Old Postcards - Transport & Weather

[Merddin Emrys]

it's a Bedford CA, looks like it has windows and a stripe down the side, so it's probably a Dormobile                                                                .

[Merddin Emrys]

not a postcard, but I can't see where else to put this link, some good pics on this website...

http://www.focustransport.org.uk/focusllan1.aspx

[Trojan]

not a postcard, but I can't see where else to put this link, some good pics on this website...

http://www.focustransport.org.uk/focusllan1.aspx

I agree, some excellent pics there.

[Trojan]

Railway disaster at Penmaenmawr, January 13th 1899. The accident happened the previous day on the North Wales Coast Line on. A storm had washed away part of the track ballast, causing the train, pulled by a London & North Western Railway (L&NWR) 0-6-0 locomotive, to derail.

The two crewmen sadly fell into the sea and drowned.

[DaveR]

The old Goods Warehouse at Llandudno Railway Station, in 2001:


Llandudno by Frogowski, on Flickr

[DaveR]

Llandudno Station in 1988 - is it really the same sad place we see today?!


19.9 Llandudno with green DMU July 1988 by Rail_Archive, on Flickr


8.4 Llandudno July 1986 by Rail_Archive, on Flickr

[DaveR]

How the area of the Llandudno Junction Flyover looked in 1969. Original Maelgwyn Hotel can be seen to the side of the bridge:


19.29 Near Llandudno Junction 1969 query by Rail_Archive, on Flickr

[DaveR]

Lloyd Street, Llandudno, in 1973:


Llandudno UDC FJC737F by bkp550, on Flickr

[SDQ]

Wow, that brings back memories. I used to use that bus every day to get to Lloyd Street school from my home up the orme. Dave & Mickey are two of the drivers I recall. I'll never forget the day Dave went to light a cigarette whilst parked opposite the town hall & he must have knocked the lighter when he got it out of his pocket. All I saw was the big yellow flash from his cab as a massive flame lit not only his fag but his eyebrows and most of his fringe too! Happy days. lol

[DaveR]

It always feels a bit odd looking back at photos like that. I was around back then (as a small child), so everything in it seems familiar (my parents once had a mini like that), yet it must appear as as old to some people as a Victorian image on a postcard. 

[SDQ]

I was only 6 myself in 1973 & if that picture was taken mid-afternoon I might even be one of the passengers on it as I make my way home from school. We never had a Mini but we had a similarly small car as my dad had a Hillman Imp.

[Merddin Emrys]

I was 17 in 73 so it's great for me to see these pics of how it was, I remember regularly seeing someone driving about in a wartime Jeep with the roof down, wonder who he was? Good memories 

[DaveR]

Quite a few of the old UDC buses can be seen on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&w=all&q=llandudno+udc&m=text

[Michael]

Just seen the photo on this thread, Dave, of your photo of the junction railway crossing. But, the date. l969? I doubt it. The original flyover was under construction around 1967 and I am fairly sure the Pub was pulled down even earlier. I dont suppose its important but I would date it more around 1962 or so. Mike

[Trojan]

I was 17 in 73 so it's great for me to see these pics of how it was, I remember regularly seeing someone driving about in a wartime Jeep with the roof down, wonder who he was? Good memories 

It wasn't an Austin Champ by any chance was it?