Post 'em!
1st October - Outside Central Station. Spot the coin :)
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Post 'em!
1st October - Outside Central Station. Spot the coin :)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2667/...e4a2d8f4_z.jpg
Why can I never get jackets with sleeves that long?
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Evening sun on the waterfront
Thats a rather warm photo there GD :handclap:
Nice pic! and I particularly like the old gas lamps!
Pity they didn't use the original gas lamps....those are a poor representation with a modern twist.Quote:
I particularly like the old gas lamps!
Still looks good to me! adds a bit of character to the area, much better than those modern 'concrete' pole type we see so many of these days!
Got to agree Norm'...no pleasing some,though!:)
3rd October
(Done as 3rd as its missing, and to give someone else a chance for today)
Rough day at Egremont...
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Brilliant picture Corky,well done, loved yours too Joe,
BrianD
Excellent picture. It looks like a painting.
wow! that's cool!
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4th OCT 2010
the birch in JMU garden.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BoNRiXGHRV.../the+birch.jpg
That tree would look nice in my back yard, where is it ? lol
[IMG]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/...d3192af28e.jpgold liverpool street by exacta2a, on Flickr[/IMG]
[IMG]http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1041/...9f1594310f.jpgGill Street liverpool by exacta2a, on Flickr[/IMG]
Two for the price of one Gill Street today and in the sixties, seems like the people have got richer
Thats tru,GD...they've upgraded the TV aerials.;)Quote:
seems like the people have got richer
Might be an older car in the old pic, but the "wigwam" wasn't completed until 1967 - so the pic is mid to late 60's. It doesn't look like any blue plastic is on the stainless roof in the BW pic...
Notice how us poor pedestrians have lost a lot of pavement to make a lay by for the motorists. The car looks like an Austin A7O. I took this on my lunch time ramble around the area.
The car in the pic is a hillman minx from about 1954.
Looks like an AustinA90 to me,Bernie.?
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/visit...llman_minx.htm
I was around at the time and was a car nut.
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&e...w=1014&bih=599
Hi Az,The A90 Atlantic was built for the American market but was available to order in the UK. I seem to remember it held an endurance record at the Brickyard for many years. It wasn't really a success over here.
I think they came out soon after WW2, they had a 4 cylinder engine, the later Westminster had a 6 cylinder. The Atlantic was available as a 2 door coupe and as a convertible. I saw one on Ebay a while ago and it made over $50k. It wasn't original the engine had been changed for a later Austin Healey 100/4 unit. The Atlantic coupe had an electric back window, supposedly for extra ventilation, being a flier you probably know the aerodynamics of the car and know it would suck in exhaust fumes. Very interesting car though.
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Our Austin A70 which we used on camera trips to Wales and the Lakes. I don`t know anything about cars but I know it was under powered because with 4 of us in it we had to reverse up the hills because it couldn`t climb in foward gear.
You will be praising the brakes too then, as the car-full will have had to roll down the hills as well. :)
I wonder if the locals greeted you with, "Hello again" as you backed into view? :)
I can see why you take such excellent pictures Joe, a life times experience.
Hi Joe
Great photograph and great story. However I doubt if the photograph dates from 1866 as you have on there at lower right.
Chris
Most 4 cylinder cars had that problem on the extreme welsh hills. I had the same problem in a Mk2 Consul trying to get to the graveyard where my family is in Tremeirchion.
...and our old Ford Anglia going up the Honister Pass in the Lake District....:)
ADDED - just found this pic on-line
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...but, if I remember correctly, it would have said "1 in 4 hill" in the 60's not a percentage....
That's steep for any car, even now...:)
Well me being a kid at the time...I don't remember me old fella struggling to get the Ford Popular up the welsh moutain roads,every weekend we went and camped through Wales and Caernarfon countryside.Quote:
Most 4 cylinder cars had that problem on the extreme welsh hills.
Things I remember....sheep sticking thier heads in the tent late at night...baaaa,baaaa.
Fireflys on the outsideof the tent.
Bloody freezing cold when you woke up in the morning with mountain dew on the ground.
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Come to sunny Liverpool holidays,from St Mary`s tower
Great view GD.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BoNRiXGHRV...0/_DSC9091.jpg
it is in Conwy, Wales.
Great pic Leon, where is it?
Castle is a dead giveaway Bernie,Conwy
Excellent pic, Leon.
Well if we're doing liverpool related things in other area, I'll put this one on for the 8th October
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2169/...4fa52cf6b5.jpg
Probably posted it before, but so what :)
Awesome picture of the waterfront