[floppybootstomp]

I've called this thread '1970' as I seem to have taken a lot of pix in that year. In 1970 I was working as a photojournalist, hell knows how I got away with it cos I was pretty rubbish at taking pix back then. I did, however, get a lot of pix published, not many people can mess up taking a pic of the Mayor presenting some non-entity with a reward for road safety or whatever.

I don't know what cameras I possessed then, can't remember, but I do know one was an SLR and the other was very likely a Rolleiflex DLR taking 120mm film.

You wouldn't think so, however, from quality of these pix

Ok, first pic. Whilst I was scanning negs, came across this. I have not a clue what it was all about, looks like a town hall somehwere and the girls seem to be beauty contest winners with sashes proclaiming Miss Redbridge and Miss Wandsworth adorning their bodies.

Looking at them females, gawd knows how they won anything only 2 vaguely attractive to me are 1st and 3rd from right but hey, personal preferences, ok?

That photo did actually make me laugh. I notice main man (Possibly Eric Morley, organiser of Miss World contest?) is holding a big cake. The lady next to him (possibly his wife?) is grinning. I pictured the man slapping cake straight in her boat race and for some reason it just gave me the giggles. Splat! Yes, lol

EDIT: Who is that perv on the left of pic smoking a cigarette? He look like a psycho to me, lol

ok, race pix (more pix to come):
















































Well look at that, a Mustang. Dang.

[TriplexDread]

They actually very good mate.

I was born in August 1970..How time has flown lol

[feckit]

Nice car photos.

"Who is that perv on the left of pic smoking a cigarette? He look like a psycho to me, lol"
Could that me a young FBS?

[floppybootstomp]

Originally Posted by feckit

Nice car photos.

"Who is that perv on the left of pic smoking a cigarette? He look like a psycho to me, lol"
Could that me a young FBS?

There seemed to be a lot of actors appearing in films around that time who looked like that fella, mostly playing psychotic characters. A bit like a cross between Ian Bannen and Oliver Reed. Kinda. A bit. Maybe.

[Ian]

Cracking pics Flops! Always enjoying seeing your photos from the past .

[Quadophile]

Very nostalgic indeed! I loved the pics on this thread, the photos are done very nicely, love the tone.

[floppybootstomp]

Another set, poor quality pix but I think they capture the spirit, Brands Hatch Race Circuit (Kent UK) Banger Derby, 1970:

[nivrip]

Some great old cars there, Flops.

And I'm very impressed with the 'Elf and Safety measures.

[floppybootstomp]

A few more snapshots. All of these were taken in 1970 by me. Most have been scanned from negatives so many are scratched or damaged.

First up, a view of New Cross, the A2 out of central London facing south. Why I took the pic how I came to be so high up I have not a clue. Possibly related to a newspaper story.



Next, a pic from the same strip of negatives so presumably this is New Cross railway station though I really don’t know.



This is a guy named Phil Hurrell standing in front of Roy’s Ford Corsair outside his parent’s home. Just to the right of the pic is where the Hither Green train crash happened in 1967. Phil and his parents were up all night making tea and sandwiches for the rescuers and survivors.

Most of the train turned turtle after derailing at 70mph and the sides of two coaches were ripped off. A photographer I know who attended the crash scene said he had nightmares about what he saw and can’t shake the memory of workers picking up small parts of human bodies with litter spikes and putting them in sacks.



Two pics of Roy’s Ford Anglia race car. Raced at Brands Hatch a few times but didn’t win any races.





This is Billy Tarrant and his two daughters outside his pub, The Southwark Park Tavern where me and Roy and Bob played Heavy Rock and progressive music for about ten months. Billy was welterweight boxing champion of Rotherhithe and Bermondsey for a while. He was hard, he knew villains and he liked us. I had a lot of time for Billy.



Phil Hurrell started DJ-ing before me. He played this club named Diplocks in Eastbourne sometimes. Here’s a coupla pix of two of the girlies who went there.






This is Colin McDonald and a couple of young ladies he met in Hastings at a club called the Cobweb. This was afterwards and we were all inebriated, must have been about 1.30am. Note the female dress sense alluding to trailer park status and the religious nature of the water fountain monument they’re leaning against.





In 1970 I had a basement flat in Ladywell. Here’s a pic of me in it partaking of an ‘erbal cigarette. I was working on a newspaper and had to review films. The press offices of the film companies sent me lots of big glossy B & W stills from the films so I made a montage from some of them.

How many do you recognise? (That’s if you can make any out from this reduced size pic)



My younger brother John, aged five, Guy Fawkes night.



A petrol tanker, Forest Hill. The sign on the left says ‘Green Shield Stamps’.



Me, aged 19.



Now, if there’s any young folk out there feeling insecure about their looks and their perceived inability to pull female take a look at this guy and feel lucky. And to top it all off his name was Doug. Doug joined the army and the boot polish used for camouflage gave him acne. Poor Doug.



Me and Sue outside pub somewhere near East Grinstead on way to Brighton



And at same location Roy & Kathy.

[Taffycat]

Apart from the fashions of the time, there is nothing quite like traffic for stirring memories of an era... and no, I'm not being sarcastic. Seeing that photo you took from high up, really gives one a sense of the time.

I've never been much of a cinema-goer, so didn't manage to recognise many of the stills from your photo montage... other than one or two, such as Peter Sellers in one of the Pink Panther films; Olivia Hussey in Romeo and Juliet and Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby (I think?) So no prizes for me then!! Lol

That photo of your friend Doug... have you noticed the resemblance between him and Rupert Grint Ron Weasley, mate of Harry Potter? (Or am I the only one who thinks that?)