THINGS YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE (Part 1)

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Tue 18 Mar, 2008 6:52 pm

Is the pie and mushies shop in Wakefield Marketstill going? T'was my favourite lunchtime of the weekon a Friday when I did calls in Wakey in the 60's!Wife used to moan cos I couldn't finish my dinnerwhen I got home at 5pm!Stevief. Wasn't the Pepsodent a yellow colour anywayso your teeth looked white by contrast!Call your Esso blee dooler and 'ring for pink!'More things you don't see (much?)Boy Scouts with long 'staffs' (Poles) and short trousers!Everybody shout.'yer'll nevver be a scout-wi'yer shirt 'anging out!'Trek carts, coloured 'patrol' garters, Mountie style hats.Boys' Brigade; OLD Pillbox caps (peaked Kepi's for sergeants.)Everybody shout; ' I'm in the Boy's BrigadeI'm dressed in marmalade(?)I 'it me buminstead o' me drumI'm in the Boys' Brigade!anon.BB still going but have slick 'side hats now and tailoreduniforms.Life Boys (Junior BB). Now called The 'Anchor Boys'!Somebody put a strategically placedletter 'W' infront of the title, once, on the Sandford Church Notice board!Wasn't me.Honest!Arry

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Tue 18 Mar, 2008 9:23 pm

Do Boy Scouts still do 'Bob-a-job' or the decimal equivalent?Proberbly not,it'd asking for trouble these days.Talking toothpaste.My Grandad used something called Euthymol (I think) it was pink and tasted strange.Bath time.(Once a week!)We used to have a real sponge.Apparently they're an endangered species now.Never been a smoker but I can remember petrol fired cig.lighters.The Barber used to sell small plastic ampoules of petrol for re-fills and flints.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Tue 18 Mar, 2008 10:20 pm

arry awk wrote: Now called The 'Anchor Boys'!Somebody put a strategically placedletter 'W' infront of the title, once, on the Sandford Church Notice board!Wasn't me.Honest!Arry The anchor was their badge and their motto was "Steadfast and Sure" which comes from the hymn "Will your anchor hold" "We have anchor that keeps the soul, Steadfast and sure while the billows roll Fastened to the rock which cannot move Grounded firm and deep in the Saviour's love"The Boys Bridgade was a Christian organisation, formed before the Scouts, Baden Powell borrowed some lads from the BB when he was forming the Scouts, to practise on.I had a very staunch Methodist upbringing - you can take the lad out of the chapel but you can't take the chapel out of the lad !

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Tue 18 Mar, 2008 11:02 pm

Trojan wrote: fevlad wrote: Trojan wrote: Something else you don't see nowadays are "Pea and Pie Shops" I don't mean chippies that sell pies and mushy peas. I mean dedicated shops that sold only pies and peas. There used to be one in Morley on Fountain Street, I know there used to be one in Kirkgate Market - but that wouldn't be open on an evening. The last real Pea and Pie Saloon I remember closed in the eighties, it was on Bradford Road in Batley. They sold pork, meat, steak and kidney pies and pasties with proper (NB Fevlad) mushy peas. the best of the lot was Pie herberts on carlisle Road in Bradfordevery kind of pie, perfect mushies, ham shanks(no not rhyming slang), pig hock, various animal organs gas lit, lots of weird people, Was that the one with a sort of "chuck wagon" feel? I certainly used to go into a pea and pie shop on Carlisle Road in the eighties. The Beaulah used to do pretty good pie and peas in the eighties. it might have had when you wentwhen I used to go it was like the buffet bar in brief encounter.

Si · Post by Si » Wed 19 Mar, 2008 3:38 pm

"I don't know to what you are referring." Great film!

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Wed 19 Mar, 2008 4:08 pm

Aye, up to the mid 80's the beulah did cracking pie n peas! As to the petrol Lighters, their the in thing nowadays. Zippo!

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Wed 19 Mar, 2008 4:43 pm

kids with loads of blackheads, particularly down the sides of their noses.

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Wed 19 Mar, 2008 4:44 pm

kids with loads of blackheads, particularly down the sides of their noses.

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Wed 19 Mar, 2008 7:19 pm

The BB Hymn was 'Sure and Stedfast' (Words correct!)I was in the 10th Leeds Coy at The Woodsley Rd Methdist(I think) Church! Had to attend every Sunday. Was in the 'Lifeys' too prior to that. 'Miss' used to line us up and each lad had to showhis hands and then his knees, to see if we were clean!.Sent home if she spotted mucky hands or knees! I was glad to progress into the BB when we could wear long trousers! I left in 1943 to jointhe Army Cadets (2nd.Battn. West Yorkshire Regt). I was a year underage but they let me join 'cos dad was in the army! Havedescribed my uniform issued from the Corn Exchange, previously. See Corn Exchange thread.More things you don't see (much!);From the train alongside the tracks, A wooden 'cutout' of2 painters carrying a long white plank with 'Hall's Distemper'printed on it.Station platform adverts for 'Mazzawattee' tea.and Fry's 'Five Boys' chocolate in a penny machine.Punched leather window straps in carriages to adjusthow far the 'drop' window opened.3rd Class compartments on trains.Pocket sized magazines like London Opinion andBasinful of Fun,which nearly always contained a nudelady,artistically posed!Scammel Scarab(?)dustcarts with 'up and over' liddedcompartments for the dustmen to tip the galvanisedbins into. Also, Dustmen actually sweeping up anystuff they spilled on the floor!Water carts which sprinkled the streets to lay any dustBikes with roller-lever 'stirrup'brakes and Miller dynamolighting sets. The dynamo actually knocked 10mph off yourspeed when it dragged on the side of your tyre! Dynohubswere an improvement!Auxilliary car parking lights ,compulsory on all streets and roads.These clipped on your 'wind up 'windows,white lens to the frontand red to the rear. Saved the car battery because you didn't needside and rear lamps left on all night.More later!Arry

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Wed 19 Mar, 2008 8:15 pm

I can remember Morris Minors having an unusual indicator.It was a yellow 'pointer' which stuck out from the window frame between the front and rear side windows.I don't know whether it'Lit up at neet' but it was barely noticable in daylight.