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For Ford Escort, please read Morris Marina, obviously a compositor’s error!

This is what my old dad used to call a “car patch”. From the left, a BMC 1100 with a vinyl roof which instantly makes you think it was a pensioned off Panda car, and therefore very well worn. A Hillman Hunter, maybe a GT, or maybe just a wannabee. The £175 Austin Mini, and a Triumph Spitfire...

Daytona Yellow? I had two Capris, a ‘69 in red, and a ‘74 in Daytona Yellow, for which I paid all of £70! https://www.appreciating-classics.com/car/ford-capri-gt-mk1/...

I have also put some stuff in at message #5920.

The interest is nearest the right hand side, a 1959 Mk1 Austin Healey Sprite “Frogeye” with a red wheel masks a Ford Consul Classic 315, about 1961/2, and then there is a 1965 Cortina Mk1, which is the unusual two door version. The rather bilious green colour is on a 1956/59 Standard Vanguard...

Yes, thanks, somehow I seem to have missed this. #5875 Facing away from the camera is a Sunbeam Alpine, with a hardtop fitted, and the most interesting car facing us is the black 1933-35 Morris Ten-Four a few vehicles back. (Sixth car on right?) Nearest is a Ford Zephyr Four, then an Austin...

#1110 again Looking at the picture, and going right to left, leaving the camera as it were, we have a carpet and floor coverings business, a dry cleaners, a café, kid’s clothes, and finally another shop that might be a shoe shop. Where, these days, would you find a collection of small business...

We married that year, (1974) I took on a mortgage of £59.25 per month. My old Mum said “How ever are you going to manage to pay that?” We still live in the house, best bargain I ever made, apart from ‘er indoors!

#1110 sorry Steve, but that’s not a Commer, it’s from BMC, Type FG, and was at various times labelled as Austin, Morris or Leyland. On the truck type you could see that the doors to the cab were angled inwards giving the cab an odd shape, which was why they got the nickname “threepenny bit”...

11.33% Savings Certificates!!

I don’t know why, but that row of shops just exhibits total Birminghamness. You expect to see a JOJ roar past any second.

Plus a black P4 Rover, and a VW Beetle with a sunroof. Agreed late ‘62 earliest but probably add a year at least.

Following the worsening of my father’s eyesight, and mother driving the various automatic cars, my father bought a Chrysler two litre, with the view of it being drivable by mother and big enough to cope with the caravan, a Sprite Major. I have to say that I never liked it, and when my dad died...

#986 A Chrysler 2 litre with a RRW Coventry plate, in a car park with some BMC motors, and a Renault 5 for Nicole, (or Papa). The Chrysler may have been a pre-registered or company vehicle, they weren’t exactly flying off the shelves as they weren’t very desirable, and didn’t take that long to...

#967 The 1965 Bedford CA Mk3 in the picture is, I am fairly sure, just a bog standard van. There is no roof extension, ruling out a camper van, and the interior is quite dark, suggesting no extra windows behind the front doors. The flashy aluminium grille was added for the Mk3, and probably the...

#963 It looks like a Fiat 124 Special, or Special T, judging by the script under the light cluster, I think.

Marrowfat Lane? The place where hollow bones were cracked apart to extract the stuff presumably. It would seem to be another one of those disappeared trades by which the poorest managed to scrape a living, if my speculation is right. A bit whiffy on a warm day? Maybe not as bad as the tannery...

The reason why! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Fairburn_2-6-4T

#927 A car park full of porridge, but something interesting on the top right. Problem is, I don’t know what it is.

Located in Stafford, the BRC was part of the Hall Engineering group at the time when I knew both the Lichfield Road location, and the HEL factory in Harlescott, Shrewsbury. If my memory is correct “BRC Fabric” was a welded mesh of steel bars which, sunk in the concrete when it was poured...