Tag Archives: Switzerland

The Best James Bond Ski Scenes

                      The ski chase from ‘The Spy Who Loved Me – 1977 Watch the ski chase from The Spy Who Loved Me The clip shows Roger Moore bravely sporting a bright yellow one piece, flamboyantly topped and tailed with red beanie & boots.  There’s some thrilling footage here in the film’s opening sequence as  he is chased by Soviet agents in the Austrian Alps. After despatching one of his adversaries using a ski pole which fires an explosive [...]

Intrepid Yorkshiremen

  In 1975, amongst piles of old clothes on a Wakefield market stall, a box of several hundred glass photographic negatives was unearthed. Intrigued by the Victorian & Edwardian images, Colin Gordon, a school teacher at the time, bought them and subsequently discovered the fascinating history of a prosperous Yorkshire family.     Amongst the magical photos of picnics,  Japanese tea parties,  idyllic summer holidays and everyday life, you stumble across this wonderful image of the Atkinson family in the full throes of [...]