Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Greenwich Blade]

Back in the early 60's when they thought we'd all be riding monorails, and flying around in hover cars it seemed only fitting that we'd need futuristic housing as well. Cue Futuro Housing in of all places Todmorden, a village in West Yorkshire where they started building futuristic houses in conjunction with a Finnish designer.

Sadly they never took off (almost a UFO based pun there) as I think they look great. Weird to see them being transported through the old town. Quite a contrast...

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They look like the sort of thing Roger Dean was designing as well. In the end, his design for the interior of Upstairs At Ronnie Scott's was about all we ended up with.

Meanwhile, I remember when I saw the monorail at Skeggy Butlins in 1970, I thought this was the future, right here, right now.

 

[Maurice Maurice]

The one in Seattle was built in 1962 for the Worlds Fair and still looks pretty cool. It runs for less than a mile and despite the constant talk of extending it, it'll likely never happen. I usually hop on it when we're down there, just because it's there really...

 

[Greenwich Blade]

The one in Seattle was built in 1962 for the Worlds Fair and still looks pretty cool. It runs for less than a mile and despite the constant talk of extending it, it'll likely never happen. I usually hop on it when we're down there, just because it's there really...

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Monorails should have been the biggest thing EVER! Five years after Skeggy Butlins, we found ourselves at Beaulieu Motor Museum, and yet again here was a monorail, so aged 9, there's me thinking that monorails were everywhere and would soon take over the world. I probably even fantasised about boarding a monorail at Banner Cross and getting off at Bramall Lane. When my dad told us that they were going to build a flyover from St Mary's Gate to the M1, I was beside myself with excitement, the only twinge of sadness being that it would be a road and not a monorail.

Back to the monorail at Beaulieu Motor Museum, if I'd realised in 1975 that it had only been opened a year earlier by the Wombles, I'd have been even more in awe of it.

 

[Maurice Maurice]

Monorails should have been the biggest thing EVER! Five years after Skeggy Butlins, we found ourselves at Beaulieu Motor Museum, and yet again here was a monorail, so aged 9, there's me thinking that monorails were everywhere and would soon take over the world. I probably even fantasised about boarding a monorail at Banner Cross and getting off at Bramall Lane. When my dad told us that they were going to build a flyover from St Mary's Gate to the M1, I was beside myself with excitement, the only twinge of sadness being that it would be a road and not a monorail.

Back to the monorail at Beaulieu Motor Museum, if I'd realised in 1975 that it had only been opened a year earlier by the Wombles, I'd have been even more in awe of it.

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I couldn't agree more

 

[Bell4]

Monorails should have been the biggest thing EVER! Five years after Skeggy Butlins, we found ourselves at Beaulieu Motor Museum, and yet again here was a monorail, so aged 9, there's me thinking that monorails were everywhere and would soon take over the world. I probably even fantasised about boarding a monorail at Banner Cross and getting off at Bramall Lane. When my dad told us that they were going to build a flyover from St Mary's Gate to the M1, I was beside myself with excitement, the only twinge of sadness being that it would be a road and not a monorail.

Back to the monorail at Beaulieu Motor Museum, if I'd realised in 1975 that it had only been opened a year earlier by the Wombles, I'd have been even more in awe of it.

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Underground , overground , Wombeling free

 

[davey1889]

SUFC U11s - 1981?