Vintage photos

[selectedgrub]

Thanks for adding to the thread guys.

 

[Robotstar5]

Wilde evening in Shepton Mallet in the 60sView attachment 333962with the band at a Dance

Reminds of the photo of my dad behind the counter at the "Alpine Coffee Lounge"

That my parents owned in the early 60's

 

[jerrytug]

Not really vintage, 1970's, but this was me aged 16-ish, shortly about to crash a Norfolk Broads cruiser after my dad rashly bought me two pints of McEwens Ale. Dad's long gone, but me and the vessel are still afloat; she is the Broadland Plover, designed by Sir Christopher Cockerell, who invented the hovercraft. My dad's dad was one of Cockerells's engineers on the SRN-1, by coincidence.

 

[500e]

ECC clay drying shed in Par, I think, John Truscott a local Railway man had some good times with him in Par and Fowye 1962

 

[500e]

Cant find E11 But a J7 card with grampy in his Fez

 

[500e]

Wife's Relatives

 

[500e]

Shepton Mallet in the 60s

 

[500e]

More of wife's rellsMother age 6

 

[selectedgrub]

Thanks for sharing 500e

Steampunk.

 

[Martin-Sy]

Is that you @selectedgrub ?
For the railway folks here: New Zealand Ka Class 4-8-4 built from 1939 onwards with what looks like a tablet catcher on the cab side.
Nice picture!

 

[BarrieJ]

My father's older brother, William Henry Jones 1896 to 1944, coal hewer. He was a 'mountain fighter', boxing bare knuckled for a purse, he also did the boxing booths at travelling fairgrounds. Boxed for his regiment the Black Watch during WW1, decent cricketer, good footballer, excellent shot. Our house was full of 'stuff' won by him at various sporting contests. Amongst which was a police constable's helmet. He was acknowledged as a 'good man to have alongside you in a tight corner'. Dead before I was born, my eldest sister described him as a wild man.

 

[Rannsachair]

My father's older brother, William Henry Jones 1896 to 1944, coal hewer. He was a 'mountain fighter', boxing bare knuckled for a purse, he also did the boxing booths at travelling fairgrounds. Boxed for his regiment the Black Watch during WW1, decent cricketer, good footballer, excellent shot. Our house was full of 'stuff' won by him at various sporting contests. Amongst which was a police constable's helmet. He was acknowledged as a 'good man to have alongside you in a tight corner'. Dead before I was born, my eldest sister described him as a wild man.

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Sounds like my great grandfather, he was 6` 4", a coal miner, used to do the boxing booths and my dad recalls him in his 60's picking a large man up by the neck and banging his head of the wooden beams in the ceiling.

 

[selectedgrub]

Is that you @selectedgrub ?
For the railway folks here: New Zealand Ka Class 4-8-4 built from 1939 onwards with what looks like a tablet catcher on the cab side.
Nice picture!

My Dad

 

[selectedgrub]

I don't mean to clutter the thread I do find it sad that alot of these "Orgasmatrons" are still sitting rusting away down here.

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[Geoffm]

Sounds like my great grandfather, he was 6` 4", a coal miner, used to do the boxing booths and my dad recalls him in his 60's picking a large man up by the neck and banging his head of the wooden beams in the ceiling.

My father's mother's side were Irish who left due I suspect to some local trouble as well as the potato famine. Most went to Nova Scotia but 2 brothers came to NZ. They set up Farrell Brothers, blacksmiths and chainsmiths in Auckland near the harbour in lower Albert St for this who know Auckland or have Google Maps, it would be close to where the Grand Chancellor hotel is now. Both brothers were big men. My mother had a photo of the staff in front of the shop and the blacksmiths were no wimps, but the Farrell brothers were a head taller, and 2 pick handles wide.
Apparently William "Billy " Farrell liked drinking and fighting, and was a staunch Orangeman. His favorite sport was to go a then well known Irish bar on St Patricks day, yell out "to hell with Ireland and to hell with the Pope" and then take on all comers. my father knew the pub but I have forgotten it.

 

[Robotstar5]

I don't mean to clutter the thread I do find it sad that alot of these "Orgasmatrons" are still sitting rusting away down here.

Is this one a Garratt built loco?, the only reference i could find to a 4-8-0 0-8-4 is an Indian loco

 

[selectedgrub]

Yes, I believe it is. They are South African.
GMEM 4083

 

[gordon stephenson]

Just found another photograph of my grandfather, age 31 at the time around 1915 first world war Egypt, Grand father is far right, SGT Ernest Arthur Graham, He was away for five years, i cant honestly imagine being away from home for such a long period, Apparently it took quite a while for my young mother to accept that he was her dad when he returned.!!! ( I love his moustache ) Zoomed in and he has his pope in his hand.

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More photographs coming to light, Palestine 1914, Grandfather leaning against a post and far right in the group, wearing jodhpurs (would that be for camel riding?)

 

[Robotstar5]

Found this one I took with my trusty Kodak Brownie camera on a junior school trip to an agricultural show, guessing it's 1971 with the launch of the series III, looks like I've always had a love for the green oval

 

[slim_boy_fat]

looks like I've always had a love for the green oval

There must be some sort of cure.....