This is Bradford

Music Fanatic/Enthusiast, Coffee Addict, Vegan, INTJ/INTF, History Junkie, Technology Nerd, Indiana Native, I Bleed Blue.

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What we’re watching

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A luxtorpeda at the train station in Zakopane (Poland, 1930s).

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(via https://open.spotify.com/track/6TwAaOX8aS0N50GzLeNHsd?si=ETuIyznTR5WLGRsCkamvuQ)

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r/AnimalsBeingDerps - He's on a diet but he pretends to eat what his owner is eating

71,708 votes and 404 comments so far on Reddit

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(via https://open.spotify.com/track/2xnS2wpPCtZPvylO6eWykP?si=tgZexxUFQWyLLfRgcSLg4w)

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Members of the Women’s Voluntary Service collect salvaged kitchen waste in East Barnet (Hertfordshire, 1943):

WVS salvage worker Kathleen Kent, head of the pig food collection unit at East Barnet, shovels the contents of a pig bin into the trailer of the pig food collecting car.  The posters show a pig preparing to eat, the emblem for this salvage campaign.

Two girls collect food scraps from their mother to take down to the pig bin at the corner of the road.  Great care has been taken to exclude tea leaves, eggshells and bones, as these are unsuitable for pig food.

The East Barnet WVS pig food collection unit has been given permission by the local gas company to use their weigh-bridge to weigh the amount of kitchen scraps collected each day.  Here, Kathleen collects the slips of paper stating the weight from the weigh-bridge master.  According to the original caption, the weigh-bridge usually registers about half a ton.

After collecting up the contents of the local pig bins, the pig food collection unit car and trailer make their way through the streets of High Barnet, on route to the pig farm about 5 miles away.

At the pig farm, farmer G. Bailey fills vats with salvaged kitchen waste to be used as pig food.  Mr. Bailey has four vats that cook 30cwt of food at a time, under a 50-pound steam pressure.

Mr. Bailey rakes through one of his vats of pig food to make sure there are no solid pieces in it, such as bones or shells.  Any fat produced while cooking these salvaged food scraps will be sent to a soap factory, so that nothing is wasted.

Mr. Bailey and his son show the WVS salvage workers Mrs. Gerald de Rivaz (standing on gate), Kathleen Kent and Winifred Jordan some of the pigs they are helping to feed.  According to the caption, the farmer has 300 pigs, most of which are Large Whites or Black and White Essex pigs.

The salvage workers watch as a group of Large White pigs eat their evening meal.

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Photos of coal mining from the New International Encyclopaedia (1905):

Two miners cutting across the face of the room with a Sullivan electric chain machine.

Making a “tight” or corner cut.

Working the face of a coal seam with a hand pick.

Working the face of a coal seam with a machine pick.

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We really are idealists in what we do, in our Rock. We’re not perfectionists, we’re idealists. We think that Rock ‘n Roll is more than just music for kids, we believe that it’s something greater… …Rock music is important to people, because it allows them, you know in this crazy world, it allows you to, not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them. But at the same time to sort of dance all over them. That’s what Rock 'n Roll is all about.

-Pete Townshend on The Who’s music & Rock ‘n Roll (via thisismrbradford)

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Parrot Sings Adventure Time Song ‘Bacon Pancakes’

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Hippiefest

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