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Friends' Gallery Picture of the Month - April 2022
Mike Costigan Offline
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01-04-2022, 08:14 AM
   

The cover illustration from a post-war Austin Magazine submitted by Peter Naulls.

ACO 336 is not registered on the DVLA website, but can anyone identify the location?
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01-04-2022, 08:20 AM
Surely that must be St James Street SW1 as suggested by the title? I gather that there has been quite a lot of development in the London area in the last few years, new buildings and even "blocks of flats"...
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01-04-2022, 09:33 AM
London SW3 born n bred and apprenticed in Victoria SW1 in the sixties and am pretty sure that St James St SW1 London never looked like that.
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01-04-2022, 09:35 AM (This post was last modified: 01-04-2022, 09:42 AM by John Cornforth.)
Steyning, Sussex ?
Steyning High Street
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01-04-2022, 10:05 AM (This post was last modified: 01-04-2022, 10:14 AM by Malcolm Parker.)
Spot on, John, you've nailed it.
The number plate of the Austin 7 may be ACD 336?

Looks like there may be a roadside petrol pump on the extreme right hand side of the photo.
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01-04-2022, 10:46 AM
Good spot, John. ACD is a 1933 Brighton registration..
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01-04-2022, 11:09 AM (This post was last modified: 01-04-2022, 11:11 AM by Mike Costigan.)
I think you're right, Malcolm and Hugh, ACO is a Plymouth number from 1937.
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01-04-2022, 11:36 AM
In case anyone's wondering, I have never been to Steyning. I just thought the boarding on the houses looked like Sussex, so I Googled for photos of "Clock Tower Sussex" and it was about the first hit !
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01-04-2022, 12:32 PM
Well done, John! I thought it might be Essex, but couldn't find anything that fitted.
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01-04-2022, 01:44 PM
(01-04-2022, 11:36 AM)John Cornforth Wrote: In case anyone's wondering, I have never been to Steyning.  I just thought the boarding on the houses looked like Sussex, so I Googled for photos of "Clock Tower Sussex" and it was about the first hit !

You are definitely this month's star pupil!
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