Eye-catching black and whites

[NorfolkNWeigh]

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Proof that Merc SL s were more popular than MGBs in Birmingham in 1970

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Much better use of a station than running trains from it.

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[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

On 3/5/2020 at 6:12 PM, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Much better use of a station than running trains from it.

Any idea which station that was?

(as a little boy I remember my father parking the family transport Bedford HA van in a station without trains like that)

[NorfolkNWeigh]

41 minutes ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

Any idea which station that was?

(as a little boy I remember my father parking the family transport Bedford HA van in a station without trains like that)

I think it’s Snow Hill in Birmingham, used as a car park through out the 70’s , Opened again as a station on the Chiltern Line in the 90’s I think. There’s enough train people on here to correct me if I’m wrong. 
My Dad also had an HA  Van ( DTS 168D) as our family car from 1968 until about 1972 and we lived in Birmingham then so I might have parked there too!

[ETCHY]

On 3/5/2020 at 5:58 PM, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Bet he wished he’d given them sixpence to watch his car now,

 

 

I'd like to know the story behind that picture. I wonder where it was taken?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[JeeExEll]

Try Google Reverse Image search (free).  

Copy the pic to your Google Photos then click on a little icon to find origin, which sometimes has places, dates.

It's a bit of a faff at first and I haven't used it for ages (only have a tablet) but it can lead to interesting results and all sorts of new directions for old car pics..

[somewhatfoolish]

35 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

I think it’s Snow Hill in Birmingham, used as a car park through out the 70’s , Opened again as a station on the Chiltern Line in the 90’s I think. There’s enough train people on here to correct me if I’m wrong. 
My Dad also had an HA  Van ( DTS 168D) as our family car from 1968 until about 1972 and we lived in Birmingham then so I might have parked there too!

Buchanan St in Glasgow was also used as a car park in the same era. Naturally both Queen St and Central are short of platform space now that Buchanan St is a hideous shopping centre.

[Richard_FM]

41 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

I think it’s Snow Hill in Birmingham, used as a car park through out the 70’s , Opened again as a station on the Chiltern Line in the 90’s I think. There’s enough train people on here to correct me if I’m wrong. 
My Dad also had an HA  Van ( DTS 168D) as our family car from 1968 until about 1972 and we lived in Birmingham then so I might have parked there too!

Manchester central was also used as a car park until it was turned into Gmex 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

24 minutes ago, ETCHY said:

 

Manchester 1970. Found it whilst researching  child poverty in Britain for MrsN’s PhD , which is about as cheerful as it sounds.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/feb/06/gimme-shelter-hard-lives-in-british-cities-1969-72

[Richard_FM]

25 minutes ago, ETCHY said:

 

It was probably taken at a time when scrap prices were low & cars that were too far gone to pass the mot were simply dumped 

[ETCHY]

41 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Manchester 1970. Found it whilst researching  child poverty in Britain for MrsN’s PhD , which is about as cheerful as it sounds.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/feb/06/gimme-shelter-hard-lives-in-british-cities-1969-72

Flipping heck some powerful images there.

Crazy to think I was alive then, somehow those images look like they ought to be about 50 years earlier. 

Lest we forget...

[NorfolkNWeigh]

1 hour ago, ETCHY said:

Flipping heck some powerful images there.

Crazy to think I was alive then, somehow those images look like they ought to be about 50 years earlier. 

Lest we forget...

Exactly what I thought! I was born in Birmingham in 1964 , never knew that sort of stuff was still a thing, assumed the welfare state and modern council housing had meant everyone was at least warm,dry and fed. 

[Mr Pastry]

3 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

I think it’s Snow Hill in Birmingham, used as a car park through out the 70’s , Opened again as a station on the Chiltern Line in the 90’s I think. There’s enough train people on here to correct me if I’m wrong. 
My Dad also had an HA  Van ( DTS 168D) as our family car from 1968 until about 1972 and we lived in Birmingham then so I might have parked there too!

I also think it's Snow Hill, distinctive paving on the platform.

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[martc]

On 3/5/2020 at 6:12 PM, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Much better use of a station than running trains from it.

Bodie and Doyle should be hooning around somewhere in that photo.

[somewhatfoolish]

Did anyone buy a Simca Back-Door Runabout? It seems even less likely than purchasers being found for those 'Sunbeam Arrows'.

[artdjones]

Definitely Snow Hill.                          http://disusedstations.org.uk/b/birmingham_snow_hill/index1.shtml

[Richard_FM]

31 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Did anyone buy a Simca Back-Door Runabout? It seems even less likely than purchasers being found for those 'Sunbeam Arrows'.

Even the avenger didn’t do well when turned into the Plymouth cricket 

[lesapandre]

Early DS and house belonging to hip 60's architects Alison and Peter Smithson. Car no longer reg.

[Richard_FM]

50 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Early DS and house belonging to hip 60's architects Alison and Peter Smithson. Car no longer reg.

Probably a slough assembled example, though the DS would have been interesting to build from a kit.

[lesapandre]

25 minutes ago, Richard_FM said:

Probably a slough assembled example, though the DS would have been interesting to build from a kit.

Yes it's RHD.

[Remspoor]

Guardia Civil

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