NOAH's Ark(ive) of shite

[Spottedlaurel]

Through a mention of it on Flickr, I've just discovered Norfolk's online archive site. As well as finding reference to some old sales particulars on my house, I discovered that tapping 'cars' into the search page comes up some interesting photos.

 

http://www.noah.norfolk.gov.uk/QSearch.aspx

 

Obviously these are all copyright of Norfolk County Council or the photographer, so please respect this. But as they appear to allow them to be linked:

 

 

 

 

/\ Wow, now that is a classy-looking car.

 

 

More our kind of thing.

 

 

 

Frisky/Peel/Bond? Any guesses?

 

 

Not just old stuff.

 

 

 

 

This used to be a car dealership, with flats over the top. I did some work here and the chap showed me some great old photos of it back in those days.

 

 

 

Loads more there to while away an hour or two.

[trigger]

Excellent stuff SL!, It's a shame there isn't any sites like this that cover North Essex/ South Suffolk areas as I'm more familiar with them.

 

1920's Ford photos, They look very American to me.

 

 

[Lankytim]

I think they look all the better for being in B&W. It makes me very nostalgic for the 80's, even though I thought it was shit at the time.

[trigger]

Two more good ones

 

 

[Hudsonpie]

How crusty are the sills on that A40....

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[Spottedlaurel]

Trigger, Sudbury has a good archive photo site but I haven’t yet found anything for Ipswich, or Suffolk generally.You’ve found a few there I hadn’t. The Bussey & Sabberton shots are interesting, as Bussey’s are still going locally.

[warren t claim]

A Cav Commander and a Polonez in the same photo! Pass the tissues!

[messerschmitt owner]

I think the three wheeler is a Harper - a kind of Invacar

[Guest]

Theres some nice old pics on there.

When did you last see two of these together outside of the oval?

[mouseflakes]

Crusty A40 in front of Watney's Red Barrel advert. Top stuff.

[wuvvum]

The Bussey & Sabberton shots are interesting, as Bussey’s are still going locally.

I wonder if the Sabbertons were the same family as the boatbuilders in Wroxham (they of Sabberton Omen fame)?

[ChinaTom]

here is another 3 wheeler outside Norwich Odeon.

 

[seth]

Excellent pictures SL That car park one would make a good entry for PC's memory lane (or whatever its called) feature. Love the primer spotted car Hillman Minx I think

 

1920's Ford photos, They look very American to me.

 

 

Top ones are '30/'31 Model As. Lower one is a late ('26 or '27 Model T I think with another A in the showroom.

[ProgRocker]

Some great pics of Norwich there! Ah, the old Boundary Road Roundabout and Apollo! Memories. One of the flats above there had a nasty explosion a few years ago.

[LightBulbFun]

Holy thread resurrection batman! but thought id just mention, although the above URL and all the picture links might be dead, but some sleuthing later I had figured out where they had all fucked off too  

https://norfolk.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRNGEN/WPAC/PICNOR?HOMEPRMS=PICNORPARAMS

looks like they are all over in the above now, just search for cars as per @Spottedlaurel original post (and if you right click open in a new tab, any of the thumb nail images it takes you directly to the full/direct image link for that file, no faffing around with their silly web viewer like so https://norfolk.spydus.co.uk/norpic/neg/30129032931942.jpg )

 

I mean I could not simply ignore 

On 25/02/2010 at 14:32, Spottedlaurel said:

 

http://image1.norfolk.gov.uk/full/neg/30129032931942.jpg

 

Frisky/Peel/Bond? Any guesses?

On 25/02/2010 at 17:19, messerschmitt owner said:

I think the three wheeler is a Harper - a kind of Invacar

and you know me, if its even tangentially related to "invacar" "I have a particular set of skills, I will find you" etc etc  

comparing/splicing together URLs tells me the picture in question was this picture

https://norfolk.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/FULL/WPAC/BIBENQ/77281773/2217805,314

which I amusingly immediately recognised I had already found it last year in much higher res form  so I was already ahead of my own game LOL

 

On 07/11/2022 at 22:39, LightBulbFun said:

speaking of old pictures! I came across this lovely photo of a Harper Mk6

https://www.flickr.com/photos/21804434@N02/5795707017

(and although it turned out the image was sadly nothing new to me, I thought I could not, not share how to bring back the rest of the images  so hope yall dont mind the thread necromancy!)