Blast from the Past! your personal photos

[JMN2]

Safe to post some old photos if you have some, you won't be recognised anyway.

Cyprus 1964-65


Knysna or George early 80's


Please note the 70's very practical South African footwear - anyone remember those?

[csearle]

Both from the early nineties...

Ahrntal


Stuttgart airport

I own the content of these images.

[didds]

1990 Frankfurt RFC. Receiving oppo kick off

didds

[tjh290633]

RAF Digby, 1951

TJH

[AleisterCrowley]

Now a defence intelligence/SIGINT base 'apparently'..
I'm not posting old photos, just reminds me of how much hair I used to have...

[scotia]

TJH - is that a Tiger Moth? Was the RAF still using them for training in 1951?

[AleisterCrowley]

Looks a bit 1930s - the Chipmunk replaced them in the 50s

[tjh290633]

TJH - is that a Tiger Moth? Was the RAF still using them for training in 1951?

Yes, they were. National Service aircrew were enlisted in Padgate, went to Hornchurch for aptitude tests, then went to Digby for "grading flying". This involved some ground school and 12 hours flying the Tigers. If you went solo, then you were a pilot, if not, you were a navigator. Then we all went to Kirton-in-Lindsey for initial training, aka square bashing.

Flying training proper then began, Basic at civilian run airfields on Chipmunks, then Advanced on Oxfords, with conscripted instructors. Mine was a school teacher called Jack Merrett and our flight commander was a motor trader. Then came Advanced Training on Meteors or Vampires. Then the Korean War ended and the need for more pilots evaporated.

TJH

[didds]

I'm not posting old photos, just reminds me of how much hair I used to have...

ditto for my photo!

didds

[poundcoin]

Great idea !

What every hardened "sledger" should wear !
Me in the 50s wearing de rigour shirt and tie and note the bare knees ! (Didn't have any long trousers till I was about 12 years old )

[brightncheerful]

"…and note the bare knees ! (Didn't have any long trousers till I was about 12 years old )"

That brings back memories. I recall the headteacher of my second school suggesting to my mother that wouldn't it perhaps be about time for me to start wearing long trousers, i guess I would've been about 11or 12. I assume she took him up on it because ever since I've worn long trousers and now I cannot remember when I last wore shorts. In fact, my wearing long trousers regardless is part of my signature style.

[staffordian]

"…and note the bare knees ! (Didn't have any long trousers till I was about 12 years old )"

That brings back memories. I recall the headteacher of my second school suggesting to my mother that wouldn't it perhaps be about time for me to start wearing long trousers, i guess I would've been about 11or 12. I assume she took him up on it because ever since I've worn long trousers and now I cannot remember when I last wore shorts. In fact, my wearing long trousers regardless is part of my signature style.

The grammar school I attended from 1966, aged 11, had a strict uniform policy which mandated shorts until the third year. At getting on for six feet tall by then, the third year could not come soon enough!

I'm here...

[maximan]

Yes it brings back memories for me too.

My secondary school was London Nautical and the uniform was a Merchant Navy Officers Uniform.
Needless to say my uniform did not turn up in time and off I went on first day in shorts.
Marilyn Monroe didn't receive as many wolf whistles in her life time as I did that day.
Still bare the scars!

[staffordian]

Here's a self portrait I took in my first term at uni in 1973.

I think the expression was puzzlement as to whether the shutter would fire. If I remember correctly, I think I tied a thread to the shutter release and pulled it with a foot

[DiamondEcho]

The Hippy Trail, 35 years ago this summer

[AleisterCrowley]

Here's a self portrait I took in my first term at uni in 1973.

I think the expression was puzzlement as to whether the shutter would fire. If I remember correctly, I think I tied a thread to the shutter release and pulled it with a foot

Hmmm,looks like me at Plymouth in 85.
I had similar hair, and possibly that jumper
I was born a bit late : I think hanging out with Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies in Ladbroke Grove c 1973 would have suited me

[XFool]

"…and note the bare knees ! (Didn't have any long trousers till I was about 12 years old )"

That brings back memories. I recall the headteacher of my second school suggesting to my mother that wouldn't it perhaps be about time for me to start wearing long trousers, i guess I would've been about 11or 12. I assume she took him up on it because ever since I've worn long trousers and now I cannot remember when I last wore shorts. In fact, my wearing long trousers regardless is part of my signature style.

The grammar school I attended from 1966, aged 11, had a strict uniform policy which mandated shorts until the third year. At getting on for six feet tall by then, the third year could not come soon enough!

"until the third form"! In 1968? Crikey!

As above, in my day (it wasn't 1968) it was the convention (not a rule AFAIK) that boys wore long trousers from age 12 years. In other words, starting in the first form.

[DiamondEcho]

I was born a bit late : I think hanging out with Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies in Ladbroke Grove c 1973 would have suited me

Lemmy [Hawkwind/Motorhead] used to live around there. Fermoy or Hormead Road, W9, just south of Harrow Road. He used to drink at the Union Tavern on Woodfield Road [50-100M from his home]. This was before he upped sticks and moved to California. So yes, him and band playing a gig on Ladbroke Grove would have been a local event for them. There was a 'big' music pub there, IIRC The Elgin on Ladbroke Road/Westbourne Park Road, that hosted several bands [incl. punk bands] then starting out that went on to make it big-time. There was another similar pub/music venue on Earls Court Road, SW5, still there, but forget it's name right now.

[PinkDalek]

Safe to post some old photos if you have some, you won't be recognised anyway.

Cyprus 1964-65 ...

I'm slightly confused, as ever, but elsewhere you mentioned your age. If I'm remembering the age you said correctly, your were born after the Cyprus image. So is it not you?

[PinkDalek]

IIRC The Elgin on Ladbroke Road/Westbourne Park Road, that hosted several bands [incl. punk bands] then starting out that went on to make it big-time.

Glad to see it is a Young & Co pub http://www.theelginnottinghill.co.uk/

From my memory of the Elgin Avenue area in the early Seventies, there was plenty of recreational stuff going on, man.