A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)

[P5BNij]

NomduJour said:

Lagonda is on Prince Consort Road, but where’s the Bulldog?

The apartment building looks like the ones in Courtfield Road, Kensington, but the road looks too wide. Could just be the camera angle though.

[Turbobanana]

NomduJour said:

Lagonda is on Prince Consort Road, but where’s the Bulldog?

Battersea Dogs' Home?

[Mark_Blanchard]

NomduJour said:

Lagonda is on Prince Consort Road, but where’s the Bulldog?

I seem to remember it was the Science Museum, on Queens Gate, maybe the building was demolished and replaced with the Dana Centre in 2003?

Edited by Mark_Blanchard on Friday 3rd November 13:39

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Watford Gap Services, M1.
The southbound side was apparently the first Motorway services in the country, opened in 1959(?).
Now I hear to be demolished and rebuilt to a more modern design.

As an aside I was a breakfast cook at the next services to the North at Leicester Forest East, for a short time while I was at Uni. Saturday morning in the footie season could be pretty full-on.

[I-am-the-reverend]

A bay window VW van makes it around 1970 give or take.

Notice the Crayford Corsair!

[bristolracer]

Error_404_Username_not_found said:

As an aside I was a breakfast cook at the next services to the North at Leicester Forest East, for a short time while I was at Uni. Saturday morning in the footie season could be pretty full-on.

I remember the sit up counters at Forest east.
Freshly cooked food to order, waitress service.
I used to go there as a last stop on my way back to boarding school, my mum used to say that it was the last decent meal I would get for a while before getting back to school.
The novelty of Leister Forest east was sitting above the motorway watching the traffic flow underneath.
The last time I went under there it all seemed to be fast food franchises and the days of sugar lumps and tomato ketchup on the tables being long gone

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bristolracer said:

Error_404_Username_not_found said:

As an aside I was a breakfast cook at the next services to the North at Leicester Forest East, for a short time while I was at Uni. Saturday morning in the footie season could be pretty full-on.

I remember the sit up counters at Forest east.
Freshly cooked food to order, waitress service.
I used to go there as a last stop on my way back to boarding school, my mum used to say that it was the last decent meal I would get for a while before getting back to school.
The novelty of Leister Forest east was sitting above the motorway watching the traffic flow underneath.
The last time I went under there it all seemed to be fast food franchises and the days of sugar lumps and tomato ketchup on the tables being long gone

LFE services was a hangout for us after a Friday or Saturday night out in the city. Everyone jammed into various boneshaker cars with the least obviously pissed people driving.
We called it Moonbase (this was the 70s after all).

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I-am-the-reverend said:

...l

Notice the Crayford Corsair!

The P6 looks like it has a few bodies in the boot!

[driverrob]

Error_404_Username_not_found said:

As an aside I was a breakfast cook at the next services to the North at Leicester Forest East, for a short time while I was at Uni. Saturday morning in the footie season could be pretty full-on.

c.1968, I'd be trying to hitch a lift from Leicester to London and the southbound slip would have a long queue of hopefuls. So, I'd hitch north to LFE, cross over the M'way in the pedestrian walkway and then hitch south.

[P5BNij]

Clip of '80s traffic in London, nice S2 Jag XJ6 and XJ-S in the first few seconds...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-zRDKF7uN4&t=...

[PomBstard]

The Don of Croy said:

PomBstard said:

Also nearly 30 years ago, from Wheels June 94…

EB110 going across some bridge and parked opposite some building or whatever…

Is it the Dorman Long bridge?

It is - carrying the Bradfield Highway. Jorn Utzon’s little folly is just to the left in that pic.

[soxboy]

Stolen from FB, any idea what the car in the foreground is?

[nicanary]

Bond Equipe convertible.

[ClaphamGT3]

P5BNij said:

Clip of '80s traffic in London, nice S2 Jag XJ6 and XJ-S in the first few seconds...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-zRDKF7uN4&t=...

That's the London I remember from my childhood

[Yertis]

ClaphamGT3 said:

That's the London I remember from my childhood

Kids today etc

[soxboy]

nicanary said:

Bond Equipe convertible.

Thanks. Don’t think I’ve ever seen an image of the rear, or actually ever seen one at a show or on the road

[bigothunter]

[nicanary]

bigothunter said:

Great stuff. Good shots of cars coming off the banking and using the "slip road" to rejoin the road part of the circuit. What a circuit that was - some of the slipstreaming races of the 60s/70s were spectacular. Nota Bene no "podium" or spraying champagne.

[bigothunter]

Juan Manuel Fangio, Mercedes-Benz W196 at 1954 British GP

[GTRene]

he made the front more 'narrow' like a sliver arrow