Images of the UK yesteryear

[Freddy]

A bit selfish, this one, as it's my personal yesteryear, but I was moved to find images of the Tree Walk on Youtube, and of course London's wonderland, Battersea Fun Fair...

Feel free to be a bit selfish, nice video.

[Big Figure]

What a fantastic thread.
Nice one, Freddy!

[Freddy]

Photographs of Tower Bridge being constructed are found in a skip - Telegraph





for more photos click on link.

Paul

[jaycad]

Cheers for that Freddy-the 'like' feature doesn't seem to work on my phone!

[Freddy]

Flying over London 1920s. The plane could be an Armstrong Whitworth Argosy heading for Croydon airport. Notice the pilot would be in an open cockpit.



Croydon airport in the snow

[Freddy]

Re plane direction, more likely to have taken off from Croydon, but it would depend on wind direction.

[Timmy_Lea]

[Rick C]

Remember seeing one or two of these strange things when I were a nipper...................

Britmovie connection here: In "The Naked Truth" (Dir. Mario Zampi, 1957) Dennis Price promotes an Isetta as a focal prop

[Rick C]

Some great photos there golightly....

Here's an old photo of Plymouth city centre taken in the late '50's. Long before Amazon people had to go to the shops to buy things as can be seen by the number of shoppers in this pic....The re-designed & rebuilt city centre became a magnet for shoppers from many miles around....note the lone sailor in front of the goods van...
The shop on the left was "DOLCIS" possibly a shoe shop....?



Cheers
Sgt S

But Dolcis was THE shoe shop nationally in the 1950's to 1970's! The fashion sector, notably shoes with the names of Saxone, Timpson etc had been developed in the 1930's with their iconic Art Deco shop fronts which lasted until the 1960's in some cases, but became a infrastructure code for post-war redevelopment.

A strand on my Local History website (Birmingham and the West Midlands) features, for those of us over a certain age, the memories of High Street stores no longer with us. Here's a Dolcis example from the 1950's in Birmingham's main Corporation Street:

http://www.ribapix.com/image.php?i=2...1&ref=RIBA7113

Details of that architectural website and its (eclectic) navigation available.

[Sgt Sunshine]

Cheers Rick....Fascinating photo...that's a lovely old building.
Interesting to see another photo with street lights strung across the road (I think golightly put in a pic of Liverpool with strung out lights)...
Cheers
Sgt S

[Freddy]

Why do all b/w photos of young girls taken in the fifties early sixties look like Princess Anne when she was a child, and babies all look like Winston Churchill?

[golightly]

This is Wallasey on the other side of the Mersey, 1895 and one report suggests that in February the river had frozen over from shore to shore, must have been cold as the Mersey is quite wide and fast flowing.

[Freddy]

The excellent

Another Nickel In the Machine

new feature is The Day the Traitors Burgess and Maclean Left Town

Another very good read.

[wadey]

Thanks for the link

[wadey]

The Odeon, Accrington 1950s

[golightly]

Soon be celebrating the Queen's 60 years on the throne. I was only 6 months old when she was crowned the following year so I have no memory of the celebrations but I know we had a street party and the first picture is Barry Street which was a stones throw from where I lived in Liverpool. Whatever your views on the Monarchy you have to say that she has done a terrific job, never put a foot wrong really.

[golightly]

Barry Feinstein took these pictures of Bob Dylan in Liverpool in 1966 just hours before he appeared at the Empire theatre. The BBC made a documentary about it and it's a great story.





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[jimw1]

Barry Feinstein took these pictures of Bob Dylan in Liverpool in 1966 just hours before he appeared at the Empire theatre. The BBC made a documentary about it and it's a great story.

Thanks for the post golightly I have never seen that clip before....thoroughly enjoyed it.....

[Freddy]

Lovely find, if you are wondering why I've put UOGB up watch the beginning, up to 30 secs.

[golightly]

Lovely find, if you are wondering why I've put UOGB up watch the beginning, up to 30 secs.

Excellent stuff, best heckle, if you can call it that, I've heard