hawks2767 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 We found our missing submarine today, the AE1 - always presumed missing off PNG in 1914 but now it's confirmed. A submarine will still be regarded as being on patrol if it goes missing until we know what happened, so a 103 year patrol comes to an end. Let the record show we never stopped looking either, I believe plans are in place to honour the memory of AE1 and AE2 (an amazing story too) with the new generation of submarines to be built, potentially being called the Stoker Class after Captain Henry Stoker. LeeMarvin, Edinburgh, Carns and 3 others 6 Link to comment
Paul01 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Interesting. The Queen of Australia in 1975. Unmasking history: the Queen, the governor general and the Whitlam dismissal https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/06/unmasking-history-the-queen-the-governor-general-and-the-whitlam-dismissal?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard wendybr and EmMac 2 Link to comment
ManfredSchaefer Posted March 25, 2019 Author Share Posted March 25, 2019 On 21 October 2017 at 11:31 PM, Neverbloom said: thoughts? feelings do not belong in history Just came across this piece of anti-intellectual fringe rubbish. Utter bullshit. mack 1 Link to comment
Neverbloom Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 watching something on the Russian Revolution, very interesting imo i never learned about it despite doing both ancient and modern history throughtout high school, very interesting imo Prydzopolis 1 Link to comment
LeeMarvin Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Wow, there is a history thread here? Cool. wendybr 1 Link to comment
JackDoff Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 1 hour ago, LeeMarvin said: Wow, there is a history thread here? Cool. Yep, it’s been here for ages! It’s part of our........history? LeeMarvin, Prydzopolis, Neverbloom and 4 others 7 Link to comment
Edinburgh Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 Some local history. https://vintagefm.com.au/history-of-great-western-road-vintage-fm/ And, no Boro, I'm not in any of the pictures*** *** I was still in Scotland at the time. sonar, Bones, Smoggy and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment
marron Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 The most amazing part is 30 dudes 6 months. About that many have been resurfacing the road through blackheath, started about that long ago and they're still going. sonar, Smoggy and JackDoff 3 Link to comment
marron Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 Also, for carts, coaches and drays to get down the other side they'd cut down a tree and tie it to the back as a brake. Smoggy, sonar and JackDoff 3 Link to comment
Smoggy Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 (edited) 41 minutes ago, marron said: Also, for carts, coaches and drays to get down the other side they'd cut down a tree and tie it to the back as a brake. Imagine how gutted you would be to go to all that effort to make the first crossing of the Blue Mountains, only to find a place / town as shitty as Lithgow on the other side. Edited July 22, 2019 by Erimus marron, JackDoff and sonar 3 Link to comment
marron Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 (edited) double post. Edited July 22, 2019 by marron Link to comment
Smoggy Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 (edited) Whats with the nostalgia and history thread anyway..when does nostalgia become history, and is nostalgia something you can remember only, as in your childhood memories? I posted something about the 1966 world cup the other day, but I wasn't born then, so is that nostalgia or history? Or perhaps we should have a combined History and Nostalgia thread.!!!! I just DON'T know!!! Edited July 22, 2019 by Erimus sonar 1 Link to comment
Edinburgh Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 2 hours ago, marron said: The most amazing part is 30 dudes 6 months. About that many have been resurfacing the road through blackheath, started about that long ago and they're still going. It's difficult to comprehend isn't it. Mind you, a bunch of convicts working dawn to dusk ..... Nah, still incomprehensible! marron 1 Link to comment
Edinburgh Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 4 hours ago, Erimus said: Imagine how gutted you would be to go to all that effort to make the first crossing of the Blue Mountains, only to find a place / town as shitty as Lithgow on the other side. Could've been worse - at least it wasn't Middlesbrough! Smoggy and sonar 2 Link to comment
marron Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 3 hours ago, Erimus said: Whats with the nostalgia and history thread anyway..when does nostalgia become history, and is nostalgia something you can remember only, as in your childhood memories? I posted something about the 1966 world cup the other day, but I wasn't born then, so is that nostalgia or history? Or perhaps we should have a combined History and Nostalgia thread.!!!! I just DON'T know!!! Edinburgh, Smoggy and sonar 3 Link to comment
marron Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 (nostalgia is what you remember, history is what you should) sonar, Smoggy and Edinburgh 3 Link to comment
Smoggy Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 18 minutes ago, Edinburgh said: Could've been worse - at least it wasn't Middlesbrough! Don't see the comparison, I mean look at this photo of the Boro from a few years back and tell me it isn't ******* stunning wendybr and Edinburgh 2 Link to comment
marron Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 There is the perfect image of the blast furnace at lithgow in the snow but it's on facebook so I can't post it. Smoggy 1 Link to comment
Smoggy Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 (edited) 3 minutes ago, marron said: There is the perfect image of the blast furnace at lithgow in the snow but it's on facebook so I can't post it. I actually like Lithgow lol I did a walk around the blast furnace park there a few years ago. I grew up climbing and playing on old disused industrial heritage like that, it was our playgrounds...so like places like that... Edited July 22, 2019 by Erimus sonar 1 Link to comment
Smoggy Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 8 minutes ago, marron said: There is the perfect image of the blast furnace at lithgow in the snow but it's on facebook so I can't post it. Will in a flood do, from when I visited a couple of years back? From my sketchbook at that time... wendybr, marron, JackDoff and 3 others 6 Link to comment
marron Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 (edited) Lovely mate! Yeah lithgow's alright, I like it. Main drag has lots of pubs. I like the old houses. I did that too, with the blast furnace, but it was because I got stuck there for two hours on a Sunday arvo with no money. Edited July 22, 2019 by marron Smoggy and Edinburgh 1 1 Link to comment
Smoggy Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 3 minutes ago, marron said: Lovely mate! Yeah lithgow's alright, I like it. Main drag has lots of pubs. I like the old houses. I did that too, with the blast furnace, but it was because I got stuck there for two hours on a Sunday arvo with no money. When I went there the place was in flood, as you can see. But there were also $20 notes blowing around in the wind! wendybr 1 Link to comment
Neverbloom Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 everyone got their history wrong i am watching something on the KKK and apparently Auschwitz was just like a summer camp, they apparently had a swimming pool, poker, a lot of different activities, it sounded like a blast, i cant believe we have all been wrong for so long wendybr 1 Link to comment
Smoggy Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Yesterday was the 200th aniversary of the Peterloo massacre, theres one from the pages of GCSE History year 10. If you want to know a little of what that was about watch tge Regency Blackadder about rotten boroughs and the corn laws. For example by the early 1800 Manchester had already become a sizeable city, but had no representative MP in Parliament. Old villages that were closed down to be incorportated in to wealthy landowners land still returned 1 or even 2 MP's even if only 1 person registered to vote...and that would be the landowner lol That wasnt the whole reason, but one of the causes. EmMac, Edinburgh and marron 3 Link to comment
Smoggy Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Oh and Peterloo is a pretty good movie made last year by Mike Leigh... Link to comment
Smoggy Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 1 hour ago, pseudonym said: “He’s so drunk he is prob seeing double” “I’ve got two guns, one for the each of you”… pseudonym 1 Link to comment
theguyyouwishyouwere Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 On 24/10/2021 at 8:46 AM, pseudonym said: that's also not a mountain range in the background, its the croissant supply under a tarp. Bones, CaptainJess, Edinburgh and 2 others 5 Link to comment
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