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Post by philbirch on Mar 19, 2015 17:44:25 GMT -5
Phil - the picture was probably taken mid morning, on a Monday. Ignore the exif data, the clock on the camera was never set properly. I know exactly what time it was. I was working that morning and taking the photos made me half an hour late for work - I start at 6am. |
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Post by John Farrell on Mar 20, 2015 0:46:07 GMT -5
Phil - the picture was probably taken mid morning, on a Monday. Ignore the exif data, the clock on the camera was never set properly. I know exactly what time it was. I was working that morning and taking the photos made me half an hour late for work - I start at 6am. Er, I meant the picture I posted - mid morning from the shadow of the power pole, and a Monday because my car was outside the house (I didn't work on Mondays...) |
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Post by Stephen on Mar 20, 2015 6:58:54 GMT -5
In the Bostal postcard are a couple of interesting adverts, Lyons Ice Cream, and a sign for TUROG, which turns out to be a Welsh flour, made in Cardiff.
I am assured by a neighbour that it may be a post war shot, as TUROG was not nationally sold pre war, and although rationing was still running, Ice Cream was available in limited quantities. The type of M&D bus in the shot was withdrawn in 1949.
Carrington's was a typical local store, stocked most things!
And it looks to be taken about 9 o'clock in the morning from the shadows!!
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Post by philbirch on Mar 20, 2015 10:05:55 GMT -5
In the Bostal postcard are a couple of interesting adverts, Lyons Ice Cream, and a sign for TUROG, which turns out to be a Welsh flour, made in Cardiff. I am assured by a neighbour that it may be a post war shot, as TUROG was not nationally sold pre war, and although rationing was still running, Ice Cream was available in limited quantities. The type of M&D bus in the shot was withdrawn in 1949. Carrington's was a typical local store, stocked most things!
And it looks to be taken about 9 o'clock in the morning from the shadows!!Stephen. We lived next door to a bakers in 1963 in Oldham, they made Turog bread. It was the competition to Hovis. And almost exactly the same too. Ads and vehicles are always the most interesting parts of old photos. I have a book about Manchester trams, the setting in which they are in is the most interesting. What kind of bus is on the photo? - it looks like an 30's Leyland Titan PD2 |
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Post by Stephen on Mar 20, 2015 14:30:31 GMT -5
A reference to the Bostal Postcard mentions a Leyland Titan, and the M&D bus company owned a fleet of them. The Carringtons shop was basically a bakers, plus general store. I have enhanced the old card as much as practical.
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Post by SidW on Mar 20, 2015 19:24:43 GMT -5
... It was the competition to Hovis. And almost exactly the same too ... I had a summer job in West London (Acton I believe) in the 1950s. A bread factory (the best way to describe it). Long machines, dough in at one end and wrapped bread out at the other. Every so often they stopped the belt and changed the paper to someone else's "bakery". Same bread whatever the wrapper. All the big national names. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2015 21:53:24 GMT -5
An image I discovered recently of Kuna, Idaho the town where I grew up in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. This shot was taken from the town water tower (it is still standing and in use) I would guess in the early to mid 1920s from the cars on the street. I owned the house at the far right edge with the star next to it when we got married in 1967. The building on Main Street with the star was my parents' newspaper from 1956 to 1968 (they moved to a different building about 1960). When Sara and I left in 1970 the population was 534. Today, most of the land on the far side of town is subdivisions and the population is approaching 20,000. W.  |
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Post by philbirch on Mar 21, 2015 11:13:13 GMT -5
Wow, thats a real frontier town. Nothing like it here. I think the only remote places in the UK are in the highlands of Scotland, and even then its unlikely you'd get further than 20 miles from your nearest neighbour.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2015 20:33:55 GMT -5
this area wasn't settled until the late 1880s when the railroad came through.
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Post by philbirch on Jun 25, 2015 13:25:31 GMT -5
Postcard from sunny Manchester. I have a few - one at a time though...  |
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