Street & road scenes

[albion1938]

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So, not like this one, eh?

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Ha. When we bought our present abode 36 years ago the previous owners were in financial difficulties, being chased by bailiffs and financial organisations. Having arranged a moving date we arrived to find they’d “done a moonlight” three days before. In their rush they’d left all sorts of stuff behind, mainly junk but including this, it was obvious they’d tried to get it going but failed. Through the solicitors I gave them 14 days to remove it or send me the registration document to me. Nothing happened until the 14th day, when, sensing a “result” I came home from work to find it gone

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albion1938:

So, not like this one, eh?
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Ha. When we bought our present abode 36 years ago the previous owners were in financial difficulties, being chased by bailiffs and financial organisations. Having arranged a moving date we arrived to find they’d “done a moonlight” three days before. In their rush they’d left all sorts of stuff behind, mainly junk but including this, it was obvious they’d tried to get it going but failed. Through the solicitors I gave them 14 days to remove it or send me the registration document to me. Nothing happened until the 14th day, when, sensing a “result” I came home from work to find it gone
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Both Land Rovers in the pictures appear to be a Carawagon conversion. The were quite pricey. Shame you did not inherit it.

[albion1938]

Dipster:

albion1938:

So, not like this one, eh?
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Ha. When we bought our present abode 36 years ago the previous owners were in financial difficulties, being chased by bailiffs and financial organisations. Having arranged a moving date we arrived to find they’d “done a moonlight” three days before. In their rush they’d left all sorts of stuff behind, mainly junk but including this, it was obvious they’d tried to get it going but failed. Through the solicitors I gave them 14 days to remove it or send me the registration document to me. Nothing happened until the 14th day, when, sensing a “result” I came home from work to find it gone
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Both Land Rovers in the pictures appear to be a Carawagon conversion. The were quite pricey. Shame you did not inherit it.
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Yeah, bummer. Never mind, I’ve still got the 80 inch I was given by my late nephew in 1984 after he’d abandoned it on our drive so I could help him do it up and then lost interest. My wife was complaining to him so he gave it to us

[star_down_under]

albion1938:

So, not like this one, eh?
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Ha. When we bought our present abode 36 years ago the previous owners were in financial difficulties, being chased by bailiffs and financial organisations. Having arranged a moving date we arrived to find they’d “done a moonlight” three days before. In their rush they’d left all sorts of stuff behind, mainly junk but including this, it was obvious they’d tried to get it going but failed. Through the solicitors I gave them 14 days to remove it or send me the registration document to me. Nothing happened until the 14th day, when, sensing a “result” I came home from work to find it gone
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Could be the same one.
Apparently every Land Rover Dormobile in Australia was driven here, overland. My mate’s, as shown, has a very chequered history. It was driven overland via Africa, India and South East Asia before eventually being used as static accommodation, for an opal miner. The miner struck it big and went to the pub to celebrate.
Next thing the miner is found murdered in the Doormobile and no opals are to be seen.
My mate bought the Doormobile over twenty years ago and started rebuilding it. He removed the Holden red motor, a common engine conversion here, replacing it with a Tdi 200. The gearbox and axles are from a Stage 1. Most of the restoration was done, burning the midnight oil, in the previous fifty-five days and nights. The car had less than 100 kilometers on it, before heading off on a trip of over 1,300 kilometers, to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Land Rover.

youtu.be/dg1oHdhtaVE
Note at 13.10

[ray_smyth]

Liverpool in the 1950s, the 1960s and the 2020s. The pictures are taken from William Brown Street.
On the left is Commutation Row, the traffic heading toward the camera is on London Road, and the
street to the right is Lime Street. Pictures from Bootle History Forum.

Ray.

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[oiltreader]

Liverpool off FB.
Oily

[grumpy_old_man]

oiltreader:
Liverpool off FB.
Oily

Now Mr Oily, you know (or should know) that pictures like that cause trauma and distress to us ‘more mature’ (older) members, members who still have nightmares about the dock road in Liverpool. That’s not forgetting wives who kissed their husbands goodbye not knowing when (or even If) they would see them again…“expect me when you see me my love, I’m off to Liverpool docks”

[mrsteel]

Grumpy Old Man,
Good afternoon, re: Liverpool Docks, how very true. Been there, done that, got the tee shirt as they say.
Regards, Allan.

[dennis_javelin]

grumpy old man:

oiltreader:
Liverpool off FB.
Oily

Now Mr Oily, you know (or should know) that pictures like that cause trauma and distress to us ‘more mature’ (older) members, members who still have nightmares about the dock road in Liverpool. That’s not forgetting wives who kissed their husbands goodbye not knowing when (or even If) they would see them again…“expect me when you see me my love, I’m off to Liverpool docks”

My only visit to Mersey docks was when I was in the Royal Navy in 1977. We were on our way to an exercise in the North Sea and berthed there to top up our tanks with 400 tons of fuel. We were expecting to pull alongside and simply hook up to an on-site bunker facility but when we arrived there was 20 ESSO trailers waiting in a line for us. Quite a sight.

[chris_webb]

grumpy old man:

oiltreader:
Liverpool off FB.
Oily

Now Mr Oily, you know (or should know) that pictures like that cause trauma and distress to us ‘more mature’ (older) members, members who still have nightmares about the dock road in Liverpool. That’s not forgetting wives who kissed their husbands goodbye not knowing when (or even If) they would see them again…“expect me when you see me my love, I’m off to Liverpool docks”

Aye,Gladstone Dock Liverpool and Vittoria Birkenhead were two of the worst.Shi*holes of the highest order.

[singo55]

You’re right Chris 2 shed Gladstone,was it West Float at Birkenhead that gave you raffle ticket and you waited in the canteen? What a set of workshy scroungers!!

[lawrence_dunbar]

Then there was the little scouse gits demanding two bob to mind your motor when parked overnight on the dock road, I just used to pay them and had no problems but I know some drivers just told them to F Off and came out from the digs to find wiper blades,tail lights smashed and even a couple of flat tyres usualy the front ones, I wonder if their daddies were dockers , I do hope they regretted it in their later years. ,When I worked for my uncle Isaac Smiles they were quite happy to pay it, Larry.

[oiltreader]

Lawrence Dunbar:
Then there was the little scouse gits demanding two bob to mind your motor when parked overnight on the dock road, I just used to pay them and had no problems but I know some drivers just told them to F Off and came out from the digs to find wiper blades,tail lights smashed and even a couple of flat tyres usualy the front ones, I wonder if their daddies were dockers , I do hope they regretted it in their later years. ,When I worked for my uncle Isaac Smiles they were quite happy to pay it, Larry.

A tale from Glasgow, “a’ll watch yer motor mister”, “nah nah laddie the alsatian dis that” “aye ok but can he pit fires oot”
Oily

[lawrence_dunbar]

oiltreader:

Lawrence Dunbar:
Then there was the little scouse gits demanding two bob to mind your motor when parked overnight on the dock road, I just used to pay them and had no problems but I know some drivers just told them to F Off and came out from the digs to find wiper blades,tail lights smashed and even a couple of flat tyres usualy the front ones, I wonder if their daddies were dockers , I do hope they regretted it in their later years. ,When I worked for my uncle Isaac Smiles they were quite happy to pay it, Larry.

A tale from Glasgow, “a’ll watch yer motor mister”, “nah nah laddie the alsatian dis that” “aye ok but can he pit fires oot” I like that one
Oily

[5thwheel]

David

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[suedehead]

Is that a safe in the road ?

[oiltreader]

Suedehead:
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Is that a safe in the road ?

That’ll be at Peterborough
Oily

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