Amishtat Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 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.. trigger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 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..... Sudsprint, adw1977, Kringle and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 At the depot.... Amishtat, Shep Shepherd, adw1977 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 Shep Shepherd, Amishtat and Sudsprint 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Leeds, 1980s Spottedlaurel and egg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Birkenhead, 1982. Plenty of variety... Love those viva trims Shep Shepherd and Sudsprint 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 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. Sudsprint 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Hemel Hempstead 1982 egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 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 and stilo_active 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 American interlopers, 1983 Any idea of make and model? Bit grainy as on max zoom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 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. HMC and Amishtat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
155V6 Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 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. JeeExEll and egg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 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. sheffcortinacentre and HMC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMort Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Kimberley 1984. Whats the yellow car? stilo_active 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Alton, 1991 bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Datsun/Nissan Cherry Europe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 I was going to say early Mazda 323 but the reverse lights are wrong lesapandre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 I'm thinking..... lesapandre, NorfolkNWeigh, bunglebus and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Hove, 1966 West Hove (there are 20 images of this view, all slightly different!) michael t, stilo_active, adw1977 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Basildump Great Yarmouth HMC and Skizzer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Crystal Palace egg, Amishtat, HMC and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 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." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w00dy Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Ferndown '94 That Laguna looks like a spaceship compared to everything else. egg, michael t, HMC and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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