More old photos from Cyprus
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Well Done Iceman |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:50 pm |
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| iceman |
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| LENA wrote: |
Iceman those photos are great. Thanks for sharing.
The guy who took those pictures must be a professional. The quality is great. |
He was a professional Lena....as mentioned above the photos are all by Haigaz Mangoian
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:07 pm |
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| It was obvious iceman the way that took the photos and the quality is excellent. |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:16 pm |
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| Nikitas |
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Iceman, a big thank you for the photos, loved the one of Famagusta, hope Miltiades can see it too, you can almost see the Alasia restaurant in the distance, it was his uncle's place.
Zan, in Greek Cypriot there is a phrase often used by drivers, I am sure it must have existed in Turkish Cypriot too, the phrase was:
"pese pangetto pezevengi" which means "let your two wheel fall on the hard shoulder you pimp". A phrase made necessary because the British built roads as wide as the wheelbase of their military trucks and no wider, so they could not take two cars, one had to fall off the pavement onto the unpaved shoulder. This type of imperial neglect was evident in all aspects of life- no electricity for villages, no running water, no paved roads, no drainage systems. Things worked but the standard was pretty spartan. If Britain treated her overseas possessions as a true common market and not as a captive one she would still be an empire.
Look at those photos of villages, from the car plates it looks like the 50s, count the tractors and compare them to photos of Britain taken about the same time. |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:34 am |
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| Nikitas wrote: |
Iceman, a big thank you for the photos, loved the one of Famagusta, hope Miltiades can see it too, you can almost see the Alasia restaurant in the distance, it was his uncle's place.
Zan, in Greek Cypriot there is a phrase often used by drivers, I am sure it must have existed in Turkish Cypriot too, the phrase was:
"pese pangetto pezevengi" which means "let your two wheel fall on the hard shoulder you pimp". A phrase made necessary because the British built roads as wide as the wheelbase of their military trucks and no wider, so they could not take two cars, one had to fall off the pavement onto the unpaved shoulder. This type of imperial neglect was evident in all aspects of life- no electricity for villages, no running water, no paved roads, no drainage systems. Things worked but the standard was pretty spartan. If Britain treated her overseas possessions as a true common market and not as a captive one she would still be an empire.
Look at those photos of villages, from the car plates it looks like the 50s, count the tractors and compare them to photos of Britain taken about the same time. |
The Romans built so much because they used slaves......This is Cyprus and not the UK so the difference is???????
That looks better than some places do now??? |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:29 pm |
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| Nikitas |
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Zan,
You selected a photo of the Finikoudes in Larnaca which were probably a wide boulevard since Venetian times.
Look at the photos of country roads, and women carrying water on their backs. Pictures of daily life, and compare them to the conditions in Britain of the time or to conditions today when every house has the usual facilities one expects in civilisation. Why expect to be like Britain, because we were part of their fucking empire and 30 000 Cypriots fought for them in WWII, and others were volunteer firemen in London and more still helped their war effort. |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:04 pm |
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| Nikitas wrote: |
Zan,
You selected a photo of the Finikoudes in Larnaca which were probably a wide boulevard since Venetian times.
Look at the photos of country roads, and women carrying water on their backs. Pictures of daily life, and compare them to the conditions in Britain of the time or to conditions today when every house has the usual facilities one expects in civilisation. Why expect to be like Britain, because we were part of their fucking empire and 30 000 Cypriots fought for them in WWII, and others were volunteer firemen in London and more still helped their war effort. |
Which part of Britain are you talking about?? Perhaps the slums of the East End...Or maybe the docks of Liverpool...Or how about the collieries of Whales????
Stuff like this you mean that mean so much to me....
Sorry for spoiling your thread iceman but it does go to show how bad some of us had it in the UK when we first came over and beautiful your pictures are. That picture of the girl going up the stairs makes my hair stand on end...It looks like the badly decorated and smelly slums we had to grow up in Hackney. Seven of us to two rooms. Give me Cyprus and water carrying any day.....The smell of those bloody Parafin heaters that only warmed you if you stood next to them in those cold English winters with smog so thick you could taste the coal. The rest of the time you had to put up with the smell of damp....More likely the cause of my Sarcoid than the Asbestos theory.  |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:15 pm |
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Iceman, fanastic photos, thanks, but i have a question for you.
If these were taken by another person, why have you abused them by putting your copyright across them? Do you own the copyright by any chance?
just a thought, otherwise great gesture |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:24 pm |
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Great pics, thanks.
I love looking at old photos and I love it when restaurants, pubs etc have their walls covered in old pics. I can spend more time looking at them than trying to order!!
Bubbles x |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:55 pm |
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| pantheman wrote: |
Iceman, fanastic photos, thanks, but i have a question for you.
If these were taken by another person, why have you abused them by putting your copyright across them? Do you own the copyright by any chance?
just a thought, otherwise great gesture |
Good question pantheman,will try to explain.
I do not own the copyright to these photos...I scanned them from a book i own..The reason i put watermark on them was to stop people from printing them for profit...
In the past i have posted rare photos on the net and later found them being printed & sold by print shops..
I would hate to see that happen again.
It was either going to be very low resolution copies or better resolution with watermarks...i chose the second option.
I apologize if the watermarks have caused abuse. |
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