Images of the UK yesteryear

[Freddy]

Outside Garston Fire Station a 1906 fire engine.

[Freddy]

Reception with the stars at the Playboy Club

[golightly]

Some Dickensian images of London as a tribute to the great man's bicentenary, taken in 1880 ten years after his death but he would be familiar to such places.

The Oxford Arms Warick Lane




Unknown

[golightly]

Drury Lane

Wych Street Covent Garden

[golightly]

Bermondsey Street, Bermondsey

[Freddy]

Excellent photos, what is the building spire at the end of Drury Lane and Wych Street?

Cheers

Paul

[golightly]

Cheers Paul, the one in Drury lane is St Mary Le Strand and the one in Wych Street is St Clement Danes

St Mary Le Strand


St Clement Danes

[Steve Crook]

St Clement Danes

One of Christopher Wren's surviving masterpieces

The traffic lights obscure the statue of "Bomber" Harris outside St Clement Danes. There's a statue of Hugh Dowding there as well. It's the RAF church.

St Clement Danes is one of the claimants to the "Bells of St Clement's" in the "Oranges and Lemons" rhyme. The other claimant is St Clement Eastcheap

Steve

[Freddy]

Considering Conorde was such a wonderful aeroplane and an icon of its time I have difficulty in thinking of any films or television that has featured it. (apart from the dreadful Airport 79) I remember in the local cinema in the 60s watching one of those short information films telling how Concorde was designed etc. Also had an LP (possibly a collection of hits) which had a cover design iirc of the air flow around Concorde.

What brought this on was watching an episode of Kavanagh.

[Steve Crook]

Considering Conorde was such a wonderful aeroplane and an icon of its time I have difficulty in thinking of any films or television that has featured it. (apart from the dreadful Airport 79) I remember in the local cinema in the 60s watching one of those short information films telling how Concorde was designed etc. Also had an LP (possibly a collection of hits) which had a cover design iirc of the air flow around Concorde.

Check the titles with a keyword of Concorde on the IMDb

Steve

[Freddy]

The Great Eastern on Eastham shore 1889, Wirral prior to it being broken up, you can still find pieces of her in the mud/sand. It took 18 months to dismantle her . . this is from the history of Liverpool Football Club;

"There was one last building feat to take place in 1928. The addition of a flagpole for the club was erected at the corner of the Kop and Kemlyn Road stands. It is today known to many as flagpole corner. The flagpole also has a history to it. The pole is made up of the mast from one of the first ever iron ships called the Great Eastern. This ship first set sail in 1860 but about 20 years later the ship had been left to rot across the river Mersey at Rock Ferry. The mast which had survived was bought by the club and was taken across the Mersey to Liverpool before being dragged up Everton Valley by horses."

The flagpole is still there.

[Freddy]

[golightly]

The overhead railway looks great in this video but it was a bit of a monstrosity in my opinion and very expensive to maintain, I think that's why they demolished it, maintenance costs.

[Freddy]

Shades of Dad's Army

[Edward G]

Love it, Freddy.
The world's first camper van!
Where were they going - "Maxwell House"?

[Freddy]

Love it, Freddy.
The world's first camper van!
Where were they going - "Maxwell House"?

It appears the Maxwell car is American, as the photo was taken in Liverpool it could be that this came off one of the liners, perhaps as you say a Camper van and the driver was going to tour England and possibly Europe. Would love to see more photos of it elsewhere, follow its journey.

[Arfur Teacake]

Considering Conorde was such a wonderful aeroplane and an icon of its time I have difficulty in thinking of any films or television that has featured it. (apart from the dreadful Airport 79) I remember in the local cinema in the 60s watching one of those short information films telling how Concorde was designed etc. Also had an LP (possibly a collection of hits) which had a cover design iirc of the air flow around Concorde.

What brought this on was watching an episode of Kavanagh.

Well it was used in one long running series (mercilessly lampooned by Monty Python)

exciting stuff eh?

[Freddy]

Below is a map of Wirral with the black markings showing where bombs exploded one evening during a bombing raid on the Liverpool area. The Wirral is on the other side of the Mersey, enemy aircraft would leave airfields in France and Holland, cross over the Channel, fly over the South West of England, follow the Welsh Coast and then using the lights of Dublin as a marker and turn back across the Irish Sea. It could well be the target could either have been Birkenhead Docks, naval ships on the Mersey or the docks at Liverpool.

You can trace the thread of bombs and if you walk along their path you can see the newer buidings at an equal distance between each other.

[Freddy]

Well it was used in one long running series (mercilessly lampooned by Monty Python)

exciting stuff eh?

Must have been one of the test flight as Concorde didn't come into service until 1976.

[Rick C]

Must have been one of the test flight as Concorde didn't come into service until 1976.

In which case Concorde epitomised the cutting-edge ahead-of-the-news style of the then UK and the programme itself. Good job the programme makers chose Concorde instead of the 120mph leaning train to claim how up front Team GB was!