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# british pathe
This old newsreel clip of the Connemara Pony Show is charmingly Oirish "to be sure"
“What a day it was, to be sure.”
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Dec 26th 2014, 7:00 AM
# Vintage football
VIDEO: 1934 All-Ireland final features a priest, confusing jerseys and silky soccer skills
The footage was released by British Pathé today.
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Apr 15th 2014, 5:22 PM
# retro fitness
How to join a gym... 1950s and '60s-style
Thinking of kickstarting an exercise regime? Try not to be put off by these ancient ads.
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Jan 1st 2014, 7:30 PM
# fantasy taxidermy
The 10-stone baby and the Human Fish: slow news days of old
They don’t make ‘human interest’ stories at the end of the TV news like they did in the 1940s.
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Dec 31st 2013, 7:00 PM
# cool your jets
This jetpack unbelievably predates the film Gravity by 50 years
The first such machine was imagined in 1919 – but by the 1960s, it was a space race reality.
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Nov 24th 2013, 6:30 PM