THINGS YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE (Part 1)

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Thu 20 Mar, 2008 10:40 pm

arry awk wrote: Hi WiggyMore things not seen now?Kids knocking on neighbour's doors at Whitsun asking for 'apenny (or more!) for my new clothes!' 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!

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Thu 20 Mar, 2008 11:09 pm

Trojan wrote: arry awk wrote: Hi WiggyMore things not seen now?Kids knocking on neighbour's doors at Whitsun asking for 'apenny (or more!) for my new clothes!' 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

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 12:02 am

[quotenick="stevief"][quotenick="Trojan"] arry awk wrote: Hi Wiggy.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 Then of course there was " Mischief Night" which seems to have died a death - killed by "trick or treat" I suppose.

pyghtle · Post by **pyghtle** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 1:34 am

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 ParkCardboard milk bottle tops (been mentioned I think)Liquorice sticks in water.Going off on bikes for the day and nobody worrying about where you wereKnitted swimming costumes that went down to your knees when wetBile BeansGirls CrystalCollecting 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 daySwinging round the lamp post in our streetMy 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!!!

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 4:46 am

pyghtle wrote: 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 ParkCardboard milk bottle tops (been mentioned I think)Liquorice sticks in water.Going off on bikes for the day and nobody worrying about where you wereKnitted swimming costumes that went down to your knees when wetBile BeansGirls CrystalCollecting 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 daySwinging round the lamp post in our streetMy 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!!! 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??

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 4:50 am

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' Exchangescheme along with startermotors,dynamos (B4 alternators!)wiper motors etc. Biggest part of my sales turnoverin 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 mypet 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 'apenny (or more!) for my new clothes!'Effeminate (soft) boys called 'Laddilass!Home made petrol lighters. Working in the maintenance dptat Marston radiators Armley Rd(part of ICI then),in 1944/5.Rumour had it that firms turned out more cig lighters thanplane parts in the war. Not far wrong! Some great Lighterswere 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 leathersurface!. I made a lighter out of a section of 1/2" copper tubewith 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 sideof the tube with the spark gap inline with the wick. 'Pool' petrolwas kept on the premises so the 'lighter' was craftily dipped intothe tank. I went with mates to the Lyceum cinema that night andDecided to use my new incinerator! Nearly set the Lyceum on fireaspetrol had leaked thru the wick hole and shot a flame a foot highin the air. I managed to smother it and got thrown out! The petrol refils you could buy for 1d, theywere in a gelatinesealed tube and calle Tyreseules I think. not my postings 'arry,i mean this thread.....it was tailor made by me----for you!

pyghtle · Post by **pyghtle** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 9:30 am

Wiggy..I lived down Stoney Rock Lane in the Westlocks, opposite Burmantofts cemetery. Only one of the old streets left there now.

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 9:41 am

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

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 11:43 am

pyghtle wrote: Brown cars...don't remember them. 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 BeansThere 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

pyghtle · Post by **pyghtle** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 12:19 pm

Where are all the ladies on this thread!!!!Washing PosserWooden washboard and wooden wringing machinesToni hair PermsPowdered eggsProper hankiesSweet cigarettesFlavoured wax lipsBus conductorsDansette Record Players.Come on Ladies!!!