Norman D. Landing

[mikie]

29 minutes ago, mikie said:

Gunji found another one this morning. He spotted this Volvo wagon while we were out walkies. Not as vintage as the others, late 60s I think? I have to say I really like the styling on this one! And Gunji agrees. 
mikie

Dad had a thing for Rambler wagons in the 60s. I was still quite young then but have some fond memories of riding “way in the back” on road trips. Seeing this wagon brought back some fond memories. 
mikie

[General Apathy]

2 hours ago, mikie said:

Gunji found another one this morning. He spotted this Volvo wagon while we were out walkies. Not as vintage as the others, late 60s I think? I have to say I really like the styling on this one! And Gunji agrees. 
mikie

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Hi Mikie,

 

Considering that Volvos were / are built in Europe I can't recall when I last saw one of those over here, a rare vehicle to be sure.  I think I have had five or six Volvo estates during my driving life.  Volvo GLT in 1989 before divorce reduced my income . . . . . . . . . . . !! 😂

 

After me it went to my sister-in-law and then her daughter ( my niece ) eventually it had done 350,000 trouble free miles when sold as spares. 

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 12  2023.

 

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[solcarlus]

Il y a 20 heures, le général Apathy a dit :

 

 

 

# 448/4 500.

[mikie]

1 hour ago, General Apathy said:

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Hi Mikie,

 

Considering that Volvos were / are built in Europe I can't recall when I last saw one of those over here, a rare vehicle to be sure.  I think I have had five or six Volvo estates during my driving life.  Volvo GLT in 1989 before divorce reduced my income . . . . . . . . . . . !! 😂

 

After me it went to my sister-in-law and then her daughter ( my niece ) eventually it had done 350,000 trouble free miles when sold as spares. 

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 12  2023.

 

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I understand that they are reliable cars. I’ve never owned one, or a European car for that matter.  But as said, I like to look of this one. 

let me know if I go too much off topic with these car posts. Hopefully next up he will find  a Sherman tank, or even a Ford Jeep! 
 

mikie

[General Apathy]

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Well we all ‘ win-some / lose-some ', this WWII dog gas-mask belonged to me for forty years ( page 261 of my book ) I sold it at auction in 2019 in Caen maybe about €800 euros, the American buyer just resold it to a museum for nine thousand five hundred . . . . . . . . . . . 

 

Found the photo on another forum thread last night.  !!!!!  

https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/651-dogs-and-the-military/page/17/#comment-2996457

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 13  2023.

 

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[aerialbridge]

I can dig it.  Some days you're the dog, and some days.......   You got the right attitude,  chuckle and FIDO.  ;-) 

[General Apathy]

42 minutes ago, aerialbridge said:

I can dig it.  Some days you're the dog, and some days.......   You got the right attitude,  chuckle and FIDO.  ;-) 

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Hi,

 

Yes, thanks you're right,  I take life as it comes, I have my health, maybe less so wealth but what's meant to be will be . . . . . . . . 

 

There's an English couple reported in the newspaper a couple of days ago, and the storyline goes something like this , they filled out a lottery ticket with what turned out to be the winning numbers and it was 182 million, they paid with a credit card which declined the payment as they simply hadn't even got the two pounds or so in their bank,  they missed on winning the 182 million.

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 13  2023.

 

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[mikie]

5 hours ago, General Apathy said:

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Well we all ‘ win-some / lose-some ', this WWII dog gas-mask belonged to me for forty years ( page 261 of my book ) I sold it at auction in 2019 in Caen maybe about €800 euros, the American buyer just resold it to a museum for nine thousand five hundred . . . . . . . . . . . 

 

Found the photo on another forum thread last night.  !!!!!  

https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/651-dogs-and-the-military/page/17/#comment-2996457

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 13  2023.

 

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If that’s a signed copy of The Book that they included with the mask, then the markup is well worth it. 
mikie

[General Apathy]

29 minutes ago, mikie said:

If that’s a signed copy of The Book that they included with the mask, then the markup is well worth it. 
mikie

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Hi Mikie,

 

No I can see that it's not a signed first edition, probably a second or third edition.  First editions have a jacket overwrap and under the overwrap on the end boards its 9 carat gold logo blocking on the front cover and the spine, all part of the reason it cost so much to produce, fine grade paper and stitched pages as well.  

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 13  2023.

 

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[Johan Willaert]

On 3/8/2023 at 6:50 PM, General Apathy said:

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From the Shoebox . . . . . . 

 

Well this is the end of the flashlight posts and finishes with a couple of the makes of BA-30 batteries used in TL-122 flashlights. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 08  2023.

 

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From the Shoe, eeuuhh, Battery Box…

 

note box held Brightstar made batteries, one of which is shown above

 

 

[Escht]

1 hour ago, General Apathy said:

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Hi Mikie,

 

No I can see that it's not a signed first edition, probably a second or third edition.  First editions have a jacket overwrap and under the overwrap on the end boards its 9 carat gold logo blocking on the front cover and the spine, all part of the reason it cost so much to produce, fine grade paper and stitched pages as well.  

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 13  2023.

 

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Looks like I got one of the posh First Editions, signed back in 1994 #2160 of 4500.  with personal inscription. A treasured part of my library.

[General Apathy]

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Nothing stands still time moves on . . . . . . . . . 

 

I have shown these photos in past posts but having read that the ' Crooked House ' pub we used to drink in during the days mud-plugging is about to be closed, it raised memories of the many happy days we spent around the area and in this pub. 

 

It was originally built in 1765 as a farmhouse but due to the location being a mining area the farming family sold it,  and it became a public-house selling beers and alcohol around 1830's and has been in continual use for 190 years.

 

Note in the second photo the lead jeep has a rain drenched canvas top and remains of snow on the engine hood and bulkhead. 

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 13  2023.

 

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[mikie]

6 minutes ago, General Apathy said:

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Nothing stands still time moves on . . . . . . . . . 

 

I have shown these photos in past posts but having read that the ' Crooked House ' pub we used to drink in during the days mud-plugging is about to be closed, it raised memories of the many happy days we spent around the area and in this pub. 

 

It was originally built in 1765 as a farmhouse but due to the location being a mining area the farming family sold it,  and it became a public-house selling beers and alcohol around 1830's and has been in continual use for 190 years.

 

Note in the second photo the lead jeep has a rain drenched canvas top and remains of snow on the engine hood and bulkhead. 

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 13  2023.

 

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I wonder how it got named 'Crooked House'? 

 

Did you drive through that mud ON PURPOSE?  

Mikie

[General Apathy]

20 minutes ago, mikie said:

I wonder how it got named 'Crooked House'? 

 

Did you drive through that mud ON PURPOSE?  

Mikie

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Hi Mikie,

 

We made a point of using these tracks in the winter when they would be extremely wet and muddy, whole purpose of the day to splash our way from one end to the other end, probably twenty miles,  it was originally a train track until the 1960's government cut-backs on under-used rail lines.

 

What was fun in the bar was a dish of glass balls ( marbles ) when laid on the bar they ran in the opposite direction to what the eye expected.

 

Notice on the left of the building the added buttress once the building started to slip in that direction, I think the whole building was also underpinned with a concrete slab to prevent more slippage, in the top right window the drapes hanging strangely vertically behind the glass. 

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 13  2023.

 

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[mikie]

59 minutes ago, General Apathy said:

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Hi Mikie,

 

We made a point of using these tracks in the winter when they would be extremely wet and muddy, whole purpose of the day to splash our way from one end to the other end, probably twenty miles,  it was originally a train track until the 1960's government cut-backs on under-used rail lines.

 

What was fun in the bar was a dish of glass balls ( marbles ) when laid on the bar they ran in the opposite direction to what the eye expected.

 

Notice on the left of the building the added buttress once the building started to slip in that direction, I think the whole building was also underpinned with a concrete slab to prevent more slippage, in the top right window the drapes hanging strangely vertically behind the glass. 

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 13  2023.

 

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Just like that tower in Pisa.  Only shorter.

 

If people drank too much there, I wonder if the place looked straight to them?  

 

Mikie

[Escht]

We used to go to Ma Pardoes and the Crooked house. It's a weird feeling watching coins roll uphill,

Will be a shame if it isn't rescued.

[General Apathy]

1 hour ago, Escht said:

We used to go to Ma Pardoes and the Crooked house. It's a weird feeling watching coins roll uphill,

Will be a shame if it isn't rescued.

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Hi Escht,

 

we obviously couldn't take the Jeeps to Ma Pardoes as it was on a main traffic junction in a town centre, so no mud-plugging.

 

I just received an email from a friend in Devon who used to live near Silverstone race circuit and they regularly filled a fifty seat coach and travelled around eighty miles to visit the Crooked House and Ma Pardoes for the beer brewed on site at Ma Pardoes. Both of these places suffered badly during the Covid pandemic through social distancing requirements.  

 

A couple of photos for forum members of ' Ma Pardoes ' ( the first owner 1835 )  but officially called the ' The Olde Swan '.

 

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 13  2023.

 

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[General Apathy]

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Carentan Then & Now  . . . . . .  Correction 

 

Several sites have mis-identified the Carentan train station as the damaged building with the tracks torn up in front of the building. We all make mistakes and believe me I know that feeling well, either our own or other persons involved with subject / topic. 

 

Note the first and second comparisons both identifying the train station as the damaged building.  In making comparisons both cameramen looked left towards the station, when in fact they should have looked right, the opposite direction away from the station for the real building.  

 

See my comparisons in photos 3 & 4 the two small windows on the left of the end wall, on the front wall three windows on the upper floor, and garage doors on the lower left of the front. ( WWII photo American half-track in front of the doors ) 

 

The attic window was not replaced post war, and ignore the post war block of flats behind the building.   

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 15  2023.

 

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[Escht]

Just round the corner from the building used by 101st Abn as a first aid station in Rue Holgate.  Well spotted, it took me a while to find it on Google Earth, bit further away from the station than I imagined.

[General Apathy]

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Cataloging my brothers biscuit tin collection for auctioning.

 

My older brother died October 2022, while I collected militaria he collected antique biscuit tins and biscuit ephemera, his earliest being around 1890.   From the turn of the century biscuit tins came in many guises, mainly for children to play with once the biscuits were eaten, boats, planes, trains, cars, trucks, also handbags, books, houses, designs from popular children's books etc.   My niece who lives in Scotland has started photographing and cataloging Barrie's collection ready for auctioning.  Below a couple of my favourites, the patriotic framed wall map shows the war fronts during 1918 and was presented by Crawford's Cream Crackers.

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 15  2023.

 

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[Johan Willaert]

22 hours ago, General Apathy said:

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Carentan Then & Now  . . . . . .  Correction 

 

Several sites have mis-identified the Carentan train station as the damaged building with the tracks torn up in front of the building. We all make mistakes and believe me I know that feeling well, either our own or other persons involved with subject / topic. 

 

Note the first and second comparisons both identifying the train station as the damaged building.  In making comparisons both cameramen looked left towards the station, when in fact they should have looked right, the opposite direction away from the station for the real building.  

 

See my comparisons in photos 3 & 4 the two small windows on the left of the end wall, on the front wall three windows on the upper floor, and garage doors on the lower left of the front. ( WWII photo American half-track in front of the doors ) 

 

The attic window was not replaced post war, and ignore the post war block of flats behind the building.   

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 15  2023.

 

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The above photos were taken from the Carentan side of the track looking right towards Cherbourg, from the RR crossing which has since long been closed to traffic with a pedestrian bridge allowing to cross the RR.
Photos below were taken from the same location across the RR crossing and shows an 105mm M7 Priest crossing the railroad with the last comparison photo taken from the foot bridge...

 

[Johan Willaert]

1 minute ago, Johan Willaert said:

 

The house with the torn up tracks is still there as shown by Ken above and is just to the right of the above photo about 100yds on the small road along the RR tracks...

[Escht]

The building to the right of the green fronted one , as you look at the front of the building,  was the 506th 1st Aid Station according to the mapping I'm looking at.

The house behind the torn up track is No.3 Rue de la Guinguette

[manayunkman]

20 hours ago, General Apathy said:

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Cataloging my brothers biscuit tin collection for auctioning.

 

My older brother died October 2022, while I collected militaria he collected antique biscuit tins and biscuit ephemera, his earliest being around 1890.   From the turn of the century biscuit tins came in many guises, mainly for children to play with once the biscuits were eaten, boats, planes, trains, cars, trucks, also handbags, books, houses, designs from popular children's books etc.   My niece who lives in Scotland has started photographing and cataloging Barrie's collection ready for auctioning.  Below a couple of my favourites, the patriotic framed wall map shows the war fronts during 1918 and was presented by Crawford's Cream Crackers.

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 15  2023.

 

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How’s the tin market doing?

 

Here in the US more common pieces have fallen in price.

 

 

Some very nice pieces in your brothers collection.

 

 

[manayunkman]

Some great then and now shots!