More Hollings Fashions - 1988

 

Another chance to see what the Fashion Students of Hollings College of Stuff have for show at their Degree End Show.

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The Big Horse

 

So, I was going to post a different image, but ... damn. I'd used it before.

So, have a slide of a Big Hoss instead.

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Don't Leave The Dancefloor

 The only thing on this slide was "Castle" and "1977", so this could be the legendary gig by The Sex Pistols at the Castle and Flagon Pub in East Grinstead.

Could be.

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An uncomfortable First Date

 

Yet, they stayed together for 23 years, intil that incident with her sister...

Bonus - The council of the wise has been formed...

Hey, let's try that Japanese Restaurant on Fifth and Hawthorn

 

Seems surprisingly adventurous for Seventies Suburban America,.

Bonus : Six chances to guess a capital city

Oh Look. Another Church.

 

It seems a pity to post this on Tedious Tuesday, because it does look like quite an impressive building.

But, these sort of slide are basically boring,. An interesting church on a day coach-trip to mumblety-mumble.  Let's take a picture to bore the neighbours with, but not have any information of where and when.

OK, in this case, it might be St. George's Basilica - Prague Castle.  Image  StreetView

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Metameor?

 

"Metameor" was written on the slide, as best as I can judge...but that turns up zilch on Google.

The image - might shows the Ksar Ouled Soltane, a fortified granary located in southern Tunisia. 

Historical Purpose: Built by the Amazigh people in the 15th century, these structures served as fortified storage spaces called ghorfas for grain and dates. 

Pop Culture: It gained international fame as a filming location for the slave quarters of Mos Espa in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. 

The slide's odd colour cast - unknown. Possible a slight light-leak.

The woman - You've guessed it, unknown. But she seems to be carrying a Swann Hellenic (WF & RK SWAN LTD LONDON) travel bag.

Bonus Fact - Ksar Ouled Soltane is located in the town of Soltane, which is south of Tataouine. Hmm, sounds familiar. 

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Last Day of the Winter Olympics

 

Yes, final day at the Milan 2026 Winter Olympics.

And a chance to see the remarkable training facility that the Chinese Winter Sports Department built in preparation for the event/ This image above is of the facility in Yunnaan, and features at 91% scale model of San Ciascian, the Italian village considered most suitable for the chinese athletes. The facility was built inside a disused airship hangar, and that mountain in the background....is a painted backdrop.  Rather than snow, that's shredded iMac casings. Recycling !

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A Springtime Wedding

 

Wedding outfits are often immune to the whims of fashions. The bride's dress is timeless and classic, and the Father Of The Bride wears a fairly standard three-piece suit.

But velvet Bridesmaids' dresses, and the guest with an oversize black bow tie. It could only be the Seventies.  1977, to be precise.  No punk fashions for these church-goers, but later that evening...?

Bonus - Well, that is unique. Underwater Military Museum-Aqaba

The snows are melting

 

As we head towards March, the threat of snow s receding. So, a  slightly appropriate slide.

Nice.

Bonus- selective attention test

Just Hanging About with Pals

 T'was a bit of a bleached washed out slide, but with a bit of jiggery pokery, it's sort of acceptable.

From Sept 1963, and I remember playground equipment that looked like this. Probably unacceptable to modern Health and Safety.

Bonus - Happy Birthday Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Nice Scenery and Bridge.

Makes a change from the cold and wet of current Britain.

This image shows the Puente de San Martín (St. Martin's Bridge), a historic medieval bridge spanning the Tagus River in Toledo, Spain. 

Constructed in the late 14th century, the bridge features five prominent arches, with the largest central arch spanning 40 meters. It was built to provide access to the old town from the western side and is fortified with defensive towers on both ends. 

A popular legend tells that the architect's wife secretly set fire to the scaffolding to hide a structural miscalculation before the inauguration, allowing it to be rebuilt stronger. 

Bonus - It hasn't changed much

Bonus 2 - My neighbourhood barber was just arrested for selling drugs.

I was a customer for seven years.

I never knew he was a barber.

 

Far from the madding crowd

 

No info on this slide, but it does look like the foothills of the Himalayas / Hindu Kush / basically "Foreign".

There's something of interest on the slopes - looks like white rocks arranged to spell something, but the slide resolution is too poor to read it.

All in all, quite a dull slide.

Bonus - there's a place in Yellowstone Park where you could theoretically get away with murder due to a constitutional loophole discovered by a law professor in 2005