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[martc]

 

Kings Cross. Some distinctive Sherpas, any of our cockernee viewers recognise them?

[Mr Pastry]

5 minutes ago, martc said:

 

Kings Cross. Some distinctive Sherpas, any of our cockernee viewers recognise them?

Evening Standard.

[martc]

More stuff from the Soviet Union -

Ambulance crew, Omsk, 1975. Photo by Anatoly Yakovlev.

Tanks at Tbilisi Embankment, Georgian SSR, 1989. Photo by Vladimir Valishvili and Ivan Shlamov (seems it took two of them).

Soz not B&W but I couldn't resist - 'The Country is Building a Car' illustration from 'Za Rulem' ('Behind the Steering Wheel') Soviet magazine, 1972.

And their fate ...

Fish canning factory, Murmansk, USSR, 1972

[martc]

Haulage yard, Lye, 1979. Looks like they're all out delivering.

[Remspoor]

[sheffcortinacentre]

11 hours ago, martc said:

 

Kings Cross. Some distinctive Sherpas, any of our cockernee viewers recognise them?

Morny stanart!?

[JeeExEll]

I hope that bus has stopped.

[JeeExEll]

Govan.  (Glasgow).

[martc]

The cupolas at Cradley Castings, Cradley Heath, 1983. Still with us, now called Spunalloys

[uk_senator]

Some from my local London Facebook groups..

[uk_senator]

And a few more

[Andrew353w]

I worked on Fore Street,  Edmonton in the 1980s, but I don't recognise that view at all..... That said, I recently drove back around where I worked (first time I'd been back in about 30+ years) and I don't recognise it now either!

[uk_senator]

6 minutes ago, Andrew353w said:

I worked on Fore Street,  Edmonton in the 1980s, but I don't recognise that view at all..... That said, I recently drove back around where I worked (first time I'd been back in about 30+ years) and I don't recognise it now either!

I did too, at Halfords when I was at school, then at Ripspeed (on the right in that pic) later on!

[uk_senator]

24 minutes ago, Andrew353w said:

I worked on Fore Street,  Edmonton in the 1980s, but I don't recognise that view at all..... That said, I recently drove back around where I worked (first time I'd been back in about 30+ years) and I don't recognise it now either!

There you go, its roughly there, on the border with Tottenham, looking north.

[Andrew353w]

Ah ha, I worked north of the North Circular, in Fore Street, and the postcode was N9, the northern part of Edmonton, not N18, the southern part. 

[Asimo]

On 02/02/2021 at 13:28, leafsprung said:

 Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson who founded the 'Blue Shirts' an anti-fascist organisation, and who sheltered Albert Einstein in a hut near his Estate in North Norfolk with his game keeper and two heavily armed young female assistants. 

Factoids! 

Locker-Lampson commanded a Royal Navy Air Service armoured car unit in the First World War. They weren't really needed by the Navy so were loaned to the Czar to aid the Russian fight against Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire in the Eastern front. From Archangel at the start of 1916 to the Balkans via the Russian revolution!

 Mrs Asimo's Grandfather fought in this bizarre unit, getting home, gassed,  in 1919.

Their armoured cars were pretty basic, these are Lanchesters, they had a few Fords also.

 

[uk_senator]

1 minute ago, Andrew353w said:

Ah ha, I worked north of the North Circular, in Fore Street, and the postcode was N9, the northern part of Edmonton, not N18, the southern part. 

I see. So you remember Blatter Oakthorpe when it was Ford then, opposite the old nick.

[Andrew353w]

35 minutes ago, uk_senator said:

I see. So you remember Blatter Oakthorpe when it was Ford then, opposite the old nick.

ABSOLUTELY 100%  They sold B.P. petrol, if memory serves.... I worked almost next door to them, opposite the old nick, over an undertakers (sorry about the pun!) We frequently viewed bodies in metal coffins being unloaded from their "collections" van, but we had been warned about this when we worked there. A minicab firm also operated from the same building and their drivers used a load of 1980s chod, including 2 guys (Father & son) who both used new Ladas as minicabs, reckoning they were sooo cheap it didn't matter if they fell to bits after a few years. They didn't.......

[uk_senator]

59 minutes ago, Andrew353w said:

ABSOLUTELY 100%  They sold B.P. petrol, if memory serves.... I worked almost next door to them, opposite the old nick, over an undertakers (sorry about the pun!) We frequently viewed bodies in metal coffins being unloaded from their "collections" van, but we had been warned about this when we worked there. A minicab firm also operated from the same building and their drivers used a load of 1980s chod, including 2 guys (Father & son) who both used new Ladas as minicabs, reckoning they were sooo cheap it didn't matter if they fell to bits after a few years. They didn't.......

Pretty sure theres still a funeral directors there now! I`m assuming they got their Lada`s from BMG at Bruce Grove, I nearly got a new Riva SLX (with the performance package upgrade) there once, at 0%, with a £1500 minimum trade in.. I didn't in the end, I stuck with my assorted shite, & nothings changed! (they also sold Fiats at BMG, & they had an unregistered X1/9 Gran Finale in the showroom for several years after production ended, till they left circa 1992-ish).

[Andrew353w]

7 minutes ago, uk_senator said:

I`m assuming they got their Ladas from BMG at Bruce Grove.....

If memory serves (35+ years have gone under the bridge....) they both bought them from dealer in Westpole Avenue, Oakwood. I've been through a few jobs since then.....

[somewhatfoolish]

3 hours ago, uk_senator said:

That is a sharp-dressed man with a sharp-dressed motor; Armstrong Siddeley Special I think.

1 hour ago, Asimo said:

Locker-Lampson commanded a Royal Navy Air Service armoured car unit in the First World War. They weren't really needed by the Navy so were loaned to the Czar to aid the Russian fight against Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire in the Eastern front. From Archangel at the start of 1916 to the Balkans via the Russian revolution!

 Mrs Asimo's Grandfather fought in this bizarre unit, getting home, gassed,  in 1919.

Their armoured cars were pretty basic, these are Lanchesters, they had a few Fords also.

I think I've read about this; did they do most of that distance on their own wheels and the CO was somewhat buccaneering?

[martc]

Are we ready for a scenic tour of that there London?

Is the motor ready, sorted out the magic smoke? That caff looks nice, might come back for a snack. Kings Cross, 1970's.

Joe Lucas has been appeased, let's go. 'HM The Queen and Prince Philip drive through Tobruk in an open Land Rover, 1954'.

Let's visit the gasworks, shut up Philip, don't be so vulgar. Kings Cross, 1970's.

'Oo woz that?' From the gasworks to the canal, Kings Cross, the 1970's.

'Ungry work, remember the caff? The chips are for Philip, the apple pie and ice cream are mine. Kings Cross, the '80's. And orf we go again, more water to see.

Limehouse Basin, dunno when.

And finally, Canary Wharf, via Charlton. What a wonderful watery Kingdom I rule, and the pie was smashin'.

[martc]

Meanwhile, Moscow 1972, not so amused.

and the Italians are doing what they do best...

The test track on the roof of FIAT's Turin factory, in the '20's (almost a hundred years ago, can you beleive it?). This track was, of course, made famous in the Italian Job.

[bigstraight6]

Fantastic images of that London before gentrification took place...

[Asimo]

On 07/02/2021 at 20:04, somewhatfoolish said:

That is a sharp-dressed man with a sharp-dressed motor; Armstrong Siddeley Special I think.

I think I've read about this; did they do most of that distance on their own wheels and the CO was somewhat buccaneering?

That is Larry Gains, once British Empire heavyweight boxing champion.

I don't know what the car is, it is very low looking for 1932, an Invicta perhaps?  Or some exotic continental brand

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gains. https://www.gettyimages.fi/detail/news-photo/american-boxer-larry-gains-in-london-with-the-car-he-has-news-photo/3416811

 

Another very hard to find book

  

tells the story, but yes, their CO was one of those hard to believe and unstoppable characters. Would make a great film!

[Remspoor]

[martc]

3 hours ago, Asimo said:

That is Larry Gains, once British Empire heavyweight boxing champion.

I don't know what the car is, it is very low looking for 1932, an Invicta perhaps?  Or some exotic continental brand

 

 

I think the car is a Lagonda 2 litre, with a coach built body. He had to chuck it when the kids came along, although how they all fitted in here is a mystery (perhaps it's just for the missus and the kids hooned along in the Lagonda with Dad, or did they sit in a dicky?).

And later, in the 60 or early 70's, amidst a forest of street furniture and photobombing Fords.

 

[Asimo]

I think we have a positive I.D. on the cool boxer's cool car: Jaguar! 

 

[Amishtat]

46 minutes ago, martc said:

I think the car is a Lagonda 2 litre, with a coach built body. He had to chuck it when the kids came along, although how they all fitted in here is a mystery (perhaps it's just for the missus and the kids hooned along in the Lagonda with Dad, or did they sit in a dicky?).

And later, in the 60 or early 70's, amidst a forest of street furniture and photobombing Fords.

 

And a PC Cresta estate! 

[lisbon_road]

Sweden I think.  Splendid Rover P4