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I was wondering if anyone would like to contribute with transport photos.
There was one thread some time ago, where a member showed us some fantastic photos of wagon and horses in the gold rush (I think).
I have a couple of pics, to start it off, here is one of a Humber, it says 1903 on the back but I'm not sure if thats the age of the car or the age of the photo. :-\
Julia
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I think this photo was taken around the early 1900s in the same grounds as the Humber. She does look a little scary, it's the eyes :o, I think she might be wearing a monocle.
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This photo was taken in the 1920s
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This is my Grandfather (at the front on the right with the high collar) on a works outing early in the First World War. He worked as a motor mechanic for a company called Suttons in Manchester. I think he was only about 15 or 16 when this was taken
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Hi
This was an article in my local paper this week
http://www.leamingtonspatoday.co.uk/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=2728922§ionid=1192
Two modes of transport for this vet
lemon
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Hi Milly,
Thats a lovely photo, those horses must have been very strong to pull all those bodies :o
Hi Lemon that is a very interesting article I wonder if any of our members are related to this vet or the elephant trainer, a little different to the normal Ag lab profession!
Julia ;D
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Ok last one from me tonight. Can anyone identify the area?
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Ok last one from me tonight. Can anyone identify the area?
Hi Freddie....
I've surprised myself spotting this...but I think it's Llandudno in North Wales. Check out these pictures and you can see the hotel on the end (Think it is the Grand Hotel). The Pavilion next to it which is not there in the modern photos and the writing on the sea wall which is still there...
;D
Old postcard from the beach (card is on this page small - bottom middle called "Donkeys on the Beach, Llandudno 1920s)
http://www.anglesey.info/Llandudno_Photograph_Archive_Page4.htm
http://www.anglesey.info/Llandudno%20Donkeys%201920's.jpg
Old postcard which includes the pavilion
http://www.anglesey.info/Llandudno%20The%20Pier%20and%20the%20Pavilion%201907%2012090041.jpg
You can see the writing on the sea wall onthis one
http://www.paulneeds.com/images/grand_hotel_llandudno.jpg
LLandudno, Long URL (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.joozies.net/album6/images/Llandudno%2520Morn_jpg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.joozies.net/album6/pages/Llandudno%2520Morn_jpg.htm&h=338&w=451&sz=34&hl=en&start=16&um=1&tbnid=Qi-Du614L3pAlM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dllandudno%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DN)
Website ...
http://www.anglesey.info/Llandudno_Photograph_Archive_Page4.htm
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This is my grandparents and their five children in the 1920s. I have no idea what sort of car it was.
.....dee
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Thank you Milly, aren't you clever finding that ;D
I have now penned it in on the back.
Here is another photo that I have no idea of where it might of been taken.
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My great great grandfather was a hansom cab driver in the 1880s - East End of London. I've always wanted to see a picture of the sort of vehicle he'd have used. He worked as a taxi driver until seven years before his death in 1936, when ill-health forced him to retire.
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This is a recent photo of the Victor Harbor Horse drawn tram that runs across the causeway to Granite Island. These trams have been running since 1894 and are now considered an icon. They did look a little different back then, but are basically the same - have just been refurbished to take into account safety, comfort (?) etc.
This link shows them in earlier years.....
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/apps/pictureaustralia?action=PASearch&mode=display&rs=resultset-103488&no=55
......dee
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Thank you Milly, aren't you clever finding that ;D
I have now penned it in on the back.
Here is another photo that I have no idea of where it might of been taken.
Hi Freddie - not sure about this one.... Is it from the same collection by any chance? There is an electric railway at Llandudno - The Great Orme Railway - so it is possible that it could be another local photo. The scenery certainly looks similar. Here's a link to a photo but the train design looks slightly different. There are other electric railways in North Wales too.
http://www.anglesey.info/Llandudno%20Great%20Orme%20Railway%201910's.jpg
I cleaned your photo up to get a better look.
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Hi Milly
Thanks for the clean up :D all I'm sure about is that they come from my grandads biscuit tin of photo's he died in 1963 and they are still kept there :o, the tram one is faded sepia and the beached boat is an old black & white but looking at the post card you sent it does look like it could be the same area.
Hi Lizzy sorry I haven't got a photo of a Hansom Cab, I wish I did, this is all I can offer you....
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk/Hansom%2520cab%25201884.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk/Taxis.html&h=225&w=353&sz=14&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=d0CfTeCqz-DERM:&tbnh=77&tbnw=121&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2Bhansom%2Bcabs%2Bin%2Blondon%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
Hi Dee thank you for that site, gosh there is so much on there I got a little waylaid with the "Anzacs at Gallipoli trail" photos before finding the trams :)
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The Mauretania
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:zgFKsFHIMjEJ:www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.17876+mauretania&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=uk
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thanks Freddie - I've saved the pictures in my family history file. :)
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Loved the pictures of the motorbikes - reminded me of a photo I had printed from some old negatives I found. I believe it is either my fathers, or it belonged to one of his 6 brothers - probably taken in the Clerkenwell area of London.
Also liked the Llandudno tram pictures - my brother is the Secretary of the Llandudno & Colwyn Bay Tram Society.
Jan
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I thought I'd add a favourite of mine - my grandfather was a chauffeur for a few months (after leaving the regular army in 1913 - before he was recalled to the colours when WW1 began).
It is an Arrol Johnston open tourer (thanks to the National Motor Museum, who kindly identified it for me some years ago).
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Weeeeell, an opportunity like this, I had to put in one of Joe on That bike, didn't I.
I have to smile...Mother has stamped it on the back with her J MATHIAS stamp. That was hers no one was having it off her...
BUT
There's no name of the boyfriend under the stamp...
In stead she has named it...
The New Imperial....
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Also from one of their trips onto foreign shores,
Cherbourg 1932
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Hi Jan
Do you think your brother would be able to tell if my Tram pic was taken in Llandudno? I love the bike photos also, I have just be looking at BSA sites after seeing your pic :D Never heared of a Arrol Johnston open tourer, must pop back on google again ;).
Hi Paula
Must have missed your thread on "that bike" great photo though, looks like he was having fun ;D
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'That bike' freddiebean, was a rather brown and faded photo I put on Photo Restore...
The guys and gals on there had a field day with it.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,220474.0.html
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Fascinating topic - I might even look for a picture to add to make my first RC photo attachment!
However I have a query about the way the posts on this topic are displayed . Posts 1-14 page 1 on my machine are much wider than the screen but 15+ on page 2 are all a page wide. Any simple reason?
Pete
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Oh Paula that was great thread, oh did make me laugh when seeing the first pic of him speeding :o ;D
Here is another bike the rider was a friend of my grandad I've also copied the back for you to try a read :o all i make out is "teaing with a friend in birm' and "like kissing a girl.........?
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I reduced the size of my pictures so that they wouldn't be too big, Pete.
A bit more for you, freddiebean
My Dear Cecil,
Weather permissable I hope to be down next Saturday latish, as I am teaing with a friend in Birm.
I like the look of your (-) advertise my dear chap. Having a business without advertising is like kissing a girl in the (dark?) Eh
I don't know if that makes sense...I haven't got it all...but that's what it looks like to me.
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What a lovely thread! I had to add my picture. It's of grandad, mum and grandma. Judging by mum, i guess it would have been taken about 1923ish. I know grandad had a Harley Davidson and an Ariel, but which one this is, I have no idea! Grandma used to travel in hte side car with mum on her lap!
Sallysmum
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What great photos,the country must have been bike mad in the 20s :)
Here's one of my Uncles tinkering with a bike at an early age- I love the look on his face ;)
Fred
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Hi Paula Thank you for deciphering the writing on the post card, It looks like the word rhod**** is probably a made up name taken from his surname Rhodes ::)
Hi Sallysmum and Fred I love your pics, yes it does seem bikes were all the rage back then. Heres one of my grandmother in a sidecar.
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How about this one, does anyone know where this photo was taken
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Freddiebean
Will pass on the message to him - but they have a busy weekend ahead - Llandudno Victorian Extravaganza weekend plus a Transport festival!
Nor had I heard of Arrol Johnston! I think it was a scottish based firm - now long gone!
Have added a photo of my Grandma Sutton - died before I was born, photo probably 1930's/1940's - I know nothing about the car!
Jan
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Hi Jan
Oh goodness he certainly will be busy, really please don't bother him with my trivia. I hope the weekend weather forcast is good for the three day extravaganza.
Here is a pic from WW1
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I really don't think so, not in those skirts! :o
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That is a lovely photo freddie. How happy they look.
As you say...ouch, those skirts :o
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Thanks Paula :D
Here is one of two pics the other pic doesn't show any transport :(
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This one is slightly more modern but it makes me smile- it shows Great Uncle's car parked outside the Air Ministry in Kingsway with a new German "thing" strapped in the boot. The chap in the top-hat is giving it a really snooty look. Uncle H. took it in April 1942.
Fred
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How about this one, does anyone know where this photo was taken
I could well be wrong but it looks like the Red Lion in Shrewsbury (we went there on our honeymoon)
Tim
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I wondered about Shrewsbury too but looking at this photo I think it can't be... although it is very similar the porch is smaller and the lion is facing the wrong way. There's another at Upton but again the Lion seems to be the wrong way
SHREWSBURY
http://www.priceline.co.uk/pcln/hotel/218653
UPTON
Google Images (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.upton.uk.net/accommodation/accomm-hotel/whitelion/whitelion6.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.upton.uk.net/accommodation/accomm-hotel/whitelion/whitelion.html&h=354&w=392&sz=44&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=2h2LW6Tq0-MlTM:&tbnh=111&tbnw=123&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlion%2BUPTON%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DN)
Unless there has been work done on it of course...
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Hi Tim and Milly
Well i just dont know, could they have renewed the lion at some point :-\. I have two other photos but not sure if it's the same area.
Hi Fred that is such good photo love the chaps face, do you know anything about the "German thing" :o
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Hi Freddibean
your photo has a wider porch with two pillars rather than one at shrewsbury... I suppose you could call and ask if they had replaced the porch at any time?
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Thanks Milly my grandad lived in Kidderminster and Boston (I think) so Upton could be a good bet. Here is another photo of a rally/race not sure if it's in the same area though.
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Here is the last of my rally series
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Here is the last of my rally series
Hi Freddiebean.....
I do believe that is Ledbury Market House ;D
http://www.ledburyonline.co.uk/placestosee.html
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Hi Milly,
Thats brill, thank you very much, I am sure there is another one of "Ledbury" in the "biscuit tin".
I think I'll go there and see if the local businesses would like a copy. ;D
Julia
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That Lion Hotel picture is really annoying me now >:(
I am wondering now you have Ledbury whether it could be the Upton Lion... having had building work done where the coach house entrance was.
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This is the last one for this evening ;)
http://www.peaklandheritage.org.uk/redirect.asp?peakkey=30100621
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The couple with the bath-chair look rather like members of the Royal family- they are not King George and Queen Mary by any chance? :)
With regard to the "thing" in Uncle's car boot ^, He had to go out and inspect any new devices that had been dropped by the Luftwaffe over night. I think this one might be a new type of incendiary container that he's taken back for examination.
Fred
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Hi Fred
Yes indeed it is a pic of King George and Queen Mary at Craigweil House. http://www.bognorregis.gov.uk/Regis.htm
Gosh your uncle had interesting job :o
Julia