Thursday 29 February 2024

The Lightning Seeds - The Life of Riley (Official Video)

The Lightning Seeds - Sugar Coated Iceberg

The Dubliner , Playa de Las Americas. Tenerife 😃🍺 June 2023

Visualising Victoria: Nottingham's lost station

Thereza Bazar, of Dollar, music duo, BBC Breakfast 30-8-2023

Dollar - Oh L'Amour - TOTP 1988


Just seen this video, I seem to remember they songs, well this video has helped a lot, in how I remember, silly me.

Vakantie 1992 Benidorm

Sir Freddie Laker interview | Afternoon plus | 1980

Why Russians Actually LOVE The West 🇷🇺

Just notes, when I was picking up Evening Standards

 [17:13, 29/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 755424 & 755404 & 755333 platform 2 for 17:30 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street

[17:18, 29/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 745010 platform 4 arrived at 17:19 for 1P59 18:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street


Diss 18:16 , Stowmarket 18:28 Ipswich 18:40 Manningtree 18:50 Colchester 19:01 Chelmsford 19:20 Stratford 19:44, London Liverpool Street 19:53.


Just made some notes, when I was picking up some Evening Newspaper, for someone else, I aim to pick up three Evening Standards, from Monday to Friday, and may be another full sheet newspaper , and magazine.

I do not get many Racing Post newspapers, that has got quite rare.

Lovely Rita - The Beatles (LYRICS/LETRA) [Original]

Filipina Life in the UK || The Beatles Tour Part 2

BBC 2 Ecstasy use & Raves - Shelly's Laserdome (1993)

Los tomateros. Historias y vivencias

Benidorm 1982 Forty Minutes AVI

Iran Tehran Book Garden - One of the Biggest Bookstores in the World

Cross channel Ferries | Price Wars | Travelling by Ferry | Wish you were...

TENERIFE : TOUT SAVOIR avant de partir en vacances sur l'île

Paris to Madrid by train, First class 4K


London to Paris to Madrid, then Madrid to Alacante. 

SPANISH TGV IN FIRST CLASS AT 300KMH / RENFE AVE S-100 REVIEW / SPANISH ...



From Alacante, near Benidorm, to Madrid two hours twenty minutes

1990s Tenerife | Playa de las Américas | Spain in the 1990s | Wish you w...

Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Passenger

RENFE AVLO REVIEW: BARCELONA TO MADRID AT 300KMH FROM JUST €7 / SPANISH ...

The Beatles Story Museum 2024

Los tomateros, historias y vivencias II: las personas

RODAS DE LISBOA CARRIS

Wednesday 28 February 2024

Islas Canarias (1952-1954)

Gran Canaria (1946)

Eléctricos de Lisboa 1969 e 1989

Pinceladas de la evolución del turismo Cómo hemos cambiado España

An Unexpected Winner: The UK's Busiest Train Stations!

Trams of Blackpool - 1990

Lisboa de outros tempos 1900 - 1950

Tuesday 21:30 to 07:30 Thorpe Station, three hours overtime

 =======================================================================

+++ Tuesday +++ 21:30 to 07:30 Thorpe Station

745106 platform 1 has been lock 🔐 up

745006 platform 2 arrived at 21:25 for 1P73 22:02 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street vacuum carpets

755421 platform 3 for 21:40! Norwich Thorpe to Cambridge

755424 & 755404 & 755333 platform 4 arrived at 21:52 vaccine carpets 424 quick clean

755402 platform 5 arrived at 21:55 for 22:05 Norwich Thorpe to Lowestoft Central

755406 platform 6 2S31 arrived at 22:12 for 2J96 22:40 Norwich Thorpe to Lowestoft Central vacuum carpets badly 🤢


755408 on platform 7

745007 platform 1 1P64 arrived at 22:23 for 1Y75 23:05 Norwich Thorpe to Ipswich vacuum carpets

745419 platform 4 arrived at 22:45 from Cambridge for 22:45 Norwich Thorpe to Sherringham vacuum carpets


755422 platform 5 not been cleaned

755401 platform 6 arrived at 22:53 for 23:00 Norwich Thorpe to Great Yarmouth Vauxhall vacuum cleaner


Sherringham done quick litter and bin 🗑️ Did not vacuum carpets as I put 🥵


Another 755 has joined 755408 on platform 7


745 arrived platform 1 at 21:52., can not see number from platform 6 , bad eye sight

745005 platform 1 platform 1 for Royal Dock


First stable 23:20

745005 Royal Dock now

745003 platform 4 1P68 21:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 23:33 for stable clean K, L, M

745003 coach L toilet 🚽 unblocked 🪠 80%

755401 platform 6 vacuum carpets 401

755406 platform 5 arrived at 00:12 for vacuum carpets

755423 platform 5A arrived at 00:18

745010 platform 1 for stable clean after

745005 Royal Dock stable clean KLM

755418 arrival at 06;55 from Great Yarmouth Vauxhall, need cleaning 🧹🧼

06:28 need vacuum carpets 745106

A. 745003 platform 4 for 1P01 05:05 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street


B. 745010 platform 1 for 1P03 05:30 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street


C. 745005 Royal Dock for 1P05 06:04 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street


D. 745106 Norwich Victoria Sidings (Late Shift Quick Clean) for 1P07 06:28 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street - Need vacuum carpets


E. 745008 CPD Clean for 1P13 07:05 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 


F. 755424 & 755404 & 755333 (I think) for 1P15 07:26 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street


G. 745004 CPD Clean for 1P19 08:03 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 


745108 CPD Clean for 1P35 12:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 


755418 platform 5 due to arrive at 06:55 from Great Yarmouth for 07:15 to Sherringham - Needs Cleaning

T3 from Signal 565 & 567 to 543;& 1747/546,  wonder what happened?

Notice at 05:18 that T3  seem to have  gone, platform 4 left at 05:20 745003  1P01 05:05 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street

5P13 CPD Reception signal 🚦🚥 no 533 , notice at 05:19

745005 Royal Dock left at 05:23

5P05 at CPD Reception signal 🚦 no 535 , notice at 05:30, 745005  for 1P05.

745005 platform 4 arrived at 05:36 for 1P05 06:04 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street

745008 platform 1 5P13 arrived at 05:42 est for 1P13 07:05 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street

5P07 at Norwich Victoria Sidings signal 1721 at 05:46

745106 platform 2 arrived at 05:55 from Norwich Victoria Sidings for 1P07 06:28 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street vacuum carpets

A. To F end

755418 platform 5 2P03 06:24 Great Yarmouth Vauxhall to Norwich Thorpe arrived at   for 07:15 Norwich Thorpe to Sherringham  cleaning as in Sidings at night, not cleaned, then ECS to Great Yarmouth.

5P15 Norwich Victoria Sidings left at 05:35

755424 & 755404 & 755333 platform 2 5P15 arrived at 06:40 from Norwich Victoria Sidings for 1P15 07:26 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street

755418 platform 5 2P03 06:24 Great Yarmouth Vauxhall to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 06:55  for 2S08 07:15 Norwich Thorpe to Sherringham  cleaning as in Sidings at night, not cleaned, then ECS to Great Yarmouth.


It felt like a easy night, silly me. 

Tuesday 27 February 2024

How to have the Perfect Weekend in Liverpool, England

Lisbon - Portugal - 1970's - Thames Television

Our first time in Liverpool 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Liverpool travel guide

1970s Camping | Norfolk Broads | Wroxham | Wish you were here? | 1975

Camping in the 1970s | 1970s Spain | Costa Brava | Wish you were here? |...

Lisbon | 1990s Lisbon | Portugal | Historic City | Wish you were here? |...

Britannia Airways | Flight Deck | Wish you were here! | 1984

Semblanza histórica de Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 1ª Parte

Euston, St Pancras and Kings Cross Pubs


the Rocket, I seem to remember that pub. 

Crazy Cafe (1959) Sydney Eamon

1980s air travel | Boeing 757 | British Airways | Wish you were here? | ...


I was thinking I went from Manchester to Tenerife on one, but that was the 767, lol silly me

Camping in the 1970s | 1970s Spain | Salou | Wish you were here? | 1974

Dover to Calais Ferry | Car Ferry | Seeing and Doing | 1977

Car Ferry (1960)

1980s Travel | Travelling by Ferry | Cross Channel Ferry | Wheels | 1980



MS Herald of Free Enterprise was a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry which capsized moments after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on the night of 6 March 1987, killing 193 passengers and crew.[1]

The eight-deck car and passenger ferry was owned by Townsend Thoresen, designed for rapid loading and unloading on the competitive cross-channel route between Dover and Calais. As was common at the time, it was built with no watertight compartments. The ship left harbour with her bow door open, and the sea immediately flooded the decks; within minutes, she was lying on her side in shallow water. The immediate cause of the capsizing was found to be negligence by the assistant boatswain, who was asleep in his cabin when he should have been closing the bow door. However, the official inquiry placed more blame on his supervisors and a general culture of poor communication in Townsend Thoresen. The vessel was salvaged, put up for sale, and sold to Naviera SA Kingstown on 30 September 1987, renamed Flushing Range. It was taken to Taiwan on 22 March 1988 to be scrapped.

Since the disaster, improvements have been made to the design of RORO vessels, with watertight ramps, indicators showing the position of the bow doors, and banning of undivided decks.

Design and construction[edit]

In the late 1970s, Townsend Thoresen commissioned the design and construction of three new identical ships for its DoverCalais route for delivery from 1980. The ships were branded the Spirit-class, and were named: Spirit of Free EnterpriseHerald of Free Enterprise, and Pride of Free Enterprise.[2] The name "Free Enterprise" dates from Townsend Car Ferries' pioneering private sector roll-on/roll-off ferries, introduced in 1962.[3]Herald of Free Enterprise began active service on 29 May 1980.[

Camping in the 1970s | 1970s Portugal | 70s travel | Sesimbra | Wish you...

1970s Spain | Majorca | Port de Sóller | Soller | Wish you were here? | ...

Monday 21:30 to 04:30 Thorpe Station

 [09:06, 26/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: ++ Monday ++ 21:30 to 04:30 Thorpe Station

[17:43, 26/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉

[21:20, 26/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 745010 platform 1 arrived at 21:20 for 1P73 20:02 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street

[21:31, 26/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 755403 platform 3 arrived at 21:30 for 22:40 Norwich Thorpe to Cambridge


Vacuum carpets 745010

[21:48, 26/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 755402 platform 5 arrived at 21:48 for 21:05 Norwich Thorpe to Lowestoft Central no vacuum

 

755424 755404 & 755333 platform 2 arrived at 21:48 for quick clean vacuum carpets on 424

[22:09, 26/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 755423 platform 6 arrived at 22:09 for 22:40 Norwich Thorpe to Lowestoft

[22:25, 26/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 745003 platform 1 1P64 arrived at 22:26 for 1Y75 23:05 Norwich Thorpe to Ipswich vacuum carpets, I think 💬

[22:37, 26/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 755408 platform 4 for 22:45 Norwich Thorpe to Sherringham vacuum carpets

[22:47, 26/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 755407 platform 5 vacuum carpets

[22:48, 26/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 745002 platform 2 arrived at 22:47 for quick clean chaos

[23:27, 26/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 745004 platform 1 arrived at 23:34 for stable clean KLM

[00:04, 27/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 755409 platform 6 arrived at 00:04 vacuum carpets

[00:11, 27/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 755420 platform 5B arrived at 00:12 vacuum carpets

[00:17, 27/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 755423 platform 5A vacuum carpets

[00:27, 27/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 745008 platform 4 arrived at 00:27, to be moved to Low Level

[01:38, 27/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 745006 platform 4 stable clean last


745008 Royal Dock stable clean KLM now

[03:26, 27/02/2024] Michael Noël Turner: 745006 platform 4 for 05:05 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street stable clean KLM

Monday 26 February 2024

Red Alert (1977)



Red Alert is a 1977 thriller television film directed by William Hale (as Billy Hale) and starring William DevaneMichael BrandonRalph Waite and Adrienne Barbeau. It was originally broadcast on the CBS Television Network.

Plot[edit]

When a leak of superheated water inside the containment area of a nuclear power plant erupts, PROTEUS, the computer orders the sealing off the compound, trapping 14 men inside. The plant managers had been warned of erratic readings of the core pressure prior to the emergency, but disregarded them, knowing that they would be changing the fuel rods the next day.

As the core temperature rises, and pressure drops, the reactor's managers realize that they are facing a possibility of a core meltdown, or even an explosion given the presence of combustible gases. Backup systems, meant to contain the situation, fail. Authorities call in “Commander” Stone, who in turn call in an emergency team of investigators led by Frank Bolen (William Devane). Bolen is dependable, mostly because the loss of his wife and son have allowed him to become fully focused on his job.

Bolen and Wyche arrive at the plant, and immediately clash with Commander Stone. Relying on PROTEUS, Stone discounts sabotage as a cause of the accident, believing human error as the more likely cause. In contrast, Bolen considers sabotage a better explanation for both the initial emergency and the failure of the backup systems.

Bolen's suspicions are raised when he learns that the wife of Howard Ives, one of the men trapped in the containment, has just been found dead, an apparent suicide. Visiting Ives's home, Bolen finds materials that could have been used to make a number of home-made bombs. When a sound resembling human breathing is overheard on speakers linked to the containment area, Bolen suspects that someone is still alive inside the reactor. One of the men on Bolen's team finds Ives's lunchbox, and discovers one of Ives's bombs inside. Bolen theorizes that Ives's plans to sabotage the reactor were derailed by a freak accident. A detailed investigation of Ives's use of PROTEUS shows that the plant worker had inquired as to the plant's various systems, essentially using the computer to teach him how circumvent its ability to protect the plant. Coupled with the recent death of Ives's daughter, a radical killed during a botched arrest, Ives's conduct convinces Bolen that they are facing an emergency partially based in sabotage.

Bolen realizes that he has no choice but to enter the reactor. If Ives is alive, they need him to explain where the remaining bombs are. Disobeying Stone's orders, Bolen enters the reactor area and finds that there's no radiation. Among the bodies of other workers, Bolen find that Ives is still alive. Before Bolen can extract information from Ives, he sees that an overhead crane has begun moving. Stone, remembering that the fuel rods were due to be changed, realizes that the crane, under computer control, is following its orders to open the reactor. Because the reactor is still “hot”, opening the reactor now will trigger a nuclear release. Bolen and Wyche struggle with the crane's hook, preventing it from opening the reactor containment vessel.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

Thermal Vacuum Test chamber was used as the set for the nuclear reactor in Red Alert

The Thermal Vacuum Test known as Chamber A in Building 32 at NASA's Johnson Space Center was used as the interior of the film's Nuclear Station 34.[1]


Broadcast[edit]

The film aired on CBS, on May 18, 1977

When Engineering Goes Wrong: Three Badly Designed Ships



This led to the introduction of a series of larger liners ranging from 9,588 GRT to 15,551 GRT on RMSP's Southampton – Buenos Aires route. Each had a name beginning with the letter "A", so collectively they were called the "A-liners" or the "A-series". The first was RMS Aragon in 1905, followed by sister ships AmazonAraguaya and Avon in 1906, and Asturias in 1908. A few years later the final four "A-liners" were built: Arlanza in 1912, Andes and Alcantara in 1913 and Almanzora in 1915. Earlier members of the series, from Aragon to Asturias, had twin screws, each driven by a four-cylinder quadruple-expansion steam engine. The final four members of the series, from Arlanza to Almanzora, were significantly larger than the earlier five. They had triple screws, with the middle one driven by a low pressure Parsons steam turbine.[12]

After the First World War RMSP faced not only existing foreign competition but a new UK challenger. Lord Vestey's Blue Star Line had joined the South American route and won a large share of the frozen meat trade. Then in 1926–27 Blue Star introduced its new "luxury five" ships AlmedaAndaluciaArandoraAvelona and Avila to both increase refrigerated cargo capacity and enter the passenger trade. At the same time RMSP introduced a pair of new 22,200 GRT liners, RMS Asturias in 1926 and RMS Alcantara in 1927, which at that stage were the largest motor shipsin the World. Although these were the biggest and most luxurious UK ships on the route, RMSP Chairman Lord Kylsant called Blue Star's quintet "very keen competition".[13]

Reconstitution as Royal Mail Lines[edit]

Royal Mail Lines Ltd
IndustryShipping, cruise line
PredecessorRoyal Mail Steam Packet Company
Founded1932
Defunct1965
FateAcquired
SuccessorFurness, Withy & Co.
Headquarters
United Kingdom 

The company ran into financial trouble, and the UK Government investigated its affairs in 1930, resulting in the Royal Mail Case. In 1931 Lord Kylsant was jailed for 12 months for misrepresenting the state of the company to shareholders.[1] So much of Britain's shipping industry was involved in RMSPC that arrangements were made to guarantee the continuation of ship operations after it was liquidated. Royal Mail Lines Ltd (RML) was created in 1932 and took over the ships of RMSPC and other companies of the former group.[14] The new company was chaired by Lord Essendon.[15]

The new company's operations were concentrated on the west coast of South America, the West Indies and Caribbean, and the Pacific coast of North America; the Southampton – Lisbon – Brazil– Uruguay – Argentina route was operated from 1850 to 1980. RML was also a leading cruise shipoperator.

RMS's largest ship was the 25,895 GRT turbine steamship RMS Andes. She was designed as an ocean liner but when launched in 1939 was immediately fitted out as a troopship. She finally entered civilian liner service in 1948, was converted to full-time cruising in 1960 and was scrapped in 1971.[16]

RMSP and RML lost a number of ships in their long history. One of the last was the 17,547 GRTturbine steamship RMS Magdalena, which was launched in 1948 and grounded and sank off Brazil on her maiden voyage in 1949.[17]

In 1965 RML was bought by Furness, Withy & Co.,[1] and rapidly lost its identity. In the 1970s parts of the Furness Withy Group, including RML, were sold on to Hong Kong shipowner CY Tung, and later sold on to former River Plate rival Hamburg Süd; by the 1990s Royal Mail Lines was no more than the name of a Hamburg-Süd refrigerated cargo service from South America to Europe.







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Canaries : des îles de caractère - Échappées belles

Why a Mars Colony is a Dangerous and Stupid Idea


I think this dream of living on Mars, has been done a few time, in Sci-fi films and stories, still think it great to have a dream, but I think imagination  to make Mars a place to live for the Earth richest people, so as they do not need to mix with poorer or others humans, on Earth, or deal with the many problems here?

Some of the billionaire might hate Trade Unions, well none of them, on Mars? May be just Robby The Robot, just like Forbidden Planet film from 1956, will help them do all the jobs, they want doing.
No need for poor humans then, and no trade unions who are  demanding more resources.
This might be a dream for some people, but I think that a nightmare, even if it could be done? 


I think I am saying, IMHO, the idea that living on Mars for a select few, is great for a dream, but if that happens, i think it will turn quickly to nightmare, better to make life better on Earth, than work on the impossible, but still dream, and learn more. 



Bargain Loving Brits In The Sun | Season 1 Episode 1 | FULL EPISODE

TÉNÉRIFE - 15 JOURS INCROYABLES POUR DÉCOUVRIR L'ILE !

Juan Carlos: The Downfall Of Spain's Scandalous King | The Fight For Spa...

This Train Station Has No Business Being This Good

Nicholas Winton - Save One Life & Save the World Documentary

Sunday 21:30 to 07:30 Thorpe Station. three hours overtime

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+ Sunday + 21:30 to 07:30 Thorpe Station five hours overtime

🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉

745004 Royal Dock notice at 21:14

745010 platform 1 arrived at 21:17 for 1P73 22:05 Norwich Thorpe to Witham

755419 platforms 2A for 22:09 Norwich Thorpe to Cambridge vacuum carpets then vacuum carpets on 745010 M TO G

755401 platform 4 vacuum carpets

755416 platform 5B for 22:36 Norwich Thorpe to Great Yarmouth Vauxhall vacuum carpets

755420 platform 4A arrived at 22:09 for vacuum carpets

745008 platform 2 arrived at 22:17 for quick clean vacuum carpets

745004 platform 1 mY be 1Y75

755406 platform 5 arrived at 22:39 vacuum carpets

755327 platform 5A vacuum carpets

745005 platform 1 arrived at 23:17 for Stable Clean

745005 KLM

755416 platform 4 vacuum carpets

745009 platform 2 arrived at 00:17 for lock 🔐 up

J, K, L, M four coaches after work

745110 platform 2 


745010 platform 4 for Stable Clean J, K, L, M

745006 Royal Dock 06:04 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street

A. 745010 platform 4 for 1P01 05:05 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street


B. 745005 platform 1 for 1P03 05:30 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street


C. 745006  Royal Dock for 1P05 06:04 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street


D. 745109 CPD for 1P07 06:28 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street No Clean


E. 745008 Station Quick Clean Norwich Victoria Sidings for 1P13 07:05 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street


F. Three 755 for 07:26 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street


G. 745003 CPD Clean for 1P19 08:03 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street


H. 745103 CPD Clean for 1P35 12:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street


J. 745009 CPD Clean for HOLD


745004 Ipswich Clean.

745006 platform 4 for 1P07 06:04 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street

5P07 at CPD Reception signal 🚥🚦 no 535 , notice at 05:28

745003 not been cleaned last night for 1P19 08:03 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street

745 008 platform 2 arrived at 05:41 for 1P19 07:05 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street

745109 platform 1 arrived at 05:44 est for 1P13 06:28 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street

Platform 1 07:26 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street, three 755


Platform 1 for 08:03 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street, not cleaned last night, coming in after 07:26?

5P15 at signal 557 Trouse swing bridge at 06:32

755424 & 755404 & 755333 platform 1 5P15 (06:35 🟢) arrived at 06:39 for 1P15 07:26 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street

755404 & 755424 both need vacuum carpets, and 755424 clean toilets and both need some trash and bins

745003 platform 1 arrived at 07:33 for 1P19 08:03 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street not cleaned ?



Sunday 25 February 2024

History of Tyne and Wear Metro - Documentary - The Way Ahead

Tyne and Wear Metro: Clocking Up The Kilometres (1989)

Gran Canaria en 1966 - Las Palmas, Playa de las Canteras, Teror, Galdar,...

Why the Glass Bottle FAILED

Gran Canaria en 1966 - Las Palmas, Playa de las Canteras, Teror, Galdar,...

Gran Canaria 1964

Super 8 Film Gran Canaria

1980s Gran Canaria | Playa del Ingles | 1980s Spain | Wish you were here...

A Trip to Mars / Himmelskibet (1918) by Holger-Madsen | Adventure, Sci-F...

National Coal Board film - Merry go round trains - 1979

Ibiza: One Season Too Many? (Documentary) BBC Stories

Wish You Were Here | Nick Knowles, Anthea Turner, Judith Chalmers, Marti...


Guess the year 

Ibiza 1970

BBC1 Holiday with Jill Dando 1996


The BBC Holiday show, 14.26

For Sale: Two bedroom townhouse - Playa Del Duque- Tenerife


I got a little dream, if I won the Euro Millions, of living in Tenerife, a little silly, may be.

WOWCHER - NOT A Bad Deal Here.....

WOWCHER - NOT A Bad Deal Here.....

Tenerife (1946) La Laguna

1970s Spain | Costa del Sol | Andalusia | Estepona | Wish you were here...


I seem to remember Costa del Sol seem very popular, or may be I just remember it more in the early 1980's ? 

GUÍA COMPLETA ▶ Qué ver en GRAN CANARIA (ESPAÑA) 🇪🇸 🌏 Turismo y viajes a...

LA PIRE RANDONNÉE DE MA VIE - TENERIFE #2

Ibiza-1947, La isla blanca

1970s Magaluf | Magaluf | What do you think of Magaluf | Wish you were h...

1970s Ibiza | 1970s Spain | Fun in the sun | Spain | Brits abroad| Wish ...

1970s Spain | Calpe | Valencia | Spanish Holidays | 1970s Holidays | Wis...


Thames TV with "Wish You Was Here", talking about holidays .
London had Thames in weekdays, and London Weekend Television (LWT) at Weekends, on the ITV network, seem a bit strange, of course then, it seem more TV shows like Wish You Was Here, was made by each company , so in that way, it was a lot better, again down to opinions if the TV shows was any good for you, so that you would watch it.


Thames Television, commonly simplified to just Thames, was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding areas from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992. Thames Television broadcast from 09:25 Monday morning to 17:15 Friday afternoon (19:00 Friday night until 1982) at which time it would hand over to London Weekend Television (LWT).

Formed as a joint company, it merged the television interests of British Electric Traction (trading as Associated-Rediffusion) owning 49%, and Associated British Picture Corporation—soon taken over by EMI—owning 51%. Like all ITV franchisees, it was a broadcaster, a producer and a commissioner of television programmes, making shows both for the local region it covered and, as one of the "Big Five" ITV companies, for networking nationally across the ITV regions. After its loss of franchise in 1992, it continued as an independent production company until 2003.

The British Film Institute describes Thames as having "served the capital and the network with a long-running, broad-based and extensive series of programmes, several of which either continue or are well-remembered today."[1] Thames covered a broad spectrum of commercial public-service television, with a strong mix of drama, current affairs and comedy.

After Thames was acquired by FremantleMedia it was merged with another Fremantle company, Talkback, to form a new independent production company, Talkback Thames; consequently, Thames ceased to exist as a separate entity. However, on 1 January 2012, the Thames brand was revived and Talkback Thames has now been split into four different labels: Boundless, Retort, Talkback and Thames, within the newly created FremantleMedia UK production arm.



London Weekend Television (LWT) (now part of the non-franchised ITV London region) was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm from 1968 until 1982) to Monday mornings at 6:00.[1] From 1968 until 1992, when LWT's weekday counterpart was Thames Television, there was an on-screen handover to LWT on Friday nights (there was no handover back to Thames on Mondays, as from 1968 to 1982 there was no programming in the very early morning, and from 1983, when a national breakfast franchise was created, LWT would hand over to TV-am at 6:00am, which would then hand over to Thames at 9:25am). From 1993 to 2002, when LWT's weekday counterpart was Carlton Television, the transfer usually occurred invisibly during a commercial break, for Carlton and LWT shared studio and transmission facilities (although occasionally a Thames-to-LWT-style handover would appear).

Like most ITV regional franchises, including Carlton's, the London weekend franchise is now operated by ITV plc. The "London Weekend" franchise was renewed by Ofcom in 2015 for ten years and is still separately licensed, but is no longer distinguished on air. LWT is now managed with Carlton Television as a single entity (ITV London), although the name for the London Weekend licence on the Ofcom site is still "LWT". London Weekend Television Ltd is now (along with most other former regional companies owned by ITV plc) listed at Companies House as a "dormant company".[2]

Tenerife (1946) Los Rodeos y paseo por Santa Cruz


I am not sure if I watched this before or not, so can check here, if I did? 

1980s Benidorm | 1980s Holidays | Fun in the sun | Spain | Wish you were...


I seem to remember Wish You Was Here, on Anglia Television, part of the ITV channel , that now just ITV and mostly one company after lot of take overs and mergers, plus so many changers to how the channel is licensed over the years, which I did not follow.

I do not watch much television now days, sometimes use BBC iPlayer, I do watch a lot of You Tube video, which has many people doing what "Wish You was Here" was doing, so is that better to what it was?
Well there is more people doing this, so if I want to watch something on Benidorm or another place, I might find video made daily, than once in year or so? 
Down to opinion if that what you want, of course,  

VIAJAR EN CANARIAS PGM25 ICOD DE LOS VINOS TENERIFE

Tenerife y sus bellezas - NODO 01/01/1955 Filmoteca Española

Tenerife, una isla y un volcán (1946) NO-DO

” SPAIN IT’S DIFFERENT ” 1960S TRAVELOGUE MADRID SALAMANCA BARCELONA ...

Spain Wildfires 2023 LIVE | Thousands Evacuated At Spanish Island Teneri...

Benidorm - Market Day's Busy Bars!☀️🇪🇸 Uncle Peds, Riviera, Calypso, Ros...

Charles de Gaulle: The man behind the myth

Benidorm, Spain 1985

Islas Canarias (1953) Rutas turísticas de Lanzarote

Saturday 24 February 2024

Tenerife (1946) Las Cañadas del Teide

Tenerife (1946) Ascensión al Teide

Japan - I Second That Emotion

France Gall "Sacré Charlemagne" (1964) Version HD (Stéréo)


"Sacré Charlemagne" is a song by France Gall. It was released in 1964 as a single, on an EP, and on an album, credited to "France Gall et ses petits amis".[2]

According to the charts U.S. Billboard published in its "Hits of the World" section, the song reached no. 1 in France.[3]

Lyrics[edit]

The song's lyrics were written by Robert Gall, the singer's father. They are about medieval emperor Charlemagne, traditionally seen as the "inventor of school", since education became mandatory for all children during his reign. Because of this the narrator of the song blames Charlemagne for having to go to school.[4]

The song reflected contempt for studying among young people.[5]

Reception[edit]

The song was France Gall's first major success, selling over 2 million copies.[6][7][8] In addition to reaching #1 on the French music charts, the song enjoyed international success, becoming a hit in Japan.[9] Its popularity endures as a French schoolchildren's song.


A holiday in Benidorm 1970's

The Teardrop Explodes: Treason.

The Courettes - "Shake!"

The Teardrop Explodes - Reward (Original Promo) (1981) (With Lyrics) (HD)


The Teardrop Explodes were an English post-punk/neo-psychedelic band formed in Liverpool in 1978. Best known for their Top Ten UK single "Reward", the group originated as a key band in the emerging Liverpool post-punk scene of the late 1970s. The group also launched the career of group frontman Julian Cope as well as that of keyboard player and co-manager David Balfe (later a record producer, A&R man and founder of Food Records). Other members included early Smiths producer Troy Tate.

Along with other contemporary Liverpudlian groups, The Teardrop Explodes played a role in returning psychedelic elements to mainstream British rock and pop, initially favouring a modernised version of lightly psychedelic late 1960s-influenced beat-group sound (sometimes described as "bubblegum trance"[2]) and later exploring more experimental areas. In addition to their musical reputation, the band (and Cope in particular) had a reputation for eccentric pronouncements and behaviour, sometimes verging on the self-destructive, resulting in the band's breakup in 1982.

Iles Canaries 1925, agriculture, petits métiers

George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You (Version II)

Saturday 09:30 to 21:30 Thorpe Station five hours overtime

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+++++++ Saturday +++++++ 09:30 to 21:30 Thorpe Station

🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉🚉

745004 platform 2 for 09:32 Norwich Thorpe to Witham early shift

745107 platform 1 1P08 08:04 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 1P27 09:18 for 10:00 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽🚻🪠

745107 coach L and B 🚽🚽 toilets 🚽 unblocked 🪠🪠

745003 platform 1 1P10 08:32 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 09:47 for 1P29 10:32 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽🚻🚾🚻


Diss, Ipswich , Manningtree, Colchester

745009 platform 1 1P12 09:04 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at  10:24 for 1P31 11:00 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽🪠🚾🚻


Diss, Stowmarket, Ipswich, Manningtree, Colchester North, 


745003 coach L toilet 🚽 unblocked 🪠, took a long time, till 10:15, I thought 💭 I had unblocked it, but still blocked, till I think it is now done ✅ see when it.come back, if blocked again?

745008 platform 2 1P14 09:32 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived  at 10:47 for 1P33 11:32 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽🚻🪠🚾


Diss, Ipswich, Manningtree, Colchester North

745006 platform 4 1P16 10:04 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 11:20 and not  for 1P35 12:00 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽🪠🪠🪠


DISS, Stowmarket, Ipswich, Manningtree, Colchester North 


No information ℹ️😞👎

745010 platform 2 1P18 10:32 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 11:46  for 1P37 12:32 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽🪠🚾🚻


Diss, Ipswich, Manningtree, Colchester North 


Not good when no one pass on information ℹ️😔

745109 platform 1 arrived at 11:49 for 1P35 12:00 Norwich Thorpe to Witham

745004 platform 1 1P20 11:04 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 12:30   for 1P39 13:00 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽🪠🚾🚻


Diss Stowmarket, Ipswich, Manningtree, Colchester North

745107 platform 2 1P22 11:32 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 12:45 for 1P41 13:32 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽🚻🪠


Diss, Ipswich, Manningtree, Colchester North

745003 platform 1 1P24 12:04 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 13:19  for 1P43 14:00 Norwich Thorpe to Witham  cleaning  toilets 🚻


Diss, Stowmarket,  Ipswich,  Manningtree,  Colchester North

745009 platform 2 1P26 12:32 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 13:41 for 1P45 14:30  Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning  toilets 🚻 


Diss, Ipswich,  Manningtree,  Colchester North

745008 platform 1 1P28 13:04 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 14:18 for 1P47 15:00 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽🪠🪠


Diss, Stowmarket Ipswich Manningtree Colchester North

745109 platform 2 1P30 13:32 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 14:46  for 1P49 15:32 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽🪠🚾🚻


Diss, Ipswich Manningtree Colchester North

745109 coach L toilet 🚽 unblocked 🪠

745010 platform 1 1P32 14:04 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 15:20  for 1P51 16:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽🪠🪠


DISS, Stowmarket Ipswich Manningtree Colchester North

745004 platform 2 1P34 14:32 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at  15:44 for 1P53 16:30 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning toilets 🚻 


Diss Ipswich Manningtree Colchester North

745107 platform 1 1P36 15:04 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 16:18 for 1P55 17:03 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning toilets 🚻 


Diss Stowmarket Ipswich Manningtree Colchester North 


745010 coach L toilet 🚽 unblocked

745003 platform 21P36 15:32 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 16:44  for 1P57 17:30 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning toilets 🚻 


Diss Stowmarket Ipswich Manningtree Colchester North

745009 platform 1 1P40 16:04 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 17:19 for 1P59 18:00 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning toilets 🚻 


Diss Stowmarket Ipswich Manningtree Colchester North

745008 platform 2 1P42 16:32 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at  for 1P61 18:32 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning toilets 🚻 


Diss  Ipswich Manningtree Colchester North

*745 CPD Reception signal no 535 notice at 18:07, is next train arrival or one for 20:00, etc a lock up, this is a problem when information is not shared, because some people have they own reasons for not sharing 😕


Can see next arrival is 1P63 🤔


Also extra service, at 19:32 Norwich Thorpe to Witham 1P65


I seem to remember a 755 replacement for 1P67 20:00 Norwich Thorpe to Witham? May be my memory is wrong this time?

745109 platform 1 1P44 17:04 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 18:19  for 1P63 19:00 Norwich Thorpe to Witham  cleaning toilets 🚻  


Diss Stowmarket Ipswich Manningtree Colchester North

I forgot to log in at work, silly me 🧠 is so forgetful, I thought I did ring in, but did not 🚫 TL informed.

745010 platform 2 1P46 17:32 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 18:41 for 1P65 19:32 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning toilets 🚻 


Diss Ipswich Manningtree Colchester North 


I think I am staying on toilets 🚽 may be to end of shift.

,745004 platform 1 1P50 18:04 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 19:20 not  for 1P67 20:00 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning inside and cabs plus toilets 🚻 5P50

CPD Clean tonight  and Sunday 1Y75 23:05 Norwich Thorpe to Ipswich 


Not going to Diss Stowmarket Ipswich Manningtree Colchester North

745009 platform 2 1P58 19:32 Witham to Norwich Thorpe due 20:46  for Lock 🔐 up, may be quick Clean ? 😳 Station Clean for Sunday  1P23 09:00 Norwich Thorpe to Witham

745107 platform 2 1P54 18:32 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 19:43 for Lock 🔐 up Dept Clean HOLD for Sunday


745004 platform 1 left at 19:39 for CPD

745005 platform 1 arrived at from CPD Reception at 19:45 for 1P67 20:00 Norwich Thorpe to Witham


Diss Stowmarket Ipswich Manningtree Colchester North

745003 platform 1 1P56 19:04 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 20:20  for 1P71 21:00 Norwich Thorpe to Witham cleaning inside and cabs plus toilets 🚻 


Diss Stowmarket Ipswich Manningtree Colchester North 


745107 platform 2 left at 20:01 for CPD.

745009 platform 2 1P58 19:32 Witham to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 20:44 for Lock 🔐 up, may be quick Clean ? 😳

745009 platform 2 left at 21:05

745009 Royal Dock arrived at 21:17