I Remember When

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  • volvoman9
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    edited November 2016 #602

    Metal dustbins Happy that the bottom used to fall out of
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  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited November 2016 #603

    I remember when there were no calculators.

  • ABM
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    edited November 2016 #604

    I  remember  seeing  a  film  about  skool kids  in  Japan  using  the  Abacus Surprised   !  They  didnot  have  calculators  either Wink 
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  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited November 2016 #605

    I remember when Maths was split into Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry.

  • ABM
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    edited November 2016 #606

    I  remember  the  other  one,  Malcolm, { --  he  used  to  be  in  Only  Fools  and  Horses  }  Trigger   Nomentally  or  some  such  !!

  • cyberyacht
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    edited November 2016 #607

    I remember manual choke buttons

  • papgeno
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    edited November 2016 #608

    I remember earth closets which had to emptied by the night soil men. The captain of our bell ringing team drove the night soil lorry, a nicer bloke you couldn't wish to meet.

  • hostahousey
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    edited November 2016 #609

    I remember Beeza Bantams

  • volvoman9
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    edited November 2016 #610

    the rentman Sad

  • briantimber
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    edited November 2016 #611

    I remember the horrible smell when on the trams in SheffieldFrown

  • triky auto
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    edited November 2016 #612

    I remember the smell of an Uncle's kitchen when he was cooking up the back yard chickens Bran and potatoes mashYell.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited November 2016 #613

    I remember when there used to be power cuts.

  • Whittakerr
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    edited November 2016 #614

    Teams used to fear playing Manchester United.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited November 2016 #615

    I  remember  the  other  one,  Malcolm, { --  he  used  to  be  in  Only  Fools  and  Horses  }  Trigger   Nomentally  or  some  such  !!

    Write your comments here...Yes, Trigonometry!

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2016 #616

    I remember when Scotland had a football team full of class players.

  • neveramsure
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    edited November 2016 #617

    I remember when only women wore pink.Laughing

  • Whittakerr
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    edited November 2016 #618

    6 day test matches and 8 ball overs

  • robsail
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    edited November 2016 #619

    I remember the green goddess fire engines used during fireman's strike.

  • robsail
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    edited November 2016 #620

    I remember going to murrayfield to watch Wales v Scotland before the stands were built. great atmosphere!

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited November 2016 #621

    I remember my first day at work after leaving school.

  • cyberyacht
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    edited November 2016 #622

    I remember the "Bedenham bang". It would seem to have been tempting providence by the Navy to subsequently have a vessel of the same name as events a year later in Gibraltar were to prove.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited November 2016 #623

    I remember visiting Gibraltar in 2009.

  • Whittakerr
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    edited November 2016 #624

    I remember digging out the stump of a cheery tree in my front garden one satuerday and hearing the bang of the IRA bomb in Manchester 15 miles away.Sad

  • neveramsure
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    edited November 2016 #625

    I remember reading the headlines when Elvis died, I was working on nightshift and someone nipped out for a very early morning paper. I couldn’t believe it at first.Don't cry

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited November 2016 #626

    I remember the days of Beatlemania

  • neveramsure
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    edited November 2016 #627

    I remember when double white lines were first introduced.

    I was walking home fron junior school and my granddad stopped to pick me up, he got booked by the local bobby.Surprised

  • papgeno
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    edited November 2016 #628

    I remember when cinemas had only one screen. We drove past a cinema today and I asked my GS how many screens there were, he told me 8!!

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited November 2016 #629

    I remember when cinemas had only one screen. We drove past a cinema today and I asked my GS how many screens there were, he told me 8!!

    Write your comments here...Not just one screen but a much bigger screen and much larger auditoriums.

  • neveramsure
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    edited November 2016 #630

    I remember when cinemas had only one screen. We drove past a cinema today and I asked my GS how many screens there were, he told me 8!!

    Write your comments here...Not just one screen but a much bigger screen and much larger auditoriums.

    Yes and with usherettes walking down the aisles selling ice-cream in the intermission.Smile

    In those days you sometimes got two films, an A and a B film. Today we just get lots of B films.Undecided 

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited November 2016 #631

    I remember it well. I also remember the usherettes showing you to your seat with a torch. That cinema building in Worthing facing the sea front is still there. It's outside appearance hasn't changed since I was a child!