Car park at anglia house 1979

[Richard_FM]

I found this on Facebook, a picture of the car park at anglia house in Norwich dated 6/3/1979.  Sorry but the Facebook app won’t let me link it.

Edited February 27, 2020 by Richard_FM
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[New POD]

I count 7 viva 

[Richard_FM]

1 minute ago, New POD said:

I count 7 viva 

There’s at least 2 chevettes so its possible they had a fleet deal with Vauxhall 

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

I count 7 viva 

As @yes oui si will* tell you, the plural of Viva is Vivae.

[wuvvum]

There's a fair few Avengers in there as well.

[junkyarddog]

I only see 6 Vivas.

There's a Reanault 4 and what looks like a Simca van in there too.

 

[yes oui si]

24 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

As @yes oui si will* tell you, the plural of Viva is Vivae.

*Vivas. 

[MorrisItalSLX]

What’s the car between the 2 Mini vans/estates on the left? (Not the Alpine)

[Daviemck2006]

What’s the car between the 2 Mini vans/estates on the left? (Not the Alpine)

Possibly a since 1100/1300?

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[New POD]

4 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

I only see 6 Vivas.

There's a Reanault 4 and what looks like a Simca van in there too.

 

I only saw 4 but as the rest of the picture was blurry, decided to extrapolate* the data for impact. 

 

* use statistical trends to lie. 

[ProgRocker]

There's an office block on this car park now, which from memory was built in the early 1980s. I was nearly 18 months old when the pic was taken.        The car park to the top left separated by the trees was used to be the "cattle market Street car park" which closed down in the late 1980s to make way for construction of the Castle Mall shopping centre, which opened in 1993.     You can see the top of Norwich Castle in the background. 

[wuvvum]

All part of

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the pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre

 

[Skizzer]

10 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

What’s the car between the 2 Mini vans/estates on the left? (Not the Alpine)

KP30 Toyota 1000.

Like this one:

[GrumpiusMaximus]

What's most striking is how much space everybody has to get in and out of their cars compared to the equivalent now.  How much smaller even the 'big' cars are.

Has anybody ever tried parking in the road-side spaces overlooking the sea in Plymouth?  You literally cannot open your door there.  In 1979, it would have been considered 'a bit tight'...

[bunglebus]

MK2 Escort Ghia next to the van - unless someone up-specced their GL with a vinyl roof and overriders

[ProgRocker]

This is roughly where the the photo was taken 41 years ago:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.6283677,1.2988574,3a,75y,282.32h,90.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOLMgKiluYgJaIsCXmKkthw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656