Eclectic Ephemera

source - Wikimedia Commons / Hurtan-club.de Shop Makes Modern Jeep Wranglers Look Like Weird 1930s Off-Roaders Well, as I sit out in the dappled sunshine gracing my garden it seems I've ju...

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To all my readers, followers, visitors and vintage friends - have a Happy Easter and I will see you again in April!   In the meantime, do as the song says and Get Into the Spirit of Spring ...

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Downers Grove 23-year-old repairs typewriters for a living Time for a round-up of more typewriter-related news from the last coupe of months now, starting with another familiar - but always we...

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Tintin and the Red Devils: Belgian football teams present new comic-themed shirt You'll forgive me I trust for skipping forward chronologically with this next post (there are still some news ...

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Britain’s youngest-ever female pilot set to fly WW1 Sopwith 1½ Strutter Huzzah!  We've finally made it in to 2024 (just!) with this latest item of news, featuring a modern aviation paceset...

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Ukraine finds British WW2 Hurricane planes outside Kyiv Back to Hawker Hurricanes again for this next story, featuring the extraordinary recovery of eight airframes that have been found buried...

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91-year-old car enthusiast, teen bond over restoring vintage Model A Ford We resume normal service now on Eclectic Ephemera with this heart-warming story from Washington state in America and w...

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"What's that - you'd like to leave a comment?  Let me just get a pen and some paper..." Hello all.  This is by way of a bit of "housekeeping" between posts (I suppose this is a post in it...

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Texas Man Has Sky-High Dreams of an Airship Race Around the World Going back a mere 12 years for the origins of this next post we switch from the road to the air and a mode of transport oft-c...

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Alvis resurrects 1920s Grand Prix racing car Nearly 14 years ago now (yikes, where on earth has the time gone?!) I reported on the then-new owners of the classic British motoring manufactur...

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Jersey veteran pilot flies WW2 plane for 101st birthday present A heart-warming story from April 2023 now, featuring remarkable WWII RAF veteran Bernard Gardiner who, for his 101st birthday, ...

http://eclecticephemera.blogspot.com/2024/02/jersey-veteran-pilot-flies-ww2-plane.html

Hello.  Yes, it's me again, begging forgiveness once more for allowing six months to elapse between posts!  I have been a bad blogger and there is no excuse.  I could blame my new forum for t...

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No, not the 1962 stage musical.  Not even the 1966 film adaptation.  No, this is actually about a forum that I regularly frequent and the not-so-funny thing that has recently happened to it. ...

http://eclecticephemera.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-funny-thing-happened-on-way-to-forum.html

Nostalgic telegram service is proving popular in Leamington and Warwick The last of my backlog of posts from 2021 features another piece of "obsolete" technology that is anything but, especial...

http://eclecticephemera.blogspot.com/2023/06/nostalgic-telegram-service-is-proving.html

How One Photographer Gets All Of Her Inspiration From The '30s A nice little article now, the last of my 2020 drafts and a pleasing showcase of a fellow vintage aficionado from Brooklyn who li...

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Women Detectives: Meet The Victorian Female Super Sleuths As promised/ threatened, delving back into my Drafts archive has unearthed this post, originally written in November 2020.  The subjec...

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I wrote the above typecast back at the beginning of April, which shows just how much life intervened that I am only just now able to get round to posting it here!  Those 78s will have to wai...

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source - wikitree  To all my readers, followers and visitors old & new, may you all have a a very HAPPY EASTER and I look forward to seeing you around the blogosphere into the Spring an...

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Bessie Coleman, pioneering pilot, now has her own Barbie Well, this is something I never thought I'd be blogging about.  Not that I'm an expert on such things as dolls, you understand (althou...

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  Vintage loco comes to the rescue after popular Snowdonia path washed away by floods Another welcome return to this blog for one of my favourite sort of happenings - the "vintage machinery c...

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source - Wikimedia Commons/kitmasterbloke Hull’s cream-coloured phone boxes given Grade II-listed status Well here we go, straight back in the saddle with this latest article about a ra...

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I say, it's been a while, hasn't it (where have we heard that before)?!  Crikey, even the Blogger interface has changed since my last post!  I've almost forgotten how all this works.  I fan...

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via GIPHY Live action Tintin film reportedly on the way Just when I was recently lamenting the lack of a sequel to 2011's The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn from either Peter Ja...

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source - North-West Evening Mail   Victorian road signs in Cartmel restored by local lengthsman When I blogged back in July about the restoration of some traditional finger post road sig...

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I would class myself as being slightly superstitious - I have a mild dislike of the number 13 (but don't go out of my way to avoid it), try not to walk under ladders and have been known to salute...

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