THINGS YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE (Part 1)

[pyghtle]

Hubby joining in now!! Picking up coal on railway line East End ParkNeighbours rowing in the streetPotato Guns

[fevlad]

pyghtle wrote: Neighbours rowing in the street did you flooded a lot or did you live near the canal?

[pyghtle]

Frost inside windowsTalking on tin cans with string

[Dalehelms]

Men wearing black rubber galoshes to keep rain and snow from spoiling their well polished shoes.I had a brown car, a SAAB 95 estate "P" reg. It never fully recovered from then-partner reversing it into a tree. I also had a brown SAAB 96 but I cant remember its registration.

[wiggy]

pyghtle wrote: Wiggy..I lived down Stoney Rock Lane in the Westlocks, opposite Burmantofts cemetery. Only one of the old streets left there now. my great aunt lived on westlock crescent....number 4...during the 30s 40s and 50s.

[pyghtle]

What was your aunts surname. We lived in Westlock Grove No 8, my Grandmother and Gfather lived at No 2, my Aunt lived at No2 until she married,she is 91 this year I bet she knew your Great Aunt, she still remembers the names of everyone in our street. Everyone knew everyone else down Stoney Rock Lane.I think there was an entrance to Burtons at the top of Westlock Crescent. If it is that one I had an Aunt lived in that street as well.

[electricaldave]

Days when you can't buy anything because everywhere is closed.Today, Good Friday, I though I'd find out when the laundrette would open for the Easter break, everywhere was heaving.It was a struggle to cross the roads, I don't think I saw a single shop closed.It used to be that everything shut after around 1 o'clock in Saturday unless you went into the town centre, now you can't get a minutes peace.......and another thing, Sundays used to be quiet, hardly any traffic and a good day to go cycling, nowadays you take you life in your hands just crossing the road whilst weekend only drivers speed from retail outlet to factory shop - their vision obscured by plants and [edited for content] flatpack furniture that won't fit in their cars properly.You don't see many laundrettes around, and you don't see signs offering 'slipper baths' - not really surprising now that we mostly have washing machines and our own facilities.You rarely see folk wearing hats.Pipe smokers - don't see those any more, are there any of those specialist smoker shops about ? used to be one just near the Corn Exchange.Those rickety wood pole fences that were held together with double wrap wire seem to have dissappeared.Those things you used to put in your car to work out how much petrol you had used, they had movable dials with numbers on them.Does anyone still use Redex?Punches for putting in holes into brickwork so that you can get rawlplugs in and hold your shelves in place. Bash, twist, bash twist - unless you have used one you won't know what I mean.Schools that only allowed you to use a fountain pen, biros were forbidden.Books of log tables, slide rules, long division, fractions.

[stevief]

We were only allowed fountain pens at junior school and what a mess that caused.Re-filling from an ink bottle usually resulted in spills or dribbles.Later, replacement cartridges were introduced.I used to like the smell of ink(Is that just me?)As for folk wearing hats,if you ever see any old film of Cup Finals from years ago,everyone is wearing a flat cap.    

[pyghtle]

Come on Ladies...help me out here!!Babies in prams outside shopEugene permanent waves (never had one..not that old)Terry Towel nappiesLiberty BodicesIciclesPlaying Jacks and tors (marbles for the non yorkies) in the playground.Mecca in LeedsStarlight roof

[stevief]

I've got a booklet of petrol ration coupons.No,not WWII vintage,but early '70s when the threat of a fuel shortage loomed owing to trouble in the middle east.