Soz mate, was that you? Thought Iād managed to sort it myself by my usual method of closing my eyes and randomly clicking on the link and then closing the thread & assuming itāll all be fine
No worries 
A normal link like that you just copy the webpage address and paste it into the paper clip insert/edit link thingy above.
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HTH.
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Derby day against the skates 80ās style
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This really does take me back ā¦ is it a pub ? ā¦ is it a shed ? 
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Jeez, @steveintheforest that takes me back. Yep a pub. Used to have a job for the council and part of the job was taking the wages around to the archaeologists grubbing around the walls. Used to get absolutely trollied and pour myself on to the Hythe ferry after my last stop - yep, The Sun.
Not bad for a fresh faced 18 year old
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For some reason I find this photo facinating ā¦ German POWs being marched up Shirley Road on their way to a camp in 1916
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@goatboy just seen that on twatter and was about to post it, instead I used @saintbletch 's side by side map thing
Absolutely fascinating stuff, I didnāt know that a lot of Southampton south of the railway station was reclaimed.
What about the clock? Cultural vandalism and in its place an office block, the branch line into the docks needs to be reopened to passengers as well.
Taken on my first camera in 1961. Around this time I only took pictures of trainsā¦I was a spotty oik just into my teens and had an image to keep up.
For the trainspotters amongst us I wonāt need to tell you this is āWest Country Classā loco āLyntonā at Southampton Central.
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Oh dear, trainspottersā among us?!
tbf going into Waterloo the other day we passed a steam train at Clapham Junction - everyone was looking out of the windows mesmerised.
Thereās something visceral about a steam train that diesel or electric canāt match.
Simple pleasures when I was a kid Cobsā¦pre health and safety we got away with things that would turn young parents pale today. Used to climb through a hole in the fence to Eastleigh railway sheds at the end of Eastleigh Airport runway, dodging railway locos in steam and maintenance men whoād give you a thick-ear if they caught you. Steam trains were a visceral high, thundering past showering steam, coal smuts and adrenaline in equal measure. Irresistible for small boys.
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Trueā¦this a picture I took last year of my car and The Flying Scotsman at Test Lane, Redbridgeā¦you never grow out of itā¦
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On my shitty Ā£50 windows phone with a cracked screen that looks almost as if it was painted.
You didnāt photoshop it did you?
Great picture though.
Just a fast shutter speedā¦1/1250th secā¦it was doing 30mph slowing down for the Redbridge junction.