These pictures make my teeth itch

These pictures make my teeth itch

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T-195

2,671 posts

60 months

Sunday 18th August 2019
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Terrifying Treestump.

silverfoxcc

7,683 posts

144 months

Sunday 18th August 2019
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Now either this isn't the Southbank ( although someone says the bridge is Hungerford Bridge) nor is it midday if the date is to believed.
The shadows are all wrong to be the Southbank ,which faces North west-ish. If it is Hungerford Bridge the shadows are coming from that direction, and even if the sun WAS in that position it could only be sunset in June and they are not long enough. so it is a teeth itcher with a difference.

So where is it

kev1974

4,029 posts

128 months

Sunday 18th August 2019
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Looks like Southbank Centre to me.

I know that the ornate lampposts that are all along the river now are actually a fairly recent addition despite being done to look old, my vague memory would be they were added some time in the 80s/early 90s but I'm not sure. Anyway if you look at a picture that is definitely from when the place opened in 1951 the railings match your pic with the odd kinks every so often (which appear to be where they added the lampposts).

https://www.architecture.com/image-library/RIBApix...

The Hungerford Bridge definitely has four supports at that point but I think it's just the angle that your photo is taken at makes it look like only three. There is a big gap between the third and fourth and so I think the fourth is just off the right hand side of your picture. The bits of metalwork at the top of the supports (a maintenance gantry I think) are the same in both yours and the current day.

Current-ish day image
https://goo.gl/maps/nSrPK4eyWZbRMqN9A




talksthetorque

10,815 posts

134 months

Sunday 18th August 2019
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Could it be that the shadows are cast by the reflection of the sun off one of the tall mirror glass skyscrapers that weren’t there in the 50s?

silverfoxcc

7,683 posts

144 months

Sunday 18th August 2019
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Talsthe torque

Look at the pic it was taken in 1951 and the fashions are noe exactly 21st century

talksthetorque

10,815 posts

134 months

Sunday 18th August 2019
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silverfoxcc said:
Talsthe torque

Look at the pic it was taken in 1951 and the fashions are noe exactly 21st century
If you look closely you can see a parrot perched on the railings

FerdiZ28

1,355 posts

133 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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talksthetorque said:
If you look closely you can see a parrot perched on the railings
Probably a scamp.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scampbird

Stub article sadly, but basically the bird was secured to the railing with either a cable tie or glue, and used as a target for the summer crowd to throw nut shells and fruit cores at. Some used stones and large objects that would more often than not miss and end up in the river. I am naked as a write.

At the end of the day the new owner of the bird would be decided by a raffle or a wrestle, the bird is then owned and used by the male as a pet, food, conjugation partner or even set free to live its life in the way it chooses.

Obviously a banned practice now but a rarely discussed bit of history I hope you’ll agree.


67Dino

3,581 posts

104 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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It is South Bank by the Hungerford bridge. However, the date and time is wrong. Done some calcs, and the photo IS possible, but only just, and only at one time in the whole year: around 4:45pm on 21st June (or a few days either side).

The river bank runs NNE-SSW there, so the shadows are facing WSW. The length indicates the sun is around 40 degrees above the horizon. This can only happen around 4:30-5pm on or near the solstice. At the same time on the stated date in May, the sun is not quite sufficiently West, and the shadows are much shorter than 40 degrees. Any earlier that day, and the sun is too south, any later and the shadows are too long.

So OP is right to be sceptical, it isn’t the midday sun and it isn’t May. Enjoyed that...


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Edited by 67Dino on Monday 19th August 10:55

T-195

2,671 posts

60 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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Yes, the Southbank at Hungerford.

silentbrown

8,793 posts

115 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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67Dino said:
It is South Bank by the Hungerford bridge. However, the date and time is wrong. Done some calcs, and the photo IS possible, but only just, and only at one time in the whole year: around 4:45pm on 21st June.
This is why I love this site smile

1951 is Festival of Britain, so loads of photographic evidence of southbank site.

Here's a more longer view - you can see the platforms where the photo was taken from (no drones or polecams in those days!) and the building facade in the background.



https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/th...

blueg33

35,576 posts

223 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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simplygod said:
WTF! Someone needs killing!

Mammasaid

3,777 posts

96 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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Door open warning - name the vehicle


67Dino

3,581 posts

104 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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silentbrown said:
67Dino said:
It is South Bank by the Hungerford bridge. However, the date and time is wrong. Done some calcs, and the photo IS possible, but only just, and only at one time in the whole year: around 4:45pm on 21st June.
This is why I love this site smile

1951 is Festival of Britain, so loads of photographic evidence of southbank site.

Here's a more longer view - you can see the platforms where the photo was taken from (no drones or polecams in those days!) and the building facade in the background.



https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/th...
Thanks! Me too... note: realise I was a bit too definitive there, so have edited my post to add ‘or a few days either side’. Appreciate might not be 21st June itself.

RammyMP

6,729 posts

152 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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Mammasaid said:
Door open warning - name the vehicle

Ford Fiesta?

A chap I used to work with had a 2 door Kia Ceed, when you open a door the light was a 4 door car, it irritated the hell out of him!

silentbrown

8,793 posts

115 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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67Dino said:
Thanks! Me too... note: realise I was a bit too definitive there, so have edited my post to add ‘or a few days either side’. Appreciate might not be 21st June itself.
Finally decoded the writing on the sign: "Regatta Restaurant"

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wp-content/uplo...

Mammasaid

3,777 posts

96 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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RammyMP said:
Mammasaid said:
Door open warning - name the vehicle

Ford Fiesta?

A chap I used to work with had a 2 door Kia Ceed, when you open a door the light was a 4 door car, it irritated the hell out of him!
Right brand, wrong vehicle...biggrin

It's a Transit, it irks me that a company the size of Ford, can't make a specific icon for a commercial vehicle that sells in the hundred of thousands.....ranting

Funk

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26,254 posts

208 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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Mammasaid said:
Right brand, wrong vehicle...biggrin

It's a Transit, it irks me that a company the size of Ford, can't make a specific icon for a commercial vehicle that sells in the hundred of thousands.....ranting
Why on earth bother when the same dash could easily be used across millions of vehicles instead though..?

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

99 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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That looks like a kind of funky robot dude as well

Nik da Greek

2,503 posts

149 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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Shakermaker said:
That looks like a kind of funky robot dude as well
Pingu innit?


Shakermaker

11,317 posts

99 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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RoboPingu?!