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I saw this story originally on Yahoo! but tracked it down to the original posting here: http://www.dpreview.com/news/tag/england-color-1939 Anyway, I was looking through the photos and decided to try and find some of the locations on Google Maps to compare the two, from 1939 and today(or 2009 as the streetview date states). I'm sure a number of you know quite a bit more of these places and locations, but as for someone outside of the UK, I focused on one of the only pictures that had reference to a specific location by way of the "Shernborne Direction Sign". Interestingly enough, it seems that the sign had not been painted again since the time of the 1939 photo! 1939 Photo 2009 Google Streetview Photo

Ebay bargain. Yet another entry on the list of the worlds best oxymoron's.

That IWC is a very nice watch indeed and so it should be for £5,500 ish. Your video and your workmanship are, as usual, superb and thanks for going to all the trouble for us mere mortals. I am still very puzzled over how you have the camera set-up, it looks to me as though you are working through the camera screen. If you ever get the chance would it be possible for someone to take a picture of you in action, as all would be revealed then. You can pixelate out all the bits you do not want the world to see and you can call yourself Mr X.

I fair enjoyed the video Mark, excellent presentation as usual. :-) What a beautiful yet very simple movement. It's good to see real quality!

There are some watches I will not take on. I prefer to work on bread and butter work so with this in mind I am usually quite confident. With watches like this in particular there is the display back, so you have to take particular care not to scratch anything (just as is the case with your watches Don) so it's not so much being nervous, but rather I always slow down and take even more extreme care when working on a watch I am not so familiar with. In all honesty, if I am worried about a job in any way I would rather not take the job on in the first place (and I do turn down work from time to time) because life is too short :)

I had a Dolce & Gabbana DW0191 in last week, that another person had kindly snapped the glass in half whilst pressing on the back during a battery change. the reason was the glass is curved. Up until this one all the curved glass I've done have been glued in so I haven't needed to press them, but this one I had to press it in. So I thought about it through the day & remembered my sons fascination with Polymorph so when I got home on Saturday asked him if he still had any. Today I made my press adaptor & it worked a treat! so I thought I'd show you it! As you can see the glass is curved. First thing I did, more as a precaution was covered the watch in cling film, just in case the polymorph wouldn't come off! Next I mixed the poly in a cup of boiling water, squeezed it into a blob & worked it onto the old glass. Then I pressed it to form the shape. (note I pushed a nail into the side inline with the crown, so I could line it up correctly when I fitted the new glass) once the Polymorph had hardened I run a grinder round the outside, so I could see the glass edge when I finally came to fitting the new one. Press complete, ready to replace the broken crystal. Pressing, a perfect fit! Job done! Q; This worked for me ideally, but whats the "correct" way?