Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[I should coco]

Porterfield levitating.

He'd just signed Withe, Budgy, Thompson, McNaught and Mortimer on the same day. It took the average age of the team up to 53 and made Porterfield one of the youngest people on the staff.

BTW that's his company car in the background. Not the Merc convertibile but the lovely two tone Astra van.

 

[blade.i.am]

 

[Therealfurphy]

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Once saw Tommy Cooper in the Albert about 14.00 before a performance at the City Hall, belting half a dozen or so Gold Label Barley Wine back - just like that!

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[I should coco]

...and the Star would have said

"Reports of a race somewhere in the Sheffield area are just reaching us. We will get one of our crack reporters to leave the pub and apply our usual bloodhound zeal to breaking news"

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[I should coco]

The Marples!

Punk night on Monday.

Saw the Upstarts, Vice Squad, Discharge, Mau Maus and many others there in the early 80s.

Shit beer, loud music, great times.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Once saw Tommy Cooper in the Albert about 14.00 before a performance at the City Hall, belting half a dozen or so Gold Label Barley Wine back - just like that!

Thirsty work being funny. Didn’t The Albert end up being propped up to stop it falling down?

 

[sitwell]

1965/66 ?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

That car to the fore and almost centre is the reason for posting this...

 

[I should coco]

That car to the fore and almost centre is the reason for posting this...

A Messerschmitt bubble car.

There is also a decided lack of t'ole in't roard

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

1965/66 ?

Hole in the road development started around 1967, so you might be right.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

A Messerschmitt bubble car.

There is also a decided lack of t'ole in't roard

Aye, Messerschmitt KR200 went into production in 1955, see above for start of oil development, so I reckon that was taken about 1962

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Aye, Messerschmitt KR200 went into production in 1955, see above for start of oil development, so I reckon that was taken about 1962

I was thinking similar, 63/64 looking at the fashions, no mini skirts yet, and the buses. I remember the traffic coppers with their white smocks and gauntlets, there was one outside the town hall as well.

 

[sitwell]

One of the first shops you could get porn mags ,and the one on Sheffield Rd at Whittington Moor ,not far from Chesterfields new ground.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

One of the first shops you could get porn mags ,and the one on Sheffield Rd at Whittington Moor ,not far from Chesterfields new ground.

If you're wondering, it would have been a 1974 issue of Razzle you bought Sitters. Is that you in the doorway oxford bags and a vest?

 

[sitwell]

If you're wondering, it would have been a 1974 issue of Razzle you bought Sitters. Is that you in the doorway oxford bags and a vest?

I was 12 then and Razzle wasn't out yet I would be acquiring Vibrations and Experience from the big lads at school because they were small and easier to hide.

Mind you looking at those flares ,I could have smuggled a library into our house.

 

[Therealfurphy]

Thirsty work being funny. Didn’t The Albert end up being propped up to stop it falling down?

After it had closed - done up to become Yates

 

[Therealfurphy]

One of the first shops you could get porn mags ,and the one on Sheffield Rd at Whittington Moor ,not far from Chesterfields new ground.

Thought you might know that!

 

[sitwell]

Thought you might know that!

Im not borrowing you anymore ,get your own.

 

[torridon]

The post office at Ashopton, one of the villages which disappeared beneath the waters of Ladybower Reservoir, and unlike the few remains of Derwent village which make a reappearance at times of low water Ashopton is unlikely to see the light of day again.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

I believe that Razzle first arrived in the summer of 1983, a thinner and generally more racy publication than the more upmarket Penthouse and Mayfair. A Summer smut battle then ensued between Razzle and the former muckiest muck mag winner Fiesta. Popular accounts saying the letters pages and readers wives section swung it for Fiesta. Of course, there were always more specialist publications but these were not available outside of Division St.

The birth of the internet has changed the lives of our teenagers in more ways than one....

 

[Wapping Blade]

I was thinking similar, 63/64 looking at the fashions, no mini skirts yet, and the buses. I remember the traffic coppers with their white smocks and gauntlets, there was one outside the town hall as well.

Family links here - my dad’s cousin had a bubble car and my uncle was a copper who wore all the gear when in traffic duty.

 

[XM657]

That car to the fore and almost centre is the reason for posting this...

When you said car thought you meant the blue grey Standard 10. Smart little car, spent holiday Anglesey north Wales '55 'ish with one. Once had a lift in one of these mid 60's. Ice rutted road about 2am for about 2 miles. Bloody thing did about 2 pirouettes and a par de der, what an experience.

 

[Bert]

When you said car thought you meant the blue grey Standard 10. Smart little car, spent holiday Anglesey north Wales '55 'ish with one. Once had a lift in one of these mid 60's. Ice rutted road about 2am for about 2 miles. Bloody thing did about 2 pirouettes and a par de der, what an experience.

Bubble cars.....
Bert had a friend who had one. First day he got it he drove into his garage right up to the back wall. He couldn't get out, door wouldn't open and there's no reverse.

 

[bornablade]

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The post office at Ashopton, one of the villages which disappeared beneath the waters of Ladybower Reservoir, and unlike the few remains of Derwent village which make a reappearance at times of low water Ashopton is unlikely to see the light of day again.

Sign above the door 'Licensed to sell Drugs'. And we called it a more innocent time.

 

[Sean Thornton]

After it had closed - done up to become Yates

Knocked down and a vacant lot for a while. There was an Indian restaurant on the site after that.