tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post8291514793282584607..comments2024-03-29T10:27:17.871+00:00Comments on Unmitigated England: Windermere WinnerPeter Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00027878122724846472noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-47704778759255631762017-07-10T12:59:34.661+01:002017-07-10T12:59:34.661+01:00Nice Post thanks for sharing....! Windermere Mediu...Nice Post thanks for sharing....! <a href="http://www.annemcdonough.net/about/" rel="nofollow">Windermere Medium</a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17590052818376952741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-83585209122850908252013-05-26T22:42:28.288+01:002013-05-26T22:42:28.288+01:00Hi there! This post couldn't be written any be...Hi there! This post couldn't be written any better! Looking through this post reminds me of my previous roommate! He constantly kept preaching about this. I am going to send this information to him. Fairly certain he's going to <br />have a good read. Thank you for sharing!<br /><br />Check out my site ... <a href="http://www.tedxyse.com/gafasoakley.html" rel="nofollow">Gafas De Sol Oakley</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-2464638603887570282011-02-21T22:52:18.315+00:002011-02-21T22:52:18.315+00:00No, it's not outside the "Whiteish Elepha...No, it's not outside the "Whiteish Elephant". It's outside a shop in Terminus Road, parked on the forecourt which looks like part of the pavement to me. It was still there this afternoon. Do you want a photo of it? I might be able to oblige!Alan Dengatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-30536111591930088382011-02-10T09:38:06.460+00:002011-02-10T09:38:06.460+00:00Welcome Alan, and thanks for getting me going. Is ...Welcome Alan, and thanks for getting me going. Is it parked outside the De La Warr Pavilion?Peter Ashleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00027878122724846472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-12533112256171715502011-02-09T23:04:02.520+00:002011-02-09T23:04:02.520+00:00There's one for sale in Bexhill-on-Sea for nea...There's one for sale in Bexhill-on-Sea for nearly 4 grand of british money notes. In Black too, I wonder how much of it belongs to the original vehicle?Alan Dengatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-34053811135160382302011-02-07T00:59:10.499+00:002011-02-07T00:59:10.499+00:00I want the car and I want the magazine.
When I am ...I want the car and I want the magazine.<br />When I am famous there will be fleet of Wartime Housewife A30 vans trundling around the country doing stuff. In a nice way.Wartime Housewifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13337425530017564079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-37614099841429581472011-02-06T10:19:20.562+00:002011-02-06T10:19:20.562+00:00Expat: Yes, scenery was often exaggerated too. Oft...Expat: Yes, scenery was often exaggerated too. Often with a red-coated huntsman talking to the car's occupants.<br /><br />Jon: My father's first car was an apple green Ford Popular (SJF 437). I often wonder if it's still out there, with a 1963 yellow board covered AA Handbook in the glove compartment, and a brazil nut toffee wrapper still under the driver's seat.Peter Ashleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00027878122724846472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-77242361411560204422011-02-06T10:00:38.260+00:002011-02-06T10:00:38.260+00:00Bucks has it! I'd disremembered Players 'N...Bucks has it! I'd disremembered Players 'No Name'...bet that took what passed for the marketing department many hours of pipe smoking to come up with. Oh, and don't forget the silver and black Exide torch in the glove compartment...the one with the paper covered battery that leaked and caused the whole apparatus to gum up thus promoting the purchase of another...what a sales wheeze!. Ford Popular owners would have used a Ray-O-Vac.Jon Dudleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09717891707293701969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-76009071271504437602011-02-06T09:48:00.160+00:002011-02-06T09:48:00.160+00:00I learned to drive in one of those. Ours was very...I learned to drive in one of those. Ours was very bouncy and prone to kangaroo along the road if you weren't careful with the clutch (especially with me at the wheel).<br /><br />Windermere is very dramatic and alpine isn't it?expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17804628948405177521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-58680278761656629542011-02-04T18:18:18.404+00:002011-02-04T18:18:18.404+00:00It is indeed Sue. Just hope a Somerset of similarl...It is indeed Sue. Just hope a Somerset of similarly oversized airbrushed proportions doesn't come the other way.Peter Ashleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00027878122724846472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-9093086354385600292011-02-04T15:39:51.422+00:002011-02-04T15:39:51.422+00:00Isn't the road itself glorious! No yellow line...Isn't the road itself glorious! No yellow lines, white lines (no, not talking about the powder in the Kendrick's sweets...), cones, cycle lanes, signs, roadworks, discarded plastic bags...Sue Imgrundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16561248973128136601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-73010275741499403342011-02-04T13:50:22.445+00:002011-02-04T13:50:22.445+00:00Mmm, that sounds like the one, thankyou Bucks. Nev...Mmm, that sounds like the one, thankyou Bucks. Never did quite understand those Kendrick sweets, but do remember there was a great deal of suspicious-looking white powder left over after you'd finished them off.Peter Ashleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00027878122724846472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-67150668219632243242011-02-04T12:22:06.467+00:002011-02-04T12:22:06.467+00:00Surely Players "No Name " tobacco would ...Surely Players "No Name " tobacco would absolve you from any suspicion of jingoism ,Peter.If I remember correctly,it used to be in a tin drum with a rather elegantly scripted plain white label,the typeface being similar to that used for "Austin of England" in the chrome badges along the sides of the bonnet of the mighty Somerset.Just the job to stash alongside those strange "motoring sweets" by Kendricks in the gold tins.Bucks Retronauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13518558456508724139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-56620558041384065152011-02-04T11:50:03.916+00:002011-02-04T11:50:03.916+00:00Hels: It's quite remarkable just how much pape...Hels: It's quite remarkable just how much paper ephemera has survived. I once moved into a cottage and on opening the door of an old bread oven a huge stack of 1950's Radio Times fell out. Which kept me occupied for some time, I can tell you, seeing in print what I'd listened to as a child.Peter Ashleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00027878122724846472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-5068896588956570202011-02-04T11:16:20.983+00:002011-02-04T11:16:20.983+00:00The best thing about posters or magazine covers is...The best thing about posters or magazine covers is that sometimes they manage to preserve what would otherwise be ephemera. Even though I am not terribly interested in cars per se, I DO want to see what was being advertised in 1952, and how it was displayed.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-38593428271208825882011-02-04T07:58:34.410+00:002011-02-04T07:58:34.410+00:00Erinmore seems to be the front winner so far, alth...Erinmore seems to be the front winner so far, although that does sound a bit Scottish (no offence). Something from Player's or Wills perhaps, as Office Pest says...Peter Ashleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00027878122724846472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-63807587258532398452011-02-03T14:34:46.258+00:002011-02-03T14:34:46.258+00:00deffo with JD on the Erinmore frontdeffo with JD on the Erinmore frontDiplomatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03941539934835529453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-36246869558937719992011-02-03T09:40:51.010+00:002011-02-03T09:40:51.010+00:00I reckon Wills Cut Golden BarI reckon Wills Cut Golden Baroffice pesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15516888180507856752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-8923141625820334742011-02-03T09:05:30.597+00:002011-02-03T09:05:30.597+00:00Erinmore?Erinmore?Jon Dudleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09717891707293701969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-2935915771252729582011-02-02T23:15:14.254+00:002011-02-02T23:15:14.254+00:00Thankyou Jon. And welcome Herb of R. I wonder what...Thankyou Jon. And welcome Herb of R. I wonder what the pipe tobacco of choice should be in Unmitigated England? In a tin, obviously, something that will fit snugly in the glovebox. Player's Ready Rubbed?Peter Ashleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00027878122724846472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-2227182586216655232011-02-02T21:40:16.226+00:002011-02-02T21:40:16.226+00:00This scene made me reach for my £2 copy of 'Se...This scene made me reach for my £2 copy of 'Seeing Britain and the Continent from an Austin' by Alison Murray. The "savage" Kirkstone Pass was included in a 22-mile spin that 'disclosed more beautiful and varied scenes than on any stretch of similar length that I can remember.' The book is pre-war but would have been great to use with our Somerset - so long as we had the pipe ready filled.Herb of Romfordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-2284938768212614292011-02-02T20:55:14.392+00:002011-02-02T20:55:14.392+00:00Sitting here in Charlotte North Carolina we are aw...Sitting here in Charlotte North Carolina we are awaiting our flight home. This picture of Blighty brings a certain moistness to the eyes. Always exagerrated to enhance their size, (ooh err missus) these motoring illustrations are still beautifully executed and positively exude early Postwar England. You do us a great service in highlighting them and the work of the 'commercial artist' in general.Jon Dudleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09717891707293701969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-6068646532700355542011-02-02T19:56:40.038+00:002011-02-02T19:56:40.038+00:00Ah, yes, the van would be one to covet too.
P.S....Ah, yes, the van would be one to covet too. <br /><br />P.S. I'm with Mr. W re: more vintage advertising.The Vintage Knitterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03479653990888198151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-56405770663341132202011-02-02T19:43:20.094+00:002011-02-02T19:43:20.094+00:00Quite like the racy convertible with the louche ey...Quite like the racy convertible with the louche eyes, myself<br /><br />http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Austin_Somerset_convertible.jpg<br /><br />"Fancy a nice drive out to the country, poppet?", the 3rd gear drawled.office pesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15516888180507856752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611055706073214403.post-38772775868122914242011-02-02T18:46:39.832+00:002011-02-02T18:46:39.832+00:00Having an ad on the front cover must have made thi...Having an ad on the front cover must have made things simpler for the editor too. No expensive car shoots and agonizing over angles when Austin could supply you with the Somerset, plus Brian and his pipe. More vintage advertising, please!Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.com