THINGS YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE (Part 2)

[csd4t]

Taking your pop bottles back for 3d

[csd4t]

With Grandma and Grandad to Brid on the train, Grandad moaning why fish were a shilling and chips were a shilling when we were nearer the sea.

[Leodian]

Taking your pop bottles back for 3d

Ah yes the money back .

As a child (in the early to mid 1950s) once there was enough worth taking (but not too heavy as it was a long walk to get there) I used to take old newspapers to a general waste business (it was in or near Burmantofts area) and got a small some of money for them (every little bit helped then).

[tilly]

Hi Leodian I used to take waste paper to a place on Meadow Lane in the late fifty's.We used a bogie the one we made with pram wheels we noticed that if you tied the sacks up tight he would not look inside of them.So lads being lads we came up with the idea of adding a couple of bricks to one of the bags.The first bag went on he put that to one side then on went the second im sure the pointer went around twice he looked at us then out came his knife to open the bag.Off we ran leaving the bogie you could not see us for dust never went there again happy days.

[Leodian]

Hi Leodian I used to take waste paper to a place on Meadow Lane in the late fifty's.We used a bogie the one we made with pram wheels we noticed that if you tied the sacks up tight he would not look inside of them.So lads being lads we came up with the idea of adding a couple of bricks to one of the bags.The first bag went on he put that to one side then on went the second im sure the pointer went around twice he looked at us then out came his knife to open the bag.Off we ran leaving the bogie you could not see us for dust never went there again happy days.

Hi tilly .

I can't recall now but it's likely that we probably also used a bogie as it was a long way to get to if stuff was carried. We also used to take clothes that were worn but just about wearable which had been outgrown and sell them to women living in houses near the waste merchant. We used to get only a few old pennies for each item sold but again every thing helped then. The proceeds from clothing rags depended on the weight and material, as you got a bit more for wool for example.

[liits]

Not Leeds related but it made me wonder.....
Is the Leeds phone book still one book or is it split into districts and do members still get them every couple of years?
Yesterday I saw a couple of guys delivering something to the houses along the street. To begin with, I thought it was the Thompson’s Local so it wasn’t until I saw it on the step this morning that I saw that it was our new phone directory – the BT one.
Here a picture of it in its 188 page glory, not even as thick as the National Geographic - which, too, is also more like a pamphlet!

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It seems to combine both the residential numbers and what used to be the Yellow Pages.
I must admit that we’ve not had a phone book for quite some years and I’ve only just realised this. Not only have we not had one in the house, I can’t even recall the last time I used one.
Anyway, I’m now about to fulfil a long held ambition, I’m going to tear a phone book in half!

[jim]

Current (2015/2016) phone book appears to cover the LS postal area, and has 404 pages liits.

[volvojack]

[quote="csd4t"]With Grandma and Grandad to Brid on the train, Grandad moaning why fish were a shilling and chips were a shilling when we were nearer the sea.

That is Brilliant, I remember my Father saying similar things when a rare trip to the Coast.

[tyke bhoy]

[quote="liits"]Not Leeds related but it made me wonder.....
Is the Leeds phone book still one book or is it split into districts and do members still get them every couple of years?
Yesterday I saw a couple of guys delivering something to the houses along the street. To begin with, I thought it was the Thompson’s Local so it wasn’t until I saw it on the step this morning that I saw that it was our new phone directory – the BT one.
Here a picture of it in its 188 page glory, not even as thick as the National Geographic - which, too, is also more like a pamphlet!

It seems to combine both the residential numbers and what used to be the Yellow Pages.
I must admit that we’ve not had a phone book for quite some years and I’ve only just realised this. Not only have we not had one in the house, I can’t even recall the last time I used one.
Anyway, I’m now about to fulfil a long held ambition, I’m going to tear a phone book in half![/quote]
Perhaps even more OT. We have just had our first phone directory of any type delivered in donkey's................

Its the Wakefield BT directory, probably thinner than the last Thomson we had, and only runs to 318 pages comprising 139 classifieds (paid for?), 68 business listings and 111 residential. I suspect the latter two are only BT subscribers and in the internet age its been relatively easy to opt out of even that. Of course the Internet Age has also coincided with other phone line providers.

From memory its several years since Thomson's decided they couldn't sell enough classifieds to cover production costs and I don't know if they moved online like Yell (yellow pages). It's a long time since I even used Yell so I guess internet searches are even making that obsolete.

Make the most of ripping that paper directory, I can't see there being many more.

[knodge41]

Here are a few things I remember playing with as a boy in the early 50's:

A 'tank' made with a cotton reel, 1 whole and 1 part matchstick and a rubber band,

A small circular container with a Perspex top, the size of a lady's powder compact, containing a small ball-bearing. The object of the game was to steer the ball into the 'finish' hole.

'Caps' - red paper strip on which were a succession of small black dots at short intervals. The dots made a loud bang on percussion, caused either by a special toy pistol or a special small gadget (the details of which I can't remember - a 'detonator'??

Various puzzles each made of 2 pieces of twisted metal. The aim was to separate the 2 pieces by specially co-ordinated twisting movements. Oddly enough, I recently saw a hawker at a street market in the Canary Islands selling only one version of this type of puzzle. He had several of them made of 6 inch nails set out on a table and was doing a good trade.

A toy gyroscope.

A bit later, I remember the game 'Jokari' became quite a craze. A rubber ball was connected to a heavy-ish wooden block by a long elastic string. A single player, or 2 players on each side played a game similar to tennis but without a net. On a caravan holiday at Bridlington for the summer holidays in 1955 my sister and I played this game with other kids for hours.