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wiggy
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The BB Hymn was 'Sure and Stedfast' (Words correct!)
I was in the 10th Leeds Coy at The Woodsley Rd Methdist
(I think) Church! Had to attend every Sunday. Was in the 'Lifeys' too prior to that. 'Miss' used to line us up and each lad had to show
his hands and then his knees, to see if we were clean!.Sent home if she spotted mucky hands or knees! I was glad to progress into the BB when we could wear long trousers! I left in 1943 to join
the Army Cadets (2nd.Battn. West Yorkshire Regt). I was a year underage but they let me join 'cos dad was in the army! Have
described my uniform issued from the Corn Exchange, previously. See Corn Exchange thread.
More things you don't see (much!);
From the train alongside the tracks, A wooden 'cutout' of
2 painters carrying a long white plank with 'Hall's Distemper'
printed on it.
Station platform adverts for 'Mazzawattee' tea.
and Fry's 'Five Boys' chocolate in a penny machine.
Punched leather window straps in carriages to adjust
how far the 'drop' window opened.
3rd Class compartments on trains.
Pocket sized magazines like London Opinion and
Basinful of Fun,which nearly always contained a nude
lady,artistically posed!
Scammel Scarab(?)dustcarts with 'up and over' lidded
compartments for the dustmen to tip the galvanised
bins into. Also, Dustmen actually sweeping up any
stuff they spilled on the floor!
Water carts which sprinkled the streets to lay any dust
Bikes with roller-lever 'stirrup'brakes and Miller dynamo
lighting sets. The dynamo actually knocked 10mph off your
speed when it dragged on the side of your tyre! Dynohubs
were an improvement!
Auxilliary car parking lights ,compulsory on all streets and roads.
These clipped on your 'wind up 'windows,white lens to the front
and red to the rear. Saved the car battery because you didn't need
side and rear lamps left on all night.
More later!
Arry
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i think you rather like my little thread 'arry,don't you?
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stevief
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Women(usually)beating carpets using a purpose made(whicker-work?)beater.They were hung over the washing line in the street,the carpets not the women.
Knocker-uppers.Long before my time.
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fevlad
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| I can remember Morris Minors having an unusual indicator.It was a yellow 'pointer' which stuck out from the window frame between the front and rear side windows.I don't know whether it'Lit up at neet' but it was barely noticable in daylight. |
they were common on all cars.
they were the first things to break
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fevlad
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| I can remember Morris Minors having an unusual indicator.It was a yellow 'pointer' which stuck out from the window frame between the front and rear side windows.I don't know whether it'Lit up at neet' but it was barely noticable in daylight. |
they were common on all cars.
they were the first things to break
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Si
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| stevief wrote: |
| I can remember Morris Minors having an unusual indicator.It was a yellow 'pointer' which stuck out from the window frame between the front and rear side windows.I don't know whether it'Lit up at neet' but it was barely noticable in daylight. |
they were common on all cars.
they were the first things to break
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I think they were called "trafficators." Yes, they were illuminated. Probably got broken on the back of cyclists heads! Wartime German military VWs had them. Luckily not seen much in Leeds!
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chomic
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Do Boy Scouts still do 'Bob-a-job' or the decimal equivalent?
Proberbly not,it'd asking for trouble these days.
Talking toothpaste.My Grandad used something called Euthymol (I think) it was pink and tasted strange.
Bath time.(Once a week!)We used to have a real sponge.Apparently they're an endangered species now.
Never been a smoker but I can remember petrol fired cig.lighters.The Barber used to sell small plastic ampoules of petrol for re-fills and flints. |
I use Ehthymol toothpaste. Still readily available at the supermarket. It tastes great.
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arry awk
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Hi Wiggy
'Course I like your postings! Why do you ask????
No offence caused.I hope?
Trafficators. Lucas had them in their 'B90' Exchange
scheme along with startermotors,dynamos (B4 alternators!)
wiper motors etc. Biggest part of my sales turnover
in the 50's and 60's Much cheaper than paying for New units and we had to collect the old units to return to Lucas.
Euthymol. Used it for years cos it didn't contain fluoride, one of my
pet Anti's! If they ever 'fluoride' Leeds' water I'll emigrate!
More things not seen now?
Kids knocking on neighbour's doors at Whitsun asking for 'a
penny (or more!) for my new clothes!'
Effeminate (soft) boys called 'Laddilass!
Home made petrol lighters. Working in the maintenance dpt
at Marston radiators Armley Rd(part of ICI then),in 1944/5.
Rumour had it that firms turned out more cig lighters than
plane parts in the war. Not far wrong! Some great Lighters
were fashioned (Under the bench) out of odd scraps of brass.
The popular one was a Bible complete with a raised cross. The
'works' folded inside the bible cover.which had a black leather
surface!. I made a lighter out of a section of 1/2" copper tube
with a copper disc one end (Soldered) with a hole for the Wick.
The bottom end was a threaded copper bush with a washer and screw in plug, You could buy the wicks and a 'standard' containing flintwheel,flint, spring and end screw,and solder it to the side
of the tube with the spark gap inline with the wick. 'Pool' petrol
was kept on the premises so the 'lighter' was craftily dipped into
the tank. I went with mates to the Lyceum cinema that night and
Decided to use my new incinerator! Nearly set the Lyceum on fireas
petrol had leaked thru the wick hole and shot a flame a foot high
in the air. I managed to smother it and got thrown out!
The petrol refils you could buy for 1d, theywere in a gelatine
sealed tube and calle Tyreseules I think.
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Geordie-exile
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Laddielass! :lol: I'd forgotten that one.
Things you don't see now. Hmmm. Blokes 'standing on the corner watching all the girls go by'. I remember my uncle doing that. The whole extended family WALKING miles to the park and having a mass game of cricket. Women shouting choo-woo! Having a cotton hankie up your sleeve for school or silver sleeves for those who forgot. Hospitals smelling of disinfectant [hmmm, thereby hangs a tale]. Kids with a sticking plaster over one eye of their specs. Kids with 'polio leg' - one very much thinner than the other. Old people with rickets bow legs. Men with cauliflower ears. Penny ice lollies. H shaped TV aerials on everyone's roof. Women routinely walking round with curlers in under a headscarf.
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oldleedsman
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* Old ladies with transparent plastic rain hats that folded down to almost nothing.
* Old ladies with smelling-salts in their handbags.
* Old ladies with string bags that seemed to expand indefinitely, bulging with the daily vegetables.
* Getting fresh meat from the butchers, wrapped in white or light-brown paper.
* Cashing a cheque at the butchers when the banks were closed.
* Buying loose biscuits from large metal boxes (where was the hygiene?) at the grocers.
* Women under huge hairdryers, like mega beehives, for hours on end at the hairdressers.
* No self-service (grocers, greengrocers, petrol garages, etc.).
* 'I've got a tiger in my tank' tails attached to the back of bicycle seats.
* making toy men from pipe-cleaners (or were we just very poor?)
* Mr Potato Man kits
* Returnable bottles at the grocers
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Trojan
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| fevlad wrote: |
| stevief wrote: |
| I can remember Morris Minors having an unusual indicator.It was a yellow 'pointer' which stuck out from the window frame between the front and rear side windows.I don't know whether it'Lit up at neet' but it was barely noticable in daylight. |
they were common on all cars.
they were the first things to break
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They were called "trafficators" my Austin A30 had them, the only way I could get them to work was to bang on the door pillar!
In the driving test you had to demonstrate that you could give the relevent hand signals. Right arm straight out of the window for a right turn, right arm out of the window and moved in an anti clockwise circular motion for a left turn, and right arm out of the window and moved up and down for "I am about to stop" I used hand signals thoughout my test because I thought if the examiner saw my faulty "trafficator" he'd fail me.
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Trojan
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Hi Wiggy
More things not seen now?
Kids knocking on neighbour's doors at Whitsun asking for 'a
penny (or more!) for my new clothes!'
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We used to do that! We also used to go carol singing, we'd give them "We Three Kings" or "While Shepherds Watched" followed by "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" before knocking - 6d. was good! Today you get a garbled version of "Jingle Bells" if you're lucky. Helen (of Troy) put up a sign at our house last Christmas "Campaign for Real Carol Singers" with a tarrif for the various levels of effort. We didn't get any!
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stevief
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| arry awk wrote: |
Hi Wiggy
More things not seen now?
Kids knocking on neighbour's doors at Whitsun asking for 'a
penny (or more!) for my new clothes!'
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We used to do that! We also used to go carol singing, we'd give them "We Three Kings" or "While Shepherds Watched" followed by "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" before knocking - 6d. was good! Today you get a garbled version of "Jingle Bells" if you're lucky. Helen (of Troy) put up a sign at our house last Christmas "Campaign for Real Carol Singers" with a tarrif for the various levels of effort. We didn't get any! |
So called 'Carol' singers today knock on the door first then give a third rate rendition of 'We Wish you a Merry Christmas'and hold out a hand,looking down their noses if copper is proffered.We used to sing 2 or 3 Carols and then knock on the door.
Also I seem to remember putting a bit of effort into making a 'Guy Fawkes' now it's a pair of stuffed trousers and a Hallowe'en mask
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Trojan
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Hi Wiggy
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Also I seem to remember putting a bit of effort into making a 'Guy Fawkes' now it's a pair of stuffed trousers and a Hallowe'en mask
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Then of course there was " Mischief Night" which seems to have died a death - killed by "trick or treat" I suppose.
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pyghtle
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I have had such a laugh reading this thread! I have been making a list as I have been reading and then kept having to cross stuff off as I went along!!
My contribution..
Childrens Day, Roundhay Park
Cardboard milk bottle tops (been mentioned I think)
Liquorice sticks in water.
Going off on bikes for the day and nobody worrying about where you were
Knitted swimming costumes that went down to your knees when wet
Bile Beans
Girls Crystal
Collecting jam jars to get in the cinema (Western in Harehills)
Asking some stranger to take you in the cinema when you were underage...can you imagine that today!!!
Packing up your Liquorice water some jam and bread and going to the library gardens for the day
Swinging round the lamp post in our street
My uncle worked for Liptons and when he was courting my Aunt he used to call every day and the horse used to shove its head in my Grandmothers door for some sugar lumps!!
Brown cars...don't remember them.
What a great thread, my old man keeps coming to see what I am laughing at!!!
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wiggy
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I have had such a laugh reading this thread! I have been making a list as I have been reading and then kept having to cross stuff off as I went along!!
My contribution..
Childrens Day, Roundhay Park
Cardboard milk bottle tops (been mentioned I think)
Liquorice sticks in water.
Going off on bikes for the day and nobody worrying about where you were
Knitted swimming costumes that went down to your knees when wet
Bile Beans
Girls Crystal
Collecting jam jars to get in the cinema (Western in Harehills)
Asking some stranger to take you in the cinema when you were underage...can you imagine that today!!!
Packing up your Liquorice water some jam and bread and going to the library gardens for the day
Swinging round the lamp post in our street
My uncle worked for Liptons and when he was courting my Aunt he used to call every day and the horse used to shove its head in my Grandmothers door for some sugar lumps!!
Brown cars...don't remember them.
What a great thread, my old man keeps coming to see what I am laughing at!!!
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my gran talked of childrens day,and my dad tells me of swinging round the lamposts(he split his head doing that down beckett street way) and the jam jars at the western...where did you live as a kid??
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wiggy
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| arry awk wrote: |
Hi Wiggy
'Course I like your postings! Why do you ask????
No offence caused.I hope?
Trafficators. Lucas had them in their 'B90' Exchange
scheme along with startermotors,dynamos (B4 alternators!)
wiper motors etc. Biggest part of my sales turnover
in the 50's and 60's Much cheaper than paying for New units and we had to collect the old units to return to Lucas.
Euthymol. Used it for years cos it didn't contain fluoride, one of my
pet Anti's! If they ever 'fluoride' Leeds' water I'll emigrate!
More things not seen now?
Kids knocking on neighbour's doors at Whitsun asking for 'a
penny (or more!) for my new clothes!'
Effeminate (soft) boys called 'Laddilass!
Home made petrol lighters. Working in the maintenance dpt
at Marston radiators Armley Rd(part of ICI then),in 1944/5.
Rumour had it that firms turned out more cig lighters than
plane parts in the war. Not far wrong! Some great Lighters
were fashioned (Under the bench) out of odd scraps of brass.
The popular one was a Bible complete with a raised cross. The
'works' folded inside the bible cover.which had a black leather
surface!. I made a lighter out of a section of 1/2" copper tube
with a copper disc one end (Soldered) with a hole for the Wick.
The bottom end was a threaded copper bush with a washer and screw in plug, You could buy the wicks and a 'standard' containing flintwheel,flint, spring and end screw,and solder it to the side
of the tube with the spark gap inline with the wick. 'Pool' petrol
was kept on the premises so the 'lighter' was craftily dipped into
the tank. I went with mates to the Lyceum cinema that night and
Decided to use my new incinerator! Nearly set the Lyceum on fireas
petrol had leaked thru the wick hole and shot a flame a foot high
in the air. I managed to smother it and got thrown out!
The petrol refils you could buy for 1d, theywere in a gelatine
sealed tube and calle Tyreseules I think.
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not my postings 'arry,i mean this thread.....it was tailor made by me----for you!
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pyghtle
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Wiggy..I lived down Stoney Rock Lane in the Westlocks, opposite Burmantofts cemetery. Only one of the old streets left there now.
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fevlad
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hitch hikers at the start of a motorway.
I used to hitch everywhere: it was a kind of unwritten law that you hitched in the late 60s early 70s
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Trojan
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Brown cars...don't remember them.
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We had a brown car - a Y reg Ford Fiesta. It was a great car, it ran forever and never let us down - trouble was that Helen works at a place where they do sandblasting and it got blasted by accident one day so the paintwork started to go - they used to call it "the turd" where she worked.
She's still got a Fiesta - it's her third. They're great little cars.
Bile Beans
There used to be an advert for these on a shop end in Gillygate in York - my daughter was at Uni there and we used to look for it to make sure we were going the right way
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pyghtle
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Where are all the ladies on this thread!!!!
Washing Posser
Wooden washboard and wooden wringing machines
Toni hair Perms
Powdered eggs
Proper hankies
Sweet cigarettes
Flavoured wax lips
Bus conductors
Dansette Record Players.
Come on Ladies!!!
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pyghtle
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Hubby joining in now!!
Picking up coal on railway line East End Park
Neighbours rowing in the street
Potato Guns
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fevlad
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Neighbours rowing in the street
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did you flooded a lot or did you live near the canal?
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pyghtle
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Frost inside windows
Talking on tin cans with string
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Dalehelms
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Men wearing black rubber galoshes to keep rain and snow from spoiling their well polished shoes.
I had a brown car, a SAAB 95 estate "P" reg. It never fully recovered from then-partner reversing it into a tree. I also had a brown SAAB 96 but I cant remember its registration.
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wiggy
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Wiggy..I lived down Stoney Rock Lane in the Westlocks, opposite Burmantofts cemetery. Only one of the old streets left there now.
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my great aunt lived on westlock crescent....number 4...during the 30s 40s and 50s.
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