Friends' Gallery Picture of the Month - August 2024

[Mike Costigan]

Looks like a small motorcycle to me.

[Chris Garner]

Child on a scooter??

[Denis Sweeney]

I can confirm that Chris, every holiday we all had to wear our school uniforms to go away in, never did understand the concept, though would guess they were our “best” clothes

[Tony Press]

" A lone motorcycle can also be seen, parked outside the Mill Inn. "

[Colin Morgan]

Yes, more obvious when blown up a bit:


  Motorcycle.jpg (Size: 68.19 KB / Downloads: 333)

[Peter Sweeney]

School uniforms on holiday. Denis on the Right Me on the left and younger brother Colin with Mum and the Standard 8 from Pride and Sharks Brixton
  img008 - Copy - Copy.jpg (Size: 108.84 KB / Downloads: 297)

[Denis Sweeney]

Aaaarrrgghh

[Jeff Taylor]

My Mum had a very similar skirt to Mrs Sweeney. This is Mum and I alongside Dad's F Type Vauxhall Victor Super bought new from Fewsters, Stocksfield in Northumberland. 


  Screenshot 2024-08-08 at 21.52.19.png (Size: 556.99 KB / Downloads: 241)

[Peter Naulls]

In our family we still chuckle about the 1960's photo of my father helping my sister make sandcastles whilst wearing his suit, complete with waistcoat. In later years he dressed down with a jacket and shirt. No good photos of the car from this era unfortunately.

[Ian Wegg]

The Little Chef on the A303..... You would go in, eye up the menu, order and wait....and wait....and wait.... Lucky if it would show up within an hour! The concept of "fast food" escaped them completely.

There were a few on the A303. We would stop at the one at Chiclade on our annual pilgrimage to Padstow in the 70s.  I went back there once with Mrs W in the 90s. We were put on a table with another family. My meal arrived first and I'd finished it before my wife's turned up.

Our closest equivalent was the Happy Eater at Hindhead. I always thought Happy Eater was slightly more upmarket, even though their logo looked like someone throwing up a giant prawn.


  HappyEaterlogo.png (Size: 6.24 KB / Downloads: 167)

Apparently, Little Chef disappeared in 2017, the final ones being converted to Starbucks or Greggs.  Happy Eater had gone by 1997. 

Thank goodness for the Wimpy still at Southsea!