Queens Park Motors, Salford - Revisited in 2020 (part 2)
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. I'm not even sure what a "non" self - contained apartment is. A shared bathroom perhaps? Yuk.
The kerbing is the same, the conduit is still on the wall on the right and there are the holes where the bracket used to be.
Anyway in the spirit of my Flickr "revisited" album I tried to get the flavour of both of the original 1985 photos - clearly not an exact replica because there is nobody in the photo, just my Kawasaki. But its exactly the same spot (it took me a few minutes to figure it out, because it looks so different).
Queens Park Motors, Salford - Revisited in 2020 (part 2)
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. I'm not even sure what a "non" self - contained apartment is. A shared bathroom perhaps? Yuk.
The kerbing is the same, the conduit is still on the wall on the right and there are the holes where the bracket used to be.
Anyway in the spirit of my Flickr "revisited" album I tried to get the flavour of both of the original 1985 photos - clearly not an exact replica because there is nobody in the photo, just my Kawasaki. But its exactly the same spot (it took me a few minutes to figure it out, because it looks so different).