Shite in your town, in ye olden times.

[Metal Guru]

5 hours ago, Skut said:

Dundee again. First shot is a posh area somewhere around Roseangle. The others are on the site of Wellgate Street that had just been cleared for the Wellgate shopping centre that in now largely empty except for the odd Junkie and the library.

Dundee, posh area!? Funniest thing I’ve heard this week!

[High Jetter]

Horsley Fields, Wolverhampton. 1979 is the given year.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Old butchers van

[Tenmil Socket]

Widnes 1988

[dozeydustman]

Gravesend, King Street/New Road 1973, though according to a source this could be mis-dated (see below)

Fiat 124 or 125? I believe the Bristol LH bus was new to London Country in 1974 as a narrow chassis BN. Sent for scrap 1981.

Raphael Road, Milton/Denton. I remember neither the Wool Shop nor 'John'

The Lido near Gravesend Promenade, undated but looks 1970s given the mk2 Capri.

King St/New Road, undated but I would say the mid 1960s. 'Policeman's hat' traffic lights (Electomatics?)

Late 80s-early 90s, The Bridge Inn, Old Rd West - the boundary between Gravesend and Northfleet. Pub is long gone after it was converted to flats and 'mysteriously' burnt down. I wonder if the Mere and the pre-facelift Ford Granny survive?

[High Jetter]

55 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Fiat 124 or 125? 

Might even be a Polski, can't quite make out the grille badge.

[Tenmil Socket]

Liverpool 1983

1969

1977

1990

1993 - Mondeo @egg

 

 

[martc]

On 6/9/2023 at 10:10 PM, dozeydustman said:

Gravesend, King Street/New Road 1973, though according to a source this could be mis-dated (see below)

Fiat 124 or 125?

 

On 6/9/2023 at 11:08 PM, High Jetter said:

Might even be a Polski, can't quite make out the grille badge.

Don't think it's a Polski, they were 125's and had double headlights.

The grille is unusaul and doesn't quite match images I can find of either a 124 or a Lada but both have badges that match the photo.

The grille looks similar to SEAT's 124, but they had a round badge and I don't think they were sold here...

[High Jetter]

16 minutes ago, martc said:

The grille looks similar to SEAT's 124, but they had a round badge and I don't think they were sold here...

Apparently, Seat didn't officialy sell here until 1985, you're right. There seems to have been quite a few variations of grille on these, closest I could find on a Fiat is this:

[egg]

1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said:

1993 - Mondeo @egg

 

last taxed 2003, RIP little soldiar, not a long life....

[Tenmil Socket]

Liverpool from not exactly 'Ye Olden Times' but from the 90's

1992

1994

1996

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

On 6/9/2023 at 10:10 PM, dozeydustman said:

Gravesend, King Street/New Road 1973, though according to a source this could be mis-dated (see below)

Fiat 124 or 125? 

 

Looking closer at the wind assisted windscreen wiper, this guy is keen on modifying. Therefore it makes sense that he fitted this grill and badge:

...as was a common mod at the time, especially if the original had just 'fallen out' on the way home from the last pub visit.

 

Nope, just made that up, and got fed up with trying to work it out.

[chaseracer]

On 09/06/2023 at 15:38, Tenmil Socket said:

Widnes 1988

It's been a while since I owned one, so I can't work out whether M'sieu Bay Icks is braking fairly hard/reversing like a knobhead, to the delight/contempt of the yummy mummies and their offspring.

Answer on a carte postale...

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

I think she's just worked out where her third kid is.

[MiniMinorMk3]

1 hour ago, Crispian_J_Hotson said:

Looking closer at the wind assisted windscreen wiper, this guy is keen on modifying. Therefore it makes sense that he fitted this grill and badge:

...as was a common mod at the time, especially if the original had just 'fallen out' on the way home from the last pub visit.

 

Nope, just made that up, and got fed up with trying to work it out.

It's a 1972 Fiat 124 with an extra badge under the Fiat one.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Likely another fiat badge. The double fiat badge became popular and would evolve into the fiat Doblo. name... Possibly 

[High Jetter]

22 minutes ago, Crispian_J_Hotson said:

The double fiat badge became popular and would evolve into the fiat Doblo. name... Possibly 

I thought that name was created to evoke a connection to the highly successful and realistic* spy franchise or books and films...

[High Jetter]

Quote

Traffic queuing up on the ring road at the junction with Snow hill in 1973. This was the first section of the ring road to be constructed, in 1960, running from Snow hill down to Penn road. The last section was constructed in 1985, completing the ring, which is 2.3 miles long. It is officially listed as the A4150, an 'inner' ring road, even though the planned 'outer' ring road was never built - just part of one section of it exists, called Wobaston road. In this picture the turning to the left goes down Snow hill to town, the one to the right goes to Dudley road and Birmingham road. James Gibbons works is on the right.

 

[kfsgo]

Sort of cheating, but also not cheating, with this picture of a Morris Ital in Portugal from the Wikipedia article, in that I'm probably the only person on the planet who will ever look at it and think, 'hey, I know where that is'...and this is probably the only place on the internet where anyone will ever find that even the tiniest bit amusing. So you get to look at it and be amused. Ish.

Specifically, here in Lagoa: https://goo.gl/maps/BSx1qRLiDSucTmva6

Long since pedestrianised, back in I want to say 1995 at which time I was living across the road. Not really many Itals around by then, alas.

[High Jetter]

Plus bonus Fiat 128 - did we get the 2-door over here? I can only recall the 4-door, the estate, and the 128 3P.

[dozeydustman]

Gravesend town pier some time in the 60s

The pier was a connection from Gravesend to Tilbury railway station on the ferry with both Gravesend Central and Gravesend West being  5-10 minute walks (Gravesend West closed to passengers in the 1953 but freight ran there to the end of steam). The Town Pier was managed by LMS prior to British Rail. The Three Dawes pub is still going strong, they do great grub.

Fact. Oldest surviving intact cast iron pier in the UK (if not the world)

[MiniMinorMk3]

4 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Plus bonus Fiat 128 - did we get the 2-door over here? I can only recall the 4-door, the estate, and the 128 3P.

1970 Fiat 128 Brochure

1978 brochure

[MiniMinorMk3]

Wallsend 1975

[DSdriver]

2 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Gravesend town pier some time in the 60s

The pier was a connection from Gravesend to Tilbury railway station on the ferry with both Gravesend Central and Gravesend West being  5-10 minute walks (Gravesend West closed to passengers in the 1953 but freight ran there to the end of steam). The Town Pier was managed by LMS prior to British Rail. The Three Dawes pub is still going strong, they do great grub.

Fact. Oldest surviving intact cast iron pier in the UK (if not the world)

Check out the old money numberplate on that Rover!

I have transited one of the piers doing a job for the PLA (Port of London Authority not Palestine Liberation bods) but not sure which one it was. It was an architectural gem though.

[dozeydustman]

5 minutes ago, DSdriver said:

Check out the old money numberplate on that Rover!

I have transited one of the piers doing a job for the PLA (Port of London Authority not Palestine Liberation bods) but not sure which one it was. It was an architectural gem though.

PLA are at the Royal Terrace Pier, which is slightly to the east

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

1970 Fiat 128 Brochure

1978 brochure

It seems we did, then. Thanks.

[High Jetter]

Snow Hill, Wolverhampton. Interesting colour on the Corsair.

[High Jetter]

St Peter's Church, Wolverhampton.

[High Jetter]

Another bit of Snow Hill.

[Cavcraft]

Pretty much everything wrong with motoring, in one photograph: Kwik-Fit Up, one of those God awful Escorts and an Iv*co