Comments about victorian

There are 27 comments about "victorian"

zagg: Took 55 months; and 3393 viewings but this entry finally got a comment! Come on kids, it contains a REAL LIFE BARBIE VICTORIAN HOUSE. JEEZ!...

in response to: Barbie\'s Victorian Dream House by zagg

Sheila Hilton: Hi Rob, I remember the shop that you referred to 'Victoriana'. When I was a little girl, it used to be a sort of dairy called Beswick's Creamery. I......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Rob Tynan: Hi Norma, I remember the jubbly recycling process also!! When I was about 9 (or there abouts) me and my sister used to walk from St Teresas's School to Dr Walkers surgery ( the shoebox)where......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Jay: these type accomadations are nothing "new" in Amsterdam, or any large city in Holland, the older ones are a multi urinal screen barracade type you walk into and use, with only the head and feet......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

mariesandoval: This saddens me. The victorian homes have so much life in them. The beauty within it self shows it. Why would anyone destory such beauty. To build other buildings that we have enough of. We......

in response to: Long Time Gone by Joe

jack: victorian...

in response to: Victor or Victorian by Biff

zagg: i vote the victorian...

in response to: Victor or Victorian by Biff

jack: yeah, peter is from brooklyn, like me, and we are uncivilized, according to british standards, because as a nation we had lost that victorian elegence and charm. when we broke away from our mother......

in response to: Timeless Grace by Guy McLaren

EvilGentleman: I find it absolutely incredible that historical stuctures are valued so little in a land where they are so rare. I could understand Europeans not being terribly attached to hundred-year-old buildings, but they also have......

in response to: Long Time Gone by Joe

Biff: Catherine it's a Victorian pump organ. It was sold the next day. Alas......

in response to: Just Fur Catherine by Biff

Andrew Smith: Quote "Please could someone explain these comments... Night soil? (It was used to soak up Victorian Manchester's 'night soil'.) as in from sewage?(fertilised by 200 year old human waste)" Hi, Yes, I did mean human waste. I......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

anon (spc2-bolt5-0-0-cust758.bagu.broadband.ntl.com): Please could someone explain these comments... Night soil? (It was used to soak up Victorian Manchester's 'night soil'.) as in from sewage?(fertilised by 200 year old human waste) ...

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Chris Erb: I forgot to mention that this is also one of the ugliest buildings in the city. Ignoring the mystery design, this very plane wall with the ugly roof line is what faces the street......

in response to: Coincidence? by CE

EvilGentleman: Well, from an era when molestation did not get media attention, but was considered a dirty little secret, jack. Remember, most of today's molesters were yesterday's victims. More likely, it was the only Victorian politically......

in response to: Children\'s Lingerie by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Dizzy: I was just looking at places near bushwick avenue... around gates/palmetto. it's really close to the J train (gates avenue) - anyone have any opinions about this? Everyone keeps talking the parts of Bushwick that......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

hoopoe7: I won't have it said! New Cross is one of the most marvelous places to live in London! Cute victorian station one stop from Ldn Bridge, Beautiful victorian and georgian conservation areasfor housing......

in response to: bleak day, new cross by elaine

jack: to my dear, lovely, elaine, the cheese could be a gjetost cheese made by ski queen. you can probably get some in a cheese specialty store or by contacting a norwegian food company. ......

in response to: Ms Jorun Stiansen by Mr Norway

terryJ in the uk: there is a victorian version of this in Coventry Road Transport museum. They are so similar it looks as though this one was inspired by it....

in response to: Side-by-Side Tandem Bicycle: by Peter

rose: yes, it's called alcatraz ave. i used to live there in an older victorian house that we called the 'alcatraz house'. some folks think the street got it's name since i runs east to west,......

in response to: home.alert neighborhood by Home Alert™

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Thanks for the info. I hope that someone does see the pictures and conditions improve for patients and staff alike. As a kid I lived down the road from a mental hospital in Kent. It......

in response to: st clement\'s from the hip by elaine

elaine: for once i think you are right to say 'awesome'. it is on that scale. actually i think the victorian versions were designed to be awesome as well, cathedrals for and of engineering...

in response to: canariae wharf by elaine

elaine: i can't remember the name of it offhand but there was a kind of photographic techmique which was used i think in victorian times which was beautiful - blue and white. it was a kind......

in response to: San Francisco, from the Coastal Trail in the Marin Headlands by Trolleypup

elaine: georgian is a good thing, i am partial to it. when ill i watched a 'reality' show which was set in georgian times allegedly, at a house party, and remarked to my brother that it......

in response to: Another Small Town by Jamie

elaine: did you ever read the victorian underworld by donald thomas? iss very good. loads on london working and underclass culture, reads like a how to in parts, its like a rough guide to the rookeries......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

elaine: Re: I Know:yuk. See, wapping, being on the river, and downriver, there's a reason they say it's bad feng shui. In fact there's a whole sewage/cholera victorian story of how they discovered where germs......

in response to: I Know: by Peter

Peter: wow, this entry reminds me of the old gasworks that were here in brooklyn... they would inflate with surplus natural gas all summer, when gas was cheap, and then deflate all winter during times of......

in response to: canalside gasworks by elaine

Peter: Lunapark! Coney Island! yes! I saw a special on Lunapark on pbs this winter; tres creepy and victorian; yet pensively beautiful......

in response to: St. Kilda, Melbourne by O