One year Old and still having fun.

I have updated the blog with how I feel the site is going and future plans. Nothing too exciting but hey its all about the photo's not me.

Random photo I like from the past is from Ellis Island 1891, opened pretty much to this day all those years ago. It is where all immigrants entered into the good o'ld US of A.

War time at Christmas, Bunkers & Truce

 In 1914 in the middle of WW1 a famous truce was called. The above photo is of the troops from both sides talking on Christmas day. Very few first hand documented accounts of this remain, Leeds University special collections has a fantastic book, letters, collections from this and 1st hand memories of the football they played on the muddy battlefield.

WW2 Bunker, looks like one that is in a residential garden. Kid asleep with all the Christmas decorations around them. I am guessing with the effort of the decorations its a place they spent alot of time! avoiding those raids that were so frequent in the bigger cites across England.

WW1 Propaganda Posters (Part2)

 Having now found a large collection of WW1 posters from around the world its time to start placing them up on the blog. Funny one the first, anti-conscription from Aussie. Maybe they knew what Gallipoli would be like?

 Very nice one above, they did like to use stereotypes back in the day! Joan of Arc used to buy war saving stamps.

This must have been a local Irish hero, slaying 10 Germans for the cause and others can be like him too. Did Michael O'Leary do the rounds at recruitment fairs for years to come? or did they send him back to the Somme?

AirBalloon the USS Akron 1930's

 The USS Akron over San Francisco, California  in the early 1930's. The Akron carried 4 Curtis F9C-2 Sparrowhawk aircraft inside, to be  launched or retrieved by means of a trapeze.  Look closely and you can see a Sparrowhawk approaching the trapeze. Below the lower fin is another Sparrowhawk waiting to hook on to the trapeze.