Old Ipswich street scenes

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I must admit, I've become slightly obsessed with this Flickr photostream, basically it's a ton of scans of old slides taken around my home town over the last 40 or so years and it gives a great insight of cars normal people had back then.

 

I thought I'd share a load as they are of such good quality, if you click on them they get much bigger too.

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ipsoc/page1/

 

This is from 1966, It's totally changed here now, check out the booze and fag advertisements! 

 

 

Both of these are from 1977.

 

 

 

Used car sales in 1978.

 

 

Opel Rekord? in 1977.

 

 

Surprisingly this is still a music shop, this was taken in 1971.

 

 

1975 and a Rootes sign.

 

 

1979.

 

 

1976.

 

 

Bedford HA pick up (I think) from the mid 70's.

 

 

Loving the dream back in 1979.

 

 

 

Hillman Avenger Suntor in 1982.

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

How cheerfully non-grey everything was back then!

People came up with cool stuff when fags and booze were still allowed in offices.

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1982 again, back when the SVM were our local taxi drivers.

 

 

 

Wolseley Wedge from 1980.

 

 

This chicken Royale would have been new at the time.

 

 

These are all 1982 again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Merc and VW would have been brand new.

 

 

 

This one is 1983.

 

 

Unsure of the year must be around 1975-76.

 

 

The local window cleaners car in the early 80's.

 

[michael1703]

I've yet to see a HA pick up in the flesh,what a cute little vee hickle

[Skizzer]

Grand stuff!

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Rolf Harris came down for the day and helped pull some old cars into the river.

 

 

These were all from 1984.

 

 

 

 

 

A nice selection from 1985.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This has all been knocked down now.

 

 

 

 

 

Got the builders in.

 

 

 

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I'm not sure this plate on the Merc is all about.

 

 

 

Luxury travel in a Bedford CF.

 

 

 

 

There's no dates on most of these but i think it's fair to day they are roughly 87-88ish.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look at all the colour! No silvers or blacks everywhere.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Me heading to the shops in my old Kadett.

 

 

BJ Leggett are still going strong.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can't remember the last time i saw a Eastern Electricity van.

 

 

 

John Grose Ford must have been closing at this stage to move to it's current location on the other side of town.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Skizzer]

Look at all the colour! No silvers or blacks everywhere.

 

Amazing, isn't it?  When we were kids we used to count blue cars, red cars, white cars and yellow cars on the motorway to see who could get to 20 first.  Now, if you don't pick silver, black or grey you'll be at Membury before you get past two.

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The Cortina is showing as on Sorn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SAVE ALL J REG PROTONS.

 

 

 

 

Brookjm on a day trip to Ipswich.

 

 

 

Early Sierra 1.3 Base 3 door!

 

 

 

 

I don't think I've ever seen a Colt like this.

 

 

T plate P6!

 

 

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Fanny clothing.

 

 

 

 

That's your lot!

[Stanky]

Those houses on Fonnereau (sp?) Road are incredible, I always wanted to buy one of them one day. Bet they are the wrong side of three-quarters of a million quid these days...

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Those houses on Fonnereau (sp?) Road are incredible

 

Gorgeous aren't they but they are in the posh part of town around Christchurch park, They must easily be getting on for a mIllion now.

[Vin]

That first pic blew me away Trig. So much colour. Beer and Fag billboards. BMC LD, Reliant Regal and Fiat 850 saloon. Brilliant.

 

Clio and Allegro in the same parking line up. Volvo 440 and MK3 Cortina at the tip. Old Generation with the new generation. This is something you only notice in old pictures, you don't really pay much attention or notice it in day to day life. That's what I reckon anyway.  I love old photos... 8)

 

 

Pedant mode though - Pic 1 can't be 1966 as the Fiat is on an F plate. Earliest it can be is August 67. You're nearly 8 months out man... :-P

[Junkman]

OMGNOBVANALRT!

 

[brickwall]

These are amazing.  The streets are busy and clean with loads of different businesses . Note how few road signs and "street furniture" there is cluttering up the street. The colours are luscious...

[Grundig]

 

Toyota Hiace pick up truck 

[carlo]

Thought if I squinted hard enough I might have spotted Arnold Muhren or Frans Thijssen.  Not to be unfortunately.

 

Lovely red GS Estate.

[AlabamaShrimp]

These are full of win!

 

Loved the one with the fiesta, astra and escort outside an office. It's like their waiting for me to come out and decide which to drive.

 

Wish there were some as detailed as this of Huddersfield and Wakefield

[fordperv]

Fantastic pictures, i am salivating at the shite

[Skizzer]

The Cortina is showing as on Sorn.

 

You've been putting ALL of these through the vehicle check thing?  That's mad - but excellent.

 

 

I don't think I've ever seen a Colt like this.

 

It's a pre-facelift A70 Lancer.  I think 70s Mitsubishis were rather pretty:  the Celeste coupe, which was based on the Lancer, was certainly a bit of alright.

 

(The garage just at the bottom of the hill from us was a Colt main dealer in the 70s.  Norman Hopkins Motors, long since given up the ghost.  Still a petrol station though - now Texaco, used to be Gulf back then.)  

[seth]

Some great photos Trig. The colour on that first one is incredible.

 

The Ferrari disappearing out of shot in one of them would have been a rare sight.  Back when they weren't ten a penny and driven by every wannabe celeb.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I must admit I've checked on a few cars too

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You've been putting ALL of these through the vehicle check thing?  That's mad - but excellent.

 

Haha! I only done a few of them, even I'm not that sad... Oh hang on...

[UmBongo]

That bloody Jimmy Savile has tainted the 70s and 80s for me...the dead git.

[Partridge]

Those are amazing. Thanks so much for sharing them with us.

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"Sublime view from the orangery, Daphne..."

 

[robinmasters]

 

They must be running an Escort agency.

[RoadworkUK]

These are ace. Especially the Ferodo bridge shot with the Class 31 and the Ford Thames.

 

By the pre-TOPS locomotive number I guess that photo was late '60s. Whersted road has changed enormously in the last 20 years ago, though. I always used to take that road into town from Manningtree, and the terraces along there would often be dwarfed by the funnels of something from DFDS.

[sheffcortinacentre]

ford thames  " robin reliant" arghhhhhhh

 

thames trader, the commercial side upto the introduction of the transit & D series lorry was thames.