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4 months ago
Sir Nigel Gresley whistles through Grantham 27 nov08
60007 Sir Nigel Gresley at speed through Grantham -- This is what the A4 and mainline were about ---AWESOME---even my wife enjoyed it . Turn the so...
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4 months ago
Dads Model Railway - May 2010
Loosely based on the old Scottish Railnetwork, this project started off incorporating Western Stations but this labour of love over the years whils...
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Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant !!!!! - bring on the vid of the system actually working !
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4 months ago
Saggar makers bottom knocker
Saggar makers bottom knocker - actually knocking! Short film showing one of the lost skills of the saggar makers bottom knocker.
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Good to see this and thanks for sharing! As a small boy I watched that edition of What's my Line with my parents. I can remember panelists, but this is the only occupation I can remember. At last I've been able to find out exactly what was involved !!
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5 months ago
John Williams - Gaspar Sanz - Canarios (1975)
John Williams plays Canarios by Gaspar Sanz, on solo classical guitar.
From a 1975 TV series about Spanish guitar music with Williams. This episod...
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About the time of this recording, the BBC made a documentary on the Air and Ground Controllers at Heathrow, London. It was voiced by Paul Vaughn and I'm sure used Sanz' themes as incidental background music. Imagine if you will, aircraft shot using extreme telephoto moving silently around the ta...
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6 months ago
BFI A trip on the Metropolitan Railway (1910)
This film shows a drivers eye view of the Metropolitan line. It goes from London's Baker Street to almost Aylesbury and passes through Rickmanswort...
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Slowing down at Pinner, the camera pans to show the north end station garden. In the 50's I was a small boy and in holiday time used to walk down to the station to see my Father off to work "somewhere in the city". If I put on my rose-tinted spectacles I can see him with regulation bowler hat an...
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7 months ago
Arturo Toscanini "Coriolanus Overture Rhearsal" Beethoven
Rehearsal : Coriolanus Overture, op. 62
by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini, conductor
XII. 1946
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Thank you so much for putting up these incredible recordings. I am neither musician nor musicologist, but have marveled at this man's interpretations of Beethoven's work all my adult life. To hear it being made is just something else.
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All we need now is the sound of the up platform station bell telling us to put the cap back on the Tizer bottle and get the notebook out before this wonderful soundscape unfolds. Just like the video, you would hear them before you could see them, and as soon as the chime whistle sounded you would...