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96Working Class life in the 1940’s and 1950´s Britain ~ Train Travel
A first hand account of train travel in the late forties and early fifties as experienced by a young working class child. Also memories recalled of the barrow boys and girls that would meet the trains to help passengers to carry their luggage to their Boarding Houses. The sights, sounds and smells associated with steam trains, the smoking and none smoking compartments and much more besides. Come and wander down memory lane and see how different things were back then.
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90The Cicada
Read all about the Cicada with lots of original photographs. There is a video of its predator the Cicada Killer Wasp with its prey. Also a video by David Attenborough of the life-cycle of the Cicada.
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83Can You Take Macro Photographs With A Point and Shoot?
You can take macro using just a point and shoot digital camera. This hub looks at how to use your camera and show some of the results that I have had with my point and shoot. Stunning photos that you can with a bit of patience you can take too.
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81Galveston – One of the Stories of The Great Storm of 1900
This is an account of the St Mary's Orphan Asylum in Galveston Texas during the the great storm of 1900. Read about the bravery and devotion of the Nuns as they seek to look after their orphan in their care.In this storm over six thousand people were lost and three thousand six hundred homes destroyed.
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77My Camera and I Looking Through a Window in Virginia
Join me and my camera looking through a window at a variety of birds and squirrels that come to feed just out side of a window in Virginia. Lots of beautiful photographs of the wildlife outside and the three cats inside that watched through the window with me. If you are a fan of nature then you will love this article. See close up the Blue Jays, Dark-eyed Juncos,Brown-headed Cowbirds all enjoying the food put out for them when the snow was heavy on the ground.
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94Working Class life in the 1940’s - Wash Day
Have you ever wondered what wash days were like sixty years ago before there were such things as automatic washing machines. Wonder no more read this first hand account of what it was like in a working class home in Britain on wash day. This way of life has pretty much disappeared in Britain but hubs like this ensure that it is not forgotten.
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96How to Use the Patch Tool in PhotoShop
How to use the Patch tool in PhotoShop - a very basic step by step tutorial. This tutorial will take a beginner through the whole process with clear easy to follow instructions. Each step you have to do is illustrated and each illustration has the place you need to click highlighted so that it is easy to locate. Someone who has no previous knowledge of PhotoShop can follow this.
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90The Caterpillar of the Pine Processionary Moth
The Pine Processionary Moth Caterpillar has poisonous hairs. These hairs are lost as they move around and can cause some very nasty rashes and these can take some time to heal and can be very sore and itchy.When these caterpillars are on the move you especially don’t want to inhale these hairs or have them get into your eyes also you need to be careful not to let your dogs come into contact with them because if they inhale these hairs it can kill them,
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90How to Selectively Color part of a Monochrome Image Using Photoshop
This is an easy step by step Tutorial on how to selectively color just one part of an image using PhotoShop. Each step has a screen capture to illustrate where to locate each editing tool on the Photoshop screen. This tutorial is designed so a complete novice can follow the easy steps and reproduce the same end result even if it is the first time they have used the software.
28 comments87A story of Incest and one of its after effects
This story of incest is written from the perspective of a child born as a result of incest. Today I doubt that a twelve-year-old girl would have gone full term but this was the 1940’s. There are so many lives irrevocably changed when this happens read how my life affected my adoptive family.
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