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More old photos of Gravesend borrowed* from a F*cebook page dedicated to the town in years gone by. Plenty of commercials and buses this time.

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Northfleet High Street, early 70s

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Milton Road 1967 Guy Special (London GS class)

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New Road for the Shrimpers’ Carnival (Gravesend was famous for brown shrimps)

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Crooked Lane in the 50s

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New Road 1960. Audax Minx FTW

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Milton Rd, mid 1960s

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New Rd/Overcliffe mid-late 1970s. Routemasters changed from London Country green with yellow band to more conventional NBC Green with white band 1976(?)

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Harmer Street 1950s

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New Rd 1960s. By the 70s M&D routes in Gravesend were Bristol VRs and shrieking Volvo Ailsas mk1s (what a bus the Ailsa was)

 

 

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Got my Ajax & Audax mixed up
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Look at them bleeding yobbos on pushbikes weighing up the flange crossing the end of St Werburgh Street. The one on the left is either telling that copper to FRO or giving that bit of stuff in front of him marks out of three. Wonder if that cafe serves tigers?

 

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Brook Street, Chester. Just behind this pub (to the left of the nearest car) was a car auction many years back. Remember walking past with my dad (early 1970's at a guess) and marvelling at an Austin Cambridge estate being sold for a tenner.

 

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Oh, predictably all the local history pages seem to be full of people saying how the council have ruined the city/the streets are a mess now/years ago everything was spotless/ACAB (I made that bit up) etc. 

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A couple of postcards of Stockport in the 1970s, the first when SELNEC hadn't yet repainted their ex-Stockport Corporation & North Western buses.

I'm guessing the Citroen was a personal import as it's a little to early for an official import, though a batch was brought over in the 1960s which should have gone to Nigeria but was cancelled.

The second is a little later when Stopford House (the police station in Life On Mars) had been built and the church next to the Town Hall had been demolished.

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Moar Gravo goodness

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The mk4 Scrote would suggest 1986 or later, probably early 90s judging by the cool* dude with the bum bag in the foreground.

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Is that a Renault Dauphine?

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I remember these hoppers as they had an animated dot-matrix destination blind when new. Think they're an early Optare.

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I'm sure @LightBulbFun will be biffing his ted quite hard over the early invalid carriage in this. Early-mid 1960s Windmill Street.

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Tollgate service station on the A2. It's still there but substantially redeveloped into something far more aesthetically pleasing*

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Wrotham Rd, late 50s early 60s. Not sure when RTs were replaced with RMs in the north Kent country area.

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Learn to drive in a convertible. Unknown location but looks like Crete Hall Road. Plenty of chod in the background. This would have been 1987 or later. The bus is an earlyish AN series Atlantean JPL110K AN110, a double door model.

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33 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

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I'm sure @LightBulbFun will be biffing his ted quite hard over the early invalid carriage in this. Early-mid 1960s Windmill Street.

certainly has me a bit baffled thats for sure!

I thought maybe an early Invacar? but the frontal profile is all wrong, looking at the way it just droops down like that I wonder if theres space for a front wheel so  I wonder if maybe its funky looking side car, but it has a windscreen wiper and mirrors etc as well a door on the offside which im pretty sure a side car would not have as there would be a motorcycle in the way

heres an Invacar Mk8 for comparisons

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but the frontal profile is all wrong...

heres an near side photo, it does have the same distinctive bar and associated bits going across the lower rear wheels

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45 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

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Learn to drive in a convertible. Unknown location but looks like Crete Hall Road. Plenty of chod in the background. This would have been 1987 or later. The bus is an earlyish AN series Atlantean JPL110K AN110, a double door model.

looks like @Zelandeth was not the only one to baffle the public by running around in an open top Atlantean on L plates :mrgreen:

On 30/04/2020 at 11:10, Zelandeth said:

This is the bus I was actually thinking of.

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Which I've been lucky enough to have been able to shuttle between Alford and First's depot in Aberdeen on a few occasions.  I can vouch for the fact that an old open-top Atlantean with L plates in the window *really* confuses drivers.

Sorry I don't seem to have any better photos than from that very dreary damp morning when we dropped her off at Alford.

Had to laugh at my accompanying driver the first time we went out though, when I sat down in the driver's seat I was told "I was about to try to tell you how to handle a semi-auto gearbox, but you probably know more about this thing than I do!" 

She's got a good few miles on the engine, she's a bit smokey and idles about as smoothly as a sack of spanners in a tumble drier, but actually drives nicely enough.  As with most of these, she could do with an extra gear though as she hits the rev limiter at 45mph.

 

 

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