Shite in your town, in ye olden times.

[Junkman]

A bit further on in Cheadle Hulme (pronounced 'eoom') last week:

 

[Cavcraft]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1731866203775995&id=100008578963702

 

Hopefully this link has worked. Not technically 'my' town, but spent a week or two here every year in the seventies, as my gran and mum are from Norbury.

[ProgRocker]

 

https://joemasonspage.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/around-the-city-of-norwich-1970/

 

Barrack St, Norwich. Right on the northern edge of the City Centre. The photographer owned the Daf 44 in the centre of the photo. And I have just spotted the VW Type 4 (?) in the background. Ford Zephyr or even Zodiac on the right, 2 BMC ADO16s a Morris Minor and a Mini.

 

The brewery was replaced by council flats and bungalows from the mid or late 1970s (just before Thatcher spoiled things on the housing front). Where that white bulding is was a development of private housing built in the early 1980s. The wall and gate behind the white ADO16 still exists. An ex work colleague rented a house there a few years ago. The building behind the Zephyr and Minor was I think a pub at the time but is now a dentists. There used to be a building where the 'Esso' sign is. I cannot recall it ever being a filling station butt from the 1990s it was a minicab office and a Vauxhall spares place (they had a post 1986 Carlton estate that was turned into a pickup truck and had a Senator B front end which looked cool). It is now a used car lot.

 

As mentioned in the article the council flats (built late 1930s in a loosely modernist style) on the left were demolished. This happened in 2008 and many years on is still an empty vast plot of land.

 

Those streetlights used to intrigue me.

[mercrocker]

 

 

 

 

One of the popular watering holes in Southampton's by-gone shipping community.   We still have loads of shipping going on but sadly it doesn't involve protracted pub lunches and agreeable early Victorian office blocks these days....  

 

This was opposite the old Terminus Station which served the great liners of the day, although the line itself still crosses Canute Road and into the old docks area.   

 

I could probably once have told you whose chod that is outside but time has clouded the memory!    This is another lacklustre "development" nowadays instead of being the place that served the best pub curry in town.

[Cavcraft]

Great picture of Eastgate Street in Chester. 

[Cavcraft]

This one will be facing the way the other one (above) was taken from

 

[DeeJay]

 

Queens Sq mid 70s

[DeeJay]

 

Slightly larger.

[sheffcortinacentre]

That's a mk4 zephyr as back panel has no matching red strip across the back panel between the lights

[simmo]

 

We are quite close to Heathrow

[DeeJay]

 

 

Protest march in Liverpool, 1980.

Nothing unusual there then, except this is to save Erics nightclub. 

[DeeJay]

 

 

Gentlemen, On your marks....

[Cavcraft]

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We are quite close to Heathrow

 

Insert your own 'left landing lights' on joke?

[DeeJay]

 

Any idea what this big beastie is?

[DeeJay]

  

 

And the carts not bad.

[DeeJay]

 

Bold st. 1972

[mercrocker]

 

Any idea what this big beastie is?

 

1964  International Travelette Pickup

[Junkman]

Slightly off topic, but if you google image "woolfenden liverpool", you are rewarded with hours of browsing delight.

 

Tiny taster:

 

[Matt]

Dumfries

 

60's

 

Looking towards where those two were taken in the 30's(?)

 

And from the other side of The Mid Steeple in the 50's(?)

 

Nae driving up down there these days but Burtons is still there.

[chaseracer]

That last pic is just pre-WW2, by the looks.

[Cavcraft]

Shamelessly stolen of TEH INTERNETS. Taken on a road near where my nan lived in Norbury, 1978 he said...

 

 

[JeeExEll]

 

Bold st. 1972

Nice line up of cars there, 1600E and a bit further back a Mustang from about 1970. Makes the BMC Farina look upright and "square". Very early Fiat 128 in there too.

Zooming into the blurriness I can still ID lots of them. Try that with a street of moderns!

[cpjitservices]

My dear Nan in my home town, Park Crescent, Darlington.

 

And a place you all may recognize, My Nan in Scarborough next to a Nova.

 

 

[Cavcraft]

[Cavcraft]

[Cavcraft]

[Cavcraft]

1989: could be earlier looking at the cars. Can recall that Roller being about a lot.

 

 

 

1980: Pub long since gone. *Interesting anecdote: little bastards that we were, we used to empty a couple of bangers and hide the contents in the ashtrays in this pub. When people stumped their fags out, sparks would fly everywhere and they'd jump out of their skin.

 

 

1986: The horse and the pussy (cat) went to Chester in a beautiful pea green Cavalier

 

[Cavcraft]

1970, the new (2016/17) bus station is now on the right, I think

 

 

 

Load of shit that Halfords, I remember when they only sold car stuff no bikes and all that carp

 

 

 

 

\/ Is that red car a Skoda?

 

 

 

(W)Anchor Motors, long since gone. Now hundreds of poncey apartments, you won't be surprised to know. It later became James Edwards, an Austin Rover place

 

 

I think that's actually Ultra_Womble on his funky moped...

 

[Cavcraft]

It's like an Autoshite meeting in 1980

 

 

 

1997, apparently

 

[Cavcraft]

Pepper Street council offices, 1965