Shite in your town, in ye olden times.

[Tenmil Socket]

Liverpool 1964

Liverpool 1969

Liverpool 1976

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Liverpool 1964

Liverpool 1969

Liverpool 1976

Stop it! 1976 is NOT “ ye olden times.”

[Tenmil Socket]

1 hour ago, Metal Guru said:

Stop it! 1976 is NOT “ ye olden times.”

Just for you sir, happy?

[Metal Guru]

23 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Just for you sir, happy?

They’d invented the wheel? Far too recent!

[Cavcraft]

Very close to the old Royal Infirmary, Chester in 1974

[chaseracer]

Properly early Toyota Corona, lurking behind the Imp...

[EyesWeldedShut]

We only had Bedford Coronas where I grew up

[Wibble]

14 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

We only had Bedford Coronas where I grew up

Known by us as the lemonade man, who’d visit once a week and give money back for your empties.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Properly early Toyota Corona, lurking behind the Imp...

NSF indicator broken, are they spots under the bumper? Fiat 128 in 4th place?

[Rustybullethole]

Pembury estate Hackney.

[chaseracer]

15 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

We only had Bedford Coronas where I grew up

Suddenly, I feel very old!

[Cavcraft]

13 hours ago, High Jetter said:

NSF indicator broken, are they spots under the bumper? Fiat 128 in 4th place?

I think it's: Imp, Toyota, Hillman Minx, Mk1 Cortina (airflow), Fiat,  Morris 1000 Traveller, Mini van, Viva HC?, Beetle, yellow coloured Viva HC(?) on the right and an ADO16 at the very back. Could well be wrong, though.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Cavcraft said:

I think it's: Imp, Toyota, Hillman Minx, Mk1 Cortina (airflow), Fiat,  Morris 1000 Traveller, Mini van, Viva HC?, Beetle, yellow coloured Viva HC(?) on the right and an ADO16 at the very back. Could well be wrong, though.

There's something green between the Tina and the Fiat - Mini?

[Cavcraft]

1 minute ago, High Jetter said:

There's something green between the Tina and the Fiat - Mini?

Well spotted!

[Marina door handles]

Some stolen pictures of my home town from a few years ago..

My birthplace the Royal Berks hospital (photo taken in 1990 some 15 years after that terrible occasion....).

My Dad's place of work for a chunk of my childhood -Nugent house (big brick building with built in car park on the right of the shot), it was Reading's only proper sky scrapper and on the left, the train station car park featuring some Horseman coaches.

Broad street from the early Eighties (the main high st).

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

1 hour ago, Cavcraft said:

yellow coloured Viva HC(?) on the right

I'd give that one a Triumph 1500 type? Blooming gate barrier is right in the way...

[High Jetter]

11 minutes ago, Marina door handles said:

 

Any chance you might have a recollection of a Longlife Accessories branch there? I know there was one in Crawley, not sure about Reading though.

[Wibble]

1 hour ago, Marina door handles said:

Some stolen pictures of my home town from a few years ago..

My birthplace the Royal Berks hospital (photo taken in 1990 some 15 years after that terrible occasion....).

My Dad's place of work for a chunk of my childhood -Nugent house (big brick building with built in car park on the right of the shot), it was Reading's only proper sky scrapper and on the left, the train station car park featuring some Horseman coaches.

Broad street from the early Eighties (the main high st).

 

Good grief! I worked in. Nugent House from 1990-96.

[MiniMinorMk3]

3 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

I think it's: Imp, Toyota, Hillman Super Minx, Mk1 Cortina (airflow), Mini Saloon, Fiat 128,  Morris 1000 Traveller, Mini van, Viva HC?, Beetle, yellow coloured Hillman Hunter on the right and an ADO16 at the very back. Could well be wrong, though.

 

[Marina door handles]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Any chance you might have a recollection of a Longlife Accessories branch there? I know there was one in Crawley, not sure about Reading though.

I don't remember Longlife? I mainly used the usual suspects like Les Smiths (were the staff smoke like chimneys!), Halfords and the odd little corner shop motor factors  and occasionally Cafco  over in Camberley. 

Another Reading shot, stolen of course...

[Marina door handles]

39 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Good grief! I worked in. Nugent House from 1990-96.

My Dad was a civil engineer working for Thames water in Nugent house in the Eighties, then it changed to the NRA and he moved across the road to Reading Bridge house in the Nineties (I think). Its a bit hazy! Did you ever use the social club next to Nugent house with its up stairs bar were they used to winch kegs of beer up the hollow space in the middle of the stair case?

[D.E]

[EyesWeldedShut]

Stranraer - Gilchrist's van is a visitor from Ayrshire (*AG) with buns from Ayr. Mini Van (*OS) is local

[EyesWeldedShut]

Here's another from around 1977/1979 - Stranraer Harbour - new cars awaiting loading on the RORO ferry over to N. Ireland. Starlet lickers could date it more accurately.
Our school bus used to wait most days at the car park entrance and we'd watch new cars/tractors/lorries being unloaded from the transporters and hammered driven gently down to the pier end as seen here. 
Lorries would drop off trailers and the ferry guys (Sealink) would load the trailers using low cabbed units (similar to those you see scuttling around airports). The guys driving those were amazing (at least to us 16 year olds)

No idea the reason for the cars/trailers not being taken all the way over to NI - cost, space on the boat, security ?

[Wibble]

1 hour ago, Marina door handles said:

My Dad was a civil engineer working for Thames water in Nugent house in the Eighties, then it changed to the NRA and he moved across the road to Reading Bridge house in the Nineties (I think). Its a bit hazy! Did you ever use the social club next to Nugent house with its up stairs bar were they used to winch kegs of beer up the hollow space in the middle of the stair case?

I was in the Insurance & Risk department in Nugent House. My sister was in the property department in Reading Bridge House and yes, I did use the social club for cheap beer 🙂

Nugent house was later demolished and the current TW HQ built to replace it.