the postie was singing carols this morning...

[ewein2412]

Yes he was, and he didn't even know he was delivering THIS.







...

crikey. it is a THING.

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only sort of related

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

which is to say, it doesn't have anything to do with the quality appearance of the book or one's desire to have it immediately, but related in era. I was wondering last night how barrage balloons were tethered to the ground. We found a couple of pictures of things online that people said they *thought* were tethers, plus a scholarly mention of iron bars set into concrete in Greenwich that are "likely" to be tethers. After a lot of searching around, I said to myself "I bet E Wein knows." Presuming that to be the case, are these correctly identified?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/11780791/Shooters-Hill-Greenwich
photo from Stoke Newington
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarflondondunc/2415402749/

Re: only sort of related

[ewein2412]

well, I don't know off hand! (FAIL!) But I think yes. If you look at some of these background images it does seem likely.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=12480

(Isn't the narrative bloody AWFUL!)

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=51949