Arts and Crafts

Posed appropriately outside a beauty salon, here is a rather splendid Austin Healey 3000 from 1963.

Once upon a time, Britain was known as a manufacturing country. We made stainless steel cutlery, sports cars, ships, aircraft and a whole lot more besides.




These days we are just left with the finance industry, and that only seems to manufacture headlines and excuses.

Comments

  1. Peter1 July 2012 at 12:01

    Excellently seen picture with the words beauty and what was once the pride of the UK.

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  2. Pete (The Snaarman)1 July 2012 at 14:22

    The artwork in the background was more by luck than judgement I fear

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