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Thunderbird Club

Back on kippers, this is where I used to work, the shop and the smoking sheds around the back

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....and the small second floor window of the white house in the background marks the upstairs bathroom, which has a bath tub on the wall facing the camera. Fairly common for bathtub drain lines in the UK to be routed through an exterior wall and connected to the rain gutter down spouts. The slightly sloped horizontal pipe is the tub drain, that and the roof drain pipe next to it probably connect near ground level. Can't get away with that design feature in the US.

BTW - I love kippers!
 
Very neat place!
The weathering on the tombstones is fascinating!

I agree. Those tombstones are probably limestone, which is relatively soft and over decades have degraded from weather/elements and the waves relate to prevailing winds/rain over time.
 
No, never heard of it. When was that built, looks aged
Not sure, 20 years ago at a guess? There's about 100 of those mannequins up and down the beach, very thought provoking to see them staring out to sea, the tide engulfing them and revealing them as it ebbs and flows. It was done by Anthony Gormley, the guy who designed the "Angel of the north"

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Another large art installation, in Falkirk are the Kelpies, made from polished stainless steel

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Very neat place!
The weathering on the tombstones is fascinating!

I agree. Those tombstones are probably limestone, which is relatively soft and over decades have degraded from weather/elements and the waves relate to prevailing winds/rain over time.

It's sandstone, there's lots of it in Yorkshire. A few more:

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Not sure, 20 years ago at a guess? There's about 100 of those mannequins up and down the beach, very thought provoking to see them staring out to sea, the tide engulfing them and revealing them as it ebbs and flows. It was done by Anthony Gormley, the guy who designed the "Angel of the north"

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Another large art installation, in Falkirk are the Kelpies, made from polished stainless steel

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I was going to mention The Angel of the North since I saw similarities. You beat me to it.
Always dug that statue, pretty ominous..
 
Sydney is built on sandstone and all our heritage buildings are made of it. Which is great - good looking buildings; and not so great - they weather over time.
They recently found a new supply when excavating for something new. So, the first stage was to harvest the stone and store it for later use.

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If you like, or like I said, a "reversed reverse". (double negative) I never use the reverse/non-reverse terminology (rather gen1 & gen 2) as the original T-bird was not called "reversed" until it was later reversed to produce the "non-reverse" :wacky:... always seemed like a convoluted way referring to them for me.


Totally agree. I know it's subjective, but "Gen 2's" have never done anything for me. They just look wrong.