60s colour footage of city Square

trophy · Post by **trophy** » Mon 27 Jul, 2009 8:01 pm

dogduke wrote: trophy wrote: electricaldave wrote: I saw an Austin 1100 there, and that puts it to around 1972. the austin 1100 came out in 1963 the morris a year earlier I had an E reg Wolsley which was approx 1967 the wolseley version was introduced in 1965.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Mon 27 Jul, 2009 11:32 pm

trophy wrote: electricaldave wrote: I saw an Austin 1100 there, and that puts it to around 1972. the austin 1100 came out in 1963 the morris a year earlier As I have mentioned before I used to work for Leverton's at Gildersome. I started there in 1965. As well as the Cat agency Levertons Spalding were also Austin agents - consequently all their company vehicles were Austins - the junior managers and sales reps all had Austin 1100's - my boss's was a "B" reg.

electricaldave · Post by **electricaldave** » Tue 28 Jul, 2009 7:36 pm

I stand corrected then.

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Wed 29 Jul, 2009 11:48 pm

electricaldave wrote: I saw an Austin 1100 there, and that puts it to around 1972. Correction-I drove an Austin 1100 in 1965/66 and they had been around for a few years prior to that.

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Wed 29 Jul, 2009 11:52 pm

The sound track on the archive footage imitates an old movie camera circa 1920! The recently shown footage of Armstrong & Aldrin landing on the moon in 1969 didn't clatter like an old Keystone Cops film!

Misc · Post by **Misc** » Thu 30 Jul, 2009 11:36 am

I can't get it to work. maybe the YEP have blacklisted me

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Thu 30 Jul, 2009 1:37 pm

What a refreshing glimpse of a happy past - well I think so. I loved the excellent view of the beautiful white building on the north side of Infirmary Street. Although called "Post Office House" it had nothing to do with the Post Office but was the prestigous headquarters of a very well respected Insurance Agent - A.W.Bain and Sons Ltd. - I've delivered many a letter there as an office junior on £120 PER ANNUM - less tax and insurance - in 1952/3

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Thu 30 Jul, 2009 4:46 pm

BLAKEY wrote: What a refreshing glimpse of a happy past - well I think so. I loved the excellent view of the beautiful white building on the north side of Infirmary Street. Although called "Post Office House" it had nothing to do with the Post Office but was the prestigous headquarters of a very well respected Insurance Agent - A.W.Bain and Sons Ltd. - I've delivered many a letter there as an office junior on £120 PER ANNUM - less tax and insurance - in 1952/3 I think you were being exploited mate - it should have been at least 120 guineas!

Post by **cnosni** » Thu 30 Jul, 2009 6:04 pm

blackprince wrote: BLAKEY wrote: What a refreshing glimpse of a happy past - well I think so. I loved the excellent view of the beautiful white building on the north side of Infirmary Street. Although called "Post Office House" it had nothing to do with the Post Office but was the prestigous headquarters of a very well respected Insurance Agent - A.W.Bain and Sons Ltd. - I've delivered many a letter there as an office junior on £120 PER ANNUM - less tax and insurance - in 1952/3 I think you were being exploited mate - it should have been at least 120 guineas! What as in guinea pigs?

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Fri 31 Jul, 2009 12:23 am

blackprince wrote: BLAKEY wrote: What a refreshing glimpse of a happy past - well I think so. I loved the excellent view of the beautiful white building on the north side of Infirmary Street. Although called "Post Office House" it had nothing to do with the Post Office but was the prestigous headquarters of a very well respected Insurance Agent - A.W.Bain and Sons Ltd. - I've delivered many a letter there as an office junior on £120 PER ANNUM - less tax and insurance - in 1952/3 I think you were being exploited mate - it should have been at least 120 guineas! Yes I think you're right - it should have been !! - and of course apart from the expense of travelling from Ilkley for this handsome reward I found it most difficult to feed my drug habit without "pickin' a pocket or two." Times have changed of course - the drug habit to which I refer was five Woodbines a day plus matches.