Bruce Partington-Plans
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- "Tweedland" The Gentlemen's club
- Airminded
- Airships: A Hindenburg and Zeppelin History Site
- Classic Style
- Crinoline Robot
- Daytonian in Manhattan
- Edwardian Promenade
- Endeavour Trust
- Everything About Braces
- Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
- Forgotten NY
- Fountain Pens & Typewriters
- Frantically Jenny Frances
- Gentleman's Gazette
- Glamourdaze
- Harlow Darling
- Laughing Squid
- Letters of Note
- Low-tech Magazine
- Magic Margin
- Messy NessyMessy Nessy
- Miss Magpie's musings
- My novels and other things
- New Escapologist
- Norton of Morton
- oz.Typewriter
- Plumtopia
- Retro To Go
- RetroCat
- Seven Storeys High | A small corner in which to collect my Poirot fan whatsits: art, writing, and sundry. Building a towering edifice of Agatha Christie fun with precision of the fingers and the brain!
- Shorpy Photo Archive - History in HD
- Silent London
- The Danish Chap's Attire Chronicles
- The Filthy Platen
- The Institute for Alcoholic Experimentation
- The Sunny Stitcher
- The Typewriter Revolution blog
- Vintagraph
- Webomator Blog
- Welcome to the Typosphere
- WowHaus
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | A fan of all things vintage (particularly the '20s and '30s), incl. steam/dieselpunk, retro-futurism, cars, aeroplanes, trains, fashion, jazz, film and culture. Just looking to brighten everyone's day with the odd jolly story! |
| Interests | History, Victiorian era, Edwardian era, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, aeroplanes, steampunk, dieselpunk, steam trains, classic cars, vintage lifestyle, vintage fashion, retro lifestyle, retro fashion, British dance bands, American dance bands, swing bands, film, classic films, retro-futurism, WW1, WW2, aviation, cricket, board games, writing, blogging, The Schneider Trophy, Chappism, dandyism, anarchodandyism, typewriters, bow ties, cravats, The Chap Magazine |
| Favorite Movies | The Rocketeer, The First of the Few, The Dambusters, Biggles: Adventures In Time, Porco Rosso, The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Harold Lloyd, Laurel & Hardy, Spitfire, The Artist, It Happened One Night, Mr Deeds Goes To Town, From Russia With Love, The Living Daylights, O Brother Where Art Thou?, King Kong |
| Favorite Music | Bruce Hornsby, Glenn Miller, Ambrose & his Orchestra, Roy Fox, Lew Stone, Al Bowlly, Bing Crosby, U2, Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks, The Mills Brothers, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Boccherini, Fred Astaire, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Alex Mendham & his Orchestra |
| Favorite Books | Biggles, Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Alexander Wilson, P.G. Wodehouse, Saki, Oscar Wilde, John Buchan, The Chap Magazine |