Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Kop sufferer]

German. Auto Union, later to become AUDI, I think.

Yes it's an Auto Union DKW (DKW being a separate maker at some stage) I think they started off as steam cars, then produced as 2 strokes like the Wartbergs, now under the Audi/VW banner I believe. Anyone got photos of the NSU's another maker in the same group who pioneered rear engined cars

 

[grafikhaus]

Another from the roof of Telephone House March 1983. Facing roughly North West. In the centre is the former Mount Zion Chapel, which was incorporated into the outpatients dept of the Royal Hospital.

Mount Zion is still there:



I was taken to the Royal in 1978 after my first-ever car write-off. (You haven't learned to drive until you've written a car off).

 

[Cerberus Blade]

What make is the white car on the right of the photo with the square number plate

Definitely a Moskvitch 412 - like this one.

 

[Andingmen]

Mount Zion is still there:

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I was taken to the Royal in 1978 after my first-ever car write-off. (You haven't learned to drive until you've written a car off).

Yes indeed the frontage is still there.
I also went in through those doors to the outpatients dept a few times in the early seventies at the weekends.
Sunday imperial league footy was sometimes a bit rough.

 

[Kop sufferer]

Apparently the Moskvitch brand name is currently owned by Volkswagen.

Maybe VW intend to up-market the brand as they did with Skoda, just to piss all the comedians off

 

[Tops]

Remember these as a Kid, gave you lock jaw trying to chew

 

[Tops]

Anybody Have these as a kid Trying to look like Dad and Grandad smoking their Park drives or Woodbines.

 

[Kop sufferer]

Anybody Have these as a kid Trying to look like Dad and Grandad smoking their Park drives or Woodbines.
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Capstan full strength man myself

 

[BadgersBigToe]

If you mean on the middle left, Sitwell then maybe. That area of grass is now Devonshire Green. The excellent Rare and Racy book and records shop was about opposite where those cars are.

Rare and Racy was a Saturday morning ‘must’ every week.....got some great LPs from there.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Rare and Racy was a Saturday morning ‘must’ every week.....got some great LPs from there.

...but they played some absolutely shite music in there, I used to bung up my ears with cotton wool when I went upstairs to look at books - they always had a good stock of local books, apart from the music, I could spend hours in there

 

[Tony]

I went to the friendly at Boundary Park in August 1973. Saw a Hover fly for the first time and it spooked me. We won 3-0. One year later I went to the same place again, we lost 4-0.

Was the Hover fly still there ?

 

[Tony]

Just think how many of us might be in or on those photos, as such, yer know, unseen. Little specks.

Who you calling a little speck?

 

[Bert]

...but they played some absolutely shite music in there, I used to bung up my ears with cotton wool when I went upstairs to look at books - they always had a good stock of local books, apart from the music, I could spend hours in there

The owner used to play weird jazz type records according to Bert's memory.

 

[Tony]

If I’m around the lads my accent is broad Sheffield
When I’m around the family, women or intellectuals its more refined

When I first went to work in London my first report said "good worker, reliable, but would be better if we could understand what he was saying" Cockney wankers!

 

[georgebernardshaw]

The owner used to play weird jazz type records according to Bert's memory.

He was a fan of something called Thelonious Monk, George has never been moved to discover if this was animal, vegetable or mineral....

 

[Tops]

Capstan full strength man myself

Never smoked a real Cig in my life, was given a Cigar on my 18th birthday I tried it and nearly fckin choked to Death, never touched anything since bad for health, only ever had sweet ciggie's, also bad for health I'm now a Diabetic

 

[Sheene7]

I think it is a Moskvitch. 412. They sold well in the early 70s as they were dirt cheap, but then it got slated for being unsafe. Lada were producing better dirt cheap cars, so that indicates how basic the Moskvichs were.

Definitely a Moskvich 412. Mybdad

Definitely a Moskvitch 412 - like this one.

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My dad bought one of these in 1972. It was an L reg, sky blue and the first brand new car we ever had. It cost around £720 OTR which at the time was very cheap for a new car. We picked it up from a dealer at Handsworth who said he'd put some petrol in the tank....we ran out of fuel on Richmond Road on our way home to Intake. I learned to drive in the old Moskvich and spent many hours driving it on my dad's insurance once I'd passed my test. It was a shocking car though, built and handled like a T-34 and rusted on contact with rain. Always remembered it had a radiator blind which you opened and closed dependant on the weather. Obviously built for Russian winters.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Definitely a Moskvich 412. Mybdad

My dad bought one of these in 1972. It was an L reg, sky blue and the first brand new car we ever had. It cost around £720 OTR which at the time was very cheap for a new car. We picked it up from a dealer at Handsworth who said he'd put some petrol in the tank....we ran out of fuel on Richmond Road on our way home to Intake. I learned to drive in the old Moskvich and spent many hours driving it on my dad's insurance once I'd passed my test. It was a shocking car though, built and handled like a T-34 and rusted on contact with rain. Always remembered it had a radiator blind which you opened and closed dependant on the weather. Obviously built for Russian winters.

.....”rusted on contact with rain”

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Yes it's an Auto Union DKW (DKW being a separate maker at some stage) I think they started off as steam cars, then produced as 2 strokes like the Wartbergs, now under the Audi/VW banner I believe. Anyone got photos of the NSU's another maker in the same group who pioneered rear engined cars

DKW, Dampf Kraft Wagen, Originally produced steam powered cars.

 

[ghandi]

When I worked in Telephone House for a few years, I'd often go that sandwich shop on the corner of Wellington St and Calver St, diagonally opposite Tele House. The name "Cat Shop" is ringing some unpleasant bells now....

I worked in Rockingham St DISU at the time of the infamous Cat Shop, we always went to the Hallam Bakery on Matilda St for our breakfast sarnies and then onto the Matilda at lunchtime for Hilda's homemade chip butties and pints of Wards.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

RIP

Very sad news, a very good goalkeeper.

 

[ghandi]

He was a fan of something called Thelonious Monk, George has never been moved to discover if this was animal, vegetable or mineral....

Jazz pianist who played at times with saxophonist Little Bird Charlie Parker.

 

[Numpty's Dusty Ruts.]

Mount Zion is still there:

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I was taken to the Royal in 1978 after my first-ever car write-off. (You haven't learned to drive until you've written a car off).

I went through those doors on New Year's eve 1977 following writing off a Suzuki GT185. Almost wrote myself off and very lucky to have exited after 5 months on traction with (more or less) both legs. Was on Arthur Jackson orthopaedic ward! Great hospital, awful grub!

 

[Speedracer]

He was a fan of something called Thelonious Monk, George has never been moved to discover if this was animal, vegetable or mineral....

Brilliant jazz pianist, very distinctive style & one of my favourite late night listens, although I accept that jazz is not for everyone.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

...but they played some absolutely shite music in there, I used to bung up my ears with cotton wool when I went upstairs to look at books - they always had a good stock of local books, apart from the music, I could spend hours in there

It was constant Sun Ra if I remember correctly. The first thing I bought from there was Camembert Electrique by Gong, the last thing The Fall of Math by 65daysofstatic

 

[Bert]

Rare and Racy was a Saturday morning ‘must’ every week.....got some great LPs from there.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

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That stamp on the inner sleeves has to be the greatest stamp of all time. I was never sure if the character sandwiched inside a giant book was meant to be a caricature of the owner himself or not - it certainly bore a resemblance.

 

[Speedracer]

It was constant Sun Ra if I remember correctly. The first thing I bought from there was Camembert Electrique by Gong, the last thing The Fall of Math by 65daysofstatic

I recently went to a place called Cafe Otto in Dalston for a night of quadrophonic music by Sun Ra. It was the first time anything had been attempted in the UK with a system comprising a Techics 1210 deck, 8 Quad II mono block amps & 16 Quad ESL57 electrostatic speakers stacked around the perimeter of the audience. It was, erm, interesting.........Sun Ra is an acquired taste & although I have some of his albums the ones he recorded that were quadrophonic were pretty out there.

First record I got was Sgt. Pepper by the way, still have it & it is still immaculate, & I agree with you, the inner stamp is iconic.

 

[Tony]

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Great albums. Had them both(Kick Out The Jams). Bought at a street market at The Angel, early seventies, along with An Evening With Wild Man Fischer.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

I recently went to a place called Cafe Otto in Dalston for a night of quadrophonic music by Sun Ra. It was the first time anything had been attempted in the UK with a system comprising a Techics 1210 deck, 8 Quad II mono block amps & 16 Quad ESL57 electrostatic speakers stacked around the perimeter of the audience. It was, erm, interesting.........Sun Ra is an acquired taste & although I have some of his albums the ones he recorded that were quadrophonic were pretty out there.

First record I got was Sgt. Pepper by the way, still have it & it is still immaculate, & I agree with you, the inner stamp is iconic.

Café Oto is some venue indeed, if you can survive the crap air conditioning. I saw Magma there two nights running a few years back, and last year I saw North Sea Radio Orchestra with Annie Barbazza, John Greaves (Henry Cow), and William D Drake (Cardiacs) performing the whole of Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom. John Greaves did the Ivor Cutler parts, and Fred Frith, over from the States, even performed the finale on his viola, complete with Cutler-esque cackle at the end. Sheer brilliance.

The annoying thing is, 15 years ago I lived a ten minute stroll along The Murder Mile from there - now I'm living on Stanwell's very own Murder 500 yards, Viola Avenue, unfortunately bloody miles from Dalston!

North Sea Radio Orchestra , John Greaves , Annie Barbazza - Folly Bololey (Songs From Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom)

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