Eye-catching black and whites

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7 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

I worked in Edmonton Fore Street,  just round the corner from here in the early 1980s; I drove a Ford Escort as the time...... but that's not it!

As an aside, one day a member of Autoshite is going to spot their own (or, more likely, their parents'!) car in one of these pictures! 

So did I, at Halfords (when I was still at school!), I later worked at Ripspeed further down! (I`ve got more of The Angel Edmonton pre-underpass too, & weirdly there was a second of video footage there on one of the old Top Of The Pops 80`s programs a few weeks back!)

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3 hours ago, Remspoor said:

This thread's beginning to spook me.... Not content with showing a picture close to my former place of work in Edmonton, earlier, this is a picture of Gipsy Lane, Grays, which I recognise as being tantalisingly close to the industrial estate in Grays, where a branch of the trailer rental company T.I.P. were based, for whom I briefly worked in the late 1980s. 

Has someone access to my private life?

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Happy New Year to all our readers.

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Oslo Norway 1962

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There was a lack of cars in rural areas in Norway after the war and for a good while afterwards so the local taxi was used for a lot, but in use as a funeral car with trailer is new to me.

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Hamar Norway taxi central guess late 50s.

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Smog - Dec'52 London.

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On 12/29/2022 at 11:37 PM, uk_senator said:

Great Eastern Street. In the background is the former terminus to the Great Eastern Railway - still derelict  whilst a decades long planning battle drags on.

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8 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Smog - Dec'52 London.

Ah the good old days! None of today’s pollution!

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17 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Smog - Dec'52 London.

An amazing picture! A policeman on point duty (who has ever seen that?) wearing no high-visibility clothing, but carrying a flaming torch! Cars all around, none of which have their headlamps on, and no doubt with fuel pipes that weep slightly.......

Health and safety would have a fit, but, as they weren't around, no-one worried themselves and everyone muddled through. Result-we managed! 

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12 minutes ago, Andrew353w said:

An amazing picture! A policeman on point duty (who has ever seen that?) wearing no high-visibility clothing, but carrying a flaming torch! Cars all around, none of which have their headlamps on, and no doubt with fuel pipes that weep slightly.......

Health and safety would have a fit, but, as they weren't around, no-one worried themselves and everyone muddled through. Result-we managed! 

Effects of this December 52 'Great Smog' were wide-ranging:

"Although London was accustomed to heavy fogs, this one was denser and longer-lasting than any previous fog. Visibility was reduced to a few metres, with one visitor stating that it was "like you were blind", rendering driving difficult or at times impossible.

Public transport ceased, apart from the London Underground, and the ambulance service stopped, forcing individuals to transport themselves to hospital. The smog was so dense that it even seeped indoors, resulting in the cancellation or abandonment of concerts and film screenings, as visibility decreased in large enclosed spaces, and stages and screens became harder to see from the seats. Outdoor sports events were also cancelled.

In the inner London suburbs and away from town centres, there was no disturbance by moving traffic to thin out dense fog in the back streets. As a result, visibility could be down to a metre or so in the daytime. Walking out of doors became a matter of shuffling to feel for potential obstacles such as kerbs. This was made even worse at night since each back street lamp was fitted with an incandescent light bulb, which gave no penetrating light onto the pavement for pedestrians to see their feet or even a lamp post. Fog-penetrating fluorescent lamps did not become widely available until later in the 1950s. "Smog masks" were worn by those who were able to purchase them from chemists.

There was no panic, as London was infamous for its fog. In the weeks that ensued, however, statistics compiled by medical services found that the fog had killed 4,000 people. Most of the victims were very young or elderly, or had pre-existing respiratory problems. In February 1953, Marcus Lipton suggested in the House of Commons that the fog had caused 6,000 deaths and that 25,000 more people had claimed sickness benefits in London during that period.

Mortality remained elevated for months after the fog.  A preliminary report, never finalised, blamed those deaths on an influenza epidemic. Emerging evidence revealed that only a fraction of the deaths could be from influenza. Most of the deaths were caused by respiratory tract infections, from hypoxia and as a result of mechanical obstruction of the air passages by  pus  arising from lung infections caused by the smog. The lung infections were mainly  bronchopneumonia or acute  purulent bronchitis superimposed upon chronic bronchitis.

Research published in 2004 suggests that the number of fatalities was considerably greater than contemporary estimates, at about 12,000."

Source Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London

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Is the price on the Acclaim £4532? 

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Source & 1000's of other historical photos Detroit Public Library:

https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/

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16 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Is the price on the Acclaim £4532? 

Yes - that would be about right for an Acclaim at the time. Of course you'd get £175 off when you PX'd your 1969 Herald. 🙂

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