1911: The first time an aeroplane flew over Mazamet
It was photographed at the precise moment it was flying over our neighbourhood. Right under the portrait of aviator Roger Morin you can see the Temple at the end of our street and a bit to the left there’s our next door neighbour.
My Mazamet 
Must have been wild to see.
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Can you imagine being up in one of those things? Flight training in those days was you had to fly 10 metres high for 250 metres, and then you got your license! 😀
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… if you survived.
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To get his driver’s license, my father had to pick up one of the town’s two policemen, drive him around the block, and drop him off at the pub.
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Truly, the good ol’ days!
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Probably still a little like that in western Queensland. When i was last up in Darwin government workers (at least in the department I visited) didn’t wear shoes 🙂
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JZ – up the road from me, in a town called Shepton Mallet, the girls don’t wear knickers; none of ’em.
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Hariod, how do you know?
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“Hariod, how do you know?” – Holder of the badge of ‘Official Knicker Checker for Shepton Mallet’ for twenty years now I believe.
– esme falling about in knee-length bloomers upon the Cloud
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Pink, I’ve gone to spam on your latest post. Can you please retrieve me so I can persuade Akismet and I’m not a spammer? That would be a great help – thankyou!
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Research Agrudzinsky, research old boy.
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Wow, very cool 🙂
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How is that photo not a drawing?!
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Not sure I understand?
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Philistine me being ignorant; it just looks so much more like a pencil or charcoal drawing than any kind of photography I’m familiar with.
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That’s probably because of the fading 🙂
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There seems to be so much history that has happened in your neighborhood. For some reason, “Forrest Gump” comes to mind.
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LOL. The town was also part of the 1909 strikes which led to the right to collective bargaining and paid vacations 🙂
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