Just a nice period picture

[Costafortune]

That's Sheffield, possibly going down into Woodseats. John Wenninger had a couple of butchers shops.

[richardACS]

Those good old days with banks in the high street (Barclays and Lloyds) and the occasional bank robbery rather than on line fraud

[magna0266]

Funny that. The rear wheel drive Escort seems to be making progress , whilst the front wheel drive Mini estate seems to be stuck!

[Costafortune]

I ran a Mark II Escort 1100 like that (WBF930S iirc) and had no trouble in snow at all. In fact most cars were okay as long as you had decent tread - but skinny tyres like the 155R 13's on Escorts etc put all the weight on a much narrower area.

Minis were ok in the snow but the Maxi and Princess were the snow kings.

The location on Sheffield is Eccleshall Road South, largely unchanged apart from banks and butchers vanishing, but it's a nice area without the usual scum vape shops, turkish barbers or betting shops.

[WMU 211G]

Brighton, 1974...

BRIGHTON 1974 ANDREW LOCKWOOD.jpg

[UHR850]

This picture is one of the best I have seen this year

[Old English White]

Yes. Typical of lots of little country garages in the 1970s. Mostly gone now. We had very similar petrol pumps to those when I started work!

[Ronnie]

This picture is one of the best I have seen this year

Any idea where the picture was taken

[Peter Laidler]

You're right OEW. We had a little village garage like that called The Hut Garage, on the old A420 at Shrivenham. They even had their own electrical rebuilding and testing bay where they would rebuild......., well, everything electrical. Plenty of parts too that came from the main Lucas agents, Gardiners in Swindon

[Old English White]

This picture is one of the best I have seen this year

Any idea where the picture was taken

I'm guessing it could be in Scotland. Late 1970s?

[roger mcnab]

hi
i remember when i was a small boy watching my father getting petrol at the shop in town the man used a lever on the side of the pump which pumped petrol up to a glass tank on top of the pump that was measured in gallons then put the hose in to the petrol tank on the truck turned a small handle on the side of bowser and the petrol emptyed into the truck all done by hand as there were no electric operated pumps in town until later the picture theatre also had its own generator a noisy sodthat was backin 1949 about i was 6 at the time we had no power on the dairy farm 10 miles out of town we used kerosine lamps and wood stoves also kero engine for the dairy plant and if we could not start that mongrel of engine the 90 cows were milked by hand nd milk seperated by using the handle on the seperator to get the cream from the milk we had turns hard work for kids but you did what was needed the town was rathdowney did you go there pete on your travels in oz
cheers roger