Shite in your town, in ye olden times.

[Eyersey1234]

9 hours ago, GBJ said:

Thanks, Eyersey

No problem 

[Cavcraft]

 

As Ronal Reagen nearly gets run over by a Jag, a MILF can't decide which Invacar to go for.

[Eyersey1234]

35 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

 

As Ronal Reagen nearly gets run over by a Jag, a MILF can't decide which Invacar to go for.

@LightBulbFun here's one for you

[Dick Cheeseburger]

51 minutes ago, Eyersey1234 said:

@LightBulbFun here's one for you

This is where it's at. Oof. 

[dozeydustman]

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.

Northfleet High Street, early 70s

Milton Road 1967 Guy Special (London GS class)

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

Crooked Lane in the 50s

New Road 1960. Audax Minx FTW

Milton Rd, mid 1960s

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

Harmer Street 1950s

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)

 

 

Edited September 27, 2020 by dozeydustman
Got my Ajax & Audax mixed up

[High Jetter]

R4 on Rayners pavement?

[High Jetter]

The Shaw's laundry van reminds me of the Commer PB 1500 van my dad had when I was learning to drive. Sometimes fullly (over) loaded. Good training.

[Cavcraft]

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?

 

[Cavcraft]

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.

 

 

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. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Cavcraft said:

.....Wonder if that cafe serves tigers?

Ah, those were the days when you could give your establishment pretty much any name you liked, without being accused of cultural appropriation....

[Tenmil Socket]

Liverpool an the '90s

Southport

[Eyersey1234]

1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Liverpool an the '90s

Southport

Phooar a K plate Mondy @egg have you seen this? 

[Eyersey1234]

Doesn't seem to have lasted very long though

[egg]

10 minutes ago, Eyersey1234 said:

Phooar a K plate Mondy @egg have you seen this? 

Thanks, June 93 registered (same as mine) 1.8 GLX from the look of it. 10 years wasn't long...

[Cavcraft]

[martc]

 

2 hours ago, Eyersey1234 said:

Doesn't seem to have lasted very long though

The FIAT lasted longer...

But I suspect those Vauxhalls on the beach were living on borrowed time, and would develop at least one variation of a tide mark.

[mk2_craig]

G reg Regata, that’s got to be pretty late for one of those. 

[motorpunk]

On 4/4/2020 at 10:21 AM, Billy - Medhurst said:

From the bedroom window - thought to be 1981 from memory.

HERRICK ROAD WOODHOUSE EAVES CIRCA 1981 by Jonathan, on Flickr

Ooh! My mum lived there (or very close) in the late ‘60s.

[Billy - Medhurst]

1 minute ago, motorpunk said:

Ooh! My mum lived there (or very close) in the late ‘60s.

Really! - Family from there?.

[motorpunk]

45 minutes ago, Billy - Medhurst said:

Really! - Family from there?.

Yes. And Newtown Linford.

[Richard_FM]

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.

[RayMK]

In Stockport, postcard 2, what is the white estate car?

[hennabm]

Is that a Moskovitch?

 

[Asimo]

9 minutes ago, hennabm said:

Is that a Moskovitch?

 

Probably. This is Dad's '71 Moskvich for comparison.

[RayMK]

5 hours ago, hennabm said:

Is that a Moskovitch?

 

Good call.  It does look as though it could be a Moskvitch, though I'm surprised I did not instantly recognise it.

[Richard_FM]

Two more from Stockport:

[dozeydustman]

Moar Gravo goodness

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

Is that a Renault Dauphine?

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

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

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

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

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.

[LightBulbFun]

33 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

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

 

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

[sheffcortinacentre]

Isn't that a 4cv rather than a dauphine?

[LightBulbFun]

45 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

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

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

This is the bus I was actually thinking of.

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.