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.
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.
Things we used to do before the internet number 379... from the Eagle Annual 7 (1958).
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 It first flew early in 1957, being withdrawn by British Airways at Leeds/Bradford Airport in November 1975, being broken up the following year.
Well, as it's been over four years since my last posting, I guess that it's time to get going again! 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.
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?
