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weenie
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just thinking about a friend of mine where i used to live and rememberd you dont see fruit and veg man coming round in his little van any more on a saturday. i could do with him still been around.
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Bramley4woods
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| weenie wrote: |
| just thinking about a friend of mine where i used to live and rememberd you dont see fruit and veg man coming round in his little van any more on a saturday. i could do with him still been around. |
We didn't have a fruit and veg man coming round but the local greengrocers would deliver on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. Thrift Stores had a mobile shop which came around (I worked on it for a bit once) but the stock level was kept down to single items of most things.
He used to carry the orders in a small trailer pulled by a saloon car, on Wednesdays (half day closing in the shop) there weren't too many orders to deliver so he shuffled them up to one end of his trailer and used the other half to sell coalbricks from the street !
Which is another thing you don't see anymore :
Coalbricks.
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sundowner
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I remember a man who used to come round our streets in Hunslet selling pottery eg mugs cups and plates jugs any thing in that line. Also if not said before the knife sharpener used to come on a bike he had to peddle to turn the stone.
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Si
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Ham shanks spareribs bread and butter puddinga lot of the young ones would not eat this now its all dont eat this dont eat that. I think if we had to live on todays foods in the amounts we got we would not be here. |
You can still get ham shanks at Morrisons. Helen puts in water for a day, to remove the excess salt, drains it, then soaks some dried peas, she then boils the shank, removes it, and boils up the peas in the ham liquour, then having removed the ham from the bone adds it to the soup deelish! They also have pea soup in Holland its' called "ern soep" it has sausage in it but it's the same idea. |
They make a pea soup with sausages in it in Austria and Germany, too. It's called ebsenzuppe mit wurst - or summat like that.
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Chrism
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Geordie-exile
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Ha! The numbers don't add up to 21 and they're not your initials so you won't be winning the Lottery tomorrow.
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Chrism
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That's true, I don't do it! he he he
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rangieowner
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| wiggy wrote: |
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Erm.. things we don't see these days> How about munki... Were are you  |
yes,and rangieowner....where did he go...
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Nice to know i was missed!! but i'm back!!
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rangieowner
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| fevlad wrote: |
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| life sized charity collection boxes,usually of kids wearing callipers,or dogs and cats when for the pdsa. |
there's one in ASDA at Holt Park
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My word is that still there? must have been tnere 25 years or more that!
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rangieowner
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| stevief wrote: |
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I prefer my toms that colour!
Anyhoo, more things you don't see anymore:
Tissue paper wrapped around your Jaffa oranges. We used to twist the corners and blow them around the oilcloth. Ee life were grand. Hallowe'en lanterns made out of swede [we had to eat the inside] with a candle in. Flippin' US pumpkin ideas. 
Kids pushing their Guy Fawkes [always wearing that orange mask - the only one available at the local sweet shop] round the houses in an old pram. Telegraph poles with slanted supports. Fevlad. |
I haven't seen tangerines for years.It's satsumas and clementines now. |
Tangerines? Try TESCO! I bought a bag of tangerines last week!!
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rangieowner
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anyway, what about £1 notes? You don't see them anymore!
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rangieowner
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| Trojan wrote: |
| compton wrote: |
| Regarding the three wheeled railway trucks, I believe they were called "The Iron Horse", and made by leyland? |
I think it was Mechanical Horse and they were made by Scamell - which eventually became part of Leyland. There were a couple of versions. The later ones had a big bulbous front, see picture. They were operated by the railway company but I suppose there were other operators. |
Scammel Scarab that is i believe! could be wrong but my brother agrees so that's two of us
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sundowner
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| rangieowner wrote: |
| anyway, what about £1 notes? You don't see them anymore! |
Hi rangieowner Ten bob notes or white fivers not that there were any white fivers in our house when i was a kid.
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FLOJO
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| Bramley4woods wrote: |
| weenie wrote: |
| just thinking about a friend of mine where i used to live and rememberd you dont see fruit and veg man coming round in his little van any more on a saturday. i could do with him still been around. |
We didn't have a fruit and veg man coming round but the local greengrocers would deliver on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. Thrift Stores had a mobile shop which came around (I worked on it for a bit once) but the stock level was kept down to single items of most things.
He used to carry the orders in a small trailer pulled by a saloon car, on Wednesdays (half day closing in the shop) there weren't too many orders to deliver so he shuffled them up to one end of his trailer and used the other half to sell coalbricks from the street !
Which is another thing you don't see anymore :
Coalbricks. |
I lived Leeds 15 and can remember in the 60s Co-op coming Wednesdays and Fridays in one of those large vans that turned in the middle, if you gave your order Wednesday they delivered it Friday, also Co-op used to have a greengrocery van on same day selling fresh fish and fruit and veg.
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Leeds-lad
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Me pushing a pram full of washing up Carr Crofts( Armley) to Wash house for me Mam
Jerries under the bed
Bread poultices
Darts made with 4 matchsticks/wool for flights and a needle,
fired like a blow dart through long tube
Bikes with carrier on front,I used to have a Saturday job delivering groceries round Armley for Gallon's on Town St.
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sundowner
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| Leeds-lad wrote: |
Me pushing a pram full of washing up Carr Crofts( Armley) to Wash house for me Mam
Jerries under the bed
Bread poultices
Darts made with 4 matchsticks/wool for flights and a needle,
fired like a blow dart through long tube
Bikes with carrier on front,I used to have a Saturday job delivering groceries round Armley for Gallon's on Town St.
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Hi LeedsLad i remember going to the gas works in Meadow Lane with an old pram to get coke for the fire also remember going to the hen run to find coal on the pit heaps, in trouble if you got caught. Can you see kids doing that now?Used to go to farmer wards field for tushky i think thats how you spell it allso round Leeds Market getting scabby apples and anything else that was going. When my best friend left Hunslet they hired an handcart and we both moved all there gear up to Belle Isle took about six trips .You took things like that in your stride if i had my time again would not have it any different made me who i am now. I will tell you a funny story i went up to Farmer Wards at one time found a field of sweads after getting one giveing it a clean bit of the skin and had a few bites got a few more took them home my mum said there not sweads turns they were something called horse mangles.
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raveydavey
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What about the YEP publishing "lighting up" times?
These were the times between which you had to have the headlights on if you were lucky enough to be able to afford a car to be out and about in. You could put them on earlier if you wished, but you were likely to get a ticket if a constable caught you after the alloted time with no lights on.
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Bramley4woods
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[quotenick="sundowner"]
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| I will tell you a funny story i went up to Farmer Wards at one time found a field of sweads after getting one giveing it a clean bit of the skin and had a few bites got a few more took them home my mum said there not sweads turns they were something called horse mangles. |
Turnips, more or less.
You were lucky, my wife was Scottish, she was brought up on them !
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jamesy08
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not seening adverts for hoildays in uk and the hoildays brocheues on tv any more which came out about christmas time and start of winter january time
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FLOJO
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I can remember taking a bottle to Watsons shop on Barwick road Stanks for malt vinegar straight from the barrel and dringing some on the way home. The malt vinegar you get now does not taste the same.
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FLOJO
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I can remember taking a bottle to Watsons shop on Barwick road Stanks for malt vinegar straight from the barrel and dringing some on the way home. The malt vinegar you get now does not taste the same.
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drapesy
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| raveydavey wrote: |
What about the YEP publishing "lighting up" times?
These were the times between which you had to have the headlights on if you were lucky enough to be able to afford a car to be out and about in. You could put them on earlier if you wished, but you were likely to get a ticket if a constable caught you after the alloted time with no lights on. |
Are you sure about that?? I always believed that 'lighting up time' was the time when the street lights were switched on.
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weenie
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| jamesy08 wrote: |
| not seening adverts for hoildays in uk and the hoildays brocheues on tv any more which came out about christmas time and start of winter january time |
i also remember the YTV christmas line ad that used to be on at christmas. it went
"Ring YTV's Christmas line on Leeds 448 199"
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arry awk
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Swedes (no Offence, Sven!), and turnips, in
Scottish parlance, are known as NEAPS!
Favourite meal is Known as Mince,neaps and totties!
'Bashed Neaps and totties'; Items mashed together.
I love swede mashed with a dob of butter,drop of milk
and added black pepper!
Mangolds (Similar) are used for cattle feed.
'Lighting up time' WAS law enforceable,and did apply
to all motor vehicles at the times specified in the local
papers. I think all they print now are sunrise and sunset
times!
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chameleon
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| arry awk wrote: |
Swedes (no Offence, Sven!), and turnips, in
Scottish parlance, are known as NEAPS!
Favourite meal is Known as Mince,neaps and totties!
'Bashed Neaps and totties'; Items mashed together.
I love swede mashed with a dob of butter,drop of milk
and added black pepper!
Mangolds (Similar) are used for cattle feed.
'Lighting up time' WAS law enforceable,and did apply
to all motor vehicles at the times specified in the local
papers. I think all they print now are sunrise and sunset
times! |
Used to be sidelights only, for the half hour after sunset and half hour before sunrise, with dipped headlamps obligatory in between. These days though it's as much about being seen as seeing so wise to use headlights whenever vissibility is poor - and not the blessed fog-lights!
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