Ooooh, now THAT is bloomin interesting!
Specially so when you realise that's 132 years ago, THREE years before the gunfight at the OK corral, and TEN years before Jack the Ripper did his 'thing' over in London!
The tall ships over in the harbour make this for me :)
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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 19:04,
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Isn't it.
I was reading about the Tate exhibition about him and did a bit more research to find the 13 plates. Check out the link to the c**t who put a fence around three sides of someones property!
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claptonista ,the idiot boy.........., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 19:08,
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ha ha bloody hell...
what an utter git!
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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 19:14,
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Looking at it further it's kind of an inadvertent snap shot of the end of an era.
The next decade saw an explosion of technology. First combustion engine by MercBenz, radiowaves, phonographs, skyscrapers....
It is a bit eerie. You could think that the photo was maybe as late as the 40's (?) love the tall ships too. I wonder how long it took for Muybridge to travel to SF?
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claptonista ,the idiot boy.........., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 19:38,
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