Real England

i do tend to associate beryl cook with the worst sort of country pubs tbh

wonder who would choose to die defending the reputation of jack vettriano

― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, September 12, 2019 2:23 PM (eighteen minutes ago)

the methil michelangelo!

real suburban creepazoid are my favourite spanish football team fyi

have been going through a bit of a lowry kick recently

these paintings:

https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/the-lowry-site/uploads/2018/09/07160141/A-Landmark.jpg

https://www.arthistoryabroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/LOWRY-The-Sea-1963.jpg

that seascape has been my favourite Lowry since i first saw it

never seen the other one before tho!

amazing that seascape! one of those works that really turns your head about an artist

https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/45/41/1454146_30450ce9.jpg
chapel hill, lockwood now.
https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/museums-galleries-history/img/huddersfield/huddersfieldLowry.png

and back then

good to see they left the railings in place

they are still required to discourage the drugged up Lockwood crazies matchstick dogs from running in front of buses!

there is a Lowry movie coming isn't there?

never mind it just looks like another awful T Sprawl project

Oh god is there?

Ha I was just about to invoke turner

since Spall played another painter, Turner (which was good) he's done some awful projects including playing David Irving, and I think this is going to be another awful one by the reviews I've just skimmed.

I was born 11 years after WW2, we still had shortages, vegetables were seasonal, we ate a lot of offal but fish was plentiful, I survived. We had a three day week of electricity I survived. We had a drought and failed crops, I survived. Yellow hammer? A walk in the park.

— Gary White (@prydwen3) September 12, 2019

Born in '58, no proper bathroom in the house, played in an old air raid shelter at the back of the house, gas lighting on the stairs leading to what would be called nowadays a flat. No supermarkets, but the high street was always busy and there were no empty unused shops. 😀

— LBG6224 (@gerry6224) September 13, 2019

'54. No bathroom, no running hot water, coal house next to the outside loo in the yard.

Comfortable now, but brought my kids up to understand that money doesn't grow on trees, to think for themselves, and that nothing in life is guaranteed.

We all voted to leave the EU.

— Jan Hoggarth (@HoggarthJan) September 13, 2019

1948, one week into NHS. Veg was seasonal, dad grew stuff on an allotment. Chicken was a luxury. Loved Spam fritters. Sunday roast lasted for thee days. What was ‘latte’ ‘Americano’? ‘Artisan’? Less choice, less complicated, healthier. Lot happier.

— Brie (@Brie0748) September 13, 2019

sovereignty is a helluva drug

Unreal North Macedonia

I was born 8 years after WW2, and although we like you had it really tough we were a lot healthier and happier than we are today, WHY? well simple because we were FREE

— razzy D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F (@razzywoman) September 13, 2019

bad news for them in the yellowhammer papers, it is stated that electric and gas supplies will be not be interrupted in a ndb... terrible news.

obviously avoid the "comedy" replies at all costs - and why would you need them when the sincere ones are as good as

I was born just after WW2 & didn’t see a banana until I was 5, I survived. Sandwiches = sugar or jam butties with Stork marg, no sweets, I survived. No central heating or double glazing until the 70s, + the 3 day week, fuel/coal shortages, power cuts due to strikes, I survived.

— Diane Boyle (@diane_boyle) September 13, 2019

I survived not seeing a banana until I was 5

doubling glazing in the 70's - fucking posh bastard!

It’s a good job double glazing won’t be necessary when the planet is on fire otherwise we’d all be fucked

big fan of the black death here, plz can we bring that back too?

lol food poverty in the UK in the post war years was nothing compared to mainland europe. I remember reading when Rossellini was filming his war trilogy they had to use wax fruit on the set because the famished German cast members were so ravenous they couldn't stop themselves.

or it might have been they injected something into the fruit to make it inedible.. but you gets the picture.

Clearly some of my ancestors survived the black death so

Punk rockers, eh? They had it tough.

the great amphetamine famine of '79 was a toughie

i remember waking up with tb wrecked lungs and my mum told me to drink my puddle-water and eat my gravel because i'm not getting a day off school

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqmjWCk36C8

Sorry state of affairs when people born in 1958 are living the Four Yorkshire Men sketch.

Society is indeed in the gutter.

I bet most of the grim look-back bores luxuriating in their own childhood poverty here have zero sympathy with people who are already in food poverty now and reliant on foodbanks even before a ndb.

Yes, but they didn't have to choose between "The Good Old Days" and "The Mike and Bernie Winters Show" for their Saturday night entertainment.

no wonder we need a government Suicide Tsar these days.

they need to start doing a counter on how many lives she's saved!

I want to trawl their old tweets, am betting I'd find them girning about a bread shortage on day two of snow one winter. But cba

people who shit-talk on about the character building aspects of poverty haven't experienced it for so long that they don't have a fucking clue. I bet loads of them would shit their pants in despair if they had no money and no food.

^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ0vtixnR4w

tbf i haven't seen those new fountains, might need to take a ride out tomorrow

OMG LADS I know the kid who made that video

he's a sweetheart tbf

I enjoy listening to his voice, but his tripod work needs improvement.

it's a pretty accurate picture of With

big cox and evans energy off that video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeARXMHW4Is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5j6YsgyMaY

get yer sens darn ta Dewsbury market!

This is all quite exotic tbh.