tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-551484615106009182024-02-18T20:36:26.209-08:00Vintage StuffLost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.comBlogger180125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-71293092610829705942021-11-14T03:46:00.001-08:002021-11-14T03:46:07.694-08:00Queue for the loo<p> 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. 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Ltd.<p> 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.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgagjlI1N7EO9PXqW1h4CdbPu61lbjx73Rl-AuVXMl3nPXIvSLe_XqDU5OD_KyuhhAh5-McsmOp7DkNAlkHs4fEaZtBSWNY9x-hkbWgJxVwttDnNqF5WZeHFc0t3Vel0LHfOLa3xh2Zb3o/s2048/corgi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1412" data-original-width="2048" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgagjlI1N7EO9PXqW1h4CdbPu61lbjx73Rl-AuVXMl3nPXIvSLe_XqDU5OD_KyuhhAh5-McsmOp7DkNAlkHs4fEaZtBSWNY9x-hkbWgJxVwttDnNqF5WZeHFc0t3Vel0LHfOLa3xh2Zb3o/w400-h276/corgi.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>This little advert appeated in The Motor Cycle magazine, issue dated 11 August 1949.</p>Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-13744391865675458012021-07-13T12:00:00.004-07:002021-07-13T12:07:34.178-07:00Two Bob Roller<p> 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.</p><p>Accoding to the DVLA, it was last taxed in 2001 and subsequently exported, so presumably still around.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRa-mKbIRmPN6qWFX3Z1alP0EDfTA5m2rtDhVl_H3crzBa-5dKobUoHAJgG-cduVEpe5EgrvOAA7krPBPaHfaYW4wOL51ziCcFaON2U2aTTTAGSZ6N92IL7g2XgD_k3o05E2s5YW5qHt8/s2048/roller.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1429" data-original-width="2048" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRa-mKbIRmPN6qWFX3Z1alP0EDfTA5m2rtDhVl_H3crzBa-5dKobUoHAJgG-cduVEpe5EgrvOAA7krPBPaHfaYW4wOL51ziCcFaON2U2aTTTAGSZ6N92IL7g2XgD_k3o05E2s5YW5qHt8/w400-h279/roller.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-43810263339585606732021-07-12T14:28:00.005-07:002021-07-12T14:30:03.283-07:00Table Cricket<p> Things we used to do before the internet number 379... from the Eagle Annual 7 (1958).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYBiwjnvqsSXrlxyHPVY47VPn3UlYqFA2sEVIgMCY1VEepFSsnhn_MZWIDesECDmK-f-L2XBQbA9Rz_FSn_XW482AMOskP7okKVm91cXndVjc-VFy0O5CQpXZkL31sEM8pET4g0igCuAI/s2048/table+cricket+-+eagle7+1958+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1984" data-original-width="2048" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYBiwjnvqsSXrlxyHPVY47VPn3UlYqFA2sEVIgMCY1VEepFSsnhn_MZWIDesECDmK-f-L2XBQbA9Rz_FSn_XW482AMOskP7okKVm91cXndVjc-VFy0O5CQpXZkL31sEM8pET4g0igCuAI/w400-h388/table+cricket+-+eagle7+1958+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-88636858047276208692021-07-10T11:03:00.006-07:002021-07-10T11:06:15.961-07:00G-AOHH<p> 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. 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With England getting through to the final of the European Championships in a couple of days, this pair of pictures would seem appropriate. At least two of Dunstable's pubs were decorated for the games in 2004, these photographed on Sunday 20 June, early morning because of the light. Both pubs were in High Street North and both have since closed, The Bull being converted into flats by 2009, whilst the Mulberry Bush called time couple of years ago, and is currently derelict and will no doubt be demolished for redevelopment before too long. England played on the 24th, losing out to the host, Portugal, on penalties.</p><p>I know that I have broken my own rule by posting pictures less than 25 years old and I no doubt will do so again, but it's all history, isn't it?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1xzT6XVDTD8vsE23KD_sQphcvxiDCog-Uj4vmOpUJmRupUlbvO1pDtc_1YiLqOfVmEocniehFoq1zmoRR5h01bUoFziGHZ0LNvAbGSHEsycLWKVQ2jJKMHchNkUqKMjMFujQLByjMfE8/s2048/14may206.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1111" data-original-width="2048" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1xzT6XVDTD8vsE23KD_sQphcvxiDCog-Uj4vmOpUJmRupUlbvO1pDtc_1YiLqOfVmEocniehFoq1zmoRR5h01bUoFziGHZ0LNvAbGSHEsycLWKVQ2jJKMHchNkUqKMjMFujQLByjMfE8/w400-h217/14may206.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCw2DtK30gmm0k69z6EaHy25SQVdpODJKhnxWI36pvxa9zwg2dTlPjsT6VvO-atBlL05jhIN8wvUWA7ubQ1xfOGnJt8gosybCJyqhYZ3wACJl6TdLkwS0zzXJZ3LY9U6qwXJbOhkVhqmU/s2048/14may205.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="2048" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCw2DtK30gmm0k69z6EaHy25SQVdpODJKhnxWI36pvxa9zwg2dTlPjsT6VvO-atBlL05jhIN8wvUWA7ubQ1xfOGnJt8gosybCJyqhYZ3wACJl6TdLkwS0zzXJZ3LY9U6qwXJbOhkVhqmU/w400-h248/14may205.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-57701030701323940492017-03-13T16:36:00.000-07:002017-03-13T17:25:23.996-07:00Phillips 66Rooting around in the loft the other day, I came across a broadsheet-size supplement to the<i> Evening Gazette</i> (dated 3 April 1968) marking the formation of the new borough of Teesside, which incorporated Stockton, Middlesbrough, Thornaby, Redcar, Billingham, Eston, Stokesley, Guisborough, Saltburn and Maske. As my wife comes from Stockton, it must have come to us from her family at some time.<br />
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Although there is lots to scan, quality is not brilliant, being on newsprint. However, this advert for Phillips 66 petroleum, with it's AEC and Leyland tankers, certainly attracted my attention.<br />
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My general rule of thumb as to whether something is old enough to qualify for inclusion into <i>Vintage Stuff </i>is that it must be at least 25 years old. As I have estimated that the postcard above originated around 1990, it just slips in under the wire to be the most modern item on here so far.<br />
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Published by Coastal Colour Ltd., about whom I can find little, it illustrates the delights to be savoured at the Essex seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea. Presumably she will be there to greet you personally as you step from the train. I seem to remember similar cards being sold at the likes of Brighton and Southend, perhaps even using the same model, alongside the more traditional 'saucy postcards'.<br />
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Bought recently at Oxfam for the princely sum of 49p.<br />
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My only visit to the Cumberland town of Whitehaven was on a railway trip in 1979, taking scant interest in the local bus scene. I was therefore unaware of the splendid art deco 1932-built bus station situated on New Road. Closed under Stagecoach, it's future use is uncertain with the site being used for housing being a possibility, although there is a local desire to retain the frontage.<br />
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This picture, from a negative in my collection, dates from around 1955, the crew of one of the 1951 all-Leyland PD2s apparently in heated discussion before departure.Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-78901012862411318642017-02-04T11:39:00.002-08:002021-07-17T10:10:24.436-07:00Life before WikipediaBefore the internet, most homes would have at least one copy of an encyclopaedia, possibly a <i>Pears</i>, while many would proudly display a full set, such as <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> (the last print edition - running to 32 volumes - was printed in 2010). The set of choice in our house when growing up was that produced by Arthur Mee, although I note that he died in 1943, so that I hope it had been updated for our 1960s consumption! I have a feeling that my father bought it from a man selling encyclopaedias from door to door, a common enough event back then.<br />
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This little flyer fell out of the <i>Daily Mail Yearbook </i>for 1961, offering a free trial of the <i>Newnes Popular Encyclopaedia, </i>not one that I had previously heard. The cash price was £15.00 or an extra 15/- should you opt to pay over fifteen months. The only full 8-volume I have found at the moment costs £35 plus p&p, but many odd single volumes appear to be around. I can't imagine that there is much of a market these days!<br />
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<br />Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-89265342257019611132016-04-20T11:42:00.000-07:002016-04-20T11:44:42.986-07:00Ding Dong!Actor Leslie Phillips is 92 today; happy birthday!<br />
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Here are three screen shots from the 1959 Pinewood film <i>Please Turn Over</i>, seen here with Julia Lockwood (top) and grappling with frustrated house-wife Mrs Moore, played by Myrtle Reed.Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-8982890501183717562016-03-04T00:59:00.000-08:002016-03-04T00:59:02.191-08:00Home timeRemembering a time when lines of buses and trams would await home-going workers in industrial towns, Sheffield Corporation trams gather in Bridge Street, outside the works of Gilbow Tool & Steel Co. during the 1950s.<br />
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<br />Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-1547654502993479472016-03-02T04:44:00.001-08:002016-03-02T04:44:27.964-08:00Happy Birthday Brent Cross!Brent Cross Shopping Centre was opened forty years ago today, on 2 March 1976, amid some speculation that it would remain a 'white elephant' and that no-one would want to shop in such an environment. It was the first of it's kind in London, although pre-dated by those in Birmingham (1964) and Leicester (1973), and of course went on to be a great success.<br />
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Built on former allotment and waste ground in the London Borough of Barnet, rather than developed from an existing site, this Dixon's commercial postcard shows the centre when quite new with London Transport RML/DMS/SMS types on service in the adjoining bus station.<br />
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<br />Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-6291444111253872482016-02-25T10:25:00.000-08:002016-02-25T10:25:44.712-08:00Sunlight, steam and shadowsThis is the glory that was Birmingham Snow Hill station. Opened by the Great Western Railway in 1852 and closed (after a lingering death) by British Rail 120 years later, a new station opened in 1987, but without the charm of the original.<br />
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A southbound goods drifts through on 1st October 1950, scanned from a 6x6cm size negative taken by the late Mervyn Mason, now in my collection.Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-15405763426291206562016-02-24T11:03:00.000-08:002016-02-24T11:03:39.094-08:00Blackpool 1967No, not the trams, but a couple of Kodachrome slides taken at the airport on 18 September by the late Lyndon Rowe, who had just landed from Ronaldsway on the Isle of Man. First up is the plane that he may have flown in on, British United Douglas DC-3 G-AKNB of 1942-vintage, a plane that survives in the USA as N59NA.<br />
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Below is Handley Page Herald G-ASKK, also of British United. New in 1962, this is also still around, preserved at the City of Norwich Aviation Museum.<br />
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<br />Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-45028653815693118672015-12-12T04:20:00.000-08:002015-12-12T04:20:43.324-08:00ArielA splendid, if battered, advert from the front cover of <i>The Motor Cycle </i>magazine, issue dated 11 August 1949. The company sold out to BSA in 1951, the last motorbikes being built in 1967.<br />
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In order to educate the children of boatmen on The Grand Union Canal, this school was opened at Brentford in 1904. Built for The London City Mission in the Arts and Crafts style, the architect was Thomas Henry Nowell Parr (1864-1933), who, at the time of it's building, was architect to the local council. Now a private house, it was grade ll listed only in 2000; this view dates from 1985.Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-77426479000495061362015-10-13T09:27:00.000-07:002015-10-13T09:27:19.287-07:00The Highlanders' Institute<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This organisation was formed after the First War as a meeting place for young men and women from the Highlands and Islands to meet and socialize in Glasgow. The original premises in Elmbank Street was too small by the 1950s which resulted in the building that opened at 34 Berkeley Street on 19 October, 1961.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Looking very much a product of it's time, the architect was William Hamilton Sanders (c.1914-2014) and was completed for £75,000. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">By 1979 it had become a casino, being demolished in 2004, making way for flats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This rather creased leaflet was issued for the opening ceremony; I must admit to finding the building quite striking, although perhaps poor construction hastened it's demise.</span>Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-74429750074554668252015-07-28T04:24:00.000-07:002015-07-28T04:24:44.993-07:00Bygone LutonA selection of advertisements that appeared in copies of <i>"The Luton News" Directory of Luton</i>, published by Home Counties Newspapers dating from 1950 and 1954 - all businesses long gone!<br />
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<br />Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-21354828438820275842015-07-18T05:38:00.002-07:002015-07-18T05:38:55.536-07:00Old Shoreham Toll BridgeSorting out some old magazines for the charity shop, this little green Bell Punch ticket fluttered out.<br />
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The bridge over the River Adur was opened in 1847, owned in part by the London & Brighton & South Coast Railway, then the Southern Railway from 1923 and British Railways from 1948. Control passed to West Sussex County Council in 1970, although road traffic had ceased to cross since 1968.Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-9759948922555791082015-04-29T14:33:00.002-07:002015-04-29T14:33:58.565-07:00Change of planI picked up this drinks mat for 50p this morning, to have been used on two of P&O's Darts Cruises that took place in May and October 1982. The two professionals were John Lowe and the late Leighton Rees, both players, even as a non-darts fan such as I, had actually heard of.<br />
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All is not as it seems however, as the ship concerned, the SS Canberra, was unavailable for the first cruise due to being requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence and hastily refitted as a troop ship in early April and sent to the Falkland Islands, not to return to the UK until the July. Whether she made her October date I can't say, nor which ship took over her duties during the interim. Put into service in 1961, the 45,000 ton ship was withdrawn in 1997 and sent to Pakistan for scrapping, a feat that, due to her bulk, took a year, rather than the estimated three months.<br />
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<br />Lost Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960698476223499770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55148461510600918.post-68349492972342377222015-02-28T03:15:00.001-08:002015-02-28T03:15:40.710-08:00MG Magnette<br />
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Flat cap supplied as standard; Lilliput magazine, March 1957<br />
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