Chod North East. Spotting through time.

[Jim Bell]

Toward Road, Sunderland. 

 

[Jim Bell]

Harbour View garage, Sunderland. 

[High Jetter]

Hng. Accord Aerodeck, S3(?) Prelude

[Jim Bell]

Chester Le street market. 

[gm]

i think if you zoom in very close, you can see a young master gm buying “three pair of sports socks for a pound”   

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

July 1958 Front Street Tynemouth

[MiniMinorMk3]

Wakefields Coach by the Gibraltar Rock, Tynemouth

[MiniMinorMk3]

Used car site on Water Street, Scotswood Road, 1958

[MiniMinorMk3]

Edgeware Road in Scotswood no longer exists. This was taken in 1985.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Elswick Road, 1969

[Blake's Den]

  On 06/02/2024 at 17:26, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Elswick Road, 1969

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Interesting to see a LHD Imp. I wonder which country it came from? Anywhere in mainland Europe would be quite a drive in an Imp!

[LightBulbFun]

  On 06/02/2024 at 17:12, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Used car site on Water Street, Scotswood Road, 1958

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and a bonus Advert for Osram lightbulbs just peaking into shot there

"The Wonderful lamp" was one of Osram's catch phrases, in the same way Mazda had "Mazda lamps stay brighter longer" 

heres an example from the front cover of an Osram lamp catalog

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

  On 06/02/2024 at 20:35, Blake's Den said:

Interesting to see a LHD Imp. I wonder which country it came from? Anywhere in mainland Europe would be quite a drive in an Imp!

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Looks like a German plate to me, and the BN suffix would be from Bonn.

[Jim Bell]

  On 07/02/2024 at 10:45, MiniMinorMk3 said:

 BN suffix would be from Bonn.

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Which is french for Nice. 

Which is a town in France. 

Makes you think. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

  On 08/02/2024 at 17:56, Jim Bell said:

Which is french for Nice. 

Which is a town in France. 

Makes you think. 

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Bon-Bons are nice to.

[chaseracer]

  On 06/02/2024 at 20:35, Blake's Den said:

Interesting to see a LHD Imp. I wonder which country it came from? Anywhere in mainland Europe would be quite a drive in an Imp!

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  On 07/02/2024 at 10:45, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Looks like a German plate to me, and the BN suffix would be from Bonn.

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Fairly sure there was a ferry service between Hamburg and North Shields.

[Richard_FM]

  On 07/02/2024 at 10:45, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Looks like a German plate to me, and the BN suffix would be from Bonn.

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It would be an interesting choice against an NSU Prinz, maybe owned by a British expat?!

[Jim Bell]

Old redheugh bridge busses. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

Flying Scotsman at Killingworth on 1st May 1968

[Jim Bell]

Wolsingham, county Durham 82. 

[Jim Bell]

Sunderland 73

 

[Jim Bell]

South Shields Keppel Street

 

 

 

[R Lutz]

  On 31/01/2024 at 21:09, Jim Bell said:

Harbour View garage, Sunderland. 

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The guy that either owned that place or was the main salesman used to physically wear the phone out on his desk, constantly dialling out, prospecting.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Tyne bridge from Gateshead. Possibly pre-war

[MiniMinorMk3]

Smith's NCB Electric Suburbanite Milk Float at Smith's Electric Vehicles, Team Valley, Gateshead

[Jim Bell]

  On 27/02/2024 at 09:58, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Smith's NCB Electric Suburbanite Milk Float at Smith's Electric Vehicles, Team Valley, Gateshead

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Free tax on them. 

[Blake's Den]

  On 27/02/2024 at 09:58, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Smith's NCB Electric Suburbanite Milk Float at Smith's Electric Vehicles, Team Valley, Gateshead

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I remember driving past the factory on the Team Valley when I was young. There is a Greggs on the site now - a sign of the times!

[tooSavvy]

  On 27/02/2024 at 09:51, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Tyne bridge from Gateshead. Possibly pre-war

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Flakey paint..... Get a fella up, with a bucket n brush.

*No..... Wait! Do a PROPER job, over 4 years, and FFS don't splash the Kittywakes 😯

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[Jim Bell]

Gateshead 71

[MiniMinorMk3]

Blaydon Races Centenary Celebrations, 1962