I Remember When

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  • cyberyacht
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    edited August 2016 #482

    Mk 8 goggles Tongue Out

  • Chris102
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    edited August 2016 #483

    Horse and cart rag and bone man came round the streets and I could get a goldfish in a plastic bag of water In exchange for old cloths.

    I was supposed to get Donkey stone for whitening the doorstep edges.

  • Chris102
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    edited August 2016 #484

    I can also remember the milkman coming round with a horse and cart caring milk churns we used to take a jug out to him for our milk.

  • papgeno
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    edited September 2016 #485

    When the Co-op gave a dividend (the divvie). Each customer had a number. I was reminded of this last week at Ferry Meadows because the code for the amenities block was the same as our old divvie number. I thought the number was familiar and then remembered
    it from 60 odd years ago, short term memory is rubbish but long term wow!

  • Rubytuesday
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    edited September 2016 #486

    The Tiger in your tank 

  • Jo J
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    edited September 2016 #487

    Having to clean my shoes every night after dinner.

  • Rubytuesday
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    edited September 2016 #488

    and I had to do the dishes , not much has changed Sad except for the dishwasher 

  • hostahousey
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    edited September 2016 #489

    When petrol had stars.

  • Rubytuesday
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    edited September 2016 #490

    no traffic jams 

  • hostahousey
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    edited September 2016 #491

    When diesel was cheaper than petrol

  • hostahousey
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    edited September 2016 #492

    Woollen swimming trunks........that filled with water

  • cyberyacht
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    edited September 2016 #493

    Frilly bathing caps

  • hostahousey
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    edited September 2016 #494

    popit beads

  • briantimber
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    edited September 2016 #495

    Asking for a "short back and sides and some of the top" at the barber's......Cool

  • cyberyacht
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    edited September 2016 #496

    and 'something for the weekend?'

  • hostahousey
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    edited September 2016 #497

    Used rainwater for bathing

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited September 2016 #498

    Outside toilets

  • briantimber
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    edited September 2016 #499

    Outside "coalhouse" or to be posh, coalbunker....Cool

  • hostahousey
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    edited October 2016 #500

    When parks were not open on Sunday's 

  • papgeno
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    edited October 2016 #501

    When having electricity and a toilet put in your house was the height of luxury. In our village you could listen to steam radio but it would be battery powered. When the battery needed charging you took it to the local shop and swapped it for a charged one.

  • volvoman9
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    edited October 2016 #502

    When you were woken up by the milkman rattleing his empties Surprised

  • papgeno
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    edited October 2016 #503

    When you were woken up by the milkman rattleing his empties Surprised

    Write your comments here...or the knocker upper tapping his stick on the window ( no I'm not quite that old)

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited October 2016 #504

    I remember when there was no such thing as electric hook-up.

  • Oneputt
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    edited October 2016 #505

    Walking down to old Percy James to get our wireless accumulator recharged

  • papgeno
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    edited October 2016 #506

    When if you used the wash rooms on club sites you stood in line watching everybody else get washed. No privacy cubicles then.

  • volvoman9
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    edited October 2016 #507

    When you were woken up by the milkman rattleing his empties Surprised

    Write your comments here...or the knocker upper tapping his stick on the window ( no I'm not quite that old)

    Or the knocker upper and the milkman fighting in the street Surprised

  • jeffcc
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    edited October 2016 #508

    When a 20 mile trip was a long way with the car and caravan!

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited October 2016 #509

    When caravans were in the shape of a box without streamlining.

  • hostahousey
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    edited October 2016 #510

    Darned socks

  • Navigateur
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    edited October 2016 #511

    When balls were two inches.

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