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A couple more, one not strictly car-based but I could not resist. The hard winter of 1978 on the farm.
As for the car I recall a Chrysler Avenger saloon that colour. The only car mum got stopped by the police in for speeding. Dad must have liked these as he got an estate straight after this one...company cars perhaps.
Both men in the shot displaying that classic 'is the timer on the camera going to activate the shutter or not?' look.
As for the car I recall a Chrysler Avenger saloon that colour. The only car mum got stopped by the police in for speeding. Dad must have liked these as he got an estate straight after this one...company cars perhaps.
Both men in the shot displaying that classic 'is the timer on the camera going to activate the shutter or not?' look.
TCEvo said:
Radford Crescent, Billericay, Essex.
The Lada's an '84 model (lasted until '93 according to the DVLA) so I suspect that this pic was taken within a couple of years of then. Essex, so plenty of Ford's in shot.
Fab family shots. I wonder idf that lada was exported back to Rusia in 93. A lot of them were, I believe..The Lada's an '84 model (lasted until '93 according to the DVLA) so I suspect that this pic was taken within a couple of years of then. Essex, so plenty of Ford's in shot.
aeropilot said:
21st Century Man said:
Why would there be new unregistered LHD Peugeots coming into Dover?
That's probably how they did it back then with such small numbers of foreign cars coming into UK. French transporter probably direct from factory onto ferry and unloaded them on Dover docks side for import proceedures, and then each dealer transporter collected them from Dover.Undoubtedly this is the car pound in question.
paulyv said:
MJ85 said:
I cannot identify the car, but would it be rude to ask who the person is? Would like to know a story behind the wonderful picture.
My grandfather had returned from living in New Zealand and then met my grandmother who was quite a bit younger than him. Car ownership wasn't all that common in Huddersfield at that time (1950s), so i'm told, so they all had a picture taken standing next to the car. My grandmother's younger sister is in the picture posted (my grand auntie), she died on 4th July aged 73 (cancer, unfortunately). Grandfather died in 2015 aged 92, grandmother is still alive. He owned over 50 Fords, so this was a rare non-Ford vehicle!
The Don of Croy said:
loafer123 said:
Is that the back of a red Toyota Celica on the right?
Looks like it. Nice area - my Ford Friend lives just up the A12 near Witham and he would have been past here twice a day at 90mph (traffic allowing) in his XR4x4 cheap lease.
He’s now 10 years into retirement and still enjoying a dirt cheap lease car that’s replaced every six months. Only downside it has to be a Ford.
Continuing on from my recent post of my Mum and Dad with their Morris Six.
I have delved deep into the family archives and come up with a few more photos.
Here is a photo of my mum astride a motorcycle of the time (not good on bike identification).
I think the photo was taken towards the end of the war as Mum was a land girl for the Duke and Duchess of Kent at their home in Iver Bucks.
I remember mum telling me that the bike belonged to the estate manager.
I just noticed the black arm band that mum is wearing. I know that the Duke of Kent was killed in an air crash during the time that she was at Coppins so I guess this photo was taken around that time.
amongst her belongings after she died I found her invite to his funeral at Windsor Castle.
She met my Dad while working there and was married in 1945. I came along in 1946.
The first car that I can remember dad owning was this Ford Model Y.
Shortly after this photo was taken he managed to turn the car over and was thrown out through the fabric roof .
He was apparently completely unharmed. Those were the days before girly airbags and seatbelts !
After the Ford ,we traded up to an Austin Lichfield.
My mum and dad had just discovered the Butlins Holiday Camps around this time so every year we would set out in the trusty Austin to such exotic places as Ayr in Scotland or even Scarborough. This was from the South of England so the journey involved an overnight stop en route.
After the Austin, dad had a Standard Avon Bluebird Special. Unfortunately I can t find a side view. I believe it was quite a rare model even in the fifties when he owned it.
The Citroen Light 15 was one of dads favourite cars. I think it ended up at the scrapyard after the gearbox seized.[url]
|https://thumbsnap.com/6VUYriwD[/url]
He then went on to owning various VW s ,Fords .a Humber Sceptre ,a Rover 3.5 etc etc until he came down with a bump His last car was a Skoda Fabia.
A bit out of sequence but here is the Austin Lichfield with me and my mum on the running board .
I have delved deep into the family archives and come up with a few more photos.
Here is a photo of my mum astride a motorcycle of the time (not good on bike identification).
I think the photo was taken towards the end of the war as Mum was a land girl for the Duke and Duchess of Kent at their home in Iver Bucks.
I remember mum telling me that the bike belonged to the estate manager.
I just noticed the black arm band that mum is wearing. I know that the Duke of Kent was killed in an air crash during the time that she was at Coppins so I guess this photo was taken around that time.
amongst her belongings after she died I found her invite to his funeral at Windsor Castle.
She met my Dad while working there and was married in 1945. I came along in 1946.
The first car that I can remember dad owning was this Ford Model Y.
Shortly after this photo was taken he managed to turn the car over and was thrown out through the fabric roof .
He was apparently completely unharmed. Those were the days before girly airbags and seatbelts !
After the Ford ,we traded up to an Austin Lichfield.
My mum and dad had just discovered the Butlins Holiday Camps around this time so every year we would set out in the trusty Austin to such exotic places as Ayr in Scotland or even Scarborough. This was from the South of England so the journey involved an overnight stop en route.
After the Austin, dad had a Standard Avon Bluebird Special. Unfortunately I can t find a side view. I believe it was quite a rare model even in the fifties when he owned it.
The Citroen Light 15 was one of dads favourite cars. I think it ended up at the scrapyard after the gearbox seized.[url]
|https://thumbsnap.com/6VUYriwD[/url]He then went on to owning various VW s ,Fords .a Humber Sceptre ,a Rover 3.5 etc etc until he came down with a bump His last car was a Skoda Fabia.
A bit out of sequence but here is the Austin Lichfield with me and my mum on the running board .
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Edited by scs1 on Monday 20th July 21:20
MJ85 said:
Thank you for the identification from the other poster.
My grandfather had returned from living in New Zealand and then met my grandmother who was quite a bit younger than him. Car ownership wasn't all that common in Huddersfield at that time (1950s), so i'm told, so they all had a picture taken standing next to the car. My grandmother's younger sister is in the picture posted (my grand auntie), she died on 4th July aged 73 (cancer, unfortunately). Grandfather died in 2015 aged 92, grandmother is still alive. He owned over 50 Fords, so this was a rare non-Ford vehicle!
Thanks for that - she looks so suave draped on the car! I hope she had a great life.My grandfather had returned from living in New Zealand and then met my grandmother who was quite a bit younger than him. Car ownership wasn't all that common in Huddersfield at that time (1950s), so i'm told, so they all had a picture taken standing next to the car. My grandmother's younger sister is in the picture posted (my grand auntie), she died on 4th July aged 73 (cancer, unfortunately). Grandfather died in 2015 aged 92, grandmother is still alive. He owned over 50 Fords, so this was a rare non-Ford vehicle!
scs1 said:
The Citroen Light 15 was one of dads favourite cars. I think it ended up at the scrapyard after the gearbox seized.[url]
|https://thumbsnap.com/6VUYriwD[/url]
My dad also loved his Light 15 - he used to dash up and down the A3 from London to Headley before it was a decent road.|https://thumbsnap.com/6VUYriwD[/url]He had Citroens most of the time after that.
Thank you everyone - I have read right through this thread from beginning to end over the past couple of evenings with great pleasure.
I particularly enjoyed the discussions on the ADO16 - I learnt to drive on the G reg Austin 1300 that my grandfather (who had been forced to give up driving) gave to my parents when they returned from Canada in the Spring of 1978. Eventually it died from terminal corrosion in 1981. It was not perhaps the best car to learn to change gear in, as its gate was non-existent and one could use it in a X pattern. I think that this photograph, taken on a trip to Leith Hill in the of Summer of 1978 is the only photo that I have of it.
This is our old Morris Mini 711 PKJ, which I can still clearly remember my Dad arriving home in for the first time in 1961, but by 1974 - it was a little the worse for wear - the wings were held together my copious amounts of GRP behind them, but it did over 250,000 miles.
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but by this stage it had already been relegated to a second car by the arrival of HKP 557 L in 1973, here it is on the cliffs at Dover a year later:
My first car of my own was my Golf GTI, here its absolutely brand new, catching the last rays of sunlight, on the Ashdown Forest in June 1984.
|https://thumbsnap.com/sED
The Golf was replaced by a Jetta GTI 16V in July 1988. Here it is in September 1991 with my father's 1981 Peugeot 305S (RKE 624 W) is behind, a few months before it died from a mixture of corrosion and (more critically) intractable wet liner problems, I took my driving test in this car and drove it a fair amount - by this time it had become my commuting car:
I still have this car as well and drove it only today. Indeed in 2001 I was fortunate to be able to buy my old Golf back, so I still have this as well...
With your forbearance I would like to post some shots taken by my father and I that are likely to be of wider interest
I particularly enjoyed the discussions on the ADO16 - I learnt to drive on the G reg Austin 1300 that my grandfather (who had been forced to give up driving) gave to my parents when they returned from Canada in the Spring of 1978. Eventually it died from terminal corrosion in 1981. It was not perhaps the best car to learn to change gear in, as its gate was non-existent and one could use it in a X pattern. I think that this photograph, taken on a trip to Leith Hill in the of Summer of 1978 is the only photo that I have of it.
This is our old Morris Mini 711 PKJ, which I can still clearly remember my Dad arriving home in for the first time in 1961, but by 1974 - it was a little the worse for wear - the wings were held together my copious amounts of GRP behind them, but it did over 250,000 miles.
, but by this stage it had already been relegated to a second car by the arrival of HKP 557 L in 1973, here it is on the cliffs at Dover a year later:
My first car of my own was my Golf GTI, here its absolutely brand new, catching the last rays of sunlight, on the Ashdown Forest in June 1984.
|https://thumbsnap.com/sED The Golf was replaced by a Jetta GTI 16V in July 1988. Here it is in September 1991 with my father's 1981 Peugeot 305S (RKE 624 W) is behind, a few months before it died from a mixture of corrosion and (more critically) intractable wet liner problems, I took my driving test in this car and drove it a fair amount - by this time it had become my commuting car:
I still have this car as well and drove it only today. Indeed in 2001 I was fortunate to be able to buy my old Golf back, so I still have this as well...
With your forbearance I would like to post some shots taken by my father and I that are likely to be of wider interest
Edited by Car_Nut on Monday 20th July 23:12
Me and my Mum about to let Dad have it somewhere up in the alps in 1968 i think. Either going or coming from Naples Italy from the UK as Mum's brother was based there in the RAF. We did this trip 2 years in a row.
The 65 289 Mustang never missed a beat, Dad said back then it was easily the most reliable car he ever owed, he had it for 3 years, which was about 2.5 years longer than other cars he had back then [ he used to sell cars ].
He also took my Mum to see Bullitt in the Mustang when it came out, he said there was quite a crowd around it after the film, all edging him on to give it some welly, he did, but got a major b
king from my mother 
P.S. I still have the steering wheel from the Mustang hanging in my office;)
Here is the first of the promised photos, of a camping coach in Forfar taken by my father in April 1964 on his 120mm Zeiss - he was a BBC transmission & project engineer and spent a lot of my childhood away, usually for weeks at a time, installing TV relay stations in the far-flung corners of Britain. This was a camping coach that he and couple of colleagues stayed in - one of them is seen fetching the milk or water. He said that it was a Caledonian Railway coach, but it looks more North British Railway to me - a brake coach of some description, probably a non-corridor coach judging by the window for a former lavatory between compartments. The apparent saloon compartment next to the rake compartment is also interesting - perhaps an expect on Scottish coaching stock could enlighten us?
In the picture is one of the classic BBC Land-Rovers - all were dark green, with a grey stripe and roof, and had the BBC crest on the side, as seen in the photo. Almost all of them were LWB (think that there might have been just one SWB on the London-based fleet). It was always an exciting day when Dad brought one home the evening before leaving for site. There were racks packed with test gear, cables, tools, etc. stretching from floor to ceiling and (I think) wire caging to protect the occupants. They genrally had winches on the front in case they got stuck (literally involving driving up sheep tracks to mountain tops), but I think that my father only had to use it once. Dad would leave in the early hours of the morning to catch the Motorail service, most often to Scotland. I remember him telling me about the time that the BR driver wrenched the gear lever off, and the local Land Rover dealer was called out on a Sunday morning to fix it - the mechanic stuffed a giant screwdriver into the hole, found a gear and then drove it to the dealership using the high and low range lever as a gearbox, and then repaired it while Dad stood guard over the extremely valuable test gear... There were quite a lot of stories about how these were driven and various escapades, but not for a public forum. In the early '70s these were replaced by unmarked fawn Range Rovers, which gave no end of reliability issues when subjected to the hard use that was expected of them .
I think that Dad told me that the Mk1 Cortina was hired from the main railway station, although there were also Mk 1 Cortinas on the fleet, as well as a polyglot range of other cars (I once went into the BBC car pound in a multi-storey with him to draw a car out, and was surprised by the range of vehicles - my father explained that they were bought by project engineers on the back of particular jobs).
In the picture is one of the classic BBC Land-Rovers - all were dark green, with a grey stripe and roof, and had the BBC crest on the side, as seen in the photo. Almost all of them were LWB (think that there might have been just one SWB on the London-based fleet). It was always an exciting day when Dad brought one home the evening before leaving for site. There were racks packed with test gear, cables, tools, etc. stretching from floor to ceiling and (I think) wire caging to protect the occupants. They genrally had winches on the front in case they got stuck (literally involving driving up sheep tracks to mountain tops), but I think that my father only had to use it once. Dad would leave in the early hours of the morning to catch the Motorail service, most often to Scotland. I remember him telling me about the time that the BR driver wrenched the gear lever off, and the local Land Rover dealer was called out on a Sunday morning to fix it - the mechanic stuffed a giant screwdriver into the hole, found a gear and then drove it to the dealership using the high and low range lever as a gearbox, and then repaired it while Dad stood guard over the extremely valuable test gear... There were quite a lot of stories about how these were driven and various escapades, but not for a public forum. In the early '70s these were replaced by unmarked fawn Range Rovers, which gave no end of reliability issues when subjected to the hard use that was expected of them .
I think that Dad told me that the Mk1 Cortina was hired from the main railway station, although there were also Mk 1 Cortinas on the fleet, as well as a polyglot range of other cars (I once went into the BBC car pound in a multi-storey with him to draw a car out, and was surprised by the range of vehicles - my father explained that they were bought by project engineers on the back of particular jobs).
Edited by Car_Nut on Tuesday 21st July 16:45
Car_Nut said:
He said that it was a Caledonian Railway coach, but it looks more North British Railway to me - a brake coach of some description, probably a non-corridor coach judging by the window for a former lavatory between compartments. The apparent saloon compartment next to the rake compartment is also interesting -
Car_Nut also said:
perhaps an expect on Scottish coaching stock could enlighten us?
I think you've got that one covered 
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