April 1979 southport, merseyside

MARLBOROUGH HIGH STREET

THE SQUARE, BOURNEMOUTH

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

This photo is 65 years old but a large number of the cars have survived

In 1973, the arrival of a new Toyota Crown raised eyebrows in our middle-England cul-de-sac, where most driveways were decorated with conservatively styled British products, plus the occasional Fiat o

It might be the summer of the Falklands victory and a new surge of optimism for Britain, but it’s business as usual on King Edward Street in Hull