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1970s Jon wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:50 am Hello all,
I have registered to see if anyone can help me find a picture of a BMC garage where Dad bought a few cars (Austin 1800s mainly) in the 1970s. The garage is; Stockport Motor House, Buxton rd, Heaviley, Stockport.
I've tried to find an archive photo on the internet but have only found one so far (1980s) when it looked very different to how I remember it in the early 1970s.
Many thanks

The Mk1 Forum thread in link below has 35 pages of old garage photos so far, which might be worth a look through...if you have not seen it yet.

Old Garages:-
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1970s Jon wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:50 am Hello all,
I have registered to see if anyone can help me find a picture of a BMC garage where Dad bought a few cars (Austin 1800s mainly) in the 1970s. The garage is; Stockport Motor House, Buxton rd, Heaviley, Stockport.
I've tried to find an archive photo on the internet but have only found one so far (1980s) when it looked very different to how I remember it in the early 1970s.
Many thanks

That’s not that far from me! Motor House was ann Austin retail dealer in the 60s on the A6 in Stockport next the crematorium. Sold Austin heavy commercials and vans too. Modernised in the 80s but was still an Austin Rover dealer. Now a carpet shop!

I’ll see if I can find an older photo.

Birmingham, 1966, the loco is being transported to the site of the then new science museum in Brum...

Thank you so much Peter. Yes, I remember well the black and white building next door. I seem to recall a before the 80's building, there was a central entrance for access to workshop and a showroom either side. If you can find a pic, that would be awesome

Porthmadoc...

Bunny girl drapped over mini car at Motor Show at Horticultural Hall 2nd January 1968

Autospeed Show 1968
Horticultural Hall, London:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZANMfv2dko

Hot Car Magazines Modded Mini - April 1968:-
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Paddy Hopkirk on the stand with the 'Hot Car' Mini

Pete wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 1:21 pm I’ll see if I can find an older photo.

The Stockport Motor House Ltd, 35 Buxton Rd, 061 480 4244 (in the late 1980's) was a middle rung Rover Main Dealer. ie not a more significant Distributor Dealer who was the regional supplier of cars to Main and local Retail Dealers.
Was still submitting books until 2017.
But a new company of same Name was re-incorporated in 2023...as a car dealer.

Yes I do no the topic but there was not the picture with the Bunny on the roof picture in it, thet's why I posted it now.

UHR850 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:09 am Yes I do no the topic but there was not the picture with the Bunny on the roof picture in it, thet's why I posted it now.

I only added the 'Hot Car' links for those members of the forum who may not have previously seen them or joined the forum since. All new additional pictures and info are always welcome. At one time the son of Tony Bostok joined the forum and said he had many more photos of the 'Hot Car' Mini from his late fathers time as editor but sadly despite me asking he never got round to sharing them with us:-
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WMU 211G wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:27 pm Birmingham, 1966, the loco is being transported to the site of the then new science museum in Brum...


SY MINI HOP MK1.jpg

For any train spotters on the forum.

The loco numbered 46235 was named City of Birmingham and was in the Coronation Class (source, Ian Allan-Combined Volume summer 1961)

Magniificent engines the Coronation class. I have City of Carlisle and City of London on a short length of track in a glass fronted cabinet in my office. Do any of this class survive Camms......., apart from the one on the low loader?

Peter Laidler wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:45 pm Magniificent engines the Coronation class. I have City of Carlisle and City of London on a short length of track in a glass fronted cabinet in my office. Do any of this class survive Camms......., apart from the one on the low loader?

46233 'Duchess Of Sutherland' also survives Peter and has been out on the mainline occasionally.

Also, I think BR 46229 Duchess of Hamilton (Streamlined version) is in the National Railway Museum in York.

Fakenham, 1973...

(from Popular Classics magazine June 1994)

Talking Pictures TV - 5.50.pm 25th January 2025 (or on You Tube link below)

"A Home of Your Own is a 1965 British comedy film which is a brick-by-brick account of the building a young couple’s dream house. From the day when the site is first selected, to the day – several years and children later – when the couple finally move in, the story is a noisy but wordless comedy of errors as the incompetent labourers struggle to complete the house. It may well have been inspired by the success of Bernard Cribbins’ classic song of the same vein from two years earlier, “Right Said Fred”. In this satirical look at British builders, many cups of tea are made, windows are broken and the same section of road is dug up over and over again by the water board, the electricity board and the gas board. Ronnie Barker’s put-upon cement mixer, Peter Butterworth’s short-sighted carpenter and Bernard Cribbins’ hapless stonemason all contribute to the ensuing chaos."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZDV0ESQ16s

Kim Wilde's beastie...