Chod North East. Spotting through time.

[chaseracer]

11 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

 Frank Dee supermarket, Berwick Hills, Middlesbrough

Frank sold doughnuts, clearly.

[gm]

[Jim Bell]

Bank Top garage, west boldon. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

3 hours ago, Jim Bell said:

Bank Top garage, west boldon. 

Now a row of houses

[gm]

[MiniMinorMk3]

I walked over the bridge once after a few pints in the town and tried to get on the Tuxedo. They wouldn't let me on as I was too pissed.

 

[cpjitservices]

Not Chod but Chod related (Darlington - my home town) wen tfor an explore one day and saw what was the old Edmunds Walker branch that my dad worked at is now a Garage.

 

Remember Edmunds Walker? My old man was manager here at this one (Brunswick Street), upstairs in that front office there where racks upon racks of what i remember to be dark blue ring binders with the Edmunds Walker emblem on, parts catalogues I think. When I was about 9-10 I went to work with my old man of a weekend and I would sit and go through those folders to pass the time. Even helped a customer or 2 on the odd occasion I knew what a part was as I'd seen it in the ring binder. The binders also IIRC had a catalogue of what was in stock and at which branch which was updated on a weekly basis.

 After this one the old twat got moved to Carlisle branch, so we'd venture up there of a weekend.

Fun times.

[R Lutz]

On 09/06/2024 at 23:16, Jim Bell said:

Van crash on Scotswood Road, Newcastle, 1960

 

Now Elddis (Siddle) backwards.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, cpjitservices said:

Remember Edmunds Walker? 

Yup, a good factor, especially for exhausts IIRC. Think they even sent a rep round, early 80s?

[cpjitservices]

7 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Yup, a good factor, especially for exhausts IIRC. Think they even sent a rep round, early 80s?

They did! My old man was rep for them at one point!

[cpjitservices]

Darlington, in the 60s. This road had just opened I believe, fire station to the right.

 

 

[jmsguzzi]

4 hours ago, cpjitservices said:

Darlington, in the 60s. This road had just opened I believe, fire station to the right.

 

 

Anyone know what the front car is, must be American or Australian?

[R Lutz]

23 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

I walked over the bridge once after a few pints in the town and tried to get on the Tuxedo. They wouldn't let me on as I was too pissed.

 

I've got a few stories from that boat but the most bizarre is Les Battersby telling me to 'fuck off' for reasons I won't go into. 

[Jim Bell]

24 minutes ago, jmsguzzi said:

Anyone know what the front car is, must be American or Australian?

Mk 3 Zodiac?

[jmsguzzi]

3 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

Mk 3 Zodiac?

That's what I thought at first glance but it's definitely wider than that.

Something in the back of my mind is saying Chrysler/Plymouth

[MiniMinorMk3]

31 minutes ago, jmsguzzi said:

Anyone know what the front car is, must be American or Australian?

It's a Chrysler Coronado.

Darlington’s mayor was offered exceptionally rare Chrysler Coronado for a knockdown price | The Northern Echo

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THE minimalist landscape around the Cummins factory in Darlington’s Yarm Road is one of 20 post-war green spaces to have been added to the national Register of Parks and Gardens, as the Echo reported on August 21.

It was built between 1963 and 1965 as Chrysler Cummins were attracted to Darlington to make up for the collapse of the railway industry in which the town had lost 7,000 jobs in a decade. The Americans were so pleased to be coming that in 1963, they offered Darlington’s mayor an exceptionally rare Chrysler Coronado for a knockdown price.

 

Darlington mayor's Chryster Coronado outside St Cuthbert's church, March 30, 1967.

[cpjitservices]

3 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

It's a Chrysler Coronado.

Darlington’s mayor was offered exceptionally rare Chrysler Coronado for a knockdown price | The Northern Echo

 

Darlington mayor's Chryster Coronado outside St Cuthbert's church, March 30, 1967.

Nice find!

[cpjitservices]

Makes sense if the road had just opened that the mayor was up front.

[Jim Bell]

Percy Street Newcastle 

 

[Jim Bell]

Stockton High Street

 

 

[Jim Bell]

Stockton high Street

 

[Jim Bell]

Garage, car wash at the north side of the Redheugh bridge, Newcastle. 

[Jim Bell]

Grainger Street, Newcastle. 

Bonus Geordie Jeans. 

[Jim Bell]

Park Lane bus depot, Sunderland. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

Shields Road, Byker, 1979

[MiniMinorMk3]

[Jim Bell]

St James Place, Newcastle. 

[gm]

i was 17 when this was filmed ! 

 

 

[Jim Bell]

Metropolitans on Market Street, Newcastle. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

9 hours ago, gm said:

i was 17 when this was filmed ! 

 

 

I wuz twenty-free when that wuz filmed 'n' still livin' darn sarff.