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1. At 11:50 AM on 02 Oct 2006, Dr Hackenbush wrote:

   I never get that many buses where I live (top).

   I almost get that many buses where I live (bottom). Well, maybe a little more.

2. At 11:56 AM on 02 Oct 2006, Fearless Fred wrote:

   ooh 'eck! Lissa's been playing with the scanner, the page layout, and flicker as well! I think she's bought a book or three over the w/e...

3. At 12:01 PM on 02 Oct 2006, ray deator wrote:

   I like the postcard with the Routemaster buses on. The Routemaster bus was the bus for London - they still are. Red Ken when he first stood for Mayor said he still wanted to preserve the driver and conductor combination to keep the traffic moving. What happened to that idea?

4. At 12:05 PM on 02 Oct 2006, wrote:

   (top),

   Gosh, you mean you have buses that modern down in the big smoke?

5. At 12:18 PM on 02 Oct 2006, Dick Hobbs wrote:

   Do we have a date for the Piccadilly Circus scene? I would guess mid-sixties

6. At 12:53 PM on 02 Oct 2006, Vyle Hernia wrote:

   Actually, that looks like my car overtaking the bus (top). Must've been before 1975, when I bought the Morris Marina...

7. At 01:09 PM on 02 Oct 2006, John Crowther wrote:

   I'm excited at the Picadilly postcard! I've never seen it in the flesh (it's not somewhere you even see on TV or in films a lot is it?). If that's what it looked like back then, it must be like Time Square now. Although Tom Jones is probably replaced with The Arctic Monkeys or something.

   I feel a wave of outdated postcards coming.

   Speaking of which, in my local post office (main one in middle of city), they have postcards like this with ancient cars, unpedestrianised streets and buldings that were demolished before I was born. They must be really hopeful of selling them one day.

8. At 01:18 PM on 02 Oct 2006, David McNickle wrote:

   Dick Hobbs (5),
   When did Eros stop being on a roundabout?

9. At 01:19 PM on 02 Oct 2006, Big Sister wrote:

   Please please please can you stop those postcards from multiplying/moving? I'm getting dizzy from watching Craggy Island zooming in and out ....

10. At 01:26 PM on 02 Oct 2006, Michael Willis wrote:

    Following on from John Crowther's comments, can I recommend the book 'Boring Postcards' by Martin Parr? It's a fantastic example illustrating the mundane, dull and uninspiring. Seems somehow appropriate for the Party conference season.

11. At 03:51 PM on 02 Oct 2006, Dick Hobbs wrote:

    Good point from David McNickle. Wikipedia says that Eros moved "in the late eighties", but this picture is much earlier than that, surely. Isn't that a taxi with the open luggage compartment behind the Routemasters?

12. At 05:31 PM on 02 Oct 2006, David McNickle wrote:

    Dick (110,
    Whenever it was, Tom Jones was on the bill. That narrows it down to sixty years.

13. At 05:43 PM on 02 Oct 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    David, welcome back! Thought you'd left us for good. We're still all quite silly you know, but I hope you'll stick around.

    btw, that's more of an "outcrop" than a roundabout per se.

14. At 05:55 PM on 02 Oct 2006, David McNickle wrote:

    Aperitif (13),
    But it used to be on a roundabout.

15. At 08:31 PM on 02 Oct 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    Actually, I think that's the "roundabout" it used to be on, rather than where it is now.

16. At 10:31 PM on 02 Oct 2006, valery pedant wrote:

    Maybe it's a fake postcard - photoshopped? Piccadilly Circus Best Bits? Bits you have seen and loved?
    Where do you see Tom Jones btw - I can't find my glasses!

17. At 08:44 AM on 03 Oct 2006, David McNickle wrote:

    Valery (16),
    Tom Jones is in red letters, top right corner. I tried to read the ads on the busses with no luck.

18. At 01:53 PM on 03 Oct 2006, Dave britten wrote:

    I'm surprised the card hasn't been banned. There's an ad for Players fags on it. Actually, it's less an ad than a demand; 'Smoke Players' (or else).

19. At 03:23 PM on 03 Oct 2006, kevin austin wrote:

    The postcard buses are not AEC Routemasters (RMs), they are in fact, AEC RTs, discontinued around 1979.
    London was a much more accessible and fun place with Routemasters, I well remember special trips from Brighton to catch the 159 from Streatham High Road into town (Oh dear, apologies, I really must go and rest now..........)

20. At 03:43 PM on 03 Oct 2006, valery pedant wrote:

    Not at all, Kevin, it's good to share...

    Found it thanks David McN. As you said though, he doesn't narrow it down much.

    Oh no, the postcards have started dancing again, I'm sure they weren't doing that when I started on today's Blog (flicking through backwards now to catch up)