Shite in your town, in ye olden times.

[dozeydustman]

And a couple from Chichester, my current home. “The snobbiest shithole in Britain, but at least it’s not Bognor Regis” according to Ilivehere.com

Market Cross, undated

East Street, undated.

I’m finding old pics of Chi very hard to find. With Goodwood being very close it should be a golden opportunity but I have more luck spotting!

Edited January 6, 2022 by dozeydustman
Location corrected

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, dozeydustman said:

Is the car a Mk2 Cortina or a Viva HB?

I think it might be a Toyota 1000.

[motorpunk]

Old one of Leicester. The same spot now is an utterly depressing shit hole. I can't believe how lovely the city used to be;

[Surface Rust]

Some of my birthplace in Norn Iron robbed from old postcards I have and in glorious Technicolour!

 

[grogee]

Here's some from my town, Southam in Warwickshire. The town centre 'car park' bit has now been remodeled and contains about 9 spaces instead of the previous 18 or so. Utterly ruined it. 

Anyway credit to Fred Frith for the black and white, other two unknown unfortunately but courtesy of Southam Heritage Collection. 

Shite-wise I'm not even going to guess at what's in the B&W pic, I'm not into old pipe-smoking side-valve shite. I like the Marina pickup and Minis in the middle pics though, from a time when BL ownership was basically compulsory.

[davocano]

Nearly five years ago, Spelthorne Council installed some new recycling bins in Shepperton, Middx. Here are the two most interesting ones (to me at least)

Let's take a closer look.

[Tenmil Socket]

1980's St.Helens

[Metal Guru]

46 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

1980's St.Helens

I was in St Helens a few months ago. Just the cars are different!

[Tenmil Socket]

24 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

I was in St Helens a few months ago. Just the cars are different!

Well at least you didn't have to stay here.

[TheOtherStu]

On 1/6/2022 at 10:52 AM, dozeydustman said:

And a couple from Chichester, my current home. “The snobbiest shithole in Britain, but at least it’s not Bognor Regis” according to Ilivehere.com

Market Cross, undated

East Street, undated.

I’m finding old pics of Chi very hard to find. With Goodwood being very close it should be a golden opportunity but I have more luck spotting!

What's wrong with Bognor? We're looking at a house in Pagham.

[dozeydustman]

8 minutes ago, TheOtherStu said:

What's wrong with Bognor? We're looking at a house in Pagham.

Nothing in particular, I was quoting ilivehere.com

[bunglebus]

Gotta be careful what you search for. 1st hit for "Hutton Essex 1977" (where I grew up/year I was born) is a Daily Fail story about a man cutting off his own testicles...

Thankfully Flickr came to the rescue with some images of nearby Shenfield where I occasionally caught a train from this station, here before, and during being refurbished in 1974

And in '75

Moving to the other end of the high Street, and onwards by nearly two decades, I remember this Q8 station opening and a couple of young ladies handing out free sweeties. I wonder how much the Micra and Metro cost to fill up with 4* at 44.9p a litre? My friend's dad worked in the adjacent garage, at one time an NSU dealer IIRC - apparently there are engine blocks buried in the walls from when alterations were made... 

Same site, different angle in 2010

Now? More bloody flats.

[bunglebus]

Even earlier shot of the station. Look how simple and elegant everything was

Compared to now - Taxi rank that spills out halfway under the bridge, railings, bikes, takeaways, gantry due to an extra railway line going in, pedestrian crossing...

[Spottedlaurel]

On 1/6/2022 at 4:25 PM, grogee said:

Here's some from my town, Southam in Warwickshire...........

Great to see the 180B. Apparently it made it to 1984.

Neat plate on the Marina pickup.

[chaseracer]

Cannock bus station, summer 1975...

All of the building in the photo are now gone - except the white multistorey car park, which is due to be demolished soon.  At the time, it was two years old.

[Tenmil Socket]

Huyton, Knowsley, Merseyside - 1984

[dozeydustman]

More from the Gravesend Archives

 

London Country RF(?) class on probably one of its last runs - I only ever remember Leyland Nasties on single decker routes. Behind the bus is an R8, an unidentified van and I think a Chrysler 180

Dashwood Road early-mid 1970s

Parrock St. Renault 15/17 goodness on the right.

Chalmer’s motoring shop 1960s. Shop still going strong today in the hands of the original owner’s grandson.

New Rd/Overcliffe outside the Maidstone & District depot. RML2329 overtakes a PDR 1/2 type Atlantean behind the unidentified coach (I know someone here will recognise the body).

EDIT: could be a Fleetline - M&D used both for a while

The Hill, Northfleet. My guess is mid-late 1950s given the advert on the hoarding and a Mk1 Consul.

[J W Pepper]

[J W Pepper]

 

[J W Pepper]

[J W Pepper]

The Honda in the above picture was only six years old when last taxed

[Metal Guru]

6 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

More from the Gravesend Archives

 

London Country RF(?) class on probably one of its last runs - I only ever remember Leyland Nasties on single decker routes. Behind the bus is an R8, an unidentified van and I think a Chrysler 180

Dashwood Road early-mid 1970s

Parrock St. Renault 15/17 goodness on the right.

Chalmer’s motoring shop 1960s. Shop still going strong today in the hands of the original owner’s grandson.

New Rd/Overcliffe outside the Maidstone & District depot. RML2329 overtakes a PDR 1/2 type Atlantean behind the unidentified coach (I know someone here will recognise the body).

EDIT: could be a Fleetline - M&D used both for a while

The Hill, Northfleet. My guess is mid-late 1950s given the advert on the hoarding and a Mk1 Consul.

Top picture, sure the van is a Sherpa introduced 1974, so fits.

[dozeydustman]

5 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Top picture, sure the van is a Sherpa introduced 1974, so fits.

Can’t see a bonnet/nose on it, might be a J4 (my initial thought) or a Commer PB, which was the Gravesend Tradesman’s van of choice growing up in the 80s

[chaseracer]

My home manor, famous for an unexpected reason... https://mixmag.net/feature/diy-soundsystem-dreaming-in-yellow-extract-book-free-party-castlemorton?fbclid=IwAR0AIQgzJsdO2IymL0mmp_D_rEIYdEw6Lp9q-eNKnYEAoCXdsKnBMy1UD8c

30 years?!?  How the.....?

[mk2_craig]

Plenty of top notch old toss in that shot.

Polonez?

[High Jetter]

Indeed, FSO.

[Asimo]

The mini is parked exactly where I caught the school bus home. This picture taken June 1975, the day the BRS depot closed. Also the month I left school.

[Sunny Jim]

From a local Facebook group:

"Me and the Bethesda (north Wales) GP in 1993 - 1.8 diesel - ended up being nicknamed the “golf ball” because of the dozens of dents it aquired in the course of its duties - note the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue badge in the centre of the screen. Despite our best attempts we never managed to break it."

[busmansholiday]

On 3/9/2022 at 4:58 PM, dozeydustman said:

More from the Gravesend Archives

 

London Country RF(?) class on probably one of its last runs - I only ever remember Leyland Nasties on single decker routes. Behind the bus is an R8, an unidentified van and I think a Chrysler 180

Dashwood Road early-mid 1970s

Parrock St. Renault 15/17 goodness on the right.

Chalmer’s motoring shop 1960s. Shop still going strong today in the hands of the original owner’s grandson.

New Rd/Overcliffe outside the Maidstone & District depot. RML2329 overtakes a PDR 1/2 type Atlantean behind the unidentified coach (I know someone here will recognise the body).

EDIT: could be a Fleetline - M&D used both for a while

The Hill, Northfleet. My guess is mid-late 1950s given the advert on the hoarding and a Mk1 Consul.

Top pic is an AEC Merlin with MCW body.

RML2329 is indeed passing an Atlantean, black four spoke steering wheel. Coach on,right appears to have a Duple Commander IV or possibly a Viceroy body. Far, far more interesting is the Strachan,bodied Leyland Panther single deck in the distance.

[Asimo]

More Ross-on-Wye  shite: '80s mishaps.