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Once an Award winning Craft beer bar and venue now slowly morphing into the ramblings of someone leaving London for the joys of West Yorkshire

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A picture of me from 1986 infront of a glacier ( sorry can't remember which one) in New Zealand on the legendary Habersashers' Hatcham Askes Boys School Explorers Club off book trip. No real itinery, no phones and no idea who the kid was standing next to me but apparently he was on the trip by @thewansteadtap

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Saw some great interior ideas today for the ( potential ) new house but a bath with a golden eagle mixer tap may not be West Yorkshire chic just yet by @thewansteadtap

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People are always asking me "what will you do with all the time on your hands when you move" - we this is one thing a 3,800 mile rail trip from Southern Portugal to Northern Finland and the Arctic Circle. The record is 125 hours - i reckon 10 / 12 days would be nice. #interrail by @thewansteadtap

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Selling a Canon G11 for a client. The G11 and G12 were the go to early 90's digital cameras but today hit that retro look head on. The G11 is a fantastic little piece of kit. Looking for £250 upwards. by @thewansteadtap

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I'm not a huge fan of Oasis or Man City - but seeing Noel's flight case for his WEM Dominator amp today at the Barbican was quite fun. Apparently the WEM fed into a Marshall Head... as featured on stage at Knebworth apparently #oasis by @thewansteadtap

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Came back to the Barbican to take the pics from the walk earlier this week by @thewansteadtap

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A year ago today I went on the biggest tv adventure of my career - over to Canada for 3 months to make their version of the worlds greatest tv show... Come Dine With Me. Thanks to @jenniferjezebel and @brauncam amongst many others for making that such a special time. so for those reasons it's a 10 from me by @thewansteadtap

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18 days ago

Never a more important time for this book by @thewansteadtap

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22 days ago

Saddest picture of the day - Great Uncle Frank taken I'm guessing before he left to then be taken as a POW for the war on the River Kwai. We'll never know who or what happened to his mates here . Did they survive? Did they make it through like Frank? Did they know what was ahead of them at the time and if so, what did they think? We know Frank was an ardent anti fascist just doing his bit I suppose. by @thewansteadtap

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2 months ago

My pic of the day so far as I plough through the thousands of images from the "loft" . I'm pretty sure this is great Aunt Jess looking very dapper in her uniform - I do like to think there is a Clayton / Clapton eye roll in the bottom middle @joeclapton_ @he7en by @thewansteadtap

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Just puttting it out there - thanks the brilliant work of @he7en this is Great uncle Franks record of his time as a Prisoner of War in the far east. Astonishing that a piece of paper still exists - he had malaria TWICE, Beri Beri and Aemebic Dysantry - he was in hospital@4 times but survived to return to London. It is just mind blowing to see this record by @thewansteadtap

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Found this today - it's my Great Uncle Frank and Great Aunt Jess. A very progressive couple, Jess was at Westminster Polytechinc and a keen socialist cyclist club member. Frank was at Cable street, joined up and was torpedoed before a shot was fired and spent the war on the River Kwai. I never met Frank but Jess was brilliant - I think I'd have enjoyed a pint with Frank by @thewansteadtap

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