Phil Beard
Friday, 30 April 2010

Unconcerned but not indifferent

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A trip to a Parisian cemetery is not to be missed. Memorials to bygone celebrities, literary heroes, artists and philosophes rest side by s...
Monday, 26 April 2010

Noisiel Insolite

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Only 40 minutes from central Paris on RER A brings us to the small town of Noisiel. The station is positioned at the centre of a new (pos...
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Friday, 23 April 2010

Gare de l’Est

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With Monet, Manet and Caillebotte fully occupied painting in and around Gare Saint-Lazare it was left to artists of lesser stature to explor...
Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Rue de Londres

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Rue de Londres runs at an angle across the tracks leading out of Gare St-Lazare between the Place de l’Europe and Sainte-Trinité. The reason...
Friday, 2 April 2010

Turn Your Radio On

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Today we have a small sample of publicity from the pioneering days of radio when the humble valve was an object of veneration for its myster...
Thursday, 1 April 2010

Engineering for Boys

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I was never convinced by Meccano. As a modelling material it seemed crude and inflexible especially when applied to the task of modelling ve...
Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Postcard of the Day No. 35, A Tokonama

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This has been a favourite for more than 30 years since first acquired as one of a batch of Japanese postcards bought from Baldur Books in...
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