Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993): actress, humanitarian, icon, cutie-pie extraordinaire.
Above: with Albert Finney on the set of Two for the Road (1967); New York 1967; a publicity still for Breakfast at Tiffanys (1961); chilling with her pet deer, Pippin; making a chocolate cake; being gorgeous (x3) and a portrait from 1988, aged 59.
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Ballydehob.
The town that wouldn’t die.
Gwen Boyle writes:
Here’s a nice short film that Broadsheet readers might like – it’s a documentary on my home village (Ballydehob, Co. Cork), by a local film-maker, Sarah McCullough Canty. It charts the decline of the village in the face of cutbacks, unemployment and emigration, but also finds out how the people of the village are keeping the place alive. Ballydehob’s solution is to hold festivals – lots of them! Featuring a lot of community spirit, resourcefulness, and my brother explaining the great Ballydehob Turnip Race :)
Black and white photographs from the US Library Of Congress Archive deftly transformed into wonderfully creepy gifs by designer Kevin Weir
Photographer Joseph C. Payro’s children – Edmund (12), Ernest (8) and Cecilia (5) – being ‘photographed’ by their cat in 1909.
‘Payro, you’re an idiot’, they said. ‘A century from now, no one will care that you rubbed a kipper on the side of that Box Brownie!’
How wrong they were.
Lisa writes:
I just had the weirdest conversation with the owner of Flanagans Furniture in Bray. When I pointed out that his photograph was actually a man crying as German tanks rolled in to Paris during WW2 [or something equally poignant] he shrugged and said “well we don’t mean it like that”
Shortly after the telephone was patented in the late 19th century, the early technology required every phone to have its own dedicated connection to the grid. In Sweden, Stockholm’s main telephone exchange – the Telefontornet, built in 1890, was a huge tower in the centre of the city with 5,000 individual lines radiating out across the rooftops.
The typically harsh Swedish winters caused havoc with the system, which was prone to fire and collapse under the weight of hanging ice, but the rapid advance of technology allowed the tower to be decommissioned in 1913. 40 years later, it caught fire and was demolished.
Hundreds more images at the Tekniska Museet (Museum of Technology) website.
The late US poet and novelist Charles Bukowski reanimated for Harper Collins by Quoted (the studio behind the PBS Blank On Blank series) what sez:
In 1993, candid conversations between Charles Bukowski, his wife, and his producer took place in Bukowski’s home during the recording session for his classic Run With the Hunted.
A short documentary interview uploaded back in March featuring images from the late 60s and early 70s by photographer, naturalist and Coombe-born, Mick Brown.
Mick, who has lived in Pembrokeshire, West Wales for more than forty years, recalls his childhood and the street life of the Liberties in Dublin – an accompaniment to his book ‘Mick Brown’s Dublin: The Past has a Great Future’ .
(H/T: Liam Phelan)
