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  1. nightandthecity

    IRVIN NUTS?...the ULTIMATE thread for those who love 'em!

    yes, they can be had very cheap as collectors don't like them. The general consnsus seems to be that they are civilian, but as I said I think that consensus is probably mistaken. Back in the 80s I used to advertize in local papers for Irvins and was frequently phoned by people offering these...
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    Guernsey jumper

    Scot, I have around a dozen ganzies but I really hate taking photos. HOWEVER....I do have this one on file, as I was considering selling it on evil bay (I changed my mind)..... You'll have noticed it is not Navy blue! It looks grey in the photo but is actually a sort of beige/creamy oatmeal...
  3. nightandthecity

    IRVIN NUTS?...the ULTIMATE thread for those who love 'em!

    I don't think it would be too hard to research, but it would be pretty time consuming and expensive - and unlikely to attract the academic grant which would ease things considerably! re Commonwealth jackets: some of you may have come across the very rare black fur Irvin, and I've frequently...
  4. nightandthecity

    IRVIN NUTS?...the ULTIMATE thread for those who love 'em!

    I think one of the main problems we face (for example, in dating Irvins by design/fittings) is that we don't really know how many manufacturers were actually involved in their production. And obviously, the more makers, the more variety. Back in the 1980s I used to sell a lot of stuff to a...
  5. nightandthecity

    IRVIN NUTS?...the ULTIMATE thread for those who love 'em!

    thank you for that James! The seller listed the chest ambiguously as "38-40", but told me that that was what it literally measured, around 19-20" across the chest! Sounds like a size 5 from your figures and photos. It would have fitted me, but I prefer size 4 (I am 38 chest and 5ft8). One...
  7. nightandthecity

    IRVIN NUTS?...the ULTIMATE thread for those who love 'em!

    James, I am curious about that 600 squadron jacket. I was considering bidding on it but I couldn’t get any sense out of the seller about the size, or about features that would have helped me date it more precisely. For example, the back/arm/chest measurements he gave seemed totally...
  8. nightandthecity

    Pre '50 Non American Jazz Recommendations?

    whoops, I was forgetting Briggs was black! I bet it is Renard then. It's a great band, I must get the CD set.
  9. nightandthecity

    Smoking in England banned from July 1st...

    Knowledge is always advancing. There is no guarantee that the scientific consensus on anything is correct, but it makes much more sense for the layman to accept that consensus than to simply believe whatever they want to believe, because that consensus is far more likely to be correct. The...
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    Smoking in England banned from July 1st...

    I suppose I should have said “the car” rather than the “car industry”. Yes, the industry is heavily regulated, but despite this the internal combustion engine remains the biggest source of air pollution in the UK. I’m not trying to defend smoking, it is a dangerous and unhealthy...
  11. nightandthecity

    Late 50's early 60's

    OFF TOPIC OFF TOPIC OFF TOPIC.... Well, the original 1960s skinheads were no more racist than any other group of working class lads of the time, in fact they were probably less racist than the norm. They mixed a lot with the Caribbean kids and were well into black music - and yes, there were...
  13. nightandthecity

    Dog Fighting? Good God Almighty.

    and the "smoking ban" thread too! perhaps we should all take this as a hint that it's time to go back to talking hats and trouser widths.....
  14. nightandthecity

    Pre '50 Non American Jazz Recommendations?

    so that was was Charles Kiehn! he was in Vola's 1934 Claridge band along with Django and Stephane Grapelli....the band where legend says Django and Stephane "accidentally" started jamming backstage leading to the formation of the Quintette (though they actually first met and jammed together in...
  15. nightandthecity

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    you have my sympathies too... Just handed in my West End Watch co. Secundus, 1940s RAF issue, gold plated with original Rolex movement. Yes, I now feel half dressed and slightly agitated. I have several other watches but this one is my favourite. I get the same thing when I take any of my...
  16. nightandthecity

    Smoking in England banned from July 1st...

    that is actually another reason why I am sceptical about government smoking bans. Given the scale of pollution from the motor car, industry etc it always seems to me that the obsession with smoking bans is a convenient way of appearing to be "doing something" whilst avoiding the real issues. It...
  17. nightandthecity

    Smoking in England banned from July 1st...

    I had been following this thread for a while before I posted, and deliberately not getting involved, for two reasons. Firstly, I try to avoid FL modern political threads (which this is: it doesn’t have to be based on party politics or a left/right dichotomy to be political). Secondly, my own...
  19. nightandthecity

    The Okeh Laughing Record

    We used to have a copy of the Laughing Record when I was a kid. I loved it then and i still love it. Tickles my ribs every time. But this is my all time favourite laughing record.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZPkrkT6BVQ
  20. nightandthecity

    Pre '50 Non American Jazz Recommendations?

    and here he is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eezvWjxJXD0
  21. nightandthecity

    Share your favourite Jazz

    This thread started with a small Django clip....at some stage I posted the full performance....and now, at last, Django's biographer Michael Dregni has YouTubed the full film short from which it comes. It was apparently made by British impressario Lew Grade as a promo for a Quintette UK tour in...
  22. nightandthecity

    Pre '50 Non American Jazz Recommendations?

    If you like King Benny then you’ll like Sol Hoopii as well http://www.well.com/~wellvis/hoopii.html There was actually quite a lot of this type of music around back then. You have the Hawaiian guitarists discovering jazz, ragtime, blues, country….and players of the latter discovering...
  23. nightandthecity

    Pre '50 Non American Jazz Recommendations?

    Re the British Dance band links above….a couple of points worth mentioning. You’ll notice that a certain strain of bizarre and at times quite surreal humour runs through these performances, proving that The Goons and Monty Python didn’t come out of nowhere. You may also be surprised by...

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