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.

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.

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.

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.

Table Cricket

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

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 It first flew early in 1957, being withdrawn by British Airways at Leeds/Bradford Airport in November 1975, being broken up the following year.

All dressed up

 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?