Queens Park Motors, Salford - revisited
Queens Park Motors, Salford- affectionately known as Queenies to all the pimply youths around here who used to go and press their noses up to the window and drool over all those lovely motorcycles. Dunno why they did that - they could've gone inside lol.
The "heyday" as far as I'm concerned was in the early 80s - some of those bikes especially the two strokes are now fast appreciating "classics".
I always wondered why the shop was called Queens Park Motors and not Queens Park Motorcycles.
On Google Images there are a couple of photos right at the top of the search that were both taken on my camera. They actually generate a fair degree of speculation on social media, too.
Clearly the building isn't a motorcycle shop now - its some kind of "self contained apartments" but I don't recall seeing the word luxury anywhere.
Anyway in the spirit of my Flickr "revisited" album I tried to get the flavour of one of the original 1985 photos - clearly not an exact replica a. because I used a self timer b. there is only me in the photo this time and c. there is no Ford Mustang...just my Kawasaki.
As I kept running backwards and forwards over Cobden Street, motorists were wondering what the heck was going on - also leaving my Shoei and bag full of camera equipment unattended maybe wasn't such a great idea, but hey ho , it all kinda turned out as I intended
Queens Park Motors, Salford - revisited
Queens Park Motors, Salford- affectionately known as Queenies to all the pimply youths around here who used to go and press their noses up to the window and drool over all those lovely motorcycles. Dunno why they did that - they could've gone inside lol.
The "heyday" as far as I'm concerned was in the early 80s - some of those bikes especially the two strokes are now fast appreciating "classics".
I always wondered why the shop was called Queens Park Motors and not Queens Park Motorcycles.
On Google Images there are a couple of photos right at the top of the search that were both taken on my camera. They actually generate a fair degree of speculation on social media, too.
Clearly the building isn't a motorcycle shop now - its some kind of "self contained apartments" but I don't recall seeing the word luxury anywhere.
Anyway in the spirit of my Flickr "revisited" album I tried to get the flavour of one of the original 1985 photos - clearly not an exact replica a. because I used a self timer b. there is only me in the photo this time and c. there is no Ford Mustang...just my Kawasaki.
As I kept running backwards and forwards over Cobden Street, motorists were wondering what the heck was going on - also leaving my Shoei and bag full of camera equipment unattended maybe wasn't such a great idea, but hey ho , it all kinda turned out as I intended