About Vintage Stuff

The aim of Vintage Stuff is to display some of the ephemera that I have collected, often inadvertently, over the years. I am now deliberately seeking out interesting old adverts, screen shots, leaflets, obscure record covers, picture postcards and illustrations; anything that catches my eye, in fact. They will be mainly, but not exclusively of UK origin (so many vintage blogs appear to be American) and almost always a scan from something that I actually have in my collection, rather than off the net. If you do re-blog, please acknowledge the source. Further stuff, mainly photographs, can be found on my Flickr pages, via the Benny Hill record cover.

Sunday 14 November 2021

Queue for the loo

 Old Trolleybuses finding a subsequent life as public toilets were not that unusual. The Borough Council of Epsom & Ewell had several ex-Huddersfield Karriers and here is one at the Derby on 2 June 1965. Were the facilities for the gentlemen this exotic, I wonder?



Friday 27 August 2021

Hastings

 A view around 1950, with the East Hill Lift to the left and miniature railway in the foreground. There also appears to be a couple of WW11 pill boxes on the cliffs. A scan from a negative in my collection.





Thursday 26 August 2021

Noddy's

 Proclaims to be "Elm Park's Largest Toy Showrooms", but not many toys in the window! The shop was at 40 The Broadway, Elm Park, Hornchurch, early 1960s at a guess. Scanned from a negative in my collection.



Saturday 17 July 2021

Corgi Motorcycle Co. Ltd.

 This jolly couple are riding little 98cc motor cycles built by Brockhouse Engineering of Southport between 1947 and 1954. Some 27,050 were sold, initially to the USA and were a strengthened version of the Welbike, designed to be dropped by parachute during the war.


This little advert appeated in The Motor Cycle magazine, issue dated 11 August 1949.

Tuesday 13 July 2021

Two Bob Roller

 A little photograph, bought for just 10p in a Hastings second-hand shop a few years ago. It depicts a 1932 Rolls Royce 20/25hp Hooper limousine outside Rowheath Playing Fields at Bournville, Birmingham, perhaps later in the decade.

Accoding to the DVLA, it was last taxed in 2001 and subsequently exported, so presumably still around.



Monday 12 July 2021

Table Cricket

 Things we used to do before the internet number 379... from the Eagle Annual 7 (1958).



Saturday 10 July 2021

G-AOHH

 This British European Airways Vickers Viscount was snapped at Manchester Airport sometime in 1969, scanned from an acquired negative, bough as much for the splendid Foden fuel tanker as for the plane. It first flew early in 1957, being withdrawn by British Airways at Leeds/Bradford Airport in November 1975, being broken up the following year.