Morris Minor Owners Club

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:59 pm**

helps to put picture in

Posted: **Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:24 pm**

Makes it look like the weathers always good in Aidensfield!!

Posted: **Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:25 pm**

I would say lets all move to that area, it was a bit to busy when I went for the day left my pick up at the pumps people just kept coming up for the photo perfect place to park

Posted: **Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:07 pm**

I think this passes as a "Famous place", Stanford hall 2008

Thanks
Brian...

Posted: **Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:34 pm**

I bet thats your house LOL see more than 1 morris in that picture

Posted: **Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:49 pm**

toginthemog wrote:see more than 1 morris in that picture

Including the very first and very last

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:42 am**

I would say lets all move to that area, it was a bit to busy when I went for the day

Back in the seventies my parents looked at buying a house in the village.
Dad was put off by the low ceilings. I'm not sure what he expected

I would have loved to lived in that sort of area - but it was a lot quieter before it became Aidensfield.
As it was they plumped for the industrial lowland 20 miles away.

And that's changed a lot too!

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:20 am**

the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Well, it's famous in our street

Posted: **Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:33 pm**

Argyle Car Factory (later made torpedos!) in Renton (near Glasgow).
.

I like the Clifton picture - hope to see the famous bridge this summer if my plans for a trip round England work out!

Posted: **Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:08 am**

You could pop in for a cuppa.... I am not very far from the bridge.

Here's another bridge I was at yesterday... is it famous? -I'm sure it should be...
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/belvedere/3205027491/" title="trav and transporter by Dru Marland, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3390/320 ... a1ea1d.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="trav and transporter" /></a>

Posted: **Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:59 am**

That'll be the Newport bridge. Wales or Teesside? Who knows?

Posted: **Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:29 pm**

Well it can't be the one in Teesside, them in Auf wiedersehn Pet took it down remember...

Posted: **Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:34 pm**

it is indeed Newputt. Not been working for aaaages; I had to drive miles round to the other side to get pics of the gondola thingy.

Posted: **Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:14 pm**

Sorry I know its not a morris but that tranporter bridge picture just brought back a memory of better times my 1st lorry £3,000 volvo F88
best wagon on the road in its time.1982 loading 3 silencers for some factory abroad glad we dont have silencers on our cars that big

Posted: **Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:30 pm**

1982 eh? that'll be right in the middle of the great decay of Teesside.
Looks like you might have been one of the few that benefitted.

Posted: **Sun Jan 18, 2009 8:07 pm**

I cant say I benefitted from it I was just grateful for any work just bought my first lorry new in the game as an owner driver, your correct in the time of decline of teeside but it was the same I suppose for a lot of great towns and industrial areas. [just a note never got rich as an owner driver] just messed on an awfull lot

Posted: **Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:26 pm**

Well its Sunday eve, so I'd best decide on a winner. An interesting range of famous places, nice to see 'Aidensfield', got a pic somewhere of my old Panda car parked there on a branch run years ago. Stanford Hall certainly has to be a famous place, at least in this company! The Argyle Factory has been on my list of 'places I should see' for some time now, must make the effort one day, and being a fan of engineering and Meccano it was nice to see such a dramatic shot of Newport Transporter bridge. Didnt know Middlesborough one was no more, so must make Newport the only one in the country now? Hope its preserved...

Anyway as its supposed to be a photo competion, the winner has to be Dru with the night view of the Clifton suspension bridge. Lovely lighting and worthy of a calender really... (Now theres a thought).
Never been really, but passed under the bridge last year when totally lost with Land Rover and trailer in the middle of the night. Was trying to get round the other side of Bristol and was quite surprised to see the illuminated bridge in the distance.
Over to you Dru for the next challange!

Posted: **Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:32 am**

IaininTenbury wrote:being a fan of engineering and Meccano it was nice to see such a dramatic shot of Newport Transporter bridge. Didnt know Middlesborough one was no more, so must make Newport the only one in the country now?

The Middlesbrough one is still there AFAIK.

Posted: **Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:08 pm**

*racking brains for idea*

what about 'green shoots' or possibly 'spring'? -there has been a lot of weather around lately... if the idea stinks, I am happy to leave the subject to someone else

Apparently the operation of the Newport bridge has been suspended indefinitely. So you could say that a question mark hangs over it. It would have to be quite high up in the sky though. If you see what I mean.

Posted: **Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:58 pm**

Page 19 louiseM post 808 that might give you an idea of a subject it shows the one s that have been done when you racking your brains it shows how simple the subject can be

Morris Minor Owners Club

Morris Minor Picture challenge........

Famous place