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Old street pics..

Ah! Those Standard Vanguards, we had them in the RAF - they rolled like pigs!! The Mayflower (had a bigger sister known as a Renown) was a smart looking car. I understand it was expensive to build due to its angular design. Maybe someone from the car industry ma know if that is correct or a myth?
 
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Radiorails said:
Ah! Those Standard Vanguards, we had them in the RAF - they rolled like pigs!! The Mayflower (had a bigger sister known as a Renown) was a smart looking car. I understand it was expensive to build due to its angular design. Maybe someone from the car industry ma know if that is correct or a myth?
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Alan all the scale model Vanguards made in the RAF identity were Model 3. However that rolling was handy with the bench front seat and a young lady (my wife) besides menudge,nudge, wink, wink.

Bob
 
Bob Davis said:
Alan all the scale model Vanguards made in the RAF identity were Model 3. However that rolling was handy with the bench front seat and a young lady (my wife) besides menudge,nudge, wink, wink.

Bob
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I did a staff car drivers course driving bull nosed vanguards? Bloody awful car, twitchy steering & prone to oil leaks ( had to put a drip tray under the car at the end of the day). In Germany i drove fords, Zephyrs 4/6, & loved bombing down the Autobahn at over a ton. Not sure if you can do that on the Autobahn these day.:cool:

Be proud of our country, buy British.
 
Smudger said:
I did a staff car drivers course driving bull nosed vanguards? Bloody awful car, twitchy steering & prone to oil leaks ( had to put a drip tray under the car at the end of the day). In Germany i drove fords, Zephyrs 4/6, & loved bombing down the Autobahn at over a ton. Not sure if you can do that on the Autobahn these day.:cool:

Be proud of our country, buy British.
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Well, Smudger confirms what many MT guys said about that car. :D. Bob, as far as women were concerned there were never any in the car I was in, but that is not so say that on other occasions there may have been. (Well, there were WRAF girls on many stations.):eek:
 
Smudger said:
I did a staff car drivers course driving bull nosed vanguards? Bloody awful car, twitchy steering & prone to oil leaks ( had to put a drip tray under the car at the end of the day). In Germany i drove fords, Zephyrs 4/6, & loved bombing down the Autobahn at over a ton. Not sure if you can do that on the Autobahn these day.:cool:

Be proud of our country, buy British.
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Off theme of course, but mine ran with only three cylinders and blown exhaust.

Bob
 
Bob Davis said:
Devon Jim
Going to correct you, politely of course, the Jowett Javelin is a series 1 Standard Vanguard with a Birmingham Registration Number, actually they were my first two cars loved them both. Interestingly enough (I always say that before I bore you stiff with trivia) JOV was issued July 1949View attachment 128142 and the Vanguard introduced July 1947, so bearing in mind the privations of the time and the fact that the bulk of British Cars were exported, that arm out of the window could be somebody quite well off. The Mayflower was introduced in 1949, again made by Standard as Triumph had become part of the Standard Group by then, it would be interesting to be able to date the picture, the only other recognisable modern car is the Morris (I think) coming out of the side road, which was again a late 40s car.

Bob
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I don't think the car in the earlier picture is a Vanguard Bob, I think it's Singer SM1500.
The one coming out of the side road is a series 2 Morris Oxford...…………….I think. :)
 
Eric Gibson said:
I don't think the car in the earlier picture is a Vanguard Bob, I think it's Singer SM1500.
The one coming out of the side road is a series 2 Morris Oxford...…………….I think. :)
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Yes, I am sure Eric is correct about the Singer. One of my nicest cars was a Singer Vogue Estate (not like the one in the photo however); went miles with the family in it.
 
Eric dates the introduction of the Morris Oxford as 1954. Indeed the photo has to be that date or after it. No tram tracks or overhead are visible; the last trams to use those tracks were those of the last tramway closure in 1953. They used Carrs Lane and Moor Street to run from Steelhouse Lane to Kyotts Lake Road.
 
I think it was Astoness (Lyn) who made the comment sometime ago about being able to walk up Park Lane with all the pictures we have. This prompted me to put these onto an interactive map. Please check it out.

www.leroux.co.uk/parklane/

NOTE: TEMPORARILY DISABLED A NEW VERSION IS BEING CREATED




It includes images from Aston Cross, High Street, The Retreat etc. in fact the more I delved into it the more pictures I found.
I should point out that my programming skills are very basic, comments/ideas/criticisms are welcome.

If I have infringed any copyrights please let me know and I will address this immediately.

All known pictures of Park lane and Parliament Street are on there, regarding other streets I have just used a limited selection.

John
 
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John, I am very impressed with this interactive map, a great way to contextualize the area with the photos. It something that I think would prove quite useful.


Thanks
 
John,

That's brilliant - I just wish we could do that with the whole of central Brum. Glad that it features the old Bartons Bank as my mother's family lived at 2 back 15, and Eric Gibson's grandparents very close by. Shame we never took any pictures before it was all pulled down.

Maurice
 
Thank-you for the positive comments, ideally I wanted the picture to appear as the mouse hovered (without clicking) to make it more like 'a walk around Aston as we knew it'. I'm hoping that a programmer my son knows will be able to create the code for this.
Maurice, my mother's family (Keight) also lived at Bartons Bank (No 2) around 1896, I only found this out from a birth and death certificate at that address, they were not there on the 1891 or 1901 census.
John
 
brummy-lad said:
I think it was Astoness (Lyn) who made the comment sometime ago about being able to walk up Park Lane with all the pictures we have. This prompted me to put these onto an interactive map. Please check it out.

www.leroux.co.uk/parklane/

It includes images from Aston Cross, High Street, The Retreat etc. in fact the more I delved into it the more pictures I found.
I should point out that my programming skills are very basic, comments/ideas/criticisms are welcome.

If I have infringed any copyrights please let me know and I will address this immediately.

All known pictures of Park lane and Parliament Street are on there, regarding other streets I have just used a limited selection.

John
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That's excellent...the first thing I clicked on was the dentist Dr Lacey on Potters Hill. Our mom had all her teeth out there.
Dave A
 
just had a quick look at the map john loads to look at so i will take a good look later on tonight...well done to you:)

lyn
 
John,

As you wrote that last paragraph I was looking at an old thread that I had forgotten existed about 13 Bartons Bank. I must also replace two photographs that I had on there until the site was hacked - if I can find them!

Maurice
 
Dave,

Lacey's dental practice was a name from the past - all my mother's family went there in the 1940s & 50s.

Maurice
 
Maurice, it would be great to see those photographs if you can find them, there are hundreds of Aston photos on the internet but sadly a lot of streets without any.

John
 
John,

If I remember correctly they were pictures of family at 2/15 Bartons Bank, not of Bartons Bank itself. I remember that right opposite the entrance to those back houses there was a coal merchant on the other side of the road. It will be later tomorrow before I can have a look.

Maurice
 
sospiri said:
Dave,

Lacey's dental practice was a name from the past - all my mother's family went there in the 1940s & 50s.

Maurice
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For me, it had great significance, not to muddy the thread but our mom's life changed so much after her ordeal, and not in a positive way.
Dave A
 
sospiri said:
John,

If I remember correctly they were pictures of family at 2/15 Bartons Bank, not of Bartons Bank itself. I remember that right opposite the entrance to those back houses there was a coal merchant on the other side of the road. It will be later tomorrow before I can have a look.

Maurice
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John, wasn't there a Bartons Bank on the corner of Milton St and Newtown Row?
Dave A
 
Hi Dave, just had a look at some old maps but the only Bartons Bank I can see is the one running off Potters Hill, I wish we had some pictures of it, it would be good to see the houses my mum's grandfather lived in.

John L
 
Astoness said:
upper thomas st dated 1968..think i had a rellie here must check my papers..

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Can'nt picture this house or shop...I lived opposite the school..the only sweet shop was run by the Rogers family opposite the junior section.....this house in between...Tower Road and Sutton street.?....the only other shop was my aunties...opposite the Seniors entrance. we lived next door and my family had done since 1900.+
 
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