sps1955's photos

Scanned from a print in a family album; the photos date from 1932 or later, as they show the Bispham tram station built in that year, but are pre-1939, going by the age of my mother in some of the other shots. For the location in Oct. 2014: goo.gl/maps/szMnv .

Dated from its context in a family album; see www.flickr.com/photos/40878011@N07/8060539914/in/photostream . The station building dates from 1932, according to www.c20society.org.uk/botm/bispham-tram-stations-blackpool/ .

The shot seems to have been taken from what is now the Queens [sic] Mansions Holiday Apartments, on the corner of Red Bank Road: cf. maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Bispham Station&hl=en&ll... . Scanned from a small print in a family album; Bispham tram station, just out of shot to the left (but seen in one of the other photos ) was built in 1932, but the only other guides to the date are the cars and the apparent age of my mother (born in 1919) in some of the other shots . I would be very interested to know if anyone can identify or date the trams. The photograph seems to have been taken from a building that has been recently completed (if, indeed, it's not still under construction!) From its appearance, the Queens Mansions building might have been new around the time that this photo was taken, although the hipped roofed building in the foreground has vanished.

C11 W. door with arch formed of Roman tiles. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1238157 .

Church Path from W. with Grade I-listed church of St Mary the Virgin: C11 tower with later spire. List description for church: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1238157 .

From SE. C11 tower with later parapet and spire; C13 chancel; clerestory over nave C15 with its easternmost windows, framed in brick, perhaps early C16. Restoration of 1895-6 included rebuilding the S. porch, adding the organ chamber to the S. of the chancel and, evidently, replacing the E. window. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1238157 ; James Bettley and Nikolaus Pevsner, The buildings of England: Essex (2007), p.819.

Monument to Ambrose Andrews, d. 1718 [James Bettley and Nikolaus Pevsner, The buildings of England: Essex (2007), p.819]

From SW. C15; the left-hand chimney stack is C16. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1276293

From SW. Late C16 or early C17 timber framed house with late C17 pargetted plasterwork dated 1692 above the door. According to the Newport history trail published by Newport Local History Group (2006), it was formerly an inn called the King's Head, being renamed the Crown Inn in 1692. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1234043 .

From S. At one time part of the main London-Cambridge road, but now a backwater, with the former Three Tuns inn on the right and Crown House (also formerly an inn) in the distance - not to mention the inevitable parked cars and television aerials, and a skip.

From E. On the right is the western part of the Old Priory; the jettied section is late C15, although the left section of this house may be a later addition; the Priory (on the left) has a timber frame of probably similar date, but a C18 front. List descriptions: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1234045 (the Old Priory); list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1234684 (the Priory)

Shell head over door and detail of pargetting. See also www.flickr.com/photos/40878011@N07/7965723666/in/set-7215... .

From the programme for the 1952 British Grand Prix, held at Silverstone, 19 July 1952. The car appears to be Earl Howe's second Lagonda V12, bought in 1939 (cf. this advertisement for the auction of his first V12 in 2007: "Howe was to trade this car in for a new model in 1939"); the JPC registration was issued in Surrey from July 1939 (see www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/pc.htm ). I do not know if the car survives; according to the DVLA database, its registration was put in 1954 on a new Aston Martin which ceased to be licensed in 2001.

I suppose the registration is intended to be read as "A 2.8 VW"!

Seen from the bridge over the A11. Several additional turbines on the left compared with the situation two months before: www.flickr.com/photos/40878011@N07/7433656366/in/set-7215... .

I cannot read the red badge under the GTi one, but is the registration saying that this car has had a 20v engine conversion? It can be done , apparently.

A poor quality photo, but I thought that the personalized registration was worth recording!

Under construction. Seen from the bridge over the A11 (i.e. from NW) on midsummer's eve (with grain storage silos and their surrounding earthworks on the left, and the spoil heap of a chalk quarry on the extreme left.)