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A sunny Spring day but with a chilly wind blowing here in Sandwich, one of the Cinque ports, SE England, reputably the most complete Medieval town in England, so going to take the BR ANJ3A for an outing, only worn it a couple of times in last 20+ years. Had heavy April showers with bitter wind...

Hobson's... now that was a shop (boutique?), great line in leather codpieces as well, think they supplied Theophilus T. Wildebeest's for the Comedy Relief show, but shurely this is for a different type of forum, nudge nudge

They are real classics.....I also wore a waxed jacket yesterday, seems to be the UK's rainy season, when I just ventured out to the shops, a '70s Belstaff m/cycle jacket. also have an ankle length Australian Drizabone which I bought in Sydney in late '70s for when it really pours. 50 odd years...

As United Sheeplined has come up I'm attaching an old photo (I've got a stinking cold so staying in the warm) of my 18777-P. It is unlabelled but identified as such by the knowledgeable folks here and included in the Sheeplined writeup a while back ,the sizing details showed it to be at least a...

Came across my G1 which is in period for the USN P22 Rhine Patrol boat berthed on river at Sandwich. As it's getting close to the 80th Dday commemoration I thought I'd dig out some old original gear that I probably last wore when taking the jeep to the 50th Normandy reunion,the last one I took...

Temp where I am in Southern England is almost tropical compared with those USA temps, 1C at moment, predicted -4C tonight, but even in my old battered original Aero B6 , contract 43-13616-AF it feels cold enough to think maybe I shouldn't have sold my Irvins and B3 a couple of years back. Mild...

Ah, OK, me old china.... understand now.... in UK clog is specific as said before... us Londoners would use "daisies".. rhyming slang, daisy roots = boots for any footwear not just boots

Clogs ? They're just ordinary British lace-ups and ordinary walking boots in background. Clogs to us are wooden soled slip on working boots that used to be worn in iron foundries etc. up North

sold my 2 Irvins and B3 , all originals, a few years back as we were downsizing and I hadn't worn them in years, have an original B6 which usually suffices in SE England but been so cold lately I've been venturing out in my '40s Harrods teddy bear coat. If raining I've also got the open car...

Dumpster D - it is an original B2 cap, but with wearing it for quite a few years when driving my MB the sheepskin on top gradually disintegrated and I patched it up , eventually the top was all leather patches. 'Er indoors hates it and since I wore it last has "tidied" it away somewhere, she's...

Btw - A long time back I looked up the label and according to a Woolrich dating forum in the Fedora lounge the R symbol on the label was introduced in 1947 and by late 50s the sheep was standing on green to represent grass , so this jacket dates from 1947 – mid-late ‘50s it seems.

Après le deluge (lots of flooding), it's now gone from mild to bloody cold here in UK so the earlier post on hunting parkas reminded me that I hadn't worn my US Woolrich wool hunting jacket for a long time (has teh poacher's pockets in the back), it's actually a scarlet red rather than orange...

Freezing down here in Kent but being reunited with my bikes is giving me a warm glow. Whilst I was living in London with no garage they were stored at my daughter's in Sussex. Son in law brought them down yesterday on his truck, heavy work getting them off it and into shed. Last time I rode them...

A beautiful sunny but cold & windy day here in Sandwich Kent ( after a week or more of constant rain then storm Ciaran , luckily our over 300 year old house (ex pub) came off unscratched ) so I took a stroll down to take a photo of something I thought would be of interest to our American chums...

Thanks for your interest Kermit, Her's a photo of the bikes when they went into daughter's garage about 10 years back, owned the 1944 H-D over 40 years and the '47 Chief about 35. They were featured in a British magazine back in the '90s