Eye-catching black and whites

[lesapandre]

42 minutes ago, Austat said:

But can you get an oil drum in the boot and two sheep on the back seat?

[Dyslexic Viking]

Oslo 1967

[anonymous user]

[Remspoor]

[lesapandre]

15 hours ago, anonymous user said:

Is that the Queen?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Is that the Queen?

The photo file label does read "Queen-Elizabeth-II-motorbike", so I'd be guessing that's a yes.

[mintwth]

46 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

The photo file label does read "Queen-Elizabeth-II-motorbike", so I'd be guessing that's a yes.

I've never seen a photo of a ship riding a motorbike before

[lesapandre]

The caption is not of course technically  correct.

It is Princess Elizabeth riding the bike as the picture is from WWII.

[martc]

Hampstead Heath, London 1926

[martc]

[georgeinabz]

'Where's that oil coming from?, Dad's only had it for a day'
'Here and here and here. The whole thing is effing effed mate, much like the whole British industry, mark my words'
'You'd better take your sandals off before going inside, Mum will go ape sh*t bonkers'

How rude , surely nothing to do with ham fisted home mechanics prising engine casings , barrels with big screwdrivers , chisels etc..
Seriously ,international cooperation needed now , Triumph crankshafts cast in Spain , machined at Hinckley ,then assembly at Thailand , now some engines are shipped back from Thailand for bike assembly in Hinckley, could be due to Euro tarriffs , either way crankshaft has already done 10000miles before the engine has started


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[Remspoor]

[martc]

23 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Caller 'Is that the police? Can you tell me where I can report some bad parking?'

The Feds 'Wait until the so called internet is invented, look for a beige tome with a thread (aside 'whatever that is') called 'The Parking Thread'; grass him up there and we'll be along in about 50 years'.

[Madman Of The People]

On 11/23/2021 at 2:30 PM, Remspoor said:

 

Hello, Police?  I'd like to report something I've just seen.  A funny looking man just popped out of this police box I'm using and now he's being chased down the high street by what appear to be some self-propelled dustbins.  And the dustbins are shouting "EX-TERM-IN-ATE!"

No, I have NOT been drinking!

 

[D.E]

[D.E]

[martc]

Camden High Street, 1989

[martc]

Salford, 1960s, is that the corpse of  a Standard Vanguard?

[Andrew353w]

10 hours ago, D.E said:

Seriously rare Daf 33 van in the centre background! 

[lesapandre]

1 hour ago, martc said:

Camden High Street, 1989

Aye - it's  grim oop North London.

[lesapandre]

1 hour ago, martc said:

Salford, 1960s, is that the corpse of  a Standard Vanguard?

Indeed it is. It's  the original  beetleback shape one.

[Andrew353w]

21 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Aye - it's  grim oop North London.

(Slightly off topic....) Your observation is correct! The B.B.C. have such a central London outlook that stabbings, murders etc. taking place in Camden are described as having occurred "in north London". While Camden may well have a NW1 postcode, it cannot really be described as "north"! Southgate, Enfield, Winchmore Hill, Barnet, Palmers Green (A.K.A. "Palmers Greek") etc. are "north"!  

[lesapandre]

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

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, martc said:

Camden High Street, 1989

Note no traffic lights under the bridge. They weren't installed until some years after, replacing the zebra crossings.

[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.