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[Junkman]

The following series is from Bochum, 1964.
 
The new Planetarium, opened in November 1964
 

 

 
 
Bongardstraße wasn't pedestrianised yet
 

 
 
View from the roof of the new vocational school at the Ostring (Eastern Ring Road)
 

 
 
Europa Haus still without the Mercedes star on top (note contemporary greening)
 

 
 
The Engelbert monument was erected for the 1st of May (labour day in Germany) celebrations
 

 
 
 
The chimneys were still smoking - Robert Müser colliery in Werne
 

 
 
 
Even smaller collieries, like this one in the Zollstraße in Höntrop were still active
 

 
 
Danger of collapse: Sinkhole in Weitmar




The Ruhrlandhalle was opened on 18th July - this where the RuhrCongress (sic) is located nowadays
 

 

 

Wattenscheid town centre

 

 

 

One of the few remaining old houses

 

 

 

Volunteering students are interviewing motorists for a traffic survey - well accessorised Karmann shows off the affluence of the region back then

 

 

 

Farmers market at August Bebel Platz in Wattenscheid town centre

 

 

 

 

Mobile library

 

 

 

The latest in car wash technology

 

 

 

New appartment blocks at the Rosendelle

 

 

 

 

Pit head of the Centrum colliery behind the St. Joseph's Church

 

 

 

 

Despite the Ruhrschnellweg was already classed as an expressway, it still had an intersection in Wattenscheid

 

 

 

 

Construction of the Ruhrpark shopping mall

 

 

 

 

Which was opened on 14th November

 

 

 

 

Querenburg before building of the Uni campus commenced - today the Buscheyplatz is here

 

 

 

 

 

Buscheystraße school with pupils - this is where the Uni-Center (sic) is located today

 

 

 

 

Building the Uni is in full swing

 

 

 

 

Aerial photograph of the construction site

 

 

 

And we are concluding 1964 Bochum with the Christmas illuminations in the shape of the traditional bells in Harmoniestraße

 

[Junkman]

The following series is from the construction of the "Ruhrschnellweg" (i.e. the B1, later A40) through Essen

 

The problem:

 

Permacongestion (here at Kronprinzenstraße) on the B1 through Essen in the early 50s, not being helped by saloon and army lorries of much Englishness

 

 

 

 

The solution:

 

Build a dual carriageway straight through the city centre. The first section was started in the 50s and the last contract lot, the tunnel, was finished in 1970.

Back then, all you needed for such a project, was a plan, construction equipment and lots and lots of concrete. Money was there in abundance anyway.

There were no tree huggers, preservationists, gentrification opponents, or other such spoilsports, because everything was better back then.

 

So to start with, they built this temporary steel flyover, designed and built by Krupp, because they couldn't close the road

 

 

 

 

 

Construction of the (permanent) Helbing bridges

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finished:

 

 

 

Opening ceremony of another finished section of the new B1 by Essen's then mayor Nieswandt

 

 

Even Bundespräsident Heinemann (centre left with dark suit, glasses and white hair) showed up for the occasion

 

 

 

Note rails for tram separating the carriageways. The big Koch and Sterzel building was a factory for x-ray equipment

 

 

 

Opening ceremonies of the tunnel included a Gogo-Girls show - I'm surprised they are dressed, considering this is 1970

 

 

 

And free busrides for the public

 

[Junkman]

Three Englishmen at the Dorcheser, in 1972

 

[Junkman]

Londoners in that London

 

[Junkman]

Leeds 1954

 

 

[Junkman]

The following are all from some town about halfway between that London and Manchester.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus, Bus,

[Junkman]

 

 

Now I'm depressed.

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http://11foot8.com/ ?

[Junkman]

Doesn't only happen in Septicland, though.

 

[mercrocker]

Worse things happen at sea, apparently.

 

 

[Lacquer Peel]

What on earth? Is that real??

[trigger]

I can't work out what's happening there!

[mercrocker]

Firstly apologies for polluting the black and white thread with colour (uploaded wrong image) but yes its for real.   In 1980 the Sunshine Skyway Bridge across Tampa Bay was wrecked by a freighter.  35 people died but the chap in the ironically named Skylark was lucky.  

[Junkman]

Holy shit, if I were in that Buick, I'd be well sitting on a copper bolt, for sure.

[3VOM]

Three Englishmen at the Dorcheser, in 1972

Sadly I knew straight away who those three are, and only one of them was English.

[mikebee]

funniest thing I've seen for ages!!!

[andrew e]

Piss-poor quality (off eBay) but look at the subject!

 

[andrew e]

[seth]

I can't work out what's happening there!

 

Yes, it looks really od because of that massive girder that appears to be sticking out of the ship.  Opposite angle shows it to be part of the bridge that should eb holding the roadway up.

[fatharris]

Herbert by Glenn Harris, on Flickr

 

Herbert by Glenn Harris, on Flickr

 

Finally gave the D200 a chance to stretch its legs, and did pretty damn well too.

[mercrocker]

The former Tyrell & Green store in Southampton.   Now bulldozed for some other shit to be put there