Sainsbury's Archive

[Amishtat]

No doubt about it, this is my new favourite thread. Quite happy to take pictures the next time I'm in Sainsbury’s car park but they're so so dull compared to this.. 

[HMC]

From the late 50s to 1974, there was a remote check in to Heathrow in Kensington, called the west London air terminal. After a period of disuse in 1983 the ground floor was converted into a sainsbury.....

 

 

 

[HMC]

At the depot....

 

 

 

 

[HMC]

 

[HMC]

Leeds, 1980s

[Timewaster]

I notice all but one of the cars in the Cambridge petrol station are sporting local registration letters. 

Anyone else notice that in their local area photos? 

[HMC]

Birkenhead, 1982. Plenty of variety...

Love those viva trims

 

 

[HMC]

Epsom

 

EUW392W- last on road sept 1990

XPB658Y  last on road jan 1996

Cant read the jag or Vauxhall’s plates, or DVLA has nothing on them.

 

[HMC]

Hemel Hempstead 1982

[bunglebus]

Have a few from Eastbourne, including Tony Blackburn's chopper!

 

Note a Cortina and a Mundano in the same pic, and twin brown Allaggros in another

[HMC]

American interlopers, 1983 Any idea of make and model? Bit grainy as on max zoom

 

 

[JeeExEll]

I've just caught up with this thread after a busy week.  Eight pages of absolutely fantastic pics (IMO).

This deserves a repost.

Wow.  Pure joy.  I feel like I'm 5 years old.

[155V6]

9 minutes ago, HMC said:

American interlopers, 1983 Any idea of make and model? Bit grainy as on max zoom

 

 

4x4 looks like a Ford Bronco,yellow saloon Pontiac?

[lesapandre]

30 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

I've just caught up with this thread after a busy week.  Eight pages of absolutely fantastic pics (IMO).

This deserves a repost.

Wow.  Pure joy.  I feel like I'm 5 years old.

Also shows how what is cosy and familiar can in not so many years be gone.  Morris, Austin, Triumph, Rover, Bedford, Commer and Woolworth all in history's dustbin. Not sure about Kiltie...probably too.

Out of the vehicles I can see only Jaguar, VW and Ford are still with us.

A fair number of these stores will be gone in due course as they are modernised or redeveloped due to changing company strategy and shopping habits.

It would be fascinating - well to me at least  - to go back to some of these locations. I will have a look what's near me in London.

The quality of the builds showed Sainsbury's invested a lot in their estate. Very unlike some current retail parks which are cheap sheds.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The brown Yank is a Blazer, you could buy them here officially for a couple years I. The late 70's.

Id concur with some sort of Pontiac on the yellow one , maybe a Grand Prix.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, HMC said:

Hemel Hempstead 1982

If that's the Apsley branch,  it has changed a bit since 1982. The incline/slope that the photo suggests is no longer there; the car park is almost all flat except for the section next to the access road.

[MiniMort]

This thread is superb. And this kind of nostalgia is why I archive a considerable amount of my dashcam footage for journeys to places around Nuneaton and Coventry. Certainly a timewarp, or at least it will be in the future

[HMC]

Kimberley 1984. 

Whats the yellow car?

 

[HMC]

Alton, 1991

 

[HH-R]

Datsun/Nissan Cherry Europe?

[lesapandre]

42 minutes ago, HMC said:

Kimberley 1984. 

Whats the yellow car?

 

Mitsubishi Cordia?

Or Honda Accord? I think Accord by the wheelarch shape possibly. I think on the Cherry the rear lights go right down to the bumper - the yellow car has a fillet of bodywork between.

[bunglebus]

I was going to say early Mazda 323 but the reverse lights are wrong

 

[Timewaster]

I'm thinking..... 

[bunglebus]

Hove, 1966

 

West Hove

 

(there are 20 images of this view, all slightly different!)

 

[bunglebus]

Basildump

 

 

Great Yarmouth

 

[lesapandre]

First Hove pic has a blue sign-written Trafic wheelchair adapted minibus being used. In second pic taken slightly earlier or later it is gone. Some of these images must have been taken with a cherrypicker in a world before drones.

[bunglebus]

Crystal Palace

 

 

[bunglebus]

13 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

First Hove pic has a blue sign-written Trafic wheelchair adapted minibus being used. In second pic taken slightly earlier or later it is gone. Some of these images must have been taken with a cherrypicker in a world before drones.

 

I can post them all but they're very similar

[lesapandre]

32 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

 

I can post them all but they're very similar

I expect some were safety shots in the days before digital - or maybe they were waiting for the sun or something like the right mix of cars and parking spaces. 

Fantastic pics btw. As Alan Bennett writes:

"...there is no period so remote as the recent past."

[w00dy]

Ferndown '94

 

That Laguna looks like a spaceship compared to everything else.