Images of the UK yesteryear

[Freddy]

Loving the images from UK today so with that in mind, thinking mainly of 50's and after, the transport, fashions, news, buildings, etc.



The BOAC VC10, a British plane, a British airline. BOAC in the early seventies became British Airways.




Laker and Dan Air. Laker in the early 70s marketed under Skytrain and Sir Freddy Laker wanted to be able to fly passengers from London to New York for under £40 one way.

[Sgt Sunshine]

Great idea for a thread Paul...............
Remember how we used to lap up that free milk in the 60's.......



Cheers
Sgt S

[Sgt Sunshine]

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

[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

[jimw1]

I had Just turned 8 Years old and although I was Living in Ireland In 1966
The News of the Aberfan Disaster was prominent on the Black and White TV and in the Newspaper Pictures.....
The Images and the thought of what those Children and Parents went through Always stays with me.....

[Steve Crook]

I had Just turned 8 Years old and although I was Living in Ireland In 1966
The News of the Aberfan Disaster was prominent on the Black and White TV and in the Newspaper Pictures.....
The Images and the thought of what those Children and Parents went through Always stays with me.....

I remember one time when I was taking some German friends to my Mum's in West Wales. As we drove along the M4 through the valleys I saw the sign to Aberfan, so I told them the story. They were from the coal mining area of the Ruhr and we were all in tears as I told them the story. We just had to divert and visit the cemetery to pay our respects

Steve

[Timmy_Lea]

[Mark O]

Girl's want their dinner, Butlin's holiday camp, Minehead, Somerset, Summer 1966.........

[golightly]

Liverpool 1954, 'Battling' Bessie Bradock visits a poverty stricken mother.

[Timmy_Lea]

[Freddy]

Remember those bins which were in the wall, iirc the binmen had a special handle to pull them out so that they needn't enter the back yard. A couple of times the bin wagon would have smoke coming out of the back because of hot ash put in just before collection.

Bessie lived in Kensington and when her maid became pregnant she let her continue to live and work there. In those days the the shame of an unmarried mother would have meant immediate dismissal.

[golightly]

Clayton Square Liverpool, looks mid 1950s, note the people walking under the scaffolding, pre elf and safety days.

[golightly]

[michaelmace]

Clayton Square Liverpool, looks mid 1950s, note the people walking under the scaffolding, pre elf and safety days.

Ye Gods, that brings back memories in a flood; it didn't look that much different when I was a nipper in the 1960s. Wasn't there a Sally Army building along there somewhere and an Army and Navy store?

[golightly]

Ye Gods, that brings back memories in a flood; it didn't look that much different when I was a nipper in the 1960s. Wasn't there a Sally Army building along there somewhere and an Army and Navy store?

I think it's the entrance to Houghton Street on Clayton Square, and there was an Army and Navy store there as you can see in this picture, don't know about the Sally Army building.

[michaelmace]

I think it's the entrance to Houghton Street on Clayton Square, and there was an Army and Navy store there as you can see in this picture, don't know about the Sally Army building.

A bit of research provides some more photos and a bit of history here. There wasn't a Sally Army hall, I misremembered somewhat, but the following text from that site provides enlightenment as it was the building outside which I saw the Sally Army play regularly, hence the confusion.

The square was laid out between 1745-50. Progress was slow- by 1769, only four houses existed here and one of these was converted into the Prince of Wales Theatre, which was demolished in 1912 and a new theatre of a different kind, the Liverpool Picture House, built adjacent to the site.
The Picture House changed its name numerous times over the years: the Prince of Wales News and Feature Theatre, Liverpool News Theatre and the Gala Theatre. I remember being left to watch the all-day cartoons the News Theatre used to run in the 1950s while my mother and grannie went shopping.
It last showed films- of an adult nature- as the 'Jacey Film Theatre' before finally closing in 1972- when it was radically transformed into a church, known as the Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament.

[Freddy]

Clayton Square Liverpool, looks mid 1950s, note the people walking under the scaffolding, pre elf and safety days.

The two BR notices on the lamppost.
No yellow lines.
Cars parked in the city centre.
The man and woman in the shop doorway waiting to meet someone.
The fruit and veg barrow most probably run by the Christian family(name, not religion) who still have fruit and veg stalls in Liverpool City Centre.
The window cleaners ladder narrowing at the top (so that it could wedge in corners perhaps) leaning on the window.
The women in fur, I can only see one bare head, others are hatted or are wearing scarves. Suits, ties and overcoats for the men.
The scaffolding on the building will most probably be steel, supported using a cantilever system braced through the windows, the tarpaulins at the base are called debris nets.
A couple of elderly women in the photo but no old men. They would have seen two world wars, the Blitz and perhaps lost family in those times.

[Freddy]

Found another photo where the the doorway can be seen. This is Elliot Street, Parker Street and Clayton Square

[golightly]

[Sgt Sunshine]

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