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Any hope of salvation for this Vauxhall Victor F Series of 1959/60? A sticker in the windshield suggested it last ran in 1976. A most uncommon find in the United States...
At the right: Pontiac Silver Streak 8. An early 50-model equipped with an eight cilinder engine.
Glendale (Utah), August 2014
Looking as though it has never had a repaint since being delivered new, humble and battered '48DS' class Ruston & Hornsby (W/No.265611 built in 1948) stands at George Cohen's Creekmouth scrapyard near Barking, Essex, on 7th June 1970.
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What I believe to be former Nottingham CT 609 (M609UTV), in Albert Looms scrapyard prior to breaking today (16Aug2018). All identity had been removed, but the bus's front nearside roof dome was showing Nottingham CT green through the 'rubbed' white paint, giving a further clue. At the time of the photo, the vehicle had just been shunted into this prone position with a forklift truck, to await the yard's mechanical grab.
Note: Through people with more knowledge on these buses than me, I have since discovered that the bus is actually 609, not 675, so I've had to make corrections. The bus had more recently been with the Nottingham Historic Vehicle Charity in Hucknall, Nottingham.
Clipped wing Boeing 747-436 G BYGB minus her flight deck along with G BYGF & G CIVJ at Cotswold/Kemble (EGBA) in July 2021. Delivered to British Airways in 1999 G BYGB was wfu in March 2020 stored at Cardiff briefly before the short hop to Kemble in Sept 2020, she was completely scrapped by Aug 2021.
Barry Scrapyard in the early 1980s.
I hope I find the negatives one day and see what else is on the film and maybe get reprints of these faded and discoloured survivors too.
From Wikipedia:
Woodham Brothers Ltd.
It is noted globally for its 1960s activity as a scrapyard (hence its colloquial name of Barry Scrapyard), where 297 withdrawn British Railways steam locomotives were sent, from which 213 were rescued for the developing railway preservation movement.
Scrapyard NYC (previously known as Bomb the System and Soho Down & Under) is an art shop in SoHo that has become a hub for Graffiti artists
Climbing out of Dewsbury on the London & North Western (LNWR) towards Leeds, 802215 works 9E07 Liverpool Lime Street to Newcastle.
The unit is passing over the remains of the Great Northern Railway (GNR) Crackenedge Tunnel (179 yards) and site of Batley Carr station on the GNR Dewsbury-Batley line which closed in 1965, now the site of a scrapyard.
Befeza Zinc's plant switcher makes a quick trip over to the NS interchange. I've passed over these tracks many times in the last 8 years of shooting Lhoist, but this was the first time I've ever actually seen the train that runs on them. A cool surprise.
The ever changing scrap pile.
2007 chevy in the pile & 20 year old peugeot.
Chevy scrapped with mot until Feb 2016 & 60,000 miles.
With BR Standard Class 4 No.75069 about to start another term on the Severn Valley Railway shortly, after a long restoration, this picture may be of interest showing the engine awaiting collection from Barry scrapyard in August 1972.
A scrapyard was in operation at Angerstein's Wharf, Greenwich from about 1956 until the late 1980s. Here is Hibberd 4wDM 3813/56, still carrying the number from it's previous owner, Samuel Williams, Dagenham Dock, shunting in August 1983.
Pentax K1000/Vivitar 28mm
Ilford XP-1
Another Gem from the John Wiltshire collection. A 35mm Kodachrome slide taken in October 1969 at Barry Docks. Andrew and his brother pose for the camera.
British Thomson-Houston Type 1 D8206 built in 1957 came from Stratford in April 1969 and was soon cutup by 1970,
Bröderna Ivansson's scrapyard has gone from being a destruction site for cars to a cultural meeting place.
A different attraction
Båstnäs is truly a different attraction, northern Europe's only car scrapyard of its kind. If you travel from Töcksfors via Västra Fågelvik for approximately 25 kilometers on winding dirt roads, you will come to a signpost where it says Här lüttar allmn väg, then you will find yourself in Båstnäs and the car cemetery, and immediately existence feels a little surreal.
Cultural meeting place
The car cemetery is a monument to a time that has moved. Now the cars in Båstnäs can be seen as an installation where nature is the most important actor. Over the years, Båstnäs has become a cultural meeting place for artists and especially photographers from all over the world.
A large variety of vehicles and the odd locomotive, (Irish Railways I think) give the impression of chaos in the scrapyard. This is a film scan of a photo taken on 20/1/1990 at Vic Berry's scrapyard in Leicester.
A very solid looking one too. I think the fact it's been parked here suggests they want to keep it intact. Looks like a low-spec model, with no rubbing strips or head-rests.
Streetview images from 2012 and 2015 show it was in exactly the same place back then, it's deteriorated remarkably little in that time.
Mercedes CE W124, Fiat Panda and rusty Citroen H-Van keeping it company, in probably one of the nicest settings for a scrapyard that I've encountered.