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  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,985
  • green_beergreen_beer Member Posts: 1,936
    goldon said:


    "we're not catching covid on our summer holiday,
    wearing funky masks for a week or two"
  • green_beergreen_beer Member Posts: 1,936
    heres 3 of my favourite photos, i could stare at these for hours, and have done in the past;





    hope you like them they are by cartier-bresson, man ray and richard billingham......
  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,835




    https://www.exploringgb.co.uk/blog/bilstone-gibbet-post?fbclid=IwAR3auOaRI-A9wyfVdxrjMVWkDmtTNRjB8e3eeUrt4pGY_5u2Wx9wWrgjM2s


    Bilstone Gibbet Post: A Gruesome History.

    Bilstone Gibbet Post was erected 1801 to display the body of murderer John Massey.

    The rotting remains, then the skeleton, stayed on display for at least 18 years.

    The post, situated in Bilstone, Nuneaton, is still standing today, and it's Grade 2 listed.

    The famous oak post was erected in March 1801, a quarter of a mile from the scene of a notorious murder committed by John Massey in February 1800.

    The incident which led to Massey’s downfall took place when he became involved in a violent argument with his second wife, Lydia while the pair were out walking by Milstone Mill with his wife’s 10-year-old daughter.

    He brutally battered his wife and kicked her and his step daughter into the mill stream.

    His wife subsequently died of her injuries several weeks later.

    Unfortunately for Massey, however, the young girl survived and went on to give evidence against him.

    He was sentenced as Leicester Assizes to be hanged and gibbeted.

    The hanging was carried out at Red Hill, Birstall on the 23rd March 1801.

    As was the custom of the day after execution, the body was transported to the parish where the crime had been committed.

    The body would be wrapped in chains and hung from a metal ring on the gibbet post and left as a public and lasting spectacle.

    Even as late as 1818, it was reported that the skeleton of John Massey still existed as a grim reminder to the other homicides.

    Born around 1750, Massey had been a local celebrity and renowned wrestler.

    He often defeated his opponents by throwing them over his head giving ride to the nickname of Topsy Turvey.

    He worked in the fields at Oilstone as an agricultural worker and was reputed to be punctual and industrious.

    However, he acquired a reputation for heavy drinking and was given to violent outbursts of temper and cruelty to his wives, Sarah who died in 1797 and Lydia, whom he murdered.


  • VespaPXVespaPX Member Posts: 12,313
    Nice post
  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,985
    Yep! no bones about it .....
  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,985
    Burn up........ the deep fat fry'er


  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,835
  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,985
    "What's your Ride " " Oh! I've got an old Croc "


  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,835
    lucy4 said:




    Basket Jim would make a fortune working for Deliveroo nowadays...
  • GlenelgGlenelg Member Posts: 6,599
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    lucy4 said:

    lucy4 said:




    Basket Jim would make a fortune working for Deliveroo nowadays...
    If they were all within walking distance & nae flats.😂
  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,985
    We all know he's a Basket Head. !
  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,835
    Leaning Tower of Pizza's delivered by Basket Jim could've been a great advertising slogan for any Pizza group.
  • kapowblamzkapowblamz Member Posts: 1,579


    Cumulus congestus cloud at a beach, raining.
  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,835
    Looks like a decent Island holiday escape to me...





  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,835
    Surely this can't be a real picture ?





  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 168,789
    edited January 24
    @lucy4


    I bet it is genuine, though the camera has used one of those weird lenses.


    The USA is unbelievably big, with huge undeveloped open spaces, so yes, there are a whole lot of extremely long, straight roads.

    There's a stretch of the I-15 just west of Las Vegas which looks very similar to that photo.




  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,662
    Tikay10 said:

    @lucy4


    I bet it is genuine, though the camera has used one of those weird lenses.


    The USA is unbelievably big, with huge undeveloped open spaces, so yes, there are a whole lot of extremely long, straight roads.

    There's a stretch of the I-15 just west of Las Vegas which looks very similar to that photo.




    That brought back memories. Travelled that road on my honeymoon, 25 years ago.

    Massive road. And most of the roads off it lead to prisons.
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 168,789

    @Essexphil

    "And most of the roads off it lead to prisons."


    Ha, yes, & that's still the case. Those prisons are in the middle of the Californian desert, hundreds of miles from anywhere. Good luck escaping from those, you might be able to get out of the prison, but after that, you are stranded, hundreds of miles from anywhere.
  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,835
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