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30 August 2010
17:1367959A wonderful picture! my hubby says.
And those socks .... and plus fours... and the car of course...
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31 August 2010
15:2368129Thanks Colin, only saw your email this morning. I'll have another look at the larger image this evening and see if more detail is visible.
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31 August 2010
19:5568173 This was one of the other two photograph`s of the above, the third one being similar to the first so I`ve left that one out. A better shot of Dan Grilli this time, along with my father who had a shop, or his dad did, round Worthington street with him, and in the background are the sea front building`s and East cliff confirming the location as the Prince of Wales pier. Of interest this time will be the flat windscreen of the motor car, and of special interest to Howard, no tax disc showing!
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31 August 2010
23:1268246Having looked at Colin's larger copy of the first 'photo a Morris still looks favourite. The body style is usually referred to as 'two-seater with dickey'.
The general radiator shape seems correct. On zooming in a bit on the mascot/gauge it is not as tall as it first seems (I think there is a reflection or glare in the radiator top).
The two pictures show the Dickey seat on a 1926 Morris Oxford and a Morris Cowley. Although this is a larger four-door version it shows the radiator clearly. The Cowley and Oxford models were essentially the same the differences being in trim and engine sizes.
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1 September 2010
07:1368255Lovely old car.
In the 60s, my Dad used to own an old 1948 Rover - solid as a rock until some clown drove into the side of it and severed the central pillar; it would sway as it went down the road and looked quite funny; needless to say it was scrapped a short time later.
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1 September 2010
09:0468267Father's first car in 1950 was an old Rover, very similar to this one. Going any distance in the winter we took blankets and hot water bottles ! Lovely leather seats though.
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3 September 2010
21:2168668 An interesting spread from Pike`s Blue Book for 1937, but does anyone know what a super taxi is?
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3 September 2010
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3 September 2010
21:4068678Great photos Colin, thank you for sharing them.
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3 September 2010
21:4168680i would of thought it was the people carrier of its day colin.
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Does anyone have any idea how I can obtain a copy of Pike's Blue Book from 1939 or 1940? We have the 1937 edition, but my mother is looking from some information about residents of Cowper Road in River, which was not built in 1937...
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You can have a look in libary they will have acopy you can have a look at but you can not take it out
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Google R A Longley Publications of East Sussex, they sell cd versions for about £7.
I have Pike's 1914 and 1938. Also Kelly's 1950 and 1962.
Endless entertainment.
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Thank you very much for the help and for the rapid response. I have located a CD of the directory, so the research can proceed!
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I have a copy of "Kelly's directory of Dover and Neighbourhood, incorporating Pike's Dover and District Blue Book" 1965 (sixth edition). These are the pages for Cowper Road. Maybe the residents whom your mother is interested in were still living there.
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I think it may have been called "South Road River", and was split to make Byllan Road and Cowper Road.... as such it should be in your 1937 Pikes Directory
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Thank you again, Glenn and Ed. You are obviously correct, Glenn, because the house names are the same in South Road River in 1938-9 and Cowper Road in 1965. This has been really helpful.
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