Some More ... Folk Dancing

 

And here from 1968, we have Folk Dancing - Woodchurch School Carnival.

So, that's quite nice.

Nice day for it. And same here in Slideville.

Bonus - 

Woodchurch Carnival Queen

 

Summer time, and time for another slide from the Woodchurch Carnival 1968 set.

What's not to love about this slide?

Bonus - 

Chez Moi, from the western gazebo.

It's simple, but I call it "Home".

OK, that's a lie. It's Leeds Castle. In Kent.

Bonus - I can't decide if thi is an early April Fools story...  

Jennifer Lopez to produce Bob the Builder movie

The artist once known as Jenny from the block is spearheading an animated feature about a Latino construction worker

 

Woodchurch School - Swimming Lessons

 

From the set of Woodchurch Primary School 1968 set, and today it's  well, it's apparently a small swimming pool, and swimming lessons. 

Quaint.

Bonus - 80 Years ago today, Ann Frank celebrated her 13th Birthday, and decided to start her diary. 

Bonus 2 - Because I'm a horrible person...

Things to do in Hollingbourne

 

Today's slide bore the message "Another of Hollingbourne".

Hmmmm.   Not exactly inspiring. I suppose I could go for a walk over the farmers fields. Or not.

Bonus -  'tis amazing what you find on Ali Express

Bonus 2 - 

A True Prospect of Saint Augustine Church

" Now Erecting at Ramsgate in the Isle of Thanet."

Designed by Pugin, apparently.

Bonus - For Nick n Andy. Grace Jones and Dolph Lungren entering a nighclub beside a bondage rhino.

Folk Dancing at the Woodchurch School Carnival 1968

 

After last Saturday's overwhelming response to a Woodchurch School slide, I thought you deserved another.

I guess the kids had been practicing for weeks, so ... well done kids !

Bonus - Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain

Bonus 2 - Like a homing torpedo

A Play at Woodchurch School

 

From the June 1968 in Woodchurch, Kent set.

I have no idea what the play was... I'm thinking Death Of The Salesman... but they seem to be enjoying it.  

Bonus - 

Track-Laying

I could make a Lazy Comedian joke about two working and lots of supervisors and shirkers ... but that's not my style.

Circumstantial info suggest that this may be track-work in the region of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link /  M20 / Ashford in Kent, but I cannot be more accurate that that. Sorry.

Bonus -

Meanwhile, just off the M20

We find the charming rustic lane leading towards Great Chart, the site of the first recorded mechanical water mill in Britain, and to Tenterden, the home of Tenterden Operatic and Dramatic Society.

Bonus - The astonishing artistry and skills of Italian Marble Carvers. Yes, that's all marble.

Practicing some Folk Dances

Looks like the Woodchurch Carnival of 1968 will be enlivened by some Folk Dancing from the Primary School Kids.

Bonus - Bizarre ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker

Queen of the Fayre

Queen of the Summer Fayre.

From a set of slides marked as Woodchurch Carnival, 1968.  Nice.

Bonus - Tjelvar's grave
Bonus 2 -

The Power of Time and Love

The Folkestone Glacier

Mr & Mrs Ernest Peabody, of Tunbridge Wells dice with death by sitting at the head of the Folkestone Glacier.

Now, obviously, this isn't a real glacier, but it was the common name of a "White Cliffs" theme park attraction just outside Folkestone.  It saved decent people from the trouble of actually visiting the real White Cliffs, with its attendant drug addict problem.

The theme park closed in 1971, after the UK Decimalisation Crisis.

Bonus - Tom Waits

Name That Castle

An occasional series.

So, who recognises this castle?

A clue - it's name is misleading - it's not near the City that the name would suggest.

Answer.

Bonus - For Nicky - The sounds of silence: a brief history of silent recordings

Winston Churchill's Wall

Today's Tedious Slide is , unfortunately, quite interesting.

It's of a Plaque in a wall at Chartwell, and commemorate's Winston Churchill's efforts as a bricklayer.

No, Really.

What sort of man would deserve a memorial like this?

Bonus - NSFK : NSFW

Leeds Castle

No label, but Leeds Castle is very distinctive. And, as you all know, it is not located in the vicinity of Leeds.

Bonus - Science Geeks Rejoice - Someone's created a Leidenfrost Maze.

The Netball Team

From a box of slides, marked Woodchurch, Kent, 1968.

Evocative of the time - was that really "The Summer Of Love" ?

Bonus - The Condensed Blade Runner.