Eye-catching black and whites

[Yoss]

10 hours ago, lesapandre said:

The BBC probably  regard anything  north of the Euston Road as 'North London'...

Of course their headquarters on Portland Place is technically  in North London being North of the Thames.

Euston Arch - 1837-1962

And inside the old Euston Station before they pulled it down. 

I realise this would be totally inadequate for the number of passengers that Euston handles today, and the word accessible hadn't even been thought about, but how great would you feel arriving or departing from here. There's a bar off to the right in the second picture. How classy do you think that would that be? 

I actually like the modern Euston, I like a bit of Modernism (it's not quite Brutalist) though I've not been there for a few years and I probably wouldn't recognise it now as it's being rebuilt for HS2. But I spent a fair amount of my youth hanging around the place, both the railway side and the bus station, but it seems a shame they couldn't have kept the old great hall. Maybe they could have built the new station a little bit further north, though then the platforms would end up on Camden Bank. Either way it does seem tragic to have lost the Great Hall above. 

[Remspoor]

[martc]

All London, 1977.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, as they say in Hackney.

 

 

[martc]

The coronation of King George VI in 1937,

[Remspoor]

2 hours ago, martc said:

 

 

 

Commonly called by East London bus drivers U-boat. All the buses based at Upton Park garage.

[adw1977]

Epsom, Surrey.

[Yoss]

17 hours ago, adw1977 said:

Epsom, Surrey.

They put more effort in to graffiti in those days didn't they? 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Kirkenes Norway 1941

Oslo Norway 1968

[Remspoor]

[martc]

On 11/26/2021 at 11:25 PM, adw1977 said:

Epsom, Surrey.

This picture is missing @tooSavvy's photobomb.

[martc]

This photo is titled '25-300 heads south with a train of Vauxhall motors at Warrington in May 1984. Mk1 Astra GTE at the front'. Any explanation why it should be heading south? Both Luton and Ellesmere Port are further south than Warrington. Are all these imports, brought into a dock in the north (eg Liverpool)? But aren't Astras made at Ellesmere?

[DVee8]

Vine Place Sunderland 1979

[martc]

[Remspoor]

[sheffcortinacentre]

52 minutes ago, martc said:

Doris the takeaways here!

[MiniMort]

Nice little discovery from the Coventry Evening Telegraph in 1970. I believe this was the very Isetta my grandad passed both his motorcycle and car driving tests in. He'd sold it by this point but he was certainly shocked to see it on the front page of the local rag a couple of years later! 

[Richard_FM]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

The Renault 16 is standing out here, especially compared to the coachbuilt sidecar.

[Austat]

[Austat]

I've just discovered the Dutch goldmine which is the Autoweek registertopic flickr album:

 

[DVee8]

Holmeside Sunderland

[lesapandre]

12 hours ago, martc said:

First lion to second:

"One day that will be worth thousands..."

[Remspoor]

[DVee8]

Green terrace Sunderland 1973.

[Dyslexic Viking]

I dug through old Hanomag pictures from Norway so post some of them here.

[anonymous user]

Reading the caption I can only assume that the robot sensors would be telling each other (in squeaky voices) "Yes it is leaking, next please"

[Remspoor]

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, anonymous user said:

Reading the caption I can only assume that the robot sensors would be telling each other (in squeaky voices) "Yes it is leaking, next please"

Hence squeaky voice dash at times.

[martc]

9 hours ago, Remspoor said:

'What's that you say, Dai? It's just a Sherpa in a fancy dress? How dare you!'

[Dick Cheeseburger]

[anonymous user]

25 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Or for those of you in black and white