Whatsthisthen?

[mickthemaverick]

Melancholy French films, and melancholy French Music have a certain appeal

Anyone know their Alpines?

Whatsthisthen
Which film was this in in
Which long Running UK TV programme (still on rightnow), used a selection from one of the tracks on the film score for its theme
Who wrote the Oscar winning Film Score

REgards Neil

My full answer!!

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Whatsthisthen Alpine M63B
Which film was this in in A Man and a Woman
Which long Running UK TV programme (still on rightnow), used a selection from one of the tracks on the film score for its theme Panorama
Who wrote the Oscar winning Film Score Francis Lai

[NewcastleFalcon]

My full answer!!

Good work Mick. Correct.

Do you know your Alpines or did you go backwards from the Oscar winning film score

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

I know my Alpine research book!! Then went from the car to its French Film role and DDG did the rest!!

[mickthemaverick]

Here's one to ponder?

BFTW

[myglaren]

Opel?

Was in the seventies a client of the company I worked for had something very similar if not the same as that, sure it was an Opel but the strange thing was that it was diesel.

[NewcastleFalcon]

I would think you would be pretty close there Steve Looks very like at 1970's Opel GT, or seeing as it has US plates the GM equivalent.



REgards Neil

[Gibbo2286]

You guys have lost your mojo. best things from France.

[mickthemaverick]

You guys have lost your mojo. best things from France.

I refer you to my 2nd choice Gibbo!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Familiarity phenonemon or is Northumberland the Apline hotbed of the United Kingdom.

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

The ponderable was indeed this Opel GT

BFTW

Full details can be found here:

https://www.classiccarauctions.co.uk/ev ... 70-opel-gt

[NewcastleFalcon]

I am afraid this curiosity-fuelled self-imposed wheresthisthen? has got the Falcon beat, so to save further agony I throw this one open to the FCF, and if everyone gets stuck, lets hope Zel chips in with a few clues.

So Whereisthischurchthen? and What is it called

I presume from some deduction that it will be within 20-30 Miles of Milton Keynes, and therefore most likely to be in Buckinghamshire/Northants/Bedfordshire

Quite liked how this snap from this afternoon came out. I always enjoy photos where you really can't tell what year they were taken in.



Well, save for the post 2001 registration plates anyway, but we'll deal with those in due course.

Regards Neil

[myglaren]

I have what I think may be an interesting one.
Clues forthcoming if it proves difficult.

[NewcastleFalcon]

I have what I think may be an interesting one.
Clues forthcoming if it proves difficult.

Yours is St Joseph’s RC Church Birtley, designed by John Dobson

http://www.stjosephsbirtley.co.uk/aboutus.html

Bit easier for me than our outstanding one 20-30 miles from Milton Keynes, with no local knowledge to help

Regards Neil

[myglaren]

I didn't think it would be that easy Neil.
A lady came to see what I was snooping about at, was OK when I explained the reason.
Found a load of X-box games that someone has nicked and slung into the churchyard.

The John Dobson thing surprised me. I just realised yesterday that the car parts bloke I used from about 1981 until he retired was a John Dobson. Never knew until the next but one owner told me.

I only knew of the other as we used to park in the John Dobson Street car park.

The business was "Cocker's Car Spares" so we thought that he was John Cocker. It had been his RSM that called everyone 'cocker'!

Clues to the interesting connection here:

[NewcastleFalcon]

None of this l knew about before, Elizabethvile and the Birtley Belgians.

https://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/story/12224/

Or Wiki tells the story. In my meandering I came across a learning resource and project for the local schoolchildren very thorough, and an important part of local history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birtley_Belgians

Regards Neil