Posts Tagged ‘John Hinde’
In Hindesight
2WS12 Upper Mostyn Street and Great Orme, Llandudno. Photo: E Nägele “Just a postcard to say all is OK. We think we will enjoy it here. Went to an open air service at Great Orme, all outside the church sitting on gravestones, very interesting, good singing. Don’t know if the money will last, will have to borrow […]
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Tags: 2WS12, E Nagele, Great Orme, John Hinde, John Hinde Ltd., Llandudno, North Wales, Postcard, Postcards, Upper Mostyn Street
A Modern Utopia (Continued)
Dennis Kelly’s Utopia has returned to Channel 4 and is as entertaining and as beautifully coloured as ever. And what’s particularly nice is that this is an apparent homage to, amongst others, the work of the mighty John Hinde.
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Tags: Channel 4, Colour, John Hinde, Marc Munden, Utopia
The latest issue of Coast magazine has alerted me to the fact that the people at the John Hinde Collection are now selling prints of certain digitally restored transparencies, (including the one above). Not sure what to think of them though because it seems wrong to take them out of their original context although given the […]
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Tags: Coast, John Hinde, The John Hinde Collection
Happy 75th birthday to Butlins. I have to admit to never having been although the lady of the house visited many years ago but hasn’t ever had much to say on the matter – which is a shame because from the postcard above it looks tremendous. There’s some great commemorative stuff over on their special website, although […]
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Tags: Butlins, John Hinde, Martin Parr
As I may have mentioned elsewhere I do like to be beside the seaside, so you can imagine how pleased I was to be contacted by Tim Dunn curator of Rails to the Sands earlier this week – actually you probably can’t yet but stay with me a while and you will. Tim got in […]
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Tags: Cleethorpes, John Hinde, Rails To Sands, Seaside
Escapology
If you’re interested I have a new blog over at http://wishingiwashere.wordpress.com – as it happens if you’re not interested it’ll still be there.
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Wee Minatures
As well as my new Playmobil set I’ve also purchased a set of wonderful postcards of Sheffield by Jonathan Wilkinson – Wee Minatures (Gordon Brown would no doubt be proud to of my attempts to break the financial downturn single handedly). I’ve always been a fan of tilt-shift photography and saw these, which also pay homage to […]
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Tags: I Like, John Hinde, Jonathan Wilkinson, Playmobil, Postcards, Sheffield, Wee Minatures
Late Of The Pier
The demise of the pier at Weston Super Mare sent me to my limited John Hinde collection to see if I had one of Weston, I didn’t, however I do have these two of Bournemouth and Boscombe. I keep meaning to scan my collection so two down and hmm quite a few to go.
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Tags: Boscombe, Bournemouth, John Hinde, Piers, Weston Super Mare
dig your fins 