Pictures wot my dad took: NOW FEATURING minimal 80s rubbish

[tone_depear]

A few years back, as a nice son-ly christmas present for my parents I secretly bought a slide scanner and scanned in 1000s of my folks old slides which lived in their loft, and presented to them for christmas on DVDs. It took over a month, and was the nicest thing I've ever done for anyone (even though I technically broke into their house while they were on holiday to liberate them from the loft). I thought I'd kept a backup of them all, but on closer inspection, my copies stop in 1973, which is a blow. When they're back in the country (December) I'll ask nicely if I can make another copy.

In the mean time though, here's a sprinkling from the early years:


1962 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr
Street scene - 1962 I'm guessing Stoke.


1965_2 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr


1965_3 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr
1965 - Hebrides - post


1966_1 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr
1966 - Flood


1967 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr
1967 - My dad's first car (Bought new!) On holiday in the Alps. Sat with map is my grandad who died when I was 6 months old or so.


1973_1 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr
1973 - Triumphant

And then, the last set are some street scenes and holiday snaps from my folks' trip out to see my uncle in Canada. All 1973 as well.

1973_2 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr


1973_3 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr


1973_4 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr


1973_5 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr


1973_6 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr


1973_8 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

I'll venture this one's America...

1973_7 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

That's all for now. Cheers dad!

[Barrett]

Check those identical Renault 10s! I love stuff like this, hope you can get the later ones copied and stick them up here too

[Seth]

Metropolitan hiding at the back of that Gas van/flood shot. Must have been a pretty rare thing even when new.

[I.K.Brunel]

Great work! Some brilliant period shots here.
Though disappointing lack of angry stance with the Triumph, OBV.

[Dan]

Fascinating stuff! Is there already a massive hole in the sill of that Maroon A60 despite it being about 4 years old tops?

[Spottedlaurel]

Brilliant! You got some good results with your scanner, better than I managed when I took on the family slide archive (this also meant I got the old projector, screen, etc).

[tone_depear]

Right. I had a tough decision to make: Chuck them up here with minimal sorting/info or do a bit of work with them but never get round to it. So here they are:

THE NINETEEN-SIXTIES

As previewed: BUSES (1965)

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More from the 60s:

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What a hero:

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6Transparency0056 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr


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(the blue mini, as featured earlier was my dad's first car. Cos he was cool. More evidence of that later, in THE SEVENTIES)

[Jon]

Brilliant! I've got to say that the Mini driving between the snow covered hills is the pick of the bunch for me. What's great is that somebody (Mother_Tone?) was instructed to get out the car and document it. Really should try that trick myself.

[tone_depear]

I've asked. The blue mini was pre-mutha tone era. This photo was taken by grand_favva_tone, favva_tone's favva.

For ref it's up some revered pass in the alps, but he couldn't remember which. They went camping. Apparently it was cold.

[tone_depear]

LOOK OUT EVERYONE, IT'S THE 70s ISN'T IT!

My folks spent much of the 70s living and working in Algeria, so while you might expect that to mean some interesting and obscure stuff, what it actually bore out was about 100 pictures of their yellow renner (called Buttercup) in front of various bits of sahara, donkeys, etc. I could honestly devote an entire thread to pictures of Buttercup, but I won't. But here's a few...


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Phwooar!


77Transparency0063 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr


77Transparency0058 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

Meanwhile, in Europe, somewhere:


79Transparency0143 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

And in Italy a lot of this sort of thing was going off:


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Probably somewhere Alpine:


79Transparency0190 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

Elsewhere:


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70Transparency0067 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

Possibly Turkey or something. *insert smaller socket reference to taste*


72Transparency0063 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr


72Transparency0147 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

Broom parts for sale in Canada, I guess:

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73Transparency0150 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr


73Transparency0222 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr


73Transparency0226 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

ACTUAL HERBIE

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Then, on one of those Hebrides:


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And/or some Scotch mainlands:


74Transparency0017 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr


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The Queen's coming round! The Queen? The Queen! etc.


74Transparency0047 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr


74Transparency0058 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr


74Transparency0059 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

Right, scuse my misty eyes for a second, the yellow Capri up by the house that's still made of black insulation, that's dad's 2nd capri (after the blue'un further up). Said black house, EXCITINGLY, is the house I lived in when I was wee. They bought it unfinished, cos my dad's a bit cool like that.


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Same car, from future living room window:


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Fast forward approximately 26 years, same house, different Capri (mine):


carpri by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

Down the road, in (proper, not that little one we discovered the other week) Stonehaven:


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79Transparency0130 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

And there we have, THE SEVENTIES.