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my family snaps

THE 1970s ,HOW WE DRESSED??.
THIS PIC IS MY TWO BOYS & I AT SKORBLAND CARAVAN SITE BREAN SOMERSET IN THE LATE 70s. (how did I ever go OUT in those trousers)

Note my car at the time a ford capri I thought it so trendy, I even had a MII after that one, I loved them.
THE BARON
 
hi baron. bet them trousers used to flap aout a bit in the wind lol. did your capri have the raised bit going down the bonnet. if i remember correctly some did and some didnt. wales
 
No wales it did not have that raised bit as you say, it was a bogg standard 1300cc,
under powered for the size of car, but to me it look the bees knees.
 
being a mere women baron i dont know the proper name for the (raised bit) lol but my ex used to own 2 or 3 in the early 70s and i too loved them. great cars and i reckon even today they would look good on the roads. wales.
 
Baron. We too went to a caravan park at Brean Downs in the 60s, but for the life of me I can,t recall the name. Great times in them days. I also had trousers like those too. Shocking now isnt it ? Barry.
 
THAT FORD GARAGE IN KINGSBURY ROAD IS WERE I HAD THE GREEN CAPRI FROM & LATER THE OLD GOLD ONE, THAT WAS 2OOOcc much better,I had it for about 10 years then my son for about 2 more. it did not owe US any thing,a great car.
Yes alf that one looks just like mine.
 
In the 30s, before I was born, my parents sometimes spent their holiday in a cottage at lower Brailes near Banbury. My mom and three sisters were photographed at Banbury Cross around 1934. Last weekend we stayed in a cottage near there. I visited Lower Brailes and Banbury - 70 odd years later.
 
Nice pictures Mike. I went there once on our friends canal boat. We moored up and went for a walk round it was lovely!
 
ahh sorry alf. lovely pic and i bet you aint changed a bit :D well it is yer birthday after all lyn:)
 
Wanna Bet Lynn;)

I look like a Stock car now, I was going to put something else, lets just say I feel like that now:D
 
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tut tut alf. i wont have you putting yourself down like that. when you say your more like a stock car now i would interpret that as you must be a fast racey little thing. double:D:D
 
I was looking through old photos and found this 1939 one of my Dad and my Sister standing by his Aviary full of Budgies. Sadly the natural looking trellis in the garden behind had to go to make way for an Anderson bomb shelter. The aviary also had to go to allow the building of a brick bomb shelter. The second photo shows me and my sister in the garden about the same year.

DadsOldAviary.jpgInGarden1938.jpg
 
Hi Mohawk: That's a super looking aviary you had in your garden. The tree type trellis was very popular in the 1930's and my parents had a lot of it
their garden. It all went eventually. Only photos remain. Thanks for posting those pics.
 
Just caught up with this thread.
Baron, don't worry about the flares, here's me in my Don Johnson days!:shocked:
 
oldmohawk thats a lovely pic...it seemed to be the thing of day to keep budgies and pigeons..when living down paddington st dad had budgies and old mr townly next door keep pidgeons....

david you havnt changed a bit:D:D:D

lyn
 
hi all...ive just borrowed these treasured pics off mom and dad....

this first one is dads mom kate outside her little shop in well st...date about 1929/30
 
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this one is of dads dad out in india..about 1922...he is on the left and this is the only pic i have of my grandad....
 
this is my dear dad taken in 1929 a few months old...now this is taken either at the back of the rose and crown hingeston st or the back of the shop in well st....my guess is well st but cant be certain....
 
and just to give you a giggle...how did dad go from the last pic to this...lol


taken 14 years ago while on lolipop duty outide william cowper school...summer lane....bless him....:):):)
 
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thanks demond2 its a lovely pic...even now i feel a sad that out of all my four grandparents the only one i ever knew was moms mom and she lived till she was over 100...dads mom and dad and moms dad(who we hanvent got a pic of) all died in their early 40s from tb...as did many of the time...

lyn
 
i got on with my nan very well,she was strict but fair...she died in 1981, i was only 7yrs old,but miss her even now ,she would pull the family inline anyday lol
 
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