A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)
Discussion
hidetheelephants said:
I'd agree with that. Excellent sleuthing! If you're thinking (as I did) that that cluster looks rather elegant (I thought it redolent of Pininfarina's work), it seems the Type 3's design is credited to Sergio Sartorelli, then of Ghia, a man with a decent grasp of the pen RSTurboPaul said:
GTRene said:
What is the two-tone estate on the right??(And why have they bothered removing number plates from a picture where most people in it will probably be 6 foot under by now? lol)
GTRene said:
Lovely absence of road markings and street furniture/pedestrian bollards and crap that festoon the roads today.Interesting to compare the buildings though in todays scene, and what looks to the eye as being these old or original parts of buildings are anything but, as they are not in the photo from 50+ years ago.
aeropilot said:
Interesting to compare the buildings though in todays scene, and what looks to the eye as being these old or original parts of buildings are anything but, as they are not in the photo from 50+ years ago
That mansard isn’t original, so I assume what’s there now is some approximation of the original, done when the Portcullis House development started. NomduJour said:
aeropilot said:
Interesting to compare the buildings though in todays scene, and what looks to the eye as being these old or original parts of buildings are anything but, as they are not in the photo from 50+ years ago
That mansard isn’t original, so I assume what’s there now is some approximation of the original, done when the Portcullis House development started. NomduJour said:
That mansard isn’t original, so I assume what’s there now is some approximation of the original, done when the Portcullis House development started.
No 1 Parliament Street was refurbed just before Portcullis House was built. Whether the Mansard was done as part of that refurb I don't know.https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/bu...
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