DOOMSDAY

[kevin 900]

TAGORA!!!

[kevin 900]

SIMCA 1100 VAN...

[kevin 900]

Restoration of 1938 Morris 8 in foreground and 1930 Morris van by an amateur enthusiast

 

It's still with us today;

The enquiry is complete

The vehicle details for DS 7093 are:

 

Date of Liability 01 03 2012

Date of First Registration 31 12 1929

Year of Manufacture 1929

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1400CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Petrol

Export Marker Not Applicable

Vehicle Status Licence Not Due

Vehicle Colour GREEN

[kevin 900]

Living the dream - 1986 style;

 

 

 

OH YEAAAAAH

[Tayne]

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[Shep Shepherd]

Looks like a Riley Pathfinder or a Wolseley 6/90 to me

[andrew e]

CALL ME - WE CAN HAZ POWAR LUNCH

 

 

I had an actual leaving do in this Cheshunt boozer in '99. No scimtar's present then

 

 

IAM LANDLORD

 

 

131 Wagon!

 

 

TEMPTRESS - The Fiat obviously.

 

 

 

Dauhpine

 

 

L HIRST - your No7 choice for driving tuition

 

 

HA! I PAZZ FURST TIME IN SUD

 

[Lankytim]

Finally Autoshite HQ:

 

This picture came up as a scrapyard in Harborne. If the same scrappy on Harborne Lane I'm thinking of, they closed about 7-odd years ago, there used to be a house on the site but has since been demolished apart from the ground floor frontage. I visited this scrappy a few times, but I didnt have a car, any tools or knowledge about cars. Last time I visited I scrapped my Sierra Sapphire Ghia. I remember my little sister saying she spotted it on top of a pile of cars a few months later

 

I saw the pic and immediately thought Selly Oak in Birmingham- i'm sure its still there. Its near the new Hospital.

[kevin 900]

'The FO'

Great name for a pub.

 

It's a Fiat 127 isn't it?

[Barrett.in.the.USA]

Dauhpine

 

R10

 

Funny, I never noticed how much the happy eater sign looks like someone forcing their fingers into their throat to force vomiting.....

[andrew e]

As I have been shown up as an actual idiot (twice) have a L plated Terecel!

 

HA!!!!!

 

[andrew e]

YOUR NICKED!

 

 

ER. YOUR LICKED LOLIPOP LADEEE

 

[Richard]

 

Andie's Van is a familiar sight in the area as it visits farms, houses and cottage.The big green and grey van stops at many places for customers.

[andrew e]

WE HAZ NO BOLLEAUX

 

 

BEST TRY HERE:

 

[andrew e]

I said AMPHIBIAN not AMPHIBI-VAN

 

 

This shows one of the two shops in Longforgan.The library van benefits many in a rural area especially older residents. The single men ask for mucky books.

 

 

I bet you smash this one up as soon as I F'off. Goto school you little ponce.

 

 

THE FAILED DELOREAN CAR FACTORY, NOW FOR SALE, WAS GOVERNMENT AIDED TO HELP WITH SERIOUS UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE AREA.

 

[gtd2000]

After doing a spot of reading at the domesday site, I found another project which might be of use in a few years time.

 

RCAHMS is another good one, for Scotland at least. Some of the images go back to the early age of photography.

 

I've just spent the past 2 hours reviewing that site - good stuff

[Vin]

Meet H1RST for a brew.

 

"Doncaster's Travelling People"

 

PLEASURE @ PENSARN

 

Type 'Dacia' and this gem comes up...

 

"LAINDON'S SPECIAL LADY"

 

She is a lady called Shirley Ellis

and she has been chosen Essex Window

Cleaner of the year. Her prize was a

£250 voucher and there is a

possibility that she could win a Dacia

Duster jeep in the final. At the

moment Shirley uses a pram to

transport her equipment on her rounds.

She decided to try window cleaning

when she lost her job as a home help.

She was nominated for her

prize by one of her customers who said

that Shirley is always smiling. She is

especially kind to old age pensioners.

She often makes then a cup of tea, and

charges them less than other people.

Her normal charge is £1.10.

 

[flat4alfa]

CHILDREN QUEUEING FOR SCHOOL BUSES WHICH TRANSPORT THEM TO AND FROM THEIR HOMES DAILY.

Liability worries of lawsuit Mums probably pensioned-off the buses. However, 20 years later the fat kid returned; driving one of the daily fleet of opaque-windowed BMW X5 series that parked selfishly

 

Transport in Stafford

 

Date of Liability 01 08 1994

A minibus from South Tyneside LEA waits to collect youngsters out on a winter walk in the Forest

 

Hyundai Pony Pickup

Dipping is part of the Ministry of Agriculture sheep scab eradication scheme

 

Date of Liability 01 02 1996

Front Street, Stanhope

 

Busby's near-miss

A358, Hatch Beauchamp

 

Talbot Alpine GL

The church front faces the trunk road at Garvaghey

 

Victor 101 Estate....that's not 1986!

Pontyclun shopping centre

 

Sierra 1600 Laser, DOL: 01 02 1997

Cross Roads at Market Deeping

 

In "the age of the train" Alstone's level crossing causes frustating delays to road traffic

 

Date of Liability 01 02 1994

High Street, upper Waddington

 

Fuego!

NEAR THE CENTRE OF MULLION

 

ARNA! Or maybe Cherry Europe

The shop at Baltasound

 

 

The Village Butcher, Bob Freestone, who considers he fulfills a special need, for people who are not readily mobile

[cms206]

The shop at Baltasound

 

 

The Village Butcher, Bob Freestone, who considers he fulfills a special need, for people who are not readily mobile

 

 

Bob Freestone, y'say... I fear this man later did a roaring trade in special stuff...

 

[Richard]

"Doncaster's Travelling People"

 

Fife's Travelling People.

Background shows home of today's travelling people parked in unofficial temporary site.Foreground shows travelling people's children and dogs.

 

THE TRAVELLING PEOPLE

 

There are travelling people's camps at Tarvit Mill and a site on Ceres Road but there is no official base in this area. They live in caravans and use old cars for transportation. They look for casual labour and they collect scrap metal and sell it.At harvest time they make some money by picking berries and potatoes.

 

The girls help with housework and looking after younger children and the boys help their fathers.

 

Probably their only luxury is a television. They are proud of their traditions and wouldn't want to live any other way.

 

A new project has been formed to teach their children. A teacher travels to their sites to teach basic reading and writing.

[Richard]

After doing a spot of reading at the domesday site, I found another project which might be of use in a few years time.

 

RCAHMS is another good one, for Scotland at least. Some of the images go back to the early age of photography.

 

I've just spent the past 2 hours reviewing that site - good stuff

 

Here are another few that might interest you.

 

http://special.st-andrews.ac.uk/saspecial/ St Andrews University's archive. Bit of a Fife bias obviously, but does cover the whole country.

 

http://photopolis.dundeecity.gov.uk/ Photopolis. Dundee based, but again covers much of the country. All taken by Alexander Wilson, man of relatively modest means, an incredible achievement for the time.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedouglas ... llections/ The Douglas Campbell Show. A massive (over 20000) collection, again taken by one man. Based in Scotland but he travelled all over the world.

[boobydoo]

This thread is excellent. Can spend hours looking at stuff like this.

 

Seeing that Sinclair C5 reminds me of when I lived in the flat above the VG store in Bourne End, Bucks in the mid-eighties. Every weekday morning, a city gent in his C5 would pedal past on his way to work ,all suited up, tie flapping behind him, invariably being overtaken by various examples of 80s chod. Such a weird sight. His crotch must have stunk by the time he got to work.

 

Living above a grocery store was ace. We used to nick loads of stuff from the storeroom when it closed...Mars Bars, Cokes whatever we fancied. The owner never seemed to notice. These were pre-surveillance cameras days of course so probably couldnt get away with it now.

 

The only downside was I had to share the flat with a hideous fat bird called Mandy. She worked for the Post Office so she was always up at the crack of dawn to cycle to work. Unfortunately, she didn't know how to flush a bog, so I was always greeted with a pan full of her acidic yellow piss with floating fag butt every morning.

Her bedroom was an absolute pit, with overflowing ashtrays and skid-marked knickers littering the floor. I used to do 'guided tours' to my mates when she went out ...which would invariably end up with someone picking up a pair of her rotten, shit stained panties with a stick and trying to flick someone in the face with them.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Breakdancing and body popping. The dancing is done mainly by boys aged between nine and eighteen

 

 

 

 

I'm not old enough to remember the '80s, but it's nice to know it was exactly how I imagined.

[seth]

I'm not old enough to remember the '80s, but it's nice to know it was exactly how I imagined.

 

I do remember (most of) the '80s and reckon I only saw a Sinclar on the road once or twice ever. Until they were several years old and a local keep fit gym got hold of a few and bolted them to the roof of a car or two as advertising.

[Guest]

I remember seeing one a C5 in a junk shop in York for about £50 circa the early 90s, desperately wanted it. Being that I was just some dumb skint kid, it wasn't going to happen. Mate bought one last year that he is restoring though, so I'm going to have a go on his instead.

[Lankytim]

Back in the early 90's when I was a youngster my mate's neighbour had an old Sinclair C5. One day when he and his parents were out we went round, let ourselves in and took it for a spin. It was pretty knackered and worked on pedal power only but I seem to remember that it was quite good fun and went very well indeed. After we got bored racing around in the C5 we borrowed his raleigh burner and returned it covered in mud and with a puncture. I think the C5 was smashed up and thrown away in the end.

[trigger]

I saw a C5 for sale last year at Beaulieu, I can't imagine them being the most comfortable things to ride/drive.

 

Sinclair C5 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr