THINGS YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE (Part 1)

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Mon 10 Mar, 2008 6:36 pm

fevlad wrote: rattles, rosettes, home maade scarves at rugby/soccer gamesThe Seacroft Hospital column in the Evening post on a staurdaybed number so and so very poorly ands so onyour shirt collar being black on the inside where it touched your neck at the end of the day is my collar suposed to be clean then??

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Mon 10 Mar, 2008 6:39 pm

cig,chocolate and gum machines outside shops,washing across the street and 40 a side football games in the streets.

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Mon 10 Mar, 2008 6:41 pm

ooh ooh! coppers on the beat! and the school board man

Post by **chameleon** » Mon 10 Mar, 2008 6:42 pm

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.

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Mon 10 Mar, 2008 6:44 pm

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!

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Mon 10 Mar, 2008 6:46 pm

The canal freezing about 9" thick, thick enough to skate on. Sledging down Gotts park golf course.

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Mon 10 Mar, 2008 6:47 pm

Chrism wrote: The canal freezing about 9" thick, thick enough to skate on. Sledging down Gotts park golf course. 'SNOW'

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Mon 10 Mar, 2008 7:24 pm

old miners coughing thewir lungs up hardly able to get to the end of the street and dying before their time

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Mon 10 Mar, 2008 8:14 pm

kids giving out food parcels to the elderly,after a school harvest festival.

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Mon 10 Mar, 2008 8:28 pm

the green final on a Saturday eveningwomen dressed up to the nines to go to the super marketstriped university scarves