Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Chatting on the Plot => Topic started by: AlaninCarlisle on December 20, 2022, 13:16
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So many things we took for granted have now disappeared from our lives.
Nuns in those extravagantly starched head-dresses. They looked like swans in full plumage. They used to be a familiar sight in our towns and cities. Haven't seen one in donkey's years
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Nun left? :unsure:
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don't see any local banks anymore round here anymore and jars of sweets local bobby or policeman
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In the village where I grew up, there was an old boy who would clear all the grass and stuff from the verges around all the roads.
He'd only use a swap and forked stick, and would stick a red flag in the hedge he'd just finished to warn people where he was!
He was always bent double, and it was no surprise that when he eventually stood up, he couldn't - he always walked like that!
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Poor chap probably had osteoporosis.
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Other things you don't see anymore:
Queues outside butchers and bakeries
Salvation Army bands playing carols in the streets
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Salvation Army bands playing carols in the streets
We had the Sally Army Carols up until Covid, be interesting to see if they come round this year :)
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In Rye, close by, the local Rotary Club would always have a big tree and music with carols ablaze, stuck outside The Rye Club in Market Road!
They always collected a shed-load of cash, but now we're a bit further away, not much from us, sadly!
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Carol singers knocking at the door and those paper chain decs you stuck together and strung up which later came undone. :)
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Kids carting a Guy Fawkes around in the weeks leading up to Bonfire Night, knocking on doors and asking for "a penny for the Guy"
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Carol singers knocking at the door and those paper chain decs you stuck together and strung up which later came undone. :)
Yes you do for the paper chains, I’ve just given a load of pre cut packs to keep my grandchildren busy for the next day or so :D
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Things I never see any more memory is of bus chassis drivers bundled up against the weather driving the open chassis to the coachbuilders to have the bodywork fitted.
Two inch of milk on top of the bottles on the doorstep.
Satsumas in silver paper.
Cheers, Tony.
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My never see any more memory is of bus chassis drivers bundled up against the weather driving the open chassis to the coachbuilders to have the bodywork fitted.
You might have seen my Dad then as that is the job he did after he had finished his National Service.
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your so write on that one about the bus chassis Tony when I was a HGV driver I used to see many of them driving up the motorways well kitted out goggles and all and Alan I did see a queues outside a butcher shop in Rugby on Monday I was going to get some meat from there but I could be bothered to wait went to another butchers nearer to home no ques :)
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My never see any more memory is of bus chassis drivers bundled up against the weather driving the open chassis to the coachbuilders to have the bodywork fitted.
You might have seen my Dad then as that is the job he did after he had finished his National Service.
As a matter of interest wighty, how far did your Dad drive those busses? Cheers, Tony.
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I don't really know as when I was born my Dad still had six months left to go on his National Service and he was stationed in Germany. I think they drove them up to Birmingham. I only know he did it as I've been told the story all my life.
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Other things you don't see anymore:
Queues outside butchers and bakeries
Salvation Army bands playing carols in the streets
My local butchers always opens at about 6am. On the Christmas orders collection day, the queue round the block starts shortly after that, and continues until much later in the day. They always keep the queue good natured by giving out port (or orange juice) and sweets. It's a local tradition!
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Wickerwork shopping baskets
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In the village where I grew up, there was an old boy who would clear all the grass and stuff from the verges around all the roads.
He'd only use a swap and forked stick, and would stick a red flag in the hedge he'd just finished to warn people where he was!
He was always bent double, and it was no surprise that when he eventually stood up, he couldn't - he always walked like that!
Sounds like a council lengthsman, which is a job my Grandad did for a while, he was a bit stooped too! Other jobs he did that you no longer see included sitting in a wooden hut taking a traffic census, and gritting roads by shovelling grit off the back of a moving lorry in icy weather. As a youngster though I had the worlds supply of marbles (from when he was on the gulley wagon) and conkers, because he knew where the best trees were!
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Well, I'm amazed no one has mentioned the obvious.
A part of my anatomy I've had since birth, but now I need to use a mirror!
It could by my tongue...
Cheers, Tony.
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The rag and bone man
The coalman carrying great sacks of coal from the lorry
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The Corona man coming round once a week in his van.
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Off topic, but Gardener and Rabbit, are you still up for a few crossword clues again?
I'm on my fourth book of DT puzzles, but they don't get any easier..:0~
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Hello regarding a coal man I see one every fortnight he delivers coal to my house ,we have refused the air sourced heat pump,the kids with the guy have up dated round us they have a card reader with them,and the bus chassis ,saw 4 being driven on the M62 a couple of months ago coming from Hull towards Selby as theres a bus builder there (Optaire Leyland Ashok) jezza
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Small bottles of milk for school children
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The rag and bone man.
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School kids going spud-picking in the October half-term school holiday
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We have a scrap man who goes round once a week. Milk man comes round twice a week.
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Fish and chip van that used to visit all the villages when I was a kid.
Fish and chips in newspaper.
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School kids going spud-picking in the October half-term school holiday
I did that for a couple of years, and also strawberry picking first thing in the morning.
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Fish and chip van that used to visit all the villages when I was a kid.
Fish and chips in newspaper.
Our fish and chip van visits every Monday. Wish it was Friday as Mrs Hog likes fish then.
Nonetheless it’s damn good, perhaps too good Post Christmas :D HH
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Those tiny lemon shaped and coloured jelly like containers of cigarrete lighter fluid.
Have a happy hogmanay and "Lang may yer lum reek".
Don't forget the black bun and lump of coal.
Cheers, Tony. :lol:
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Hello I think Cream Crackers are a thing of the past non available for 2 months ,a local bank,been told I can use the mobile bank in Cumbria only 25 minutes away Haha about 8 hours round trip ,I'm in East yorkshire, jezza
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Can still get Jacobs cream crackers 'down here'..
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Don't forget the black bun and lump of coal
Never heard that before what does it mean :)
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'Aztec' bars and 'Pan Yan Pickle' - not on the same plate...
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Those discrete corsetry adverts in the newspapers
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NHS (?) bottles of orange juice with blue tops...
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My feet :D :lol:
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The Corona man coming round once a week in his van.
I remember "Beer at home with Davenports"!
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Hop scotch chalk lines on pavements
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Hop scotch chalk lines on pavements
They get drawn along the terrace footpath, here, and with little footfall they last a long while ;)
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Good morning everybody, following on from Mum's contibution on street games, how about "The Diabalo"!
Also the whip and top. Whilst in North Kelantan staying with the Temour tribe, their kids were experts at whip and tops. These were carved out by their parents and they were about six inches tall, and boy did they shift! You had to watch your ankles shooting across the dusty centre of the kampong. :D
Cheers, Tony.
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Or the yo-yo. Not the edible one, the toy on a piece of string
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members of our allotment ( must be to cold for them )
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Rag rugs and the frame upon which they were produced. Sitting round the frame with a bag of rags at your feet and a brocken, sharpened dolly peg to push the rags through the sacking.
Cheers, Tony.
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Packs of dogs following a bitch in heat being led out on a lead
Dogs chasing cars down the street
Three-legged dogs (probably chased a car once too often!)
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White dog muck slowly bleaching in the sun!
Cheers, Tony.
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Buying butter that was cut off a block, sugar wrapped in blue paper bags and bread wrapped in tissue paper then twisted round in the air so the ends of the paper were fastened.
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Plus, GG, baker's vans!
We used to have a van every few days, and I always marvelled at his long stick with a nail in the end to pull the loaves back from the darkest interior of his van!
Loaves were either a tin, or occasionally a 'sausage loaf', ('fattish' baguette), or just a plain brown loaf, which was pretty boring...
When you consider that even Tesco's (Aldi-match) Hovis white bread costs around 7p a slice, the mind-boggling starts to get a bit weary!
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Don't remember baker's vans but there was a travelling fishmonger.
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Don't remember baker's vans but there was a travelling fishmonger.
One of our neighbours at our last house used to sell fish from his van!
He was a great chap and a good friend, and the only beef (?) we had was that he would park outside, and open his van doors to air out the back...
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The first "house" was a black felted nissun hut and being surrounded by displaced Poles. There was a VW van used to visit with a wide selection of home made polish sweets...but not for us. (Carleton Camp Penrith).
Cheers, Tony.
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Sorry folks, I know we have this topic already, but I cannot find it.
Office clerks, Are there none anymore, all IT specialists ?
Shop assistants - Now, retail sales executives.
Mrs Bouquet
Found it for you, Mrs B and merged them together :)
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Shirt arm-bands
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Knotted hankies on the beach.
(https://c8.alamy.com/zooms/9/729f52a1ad05424cbbc046111b439962/2hjabja.jpg)
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What is the lady wearing on her head ??? It looks like a woolly hat, but surely not :unsure:
Some sort of sun bonnet ? As Aunty is the forum bonnet queen maybe she knows :lol:
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It's a straw hat, made with a straw strip coiled round and round until it meets itself at the crown. The fabric was just a trim where the rim was stitched on :D
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It's a straw hat, made with a straw strip coiled round and round until it meets itself at the crown. The fabric was just a trim where the rim was stitched on :D
Spot on Mum ! :D
My Nanna and my Mum would make us a new straw bonnet every spring. You can still buy the straw tape to make them with.