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wiggy
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just for a little light hearted relief,how about,rag and bone men,white dog poo and the two headed dog!
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Chrism
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Starlings swarming over Leeds city Centre looking for a roosting place. This was in the early 80's before everywhere was covered in netting!!!
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fevlad
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boils
rickets
those lethal pale blue three wheeler 'invalid carriages', which discriminated against people with a disability
people smoking in pubs(hurrah!) and other public places
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wiggy
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that purple stuff that the nit nurse put on everything from coldsores to shoe blisters.
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fevlad
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national health specs with jam jar bottom lenses
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wiggy
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chameleon
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Gran's goose-grease on your chest for winter colds, Yak! Good way to loose friends quickly!
The Water man checking your water (No wiggy not YOUR water works - listening for underground leaks at all the stoptaps outside your house!).
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cnosni
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Quality road tar that melts in the hot weather and you can pickoff with your fingers,spending hours trying to get it off.
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wiggy
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WHEN THE WATER BOARD USED TO OPEN STOP VALVES IN THE STREET,THEN TELL YOU TO GO AWAY WHEN YOU DANCED IN IT....ice on the inside of windows,chimney fires and my grandads army trench coat on the bed in the winter.
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fevlad
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rattles, rosettes, home maade scarves at rugby/soccer games
The Seacroft Hospital column in the Evening post on a staurday
bed number so and so very poorly ands so on
your shirt collar being black on the inside where it touched your neck at the end of the day
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wiggy
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| fevlad wrote: |
rattles, rosettes, home maade scarves at rugby/soccer games
The Seacroft Hospital column in the Evening post on a staurday
bed number so and so very poorly ands so on
your shirt collar being black on the inside where it touched your neck at the end of the day
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is my collar suposed to be clean then??
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wiggy
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cig,chocolate and gum machines outside shops,washing across the street and 40 a side football games in the streets.
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wiggy
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ooh ooh! coppers on the beat! and the school board man
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chameleon
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| wiggy wrote: |
| WHEN THE WATER BOARD USED TO OPEN STOP VALVES IN THE STREET,THEN TELL YOU TO GO AWAY WHEN YOU DANCED IN IT....ice on the inside of windows,chimney fires and my grandads army trench coat on the bed in the winter. |
Chimney Sweeps - always new how many rods it took before telling you it was time to go look for the brush coming out of the chimney!
And the coal man - no groans about manual handling from him trudging up and down the garden path with a cwt (that's about 50kilos for the young'ens) sack of the black stuff on his shoulder.
Not to mention the gas man resting his ladder against that sticky-out-bit at the top of the lamp post whilst he climbed up to wind the timer and check the gas mantle.
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wiggy
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| chameleon wrote: |
| wiggy wrote: |
| WHEN THE WATER BOARD USED TO OPEN STOP VALVES IN THE STREET,THEN TELL YOU TO GO AWAY WHEN YOU DANCED IN IT....ice on the inside of windows,chimney fires and my grandads army trench coat on the bed in the winter. |
Chimney Sweeps - always new how many rods it took before telling you it was time to go look for the brush coming out of the chimney!
And the coal man - no groans about manual handling from him trudging up and down the garden path with a cwt (that's about 50kilos for the young'ens) sack of the black stuff on his shoulder.
Not to mention the gas man resting his ladder against that sticky-out-bit at the top of the lamp post whilst he climbed up to wind the timer and check the gas mantle. |
where did they all go? all those jobs.....gone!
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Chrism
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The canal freezing about 9" thick, thick enough to skate on. Sledging down Gotts park golf course.
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wiggy
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| Chrism wrote: |
| The canal freezing about 9" thick, thick enough to skate on. Sledging down Gotts park golf course. |
'SNOW'
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fevlad
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old miners coughing thewir lungs up hardly able to get to the end of the street and dying before their time
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wiggy
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kids giving out food parcels to the elderly,after a school harvest festival.
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fevlad
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the green final on a Saturday evening
women dressed up to the nines to go to the super market
striped university scarves
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Brandy
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smoke belowing out from the tap room window!
kids on home made bogeys!
one penny mixes!
carol singers at crimbo!
skyrack and the leeds weekly news!
ps/cracking little thread youv'e started here wiggy charver!
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chameleon
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'kids on home made bogeys!
Would you want to be seen on a bogey made with the wheels from today's poncey little prams Brandy - wouldn't last the first pot-hole!
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stevief
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Window cleaners up ladders(it's a H & S issue).Also columns of midges on a summers evening.Bonfires on cobbled streets.Milk freezing in the bottle and the Blue Tits getting to it.Icicles.
White Cross quality perambulators(the Rolls/Royce of prams) I never saw anyone trying to get on a bus with one though!
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Bramley4woods
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| wiggy wrote: |
| just for a little light hearted relief,how about,rag and bone men,white dog poo and the two headed dog! |
Not that long since I saw a rag and bone man. (Churwell)
I think their successors just drive round in old drop side transit lorries raiding skips.
White dog poo came from dogs fed on actual bones and not "Pedigree Slop".
In the days of two faced politicians who needs two headed dogs ?
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stevief
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| cnosni wrote: |
Quality road tar that melts in the hot weather and you can pickoff with your fingers,spending hours trying to get it off.
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Playing with hot tar in summer.It had a very limited potential really but it kept out in the 'fresh' air.A bit like making mud pies and damming streams.I'm convinced all the muck we played with had a beneficial effect in the long run,health wise.
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