Pictures you didn't take

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Changes in the Bank of England "dealing room" over 50 years. You can see the technology changed, the dress has changed, unfortunately the level of sleaze doesn't show in a photograph. They did add two women way down the other end in the 90's, and still have one, but I'm sure these pictures don't show most of the operation.

Indeed dress has changed for quite understandable reasons:

SIR – Wearers of red trousers are not the only sartorial outcasts.

I recently attempted to find a pinstripe suit. Having visited several outfitters on Jermyn Steet, I asked an assistant why I could only find racks of plain suits mitigated by an occasional herringbone weave. He explained that since the banking crisis no one wished to look like a City banker. I replied that the dullness of the alternatives made everyone resemble accountants.

A G Whitehead
St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex

(There had been a number of letters about committing the sartorial blunder of wearing red trousers. Jeeves! My smelling salts and look sharp about it!)

Daily Telegraph.

[xoxoxoBruce]

They used to have a Tug-O-War team too.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Snaps together like an Erector Set, just add a couple nuts and done.

[limey]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Snaps together like an Erector Set, just add a couple nuts and done.

I'm pretty sure there's a joke in there somewhere ....


Sent by thought transference

[xoxoxoBruce]

That's because you're smarter than the average bear.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I always wondered, looking at those WW I trenches, they're deep and require moving a lot of dirt under tough conditions.
The Germans cheated.