I remember seeing that; pretty impressive. All those deforested hills in England made sense after seeing that. It couldn't have all gone for firewood with all the coal there. I would leave intact if I had a say in it.Originally Posted by UKSmartypants
Plus they pulled down Blythe Staithes, a massive quay structure that went on for miles This featured in the movie "Get Carter", the original. It was the largest wooden structure in the world, dating back to the mid 1800's
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Commie Hippies!
Who made Who!?
A people separated by a common language has never been more true than this thread.
Who made Who!?
I don't know. Is council housing the same as housing projects?
I have visited Liverpool. The fact is it produced the biggest act, artist, band, performers in the history of this planet. There has never been anything as big as the Beatles. OK, I accept the Irish input had a lot to do with it.
The football disaster was more to do with police corruption and media corruption, class hate, than the actual disaster.
There is an under-belly culture of crime and degradation but lets face it - in the film The Third Man... there is a line which says....
- Harry Lime: Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
LOL.... they did not conform to the class system. All the old post war Colonels and Captains insisting you address them by their rank.
I hope you guys don't go the way of the Australians??? pretending to be tough, no nonsense people while kneeling to the BLM amd covid controls and snobbishly verbally attacking council house areas - real working class, tough people.
Probably. Its low-cost housing built for people unable to rent privately and unable to buy a house. Its built and owned by the local council. The nature of the people who lend up living in a council house means that some, but not all, council estates are crime ridden, drug ridden slums, and especially in places like London and the West Midlands, usually also Moslem shitholes, black ghettos or full of chav trash (UK eqiv of US 'trailer trash')
Authentic (07-22-2021)
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In the12th century, the demand for Yew to make bows was such it created a Yew shortage and ships were required to carry Yew back from foreign ports. Between 1200 and 1500 half the forests of the UK were chopped down for building or agriculture
The Industrial revolution used another 1/4 of the remaining forests of the Uk
Of the remaining 25%, WW1 and WW2 both used another 3% each of what was left.
Between 1945 and 1990 another 10% was lost.
We now have about 10% left of the forest we had in 1100 AD, as determined by Domesday.
it was noted in old mediaeval texts that it was possible to travel from Bodmin Moor in the southernmost tip of Uk, to the Scottish Border, entirely in the tree cover, and never once your feet had to touch the ground.
Blyth Staithes is made entire of English Oak pressure stewed in bitumen, which pretty much makes it last forever, and actually goes on for half a mile It was built in sections over a long period, the last part being started in 1900 and not finished until 1932 due t o WW1.
Oberon (07-22-2021)
Some of the earliest examples of Scooter Riding Mods came out of a group of Lambretta Enthusiasts clique types in Liverpool
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