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Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:24 pm
by mab01uk
Henderson Row, Edinburgh 1969. Filming "The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie".
OYF 445F
✗ Untaxed
Tax due: 1 December 1985
Vehicle make MORRIS
Date of first registration June 1968
Year of manufacture 1968
Cylinder capacity Not available
Export marker No
Vehicle status Untaxed
Vehicle colour BLUE
Wheelplan 3 AXLE RIGID BODY
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued 23 November 1983
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:29 pm
by mab01uk
Early 70’s in Broompark, County Durham.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:42 am
by WMU 211G
Love that aftermarket dash and the quilted vinyl door bin covering!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:06 pm
by 'S'-type
mab01uk wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:29 pm
Early 70’s in Broompark, County Durham.
For some reason I can't help thinking that looks like the kind of estate 'Bob Ferris' moved to in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads. No Viva's to be seen !
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:15 pm
by mab01uk
'S'-type wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:06 pm
mab01uk wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:29 pm
Early 70’s in Broompark, County Durham.
For some reason I can't help thinking that looks like the kind of estate 'Bob Ferris' moved to in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads. No Viva's to be seen !
Well spotted, apparently it was the same builder but about 30 miles apart. Bob and Thelma's new house was on Agincourt in Killingworth.
New homes being built in Broompark, County Durham in the early 1970’s. No health and safety back then.....a mother with her 2 kids standing in the middle of the site road with no hard hats or hi-vis !
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:33 pm
by Peter Laidler
Some exectly like that on the poets estate in Abingdon. The garages were so narrow that you couldn't put your car in them. Well, you could...... but you couldn't open the car doors to get out!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:41 pm
by mab01uk
John Wayne writing off a Capri on Tower Bridge in a car chase from the 1975 film "Brannigan"
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 5:06 pm
by surfblue63
Now there's something you do not see every day, a Lancia Flavia saloon.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 5:18 pm
by surfblue63
mab01uk wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:15 pm
New homes being built in Broompark, County Durham in the early 1970’s. No health and safety back then.....a mother with her 2 kids standing in the middle of the site road with no hard hats or hi-vis !
Very similar to the new build that I moved into in Bromley in 1971. And talking of site safety, the house on the left was not built when we moved in, the builders still had around 10 houses left to build on the cul-de-sac. As it was the summer me and my brother used to go on the site nicking all the builders empty R-Whites bottles to take up the shops to get the 1/- that each one was worth. It was great climbing up the scaffolding and dropping breeze blocks to the ground and messing about in the waterlogged foundations.
old house.jpg
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:17 pm
by hanlminiman
There was a post on a Face page about glass bottles and recycling which brought back memories of money back schemes for empty glass bottles in the 1960s. The local "lads & lassies" used to get into the back yard of my family's business and repatriate the empty bottles - more than once and "get the money back! several times. Oh to be back in the 1960s!
And then they invented "Jubbly" containers for orange drinks and similar milk cartons to replace very small glass bottles.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:35 pm
by mab01uk
hanlminiman wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:17 pm
And then they invented "Jubbly" containers for orange drinks and similar milk cartons to replace very small glass bottles.
Plus you could get them frozen in the tetrahedron shaped pack like a lolly or melted as a drink.
Jubbly Frozen Drinks
https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/ ... zen-drinks
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 11:39 am
by surfblue63
Just before Thatcher the Milk Snatcher stopped our school milk it came in little tetrahedron cartons. There was a little bit of paper stuck over a hole that you pushed a straw into.
Similar to the Jubblys today are Calipos, we've always got a few boxes in the freezer for a refreshing change to a cup of coffee.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 5:34 pm
by surfblue63
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:37 pm
by hugbilly
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 10:26 pm
by Peter Laidler
Looks like one of those dark volcanic mills that Derek Trotter spoke about. Or was it dark satanic mills.......
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 1:04 pm
by surfblue63
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:22 pm
by surfblue63
Library Picture. Looks like the MG Mero owner wants their car nicked as someone has already had the petrol flap away.
Library Picture.jpg
Looks a bit ropey!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 9:08 am
by UHR850
Some from the Netherlands
Kees.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:09 pm
by surfblue63
A feeling of déjà vu
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:12 pm
by surfblue63
Stimson Safari Six
and a pair of Mini Bugs