Dave White
@DaveWhite99
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Silly fool and wheezy slow cyclist who also likes slighty mad old cars...
Just outside of Durham
Joined April 2012
Waverley’s 2025 Season in Numbers 🚢 Join us as we look back on an incredible 2025 season for Waverley as she celebrated 50 years in preservation and even completed a circumnavigation of Great Britain! This year, 161,950 passenger journeys were recorded across 123 sailing days,
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Big badaboom 😳
In 1954, a U.S. Air Force B-57B Canberra captured footage of Castle Bravo — the most powerful nuclear test ever conducted by the United States. The detonation at Bikini Atoll yielded 15 megatons, 1,000× stronger than Hiroshima. https://t.co/a67s98Jftm
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Guy Martin and his crew visited County Durham last month as part of the S&DR200 Anniversary Journey celebrations — a fantastic moment for everyone involved. 👏 Don’t miss his programme on Channel 4 this Sunday 26 October at 7.30pm, where he explores the story of Locomotion and
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The polite little dog that changed its place because it thought it was blocking the passage. ❤️❤️
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A random photo of Earls Court Square, 1967. The building on the left with the striped pillars is Wetherby Mansions where #SydBarrett lived at the time. You can see the "Autotours" sign down the street in the cropped b&w photo of Syd #PinkFloyd
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These are the coffins Christian Fathers, mothers, children and siblings. Massacred for their faith and their lands. MPs are strangely very quiet, there are no protests on our streets and the media is mute. Why?
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LIVE AT AUCTION 1998 Mercedes Benz SL 320 (R129) Convertible https://t.co/UF8hKPT3SA c52,000 miles with full history In Azurite Blue with beige leather interior Hard and soft tops included Original toolkit, spares & accessories HPI clear
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An employee restored and re-started one of the first Mercedes from 1886.
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Getting things done in Britain: How Sgt. Rod Banks and the Mosquito shadow modification network gave Mosquitos the extra ooph to avoid Luftwaffe fighters. Rod Banks was a lowly engine fitter at RAF Marham, exceptional engineer and former Rolls Royce apprentice.
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The 3,200-year-old tomb of Queen Nefertari, discovered in 1904.
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It’s big, but still not big enough to move the sh*t produced by our politicians each day…😂
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Well said Harriet Cowan (Clarkson’s Farm) - who highlights the huge mental health crisis within the farming industry.
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🚨 STORIES YOU NEED TO NOT LET DISAPPEAR - THURSDAY 23/10 🚨 1. Why three Ukrainian male models firebombed Keir Starmer's house 2. Why Labour Chief Whip Nick Brown was suspended in September 2022 with no explanation at all 3. Why the Chinese spy case was allowed to be dropped
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Fun fact. Voyager 1, currently over 15 billions miles away (roughly 2.5 light hours), still operates using 69 KB of memory, 8 track tape and Fortran code written in 1977.
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There isn’t enough Steam on X, Hope this video finds the right people
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Tyne Pride at Wallsend, 1976, photo by Chris Killip. Biggest ship ever built on the Tyne, but also one of the last.
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