Scrapyard, Aberaeron, August 1992

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Stumbled across this astonishing place while on a family holiday. It was somewhere right out in the middle of nowhere at Ciliau Aeron (near Aberaeron), West Wales. I took lots of pictures and spent hours in there, but didn't get round half of it. I wonder if any of the vehicles or the yard itself survive?

 

Complete Super Minx had a lovely red interior

 

 

Jag 420G and Daimler Sovereign 420

 

 

Mk 2 Tinas, Minor Vans

 

More to follow!

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Anglia Super, Mk1 Cortina basic/fleet model, Vitesse...

 

Solid (but engineless) Mk4 Zodiac Executive. Yard owner wanted £500 for that in 1992.

 

Triumph 2000's, Corsair, Datsun, 'Tinas

 

 

Commer van

 

Magnette ZB Varitone

 

 

Vanden Plas 4-litre R

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Simca, Mk1 Viva, Super Minx estate, Cortinas

 

Buried Morris Cowley. Or is it an Isis?

 

World of Tinas

 

Smashed Mk2 Consul

 

Humber Snipe, Big Farina, Hunter. Didn't fancy the long grass much though!

 

Early Renault 5, Vauxhall Ventora, Victor 101....and is that a Standard Vanguard Sportsman on the top right?

 

Blurry Mk2 heaven...

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Still in that yard...70's tin plus yet another Super Minx!

 

Hi-abed P4

[MrRegieRitmo]

I love pictures like this - fantastic! So haunting. Thank-you

[Volksy]

Great pics!!Doing a goggle on google earth, their is a car breakers listed, but doesn't appear to be much there.Blaendyffryn Silan, Ciliau Aeron, Lampeter, Dyfed, SA48 8DA

[Ratdat]

 

Solid (but engineless) Mk4 Zodiac Executive. Yard owner wanted £500 for that in 1992.

 

 

Mega rare shite alert! Tha blue pickup is a Mazda B1600!

 

[Owain-328i]

Maybe its possible to find the place on Google Earth? However ive never heard of the village you mention, and im a welsh speaker and cant even pronounce it lol. Obviously im aware where Aberaeron is.Unfortunately id imagine its long been cleared out. There used to be a very similar yard near to where i live here, which is only 10 miles out of cardiff, sadly that was cleared around 99/2000.Great photos though!

[Owain-328i]

Interestingly the Zodiac retained its plate;The enquiry is complete The vehicle details for FWB 9H are: Date of Liability 01 08 1987 Date of First Registration 27 07 1970 Year of Manufacture Not Available Cylinder Capacity (cc) 2996CC CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type Petrol Export Marker Not Applicable Vehicle Status Unlicensed Vehicle Colour BLACK Vehicle Type Approval null

[reallyloud]

Bliss. I can't think of many better places than a scrapyard in the early 90's - asides from being transported back to 1980 with £10,000 and a copy of the Auto trader.It was around this sort of time I starting taking scrapyard shots - I noticed the majority of rare italian, french and japanese cars had long been crushed, just leaving the expired British stuff. Great stuff. Anymore?

[Owain-328i]

 

Mega rare shite alert! Tha blue pickup is a Mazda B1600!

 

GR8 4 IMPORTING TO NIGERIA

[bones96]

great pics reminds me of a scrapyard called adversane loads of old shite like that there anymore pics ???

[Station]

Surprising lack of Escorts??

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Mercy thats what must have been a Fiat- badged Seat 133! Who bought those (I remember loads of them in Majroca however)

[garycox]

I'm sure I've seen that Commer pic before somewhere, was it in a magazine? Practical Classics?

[Guest]

 

R14 alert! Looks a bit out of place amongst all that much older kit. Having said that an early 14 that made it to nine years old was probably doing quite well

 

Dark blue one under the Minor - is that an early Maxi?

[AnthonyG]

I have a feeling that is the local legend that is simply known as 'Ken scrap' run by the aforementioned Ken (the man and the yard have the same moniker).It has been cleared out in recent years, mainly because the local council took him to court after him ignoring their orders to clean it up for about 10 years. The associated legal costs bankrupted him, but as anything valuable (like the yard) was owned by his wife it didn't actually affect him one bit.He can still be found at the local auctions buying all the old diesel MK3 Transits, and the odd other shitter. There is still a yard there, with mainly 1980s/90s cars in it now, and it is much smaller now.

[AnthonyG]

Surprising lack of Escorts??

Any Mk1 or Mk2 in West Wales that still vaguely resembled a car would get grasstracked if the shell was too far gone for rally duties. This was so even in the early 1990s.

[Vin]

Still in that yard...70's tin plus yet another Super Minx!

 

Arse end of a 900T van on the right there. By the look of the rear window and a glimpse of the top of a rear seat, a minibus version. I'm sure it's not an Amigo camper due to the solid fixed roof.

 

I love old scrapyard stuff. Thanks for posting.

[londonm]

Looking through old posts, there used to be a scrappers like this near Wimbledon. Are there still big places like this around anymore?

[gary_davidson]

anybody know where this is on a map? shitfest 2014 detour to find it, see what's there now?

[ShiteRider]

One of the lads i work with was telling me about a yard like this in accrington getting cleared 2/3 years ago. Apparently it was full of old chod dating back to the fifties.

I think the high price of scrap combined with the owners advancing years are what did for it.

I'm only 29 but i remember going around places like this with my dad as a kid, armed with tools i'd have to climb the cars to get the bits he'd want wihile he had a fag and a brew with the owners.

I feel sorry for the kids of today that they'll never get to experience that, going to the scrapyard was an adventure and a peek into the grown mans world.

[phil_lihp]

Ooh, nice thread revival.  How times change, I can't see a single car there that wouldn't have value to someone now, seems odd now to see that gorgeous Victor crushed under a pile of cars, entirely unwanted.  Probably rotten as a pear though!

[phil_lihp]

Random side note, back in 2002-2003ish there was still a yard very much like this near me, I found it by accident and it was full of unusual 70s and 80s cars stacked five high among the trees.  Some of the cars had been there so long they'd collapsed, causing the piles to fall like dominos.  It got cleared a few years back for a housing estate, more's the pity.  When I took one last look while the houses were going up, I found the one remaining car, a forlorn Rover SD1 2400 diesel, still sat off to one side untouched, just before it too was carted off.

[fordperv]

+1 metblackmk5 I also feel sorry for the majority of kids not experiencing the whole scrapyard experience, I'm also 29 and my dad always took me treasure hunting in the scrapyards armed with my tools to get the much needed parts, I loved it and in my opinion it was character building

[ShiteRider]

I remember going to auldsleys in southport (since cleared for housing) and watching,facinated as a guy removed the back of a metro with a gas axe and a shovel !

Fuck health and safety.

[dollywobbler]

Anthony G sounds like the expert. Sadly doesn't sound like there's much there now from his earlier comment.

[Bobthebeard]

Maybe its possible to find the place on Google Earth? However ive never heard of the village you mention, and im a welsh speaker and cant even pronounce it lol. Obviously im aware where Aberaeron is.

 

Unfortunately id imagine its long been cleared out. There used to be a very similar yard near to where i live here, which is only 10 miles out of cardiff, sadly that was cleared around 99/2000.

 

Great photos though!

This from Wiki.

Ciliau Aeron is a small village 4 miles from Aberaeron in Ceredigion, Wales on the left bank of the River Aeron. The word Ciliau comes from the Welsh for corners. Wikipedia

[Station]

I reckon it could've been here?

 

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=ciliau+aeron&ll=52.193821,-4.188693&spn=0.002575,0.007666&hnear=Ciliau+Aeron,+Ceredigion,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&t=h&z=18

 

Although it's just farmlands out there with no redevelopment, it could've been on any patch of land.

[oman5]

I can remember a yard up on a hillside overlooking the A40 at Symonds yat, I think that got cleared in the mid '90s, the 80 year old owner couldn't afford to bring it up to standard for the new EU regs. I went there a couple of times and he had stuff going back to the '50s, much of it coated in moss where it had been there for decades. I was running a 107e ford prefect at the time and he had plenty of bits for it. I seem to to remember he had buried treasure like an Austin Metropolitan and a mega early production 1948 morris minor with the bumper spacers.

The council went in and fragged the lot. Bastards.