Dave Stowe
@davidstowe1919.bsky.social
Independent Researcher and Historian. Interests: Civilian Internment, Crime, Urban History, Interwar Years. TV & Film. Leeds, West Yorkshire.
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The actions surrounding the death of Mary Bishop's father on 27 May 1918 as found in the war diaries of 6th Northumberland Fusiliers. Padre George Bernard H Bishop is commemorated at the Soissons Memorial, France. Images include Strength of Battalion 1-31 May 1918 and Casualty List 27-30 May 1918.
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The actions surrounding the death of Mary Bishop's father on 27 May 1918 as found in the war diaries of 6th Northumberland Fusiliers. Padre George Bernard H Bishop is commemorated at the Soissons Memorial, France. Images include Strength of Battalion 1-31 May 1918 and Casualty List 27-30 May 1918.
Bonfire Night when I was younger (w/out wanting to sound too nostalgic) was mostly about pie and peas, jacket potatoes, and parkin. It was also a community event, involving 'chumping' (collecting firewood) or 'raiding' the rivals' stockpile, and then getting together to make the biggest bonfire.
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Bonfire Night when I was younger (w/out wanting to sound too nostalgic) was mostly about pie and peas, jacket potatoes, and parkin. It was also a community event, involving 'chumping' (collecting firewood) or 'raiding' the rivals' stockpile, and then getting together to make the biggest bonfire.
Delfshaven - one year ago today! #Netherlands
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Delfshaven - one year ago today! #Netherlands
Shiver me timbers! Some worthy collectables and re-issues here among Sheila McCullagh's Griffin and Dragon Pirate Stories.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Shiver me timbers! Some worthy collectables and re-issues here among Sheila McCullagh's Griffin and Dragon Pirate Stories.
schoolreading70sbooks.weebly.com/the-three-pi...
schoolreading70sbooks.weebly.com/the-three-pi...
Early rise & watching Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939) on Talking Pictures. It's left me thinking that the dressing gown and cravat plays an impt part in the studio wardrobe in this period. Bulldog Drummond stands out in that he's wearing a stud collar and dickie bow for the night scenes.
October 26, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Early rise & watching Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939) on Talking Pictures. It's left me thinking that the dressing gown and cravat plays an impt part in the studio wardrobe in this period. Bulldog Drummond stands out in that he's wearing a stud collar and dickie bow for the night scenes.
It's Germania almost a century on.
October 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It's Germania almost a century on.
I think you are probably right. I like the 'new' Leeds. Lots of positive changes. I seem to remember reading a feature about Wallace Arnold in the online YEP - which I can longer find, unfortunately.
Now found. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/heritage-and...
Now found. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/heritage-and...
October 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I think you are probably right. I like the 'new' Leeds. Lots of positive changes. I seem to remember reading a feature about Wallace Arnold in the online YEP - which I can longer find, unfortunately.
Now found. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/heritage-and...
Now found. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/heritage-and...
Soz. Not quite getting the Green Party vibe (or any other, for that matter), and leaning more towards the electioneering platform of Monty Brewster in 'Brewster's Millions' and 'None of the Above'. #QuestionTime
October 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Soz. Not quite getting the Green Party vibe (or any other, for that matter), and leaning more towards the electioneering platform of Monty Brewster in 'Brewster's Millions' and 'None of the Above'. #QuestionTime
These really are quite amazing. It's like looking at a snapshot of some of the streets of my childhood until 1974. The photo of Leicester Place, and the long shot of St. Mark's Road looking towards Leeds Uni especially so. Some of the adjacent streets were Ritter St, the Bagbys, and the Kingstons.
October 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
These really are quite amazing. It's like looking at a snapshot of some of the streets of my childhood until 1974. The photo of Leicester Place, and the long shot of St. Mark's Road looking towards Leeds Uni especially so. Some of the adjacent streets were Ritter St, the Bagbys, and the Kingstons.
The Blue Peter, Derby. The things you see on the top deck of a bus! More on the Blue Peter, Blue Pool, and Blue Boy below.
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2570842
#ArtDeco #PublicHouses #Derby
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2570842
#ArtDeco #PublicHouses #Derby
September 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The Blue Peter, Derby. The things you see on the top deck of a bus! More on the Blue Peter, Blue Pool, and Blue Boy below.
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2570842
#ArtDeco #PublicHouses #Derby
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2570842
#ArtDeco #PublicHouses #Derby
August 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Saturday vibes. Roy Lichtenstein, The Red Horseman (1974) and Carlo Carrà's original from 1913.
August 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Saturday vibes. Roy Lichtenstein, The Red Horseman (1974) and Carlo Carrà's original from 1913.
I couldn't help but notice the design of this drain cover outside the Fenix Museum in Rotterdam last week. Nice depth - and reflection of the drain cover too.
It was a fleeting visit on this occasion. I hope to spend more time in the museum on my next trip. #Rotterdam
It was a fleeting visit on this occasion. I hope to spend more time in the museum on my next trip. #Rotterdam
August 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I couldn't help but notice the design of this drain cover outside the Fenix Museum in Rotterdam last week. Nice depth - and reflection of the drain cover too.
It was a fleeting visit on this occasion. I hope to spend more time in the museum on my next trip. #Rotterdam
It was a fleeting visit on this occasion. I hope to spend more time in the museum on my next trip. #Rotterdam
Super friendly cat at the S.S. Rotterdam in the Netherlands - and equally appealing carved funerary monument of a cat sittng on top of a gravestone in Crooswijk Cemetery, Rotterdam. #Caturday
July 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Super friendly cat at the S.S. Rotterdam in the Netherlands - and equally appealing carved funerary monument of a cat sittng on top of a gravestone in Crooswijk Cemetery, Rotterdam. #Caturday
I can certainly see the likeness to T.E. Lawrence, as found in this stone tomb effigy in St. Martin's Church, Wareham. It's the angular jawline and shape of Lawrence's nose and other facial features in this and other images I think. It's a striking watercolour nonetheless.
June 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I can certainly see the likeness to T.E. Lawrence, as found in this stone tomb effigy in St. Martin's Church, Wareham. It's the angular jawline and shape of Lawrence's nose and other facial features in this and other images I think. It's a striking watercolour nonetheless.
That's a good call - tho' so many films to choose from. I'd have to go with some of her later stuff and The Anniversary from 1968.
June 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
That's a good call - tho' so many films to choose from. I'd have to go with some of her later stuff and The Anniversary from 1968.
June 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Back issues of the Navy News may hold further information on deployments or places visited. See also Internet Archive. archive.org/details/Navy...
(MOD for service records after 1955 www.gov.uk/get-copy-mil... Disclaimer: some information may be withheld for personal/security/operational reasons)
(MOD for service records after 1955 www.gov.uk/get-copy-mil... Disclaimer: some information may be withheld for personal/security/operational reasons)
June 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Back issues of the Navy News may hold further information on deployments or places visited. See also Internet Archive. archive.org/details/Navy...
(MOD for service records after 1955 www.gov.uk/get-copy-mil... Disclaimer: some information may be withheld for personal/security/operational reasons)
(MOD for service records after 1955 www.gov.uk/get-copy-mil... Disclaimer: some information may be withheld for personal/security/operational reasons)
It looks like Tunnock's have created a specially commissioned advert to welcome you back, Liam. 😀 @liammcilvanney.bsky.social
Tunnock's Caramel Wafers. As seen on TV.
Tunnock's Caramel Wafers. As seen on TV.
June 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
It looks like Tunnock's have created a specially commissioned advert to welcome you back, Liam. 😀 @liammcilvanney.bsky.social
Tunnock's Caramel Wafers. As seen on TV.
Tunnock's Caramel Wafers. As seen on TV.
This Sporting Life is being shown tonight on the British Screen Classics channel. It was a role meant for Richard Harris, in much the same way I feel as Alan Bates in A Kind of Loving, and Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton in Saturday Night, Sunday Morning. Three great films and supporting cast.
May 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This Sporting Life is being shown tonight on the British Screen Classics channel. It was a role meant for Richard Harris, in much the same way I feel as Alan Bates in A Kind of Loving, and Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton in Saturday Night, Sunday Morning. Three great films and supporting cast.
I had to do a double take when I saw the advertisement for Lilo and Stitch on the side of this bus. The similarities betwen Stitch and Magwitch when she 'had her face on' are uncanny. 😀
May 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I had to do a double take when I saw the advertisement for Lilo and Stitch on the side of this bus. The similarities betwen Stitch and Magwitch when she 'had her face on' are uncanny. 😀
Just bumping this up. The image is of the Electra Cinema, previously mentioned re Plasticraft. A much larger image would show the nameplate of Turner Research to the right of the shuttered entrance. Photographer: Peter Mitchell.
Source: Strangely Familiar
strangelyfamiliar.co.uk/products/010...
Source: Strangely Familiar
strangelyfamiliar.co.uk/products/010...
May 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Just bumping this up. The image is of the Electra Cinema, previously mentioned re Plasticraft. A much larger image would show the nameplate of Turner Research to the right of the shuttered entrance. Photographer: Peter Mitchell.
Source: Strangely Familiar
strangelyfamiliar.co.uk/products/010...
Source: Strangely Familiar
strangelyfamiliar.co.uk/products/010...
It's a photograph taken by Peter Mitchell of a fish and chip shop in Leeds, 1970s.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
May 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's a photograph taken by Peter Mitchell of a fish and chip shop in Leeds, 1970s.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
The Mob. New Jersey, 1961 (Walter Chandoha) is one of my favourites. My old moggy looking very much like the prettiest of the cats second from the right. Hard to tell though. There's something about them all.
May 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The Mob. New Jersey, 1961 (Walter Chandoha) is one of my favourites. My old moggy looking very much like the prettiest of the cats second from the right. Hard to tell though. There's something about them all.
Love the typeface on this Merrion Centre Guide c. 1964. It's got the look of a 1960s comedy film about it - something like The Pink Panther or the earlier Two-Way Stretch.
May 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Love the typeface on this Merrion Centre Guide c. 1964. It's got the look of a 1960s comedy film about it - something like The Pink Panther or the earlier Two-Way Stretch.