Chod North East. Spotting through time.

[primeradoner]

Custombilt in Benwell. Pops WW nearly bought me a mk3 escort Ghia from there in the 90s. For my 18th birthday I think.

 

I didn't get a license till I was 36.

Its still there, I drove past it yesterday

[Jim Bell]

Its still there, I drove past it yesterday

I would have thought there would have been more interest in a Ford. It was only £300 too.

[HH-R]

 

Phwoar!

[Guest Lord Sward]

Why isn't that an Olympian?

[HH-R]

No idea, did anyone other then London Transport buy them new? TWPTE seemed to have chosen the MCW Metrobus over the Titan.

[Jim Bell]

Nice spread of British and imports of the day.

 

I couldn't get the German between the cortinas.

[overrun]

Mk1 Scirocco?

[overrun]

Keeping with the theme - but Sunderland.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPQ7goOszmE

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWvnNTzeF8A

 

30 mins of road survey van footage,

[Jim Bell]

Mk1 Scirocco?

Winnar

[overrun]

Winnar

 

[Guest Lord Sward]

That Sunderland footage van must be 1990 at the latest?

[lisbon_road]

The Titan was an integral to follow on from the National.  The Olympian was a chassis based bus, more conventional, and came out a few years later.  Apart from a few odd sales, London bought nearly all the Titans though I think Reading bought a few new ones.  WMPTE and I think Manchester had tiny numbers.  Stagecoach seemed to do well with them and many lasted for ages with them.

 

Some great pictures thanks.

[Jim Bell]

There now follows a chod speckled, pub related mega dump.

 

The Toby.

[Jim Bell]

Long flattened Bourgogneys.

[Jim Bell]

Still standing are the Adelphi and the Ship. (Now the Tyne bar)

[Jim Bell]

A couple of heads.

[Jim Bell]

Gosforth high street.

[Jim Bell]

Some black and Whites of various ale houses with chod.

[Jim Bell]

Byker Grove.

 

The old mitre was used for exterior filming of the hit* children's TV show.

[Jim Bell]

Always finish on a bus.

 

Along with the legendary live music venue The Mag Bank. Still standing in North Shields.

[Jim Bell]

Just for fun. The aftermath of the first attempt at full public transport integration when a Metro train and a bus met unsuccessfully at Kingston Park level crossing in the early eighties.

[Spottedlaurel]

Urvan outside the Adelphi Hotel! DVLA says it was last taxed in 1990 and was black – not a standard colour, maybe a ‘private ambulance’?

 

Look at all the Cortina Mk3 and Hunter taxis. Imagine how knackered they’d have been after a few years use on the rank….

[chaseracer]

Is that a Ford Taunus with the BAOR plates, sneaking in on the left?

 

 

 

And check how close the Capri's index is to Jack Carter's Jag-killing Cortina...

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Looking at these it's not difficult to see why O/S/F Tax exists,nalmost every picture from the 50's to 90's is full of Fords.

Just the sight of a Cortina or Transit can stir nostalgic memories in even the most cynical of Citroenists or Jap lickers .its fun spotting the odd Fiat 132 or Datsun Cherry ,but the wall to wall Dagenham( or Halewood or Cologne etc) Dustbins , just shout This is Working Class Britain.

The Rootes Arrow minicabs come as no surprise ,Terry drove one in the 'Whatever happened to The Likely Lads'

Christmas special.

[RayMK]

Is that a Ford Taunus with the BAOR plates, sneaking in on the left?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, 12m, front wheel drive with an in line German V4 which, perhaps surprisingly, was not the same as the V4 used by UK fords.

[Guest Lord Sward]

You see that 300-series Volvo parked outside of the Adelphi?  I got a parking ticket in that very spot once in my dad's 416 as it was re-designated as a loading bay.  PHACT!

[Squire_Dawson]

The 1634 Bourgognes building has gone?

[mercrocker]

Nice spread of British and imports of the day.

 

I couldn't get the German between the cortinas.

 

Gie'us our Sainsbury's back....

 

That ain't Sunderland - Lordshill, Southampton!   (it actually says so on the wall mural!)

[HH-R]

Just for fun. The aftermath of the first attempt at full public transport integration when a Metro train and a bus met unsuccessfully at Kingston Park level crossing in the early eighties.

Taking the Transfare a bit too far there...

[Jim Bell]

Further north east chodding.