A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)

[P5BNij]

Rostfritt said:

P5BNij said:

Bath Green Park station in the '70s, once the terminus of the Somerset & Dorset Railway which connected the old Midland line from Bristol with Bournemouth, closed in 1966...

Having regularly rode the Bristol-Bath cycle path over the last twenty odd years, I have only just realised this was the old terminus. I did once park there all day and got a ticket though. I'm not sure how it links with Bournemouth though?

It was the terminus of the Midland line from Bristol but just outside the station there was a junction with another line going south to Bournemouth, it meandered down through Shepton Mallett, Evercreech Junction and Templecombe with a some long long single track sections which caused massive bottlenecks during the Summer months.

[HQB]

The line south from Bath Green Park was the wonderful Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway and whilst it was dreadfully treated in its later years, it had been very successful and was a picture book delight.i used to spend Saturday mornings watching the trains depart for the coast...I just wish I had taken pictures of the scene but then plenty of them plus video films were captured by Ivo Peters whose films can be seen to this day.

[P5BNij]

Laira depot, by the estuary of the River Plym, 1975...

[manorcom]

P5BNij said:

Laira depot, by the estuary of the River Plym, 1975...

I did a quick double take with that picture. My first thought was "Blimey the wheels on that train are big"

[CRA1G]

P5BNij said:

Laira depot, by the estuary of the River Plym, 1975...

There's some old cars in that black & white for 1975....

[P5BNij]

CRA1G said:

P5BNij said:

Laira depot, by the estuary of the River Plym, 1975...

There's some old cars in that black & white for 1975....

Back then wages on BR, even on the footplate as a Driver were not very high, a lot of blokes relied on overtime (anything over 8hrs was o/time) to be able to run ten year old banger. Everyone else either walked or cycled to work!

[john2443]

manorcom said:

I did a quick double take with that picture. My first thought was "Blimey the wheels on that train are big"

Me too! I thought of this!

[soxboy]

CRA1G said:

P5BNij said:

Laira depot, by the estuary of the River Plym, 1975...

There's some old cars in that black & white for 1975....

To be fair the VW is 9 years old in that photo, I don't think that you would think twice about seeing a 60-plate Golf in a photo taken today?

When you see dramas set in the 60s/70s/80s, there seems to be an attempt that everything has to be from that year or close by, rather than the reality that most vehicles on the roads will be a few years old.

[RichB]

CRA1G said:

P5BNij said:

Laira depot, by the estuary of the River Plym, 1975...

There's some old cars in that black & white for 1975....

Not sure I understand the comment (or at least not the rolly eyes). I would have been 19 in '75 and there were certainly plenty of 10 or 15 year old cars around. My MGA was a 1959 so would have been 16 years old and most of my mates were driving early '60s cars.

[Turbobanana]

soxboy said:

CRA1G said:

P5BNij said:

Laira depot, by the estuary of the River Plym, 1975...

There's some old cars in that black & white for 1975....

To be fair the VW is 9 years old in that photo, I don't think that you would think twice about seeing a 60-plate Golf in a photo taken today?

When you see dramas set in the 60s/70s/80s, there seems to be an attempt that everything has to be from that year or close by, rather than the reality that most vehicles on the roads will be a few years old.

A good point. Also, due to survivors tending to be in immaculate or restored condition, all cars in period dramas look like new. I was 6 in 1975 and certainly remember the condition of some of the stuff on the roads then. What would have passed an MoT back then certainly wouldn't now.

[Elderly]

Rhyl 1967.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Turbobanana said:

soxboy said:

CRA1G said:

P5BNij said:

Laira depot, by the estuary of the River Plym, 1975...

There's some old cars in that black & white for 1975....

To be fair the VW is 9 years old in that photo, I don't think that you would think twice about seeing a 60-plate Golf in a photo taken today?

When you see dramas set in the 60s/70s/80s, there seems to be an attempt that everything has to be from that year or close by, rather than the reality that most vehicles on the roads will be a few years old.

A good point. Also, due to survivors tending to be in immaculate or restored condition, all cars in period dramas look like new. I was 6 in 1975 and certainly remember the condition of some of the stuff on the roads then. What would have passed an MoT back then certainly wouldn't now.

A 10yr old car in those days, more often than not, would be a rusty wreck. We had a 72 K plate Cortina in about 1980, it was probably the oldest car in the street

[2xChevrons]

P5BNij said:

Earls Court, December '62...

The tow-car is rather unusal - Citroen Traction Avant 11N or, since it's almost certainly a Slough-built one, a 'Big 15'.

Turbobanana said:

soxboy said:

CRA1G said:

P5BNij said:

Laira depot, by the estuary of the River Plym, 1975...

There's some old cars in that black & white for 1975....

To be fair the VW is 9 years old in that photo, I don't think that you would think twice about seeing a 60-plate Golf in a photo taken today?

When you see dramas set in the 60s/70s/80s, there seems to be an attempt that everything has to be from that year or close by, rather than the reality that most vehicles on the roads will be a few years old.

A good point. Also, due to survivors tending to be in immaculate or restored condition, all cars in period dramas look like new. I was 6 in 1975 and certainly remember the condition of some of the stuff on the roads then. What would have passed an MoT back then certainly wouldn't now.

Unfortunately it's under copyright so I can't include it in this thread, but in the Getty archive there's a marvellous picture of the second Saunders-Roe Princess flying boat laid up on the slipway at Cowes in what would have been the mid-50s. The photo is taken over the Saro employee car park, and it's very illuminating as to what your average skilled industrial worker was driving (or not) at the time.

There's a huge bundle of pedal bikes, lots of small Bantam-type motorcycles and half a dozen or so larger motorbikes with sidecars (several with cabin-sidecars). The cars are mostly pre-war small saloons like Series 1 or 2 Morris Eights, and Ford Model Ys or Cs, with some immediate pre-war stuff like a Standard Eight saloon and a couple of Morris MM Minors. Middle-management seems to be represented only by a solitary Austin A50 Cambridge and a MkIV Minx. And standing out from all of them is some huge mid-1930s American saloon which I think is a Chevrolet Master.

So one car that's within a couple of years old, the majority in the 8-15-year-old range and very downmarket and plenty of people without a car at all.

Of course if a TV show was set on the Isle of Wight in 1956 they'd all be driving brand new A35s, Minor 1000s, F-type Victors and Triumph TRs.

[tog]

Saunders-Roe Princess pic

[Hugo a Gogo]

And a Bristol Lodekka

[nicanary]

The photo goes to show that the British bought British cars. All pretty mundane stuff apart from the Yank - Buick?

[pingu393]

2xChevrons said:

P5BNij said:

Earls Court, December '62...

The tow-car is rather unusal - Citroen Traction Avant 11N or, since it's almost certainly a Slough-built one, a 'Big 15'.

Turbobanana said:

soxboy said:

CRA1G said:

P5BNij said:

Laira depot, by the estuary of the River Plym, 1975...

There's some old cars in that black & white for 1975....

To be fair the VW is 9 years old in that photo, I don't think that you would think twice about seeing a 60-plate Golf in a photo taken today?

When you see dramas set in the 60s/70s/80s, there seems to be an attempt that everything has to be from that year or close by, rather than the reality that most vehicles on the roads will be a few years old.

A good point. Also, due to survivors tending to be in immaculate or restored condition, all cars in period dramas look like new. I was 6 in 1975 and certainly remember the condition of some of the stuff on the roads then. What would have passed an MoT back then certainly wouldn't now.

Unfortunately it's under copyright so I can't include it in this thread, but in the Getty archive there's a marvellous picture of the second Saunders-Roe Princess flying boat laid up on the slipway at Cowes in what would have been the mid-50s. The photo is taken over the Saro employee car park, and it's very illuminating as to what your average skilled industrial worker was driving (or not) at the time.

There's a huge bundle of pedal bikes, lots of small Bantam-type motorcycles and half a dozen or so larger motorbikes with sidecars (several with cabin-sidecars). The cars are mostly pre-war small saloons like Series 1 or 2 Morris Eights, and Ford Model Ys or Cs, with some immediate pre-war stuff like a Standard Eight saloon and a couple of Morris MM Minors. Middle-management seems to be represented only by a solitary Austin A50 Cambridge and a MkIV Minx. And standing out from all of them is some huge mid-1930s American saloon which I think is a Chevrolet Master.

So one car that's within a couple of years old, the majority in the 8-15-year-old range and very downmarket and plenty of people without a car at all.

Of course if a TV show was set on the Isle of Wight in 1956 they'd all be driving brand new A35s, Minor 1000s, F-type Victors and Triumph TRs.

My understanding of copyright law is that you are responsible for what you write or store, not what you link to. There is nothing illegal in linking to something, unless you claim it to be yours. I'm happy to be shown that I am wrong, but, to do so, you would have to link to a site that is probably under copyright .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspects_of...

[moffspeed]

Elderly said:

Rhyl 1967.

I guess that's a Fairthorpe on the left. The Imp appears to be just about stock although it looks as though it is sitting a bit lower than a standard car - still a touch of positive camber though...

[P5BNij]

March station in Cambridgshire, c.1980...

[Hugo a Gogo]

8 yr old Avenger with rusty wheelarch...