Three wheels are better than one - or, indeed, two. People of a certain age will remember the Green Cross Man (and those of a slightly younger age will remember him as Darth Vader!). This, however, is Cleethorpes in the 1980s - not a galaxy far, far away.
SUNNY VALE
I know these are supposed to be 1001 Photos I took before I died, but I can't be absolutely certain whether I took this or my brother did. It was the late 60s and Sunny Vale Pleasure Gardens were already in terminal decline - as this picture of one of the boating lakes shows.
19 March 2024 : Caramel Malt
Put on a new keg this evening. The blurb says it is a "go-to, have more than one, easy drinking IPA with floral and citrus aromas leading to a slightly sweet caramel malt character". Didn't quite catch that caramel malt character with the first pint - better have another one. Cheers.
22/1001 : Lazy And Negligent
A photograph from when we were living in Sheffield, some 40 years ago. Photoshop filters can easily create this type of look these days, but back then it was down to some lazy exposure and some negligent developing.
18 March 2024 : Concrete Curves
I spent a year in Birmingham - 1968/69 - and this is one of my photos from that time. What strikes me is the lengths the architects have gone to in order to achieve straight lines and sharp angles only to have the look compromised by the random curves of concrete staining.
21/1001 : Marks Up, Boars Head Down
I can't pretend that this is a good photo, but it is dripping with local nostalgia. It speaks of a time when policemen wore white raincoats and shoppers wore plastic rain hoods, when Marks was up town and the Boars Head was down below the market .... and the town hall was sooty!
17 March 2024 : Bikers
My parents, like so many young couples in the 1930s, were great motorbike enthusiasts. Motorbikes gave them the opportunity to discover the country in a way that had not been available to earlier generations. Here they are, proudly astride their Royal Enfield, in the late 1930s.
16 March 2024 : The Watchers
Some are watching the world fly by, all flashing lights and candy floss. Some are watching the ones who are watching, all woollen skirts and anoraks. Some are watching the photographers, all questions and no answers.
15 March 2024 : Tenby
Thirty years ago, when The Lad was young, most years we would go to Tenby for our holidays. The castle-topped islands and the step-carved rocky tendrils always attracted me, they were like something out of an Enid Blyton book. And the sun always shone .... except for the times it was raining!
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