Guest Posted June 20, 2015 Report Share Posted June 20, 2015 Nice photograph of Stratford Robbie: my Dad worked for Boots farm & gardens which became fbc..consequently I travelled with him for yonks to Hereford / Shrewsbury / Thetford /York..the above and loads of places. That's why I remember Hooleys so well. I remember they put the odd car in that empty church and also in the sandstone tunnel next to st.Marys convent. Not the "chlolera" tunnel that leads into the park.when passing Gestetner as a teen I used to recall picking up new cars in the 60s or 70's.regards..Ian. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted June 21, 2015 Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 1971 Market Street, Manchester Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted June 22, 2015 Report Share Posted June 22, 2015 The high speed gas van isn't moving very quickly! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,084 Posted June 22, 2015 Report Share Posted June 22, 2015 #26 That would be about the same time as I went on a school trip to Stratford to see a Shakespeare play. Us lads got legless on Stella in one of the local pubs. While we were queueing to get into the Royal Shakespeare theatre, a limo pulled up and a woman emerged, at which point my mate said in a loud voice "f***ing hell, it's Princess Margaret!". She must have heard, because she looked at him and smiled. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted June 23, 2015 Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 This is the most picturesque of the Lake Windermere 'steamers' (now diesel powered). Seen at Bowness (or Rio if you're a Swallow or an Amazon). September 1995. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted June 23, 2015 Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 1971 Dolls Museum, Warwick 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted June 23, 2015 Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 1971 Coventry Cathedral 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 1971 Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 1971 Near Lewis's, Manchester 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 A busy pre-Christmas scene in Lincoln, 1994. Littlewood's is now (I think) Primark. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 A few more from the same visit which included Carnaby Street and Heathrow. Trafalgar Square; no idea what the event was. Not much chance these days of getting an E-Type and a Cadillac in the same photo. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,424 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Great photos of Warwick, Robbie. Spent the first night of my honeymoon there in 1965. Didn't see much of it. Arrived in the dark and left the next morning for Devon. My mind was on other things than timbered buildings etc. wondered if you had a photo of the Woolpack hotel in Warwick. I never thought to take one and I understand it has now been converted into flats. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Here's some stuff I've managed to find for you, loppylugs. The Woolpack Hotel, Warwick around 1910. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-19th-century-WOOLPACK-HOTEL-WARWICK-tri-fold-Brochure-Card-Miss-Knapp-/370885405051https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UpWIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT44&lpg=PT44&dq=Woolpack+hotel+in+Warwick&source=bl&ots=S4KIa3r_jf&sig=qOH1vm2XO4Bkkn4kSwj-O63yM8g&hl=en&sa=X&ei=o4SNVa_lLqLC7Aa-9p_YBA&ved=0CE8Q6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=Woolpack%20hotel%20in%20Warwick&f=false Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,424 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Thanks Michael. Looks familiar. We left Gedling around 4:30 p.m. Arrived in Warwick after dark. Parked in the car park at the back. Seemed to be nowhere we could get a bite to eat so went to bed early. LOL. Anyway, pleasant enough place. We probably should have spent a bit more time in Warwick though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted June 28, 2015 Report Share Posted June 28, 2015 The Ritz in Lincoln, photographed in 1995. Previously the Odeon, it was acquired by Barry Stead, manager of the Theatre Royal when it was refurbished, and as well as reverting the cinema to its original name he then went on to restore the exterior lighting it apparently had when first opened in the 1930s. It later became a Wetherspoon's, and I assume it still is. I don't know if they retained this lighting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted June 28, 2015 Report Share Posted June 28, 2015 I deleted this photograph in error from post #34, so uploaded again. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 28, 2015 Report Share Posted June 28, 2015 Great photographs Again Robbie,I wonder if you or your Father would have thought that 50 years later people like us would not be thinking about composition.. but scrutinising the backgrounds.. Thanks- Ian. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted June 29, 2015 Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 1971 Warwick 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,594 Posted June 29, 2015 Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 We used to frequently travel through Warwick and Stratford to get to my brother's at Malvern, but now just do the boring A14, M6, M42 and M5 to get there. I miss the zig zag journey we used to have from Cambridge cross country (although it did take 4 hours or so, and was a bit squashy in the car with 3 small children and a dog!) but I suppose most of the places we used to go through have bypasses now anyway? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 1975 Llanfair Railway, Welshpool 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 1974 York 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Robbie, Nice pics again, they have both stirred up some pleasant memories for me. We took our children on the narrow gauge steam train at Welshpool on a day trip in the late 70s, (we are only a short car journey from parts of Wales) and also we see the bridge at York many times as we spend a few days there every year in the autumn. Keep them coming Robbie. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 #45 - A historic WALES pic! Good one, though. Here's the best of my few Welshpool & Llanfair photos, taken at Llanfair Caereinion sometime in the 1980s: 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 1970 Wexford, Ireland 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 1968 Moby Dick at Morecambe, destroyed by fire in 1972 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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