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JohnA wrote:I bet you don't walk through there anymore by yourself after it goes dark (or maybe even before it goes dark)
Its all been redeveloped round there, not exactly "gentrified" but not as built up as in the picture above.
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I drove through a few months ago, my first workshop was near there
It was demolished when they put the trams in
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Filmed fifty years ago, can you believe it...!
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WMU 211G wrote:Filmed fifty years ago, can you believe it...!
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...how cool is that.. as shorter hair is now in fashion !! if u have any left .. lol...unlike the mid late 70,s ..photos then are a great giveaway !!!...great pic foxy52
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There's even a Swindon FC supporter sitting in the front row. How cool is that....?
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Peter Laidler wrote:There's even a Swindon FC supporter sitting in the front row. How cool is that....?

How long are the front dampers going to last if he keeps sitting on it!?
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At least seven of them in the photo are no longer with us - Peter Collinson, Fred Emery, George Fowler, Stanley Caine, Benny Hill, Peter Beckley and John Forgham. I remember taping it on VHS one Christmas and watching the last twenty minutes with the Minis over and over again...
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The DB4 is still with us and lives in London...
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848 CRY is still going to

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Didn't it belong to Innes Ireland for a while... or am I thinking of another E-Type..?
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Was there ever an official reason why the Cooper S's were monotone?
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Another lost pub

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An apartment block for Newcastle University students has replaced it.
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We can only dream of "Petrol at Old Prices"

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And that's for a gallon, not those new fangled litres!!!!
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Peter Laidler wrote:Was there ever an official reason why the Cooper S's were monotone?
Presumably just to make them look good on screen in red, white and blue.
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One of a few new period pics to me..... is this the damage that ' wrote off ' EJB 55C on the '65 RAC ?
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surfblue63 wrote:848 CRY is still going to

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The V5 certainly is.............
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From an episode of the 1968 ITC series 'Strange Report', Ian Ogilvy driving a '67 Mk1 850 with Austin Cooper front badge and grille...
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davidnutland wrote:British shelled Cooper Mk3, the first few were UK shells as they hadn't completed the press tooling in time for the launch, probably the best factory 998 Cooper ever made!
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Yelverton Fire Fair 1970
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Great pic Bodge...….that looks a large exhaust for an Austin Mini …. :)
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spoon.450 wrote:One of a few new period pics to me..... is this the damage that ' wrote off ' EJB 55C on the '65 RAC ?
No, that damage was, I think, Tony Falls doing on a recce.
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