discussion Car Boot Finds!

[ojays]

Many years ago I was visiting my daughter who lived in the Crystal Palace area, and she took me to a local car boot/craft fair.

Not really my scene but these took my eye, and very cheap as well so I bought them on a whim!

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Gregg

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[stona]

Very interesting stuff...........I couldn't help noticing how young the queen looks on the 1957 stamp, I was about six months old when it was franked!

Tempus Fugit.

Concorde on the other hand I remember very well.

Steve

 

[Guest]

Interesting Gregg ... good find indeed!

And its nice to know there's somebody else that buys odd stuff randomly without rhyme or reason

 

[Guest]

My German mother in law bears an uncanny resemblance to the Queen...

(both then and now)

 

[ojays]

Interesting Gregg ... good find indeed!And its nice to know there's somebody else that buys odd stuff randomly without rhyme or reason

That's why I keep finding stuff in boxes that I forgot I had.

Because of moving around a lot, I often never got around to opening some of them. Hence when something/someone (especially on here) jogs my memory, I end up having to start routing around until I find what I'm sure I have stored away.

The recent thread about the Seafire restoration had me searching for the photo copies that I ended up posting is an example. They had been boxed away for about 15yrs and forgotten about.

Drives my wife mental!

Gregg

 

[eddiesolo]

Some good finds and interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Si

 

[yak face]

Great find gregg , a fascinating step back to a different era of travel . Ive just finished reading a great book by a british woman who was a Pan Am stewardess from the 50's to the 70's , the difference to todays air travel experience is unbelievable , it was so much more glamorous back then.Trouble is that ,as usual easily distracted, I went on e-bay and started looking for a 1/72 Pan Am B377 stratocruiser to buy!!! tony

 

[ojays]

Great find gregg , a fascinating step back to a different era of travel . Ive just finished reading a great book by a british woman who was a Pan Am stewardess from the 50's to the 70's , the difference to todays air travel experience is unbelievable , it was so much more glamorous back then.Trouble is that ,as usual easily distracted, I went on e-bay and started looking for a 1/72 Pan Am B377 stratocruiser to buy!!! tony

The point I was making.

One thing leads to another, we're all guilty

 

[Andy2035]

It's also been the rise and fall day of Concorde today on the Discovery Science channel (525), it's all repeated until 03:00hrs...

 

[flyjoe180]

Very interesting Gregg, relics from an era of classic travel.

 

[stona]

I used to fly on VC 10s to West Africa as an unaccompanied minor (you got a badge saying so) in the 1960s. It was a very different era of air travel. I still have my B.O.A.C Junior Jet Club book!

Cheers

Steve

 

[Guest]

did you use your miles stamp to get into the captain lair i did lol,come to think of it i`m not sure where that booklet went from british airways,oh well

mobear

 

[stona]

did you use your miles stamp to get into the captain lair i did lol,come to think of it i`m not sure where that booklet went from british airways,oh wellmobear

We used to get taken up to the cockpit and one of the crew, usually the Captain, would write the route and mileage into the book by hand and sign it.

This would have been the mid sixties (flying to Kano) not long after the VC 10 entered service. I found the Junior Jet Club book (along with some ancient Action Men, Scalextrix, Meccano, fishing reels and broken rods, rusty air rifles and all sorts of other stuff I though had been chucked away) when I was clearing my mother's house a few years ago. Most we did dispose of but the JJC book is now been re-filed in my own loft. I think I might just have to go and dig it out

Cheers

Steve

 

[mossiepilot]

A nice find Gregg, it prompted me to look up the service history of Concorde, and felt sad when I realised that the history of commercial supersonic flight lasted only 21 years. 16th October 1982 must have seemed such a bright dawn.

Tony.

 

[ojays]

Glad I helped open up some personal memories!

Gregg