoungManGoneWest: July 2015
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Archaeology : Architecture : Art : Cold War : Curiosities : Design : Eccentricities : Ekco : Engineering : Industrial Heritage : Military : Petroliana : Photography : Shed Wonders : Transporter Bridges : Vintage Technology. Those Blue Remembered Hills. To be found in Craven Arms, South Shropshire, the Land of Lost Content showcases, over three packed storeys, the popular culture collection of Stella and David Mitchell. He wonders frequently whether he is not without honour and slightly mad, a shameful an...
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YoungManGoneWest: Zwolle - Foundation Museum
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Archaeology : Architecture : Art : Cold War : Curiosities : Design : Eccentricities : Ekco : Engineering : Industrial Heritage : Military : Petroliana : Photography : Shed Wonders : Transporter Bridges : Vintage Technology. Zwolle - Foundation Museum. The building that now houses the fine art collection of the Museum de Fundatie - the Museum Foundation - has had a number of lives. It started as a courthouse, built between 1838 and 1841 by Eduard Louis de Coninck, of The Hague. He wonders frequently wheth...
