Sainsbury's Archive

[sheffcortinacentre]

Yes the red MK4 is a base, later pics have a red & blue Mk5  base too.

[HMC]

Bath, train shed car park (restored 1982) 1982

[sutty2006]

I vote next challenge to see how many of these cars are still on the road using regos still visible. That Datsun is a good contender. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

41 minutes ago, HMC said:

Bath, train shed car park (restored 1982) 1982

....and still in use today 

[jonny69]

On 10/23/2019 at 12:24 AM, RobT said:

Gotta love a Sava Centre.  Sydenham SE London.  I also shop here sometimes, if I can bear it.  Too busy and full of scrotes these days.

I did a school geography project down there in the early 90s. It was the town layout vs CBD thing, and I took a load of photos down that end of Sydenham. Pretty sure it was before the Savacentre was built so it would have still been the old gas works with the huge wall round it. For years we thought that land could never be developed because it was so polluted with heavy metals from the gas works. Amazing to think that these days there's no trace of it ever even being there.

[jonny69]

East Dulwich Sainsburys, SE London 1992/1993. This was a properly posh shop when it opened. Peckham was starting a major change from, basically, how you see it in Only Fools and Horses and Desmond's to a more gentrified area. That end of East Dulwich was what resulted. My mum used to drive from Sydenham to shop here before the ^ Savacentre was built. Today that journey would be complete madness - it would probably be a 45 minute drive or longer. When the Savacentre opened I don't remember ever going back there.

[warch]

That's the Sainsbury on Dog Kennel Hill? I've been there, my now wife used to live on Lordship Lane when I first started seeing her.  

[jonny69]

Yes, that’s the one!

[Datsuncog]

14 hours ago, adw1977 said:

Meanwhile in Northern Ireland, Clios are popular in 1998:

Looks like the Forestside Centre, at the top of the Ormeau Road. It must have just opened in 1998 - the first Sainsburys in NI, I think. Tesco and WH Smith came over the same year, too - once they were reasonably sure they weren't going to get firebombed.

Lots of Belfast AZ series numberplates in evidence - and yes, many locals were fiercely loyal to Renault. It was NI's biggest selling new car brand for much of the 1990s (mostly sold through Charles Hurst dealerships), with Ford generally in second place, then Vauxhall, then Volkswagen.

Until the Laguna II and Mégane II came along, anyway...

[adw1977]

8 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Looks like the Forestside Centre, at the top of the Ormeau Road. It must have just opened in 1998

Yes, Forestside Shopping Centre, Belfast.  Opened 4th March 1997.

[adw1977]

Blackpool 1984, featuring a Datsun Z-something and a Vauxhall Royale coupe

[adw1977]

Birkenhead 1982 - lots of colours

Matching Chevettes (PFY456T lasted until 1990)

Princess, early Scirocco and an already quite old Mark 2 Cortina:

[paulplom]

The parking bays used to be loads bigger back in the old days.

[tul66]

Lancia VX Coupe, 1 of 183 imported. Can't read the number though.

[HMC]

A83BAL as per previous page; became red and ran out of tax jan 1993

[RobT]

@jonny69 Thanks for the info on the Sydenham Sava Centre.  There's still some gas container things there.  I did wonder if they were leftovers from a bigger site.

More shops the other side now.  Lidl, Next etc.  Your usual retail park shite.

[HMC]

Crawley 1970s

Still experimenting with the best way to capture the images- if I zoom in using the button it seems sharper but displays the buttons on the screen- like below. Any ideas?

[HMC]

@quicksilver

@Slowsilver   Bath 1982

Hillman Hunter 

 

austin maxi

 

[HMC]

@vulgalour One for the WEDGISTER?

1986, Bromley- hold the pic up to your ear and hear rust happening.

Didnt last another 12 months. RIP. 2.2 6cyl e series lump. Quite an early one; brings a tear to my glass eye.

[w00dy]

Bridgwater 1989

 

[HMC]

Coldhams lane, Cambridge 1975

Early chodspotter with OBSERVER BOOK OF CARS? It’s behind you!

[Dannyk]

Brilliant thread, love this sort of thing. Looking for any local ones  but these came up instead.

[Dannyk]

All Rockingham road kettering 1988

Edited October 25, 2019 by Dannyk
Missed pictures out

[HMC]

Bath and 1982 again. 

Well hello there...

NGL601L DVLA says tax lapsed 1986

[w00dy]

Chester '83 is excellent.

 

 

 

 

 

[adw1977]

33 minutes ago, HMC said:

Coldhams lane, Cambridge 1975

Weird to think that the A60 and the Minor might have only been 4 years old at the time, yet they look ancient compared to the building.

[HMC]

@Spottedlaurel

Prime chod target lock, Cambridge 1975

ENGAGED

 

[HMC]

Coldhams lane, cambridge 1974

 

Moody night shot taken same day; presumably by a now bored and artistically frustrated lens man. But what’s the truncated fastback on the left?

[HMC]

Chod today, gone tomorrow.

Thorley centre, bishops stortford, March 1984.

Within 8 weeks that Austin 1300 will be gone, it’s tax lapsing May 84.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

57 minutes ago, HMC said:

.....But what’s the truncated fastback on the left?

Fiat 128SP