Things you dont see anymore

Phil W · Post by **Phil W** » Sat 28 Feb, 2009 10:52 pm

Can anyone remember the showers of ash that used to fall on us when there was no wind to blow all the rubbish from Skelton Grange power station away from Leeds,I can remember the panic to get the washing in off the line,If you also happened to live in Hunslet(In the good Bad old days) a company called Laporte Acids,located at the Balm road,pepper road junction, Used to pump out off loads of foul smoke(you could not walk past that place on foot without choking to death),I think the fact that all the houses in the local area had yellow roofs was a bit of a give away as to how bad they were,as one smoke stack pumped a yellow cloud,(sulphur),No health and safety boys looking after us kids then,Fog in winter so bad you could only see a couple of yards in front of you,and if it stayed for a few days it got thicker and you choked to death,Always a bit of fun for us kids was watching TA guys jumping from a basket hanging from barrage ballon on Miggy clearing,(Nice to know the tusky fields of leeds would be defended)This one is rather something you dont hear anymore,The constant clang,clang,of BR shunting yards,24hrs of clang,clang(for me it was stourton) now long gone.I know we all had a gill of milk given to us at school in my days,but can anyone tell me if all children born around the early 40s had the same treatment as me and my sister did, were you given a regular dose of cod liver oil,and malt,orange concentrate,And did go to hospital and sit under an ultra violet lamp (nude wearing goggles) free sun tan

Bramley4woods · Post by **Bramley4woods** » Sat 28 Feb, 2009 11:06 pm

Phil W wrote: Can anyone remember the showers of ash that used to fall on us when there was no wind to blow all the rubbish from Skelton Grange power station away from Leeds,I can remember the panic to get the washing in off the line,If you also happened to live in Hunslet(In the good Bad old days) a company called Laporte Acids,located at the Balm road,pepper road junction, Used to pump out off loads of foul smoke(you could not walk past that place on foot without choking to death),I think the fact that all the houses in the local area had yellow roofs was a bit of a give away as to how bad they were,as one smoke stack pumped a yellow cloud,(sulphur),No health and safety boys looking after us kids then,Fog in winter so bad you could only see a couple of yards in front of you,and if it stayed for a few days it got thicker and you choked to death,Always a bit of fun for us kids was watching TA guys jumping from a basket hanging from barrage ballon on Miggy clearing,(Nice to know the tusky fields of leeds would be defended)This one is rather something you dont hear anymore,The constant clang,clang,of BR shunting yards,24hrs of clang,clang(for me it was stourton) now long gone.I know we all had a gill of milk given to us at school in my days,but can anyone tell me if all children born around the early 40s had the same treatment as me and my sister did, were you given a regular dose of cod liver oil,and malt,orange concentrate,And did go to hospital and sit under an ultra violet lamp (nude wearing goggles) free sun tan Born 1947, got Cod Liver Oil + Concentrated orange juice at the baby clinic.Fresh (?) Milk left out in the sun and served warm at school.I seem to remember getting Malt at school, but not for long, maybe only in the infants.Those not thriving according to the approved charts got Malt at school for a few more years, about 20 in a line side by side and they only had one spoon.

Post by **chameleon** » Sat 28 Feb, 2009 11:40 pm

That baby-clinic orange juice was wonderful, can taste it now just thinking about it. Warm milk, yuck. The y stopped giving me that the day my tummy decided it didn't want any more and promptly returned it to the poor teacher!

Jak · Post by **Jak** » Sun 01 Mar, 2009 12:05 am

I loved the malt it was kept in acuboard at back of the classroom sorry to say i once nicked a jar.lllllovly.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Sun 01 Mar, 2009 1:26 am

I used to be milk monitor at Spring Bank in the early 70s, but by then it was milk only in the old 1/4 pint bottles (?).My family came from Consett where everything was painted red to hide the red dust from the steel works, even the roofs.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 01 Mar, 2009 10:28 am

Jak wrote: I loved the malt it was kept in acuboard at back of the classroom sorry to say i once nicked a jar.lllllovly. I can perectly understand why you "acquired" the jar of malt. We didn't have it at school, but at home I used to have some fabulous stuff called "VIMALTOL" - honestly it was so gorgeous, in taste and in texture, that I could have scoffed a full jar any day

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 01 Mar, 2009 10:37 am

Nowadays we are so used to super safe electric ring circuits, appropriately fused plugs, trip fuse boxes and so forth that its easy to forget the lethal items in everyday use even until the 1960s or so. I can remember my mother plugging her primitive electric iron, complete with "push on" rubber and fabric two core wire, into the electric light socket. Providing there was a shilling in the meter this life threatening and terrifying arrangement ensured that we looked tidy at least. So much for electricity - now what about the nice cheery little free standing gas fires - loosely attached to an unprotected tap at the side of the fireplace or wherever by a rubber pipe in various stages of "perishment." Better have a quick roll call and see how many of us are still here !!

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 01 Mar, 2009 12:09 pm

Bramley4woods wrote: Born 1947, got Cod Liver Oil + Concentrated orange juice at the baby clinic.Fresh (?) Milk left out in the sun and served warm at school.I seem to remember getting Malt at school, but not for long, maybe only in the infants.Those not thriving according to the approved charts got Malt at school for a few more years, about 20 in a line side by side and they only had one spoon. I was born in 1946. At that time Morley was not in Leeds but under the West Riding County Council Education Dept. I went to Queen Street Infants in Morley. (Wesleyans) In the first class, we had the orange juice, we also had 1/3 pint milk hadthe cod liver oil capusules but in the afternoons we also had a sleep. I can't remember before afternoon play or after but there were camp style bed set out in the classroom with red blankets and we were expected to sleep for a prescibed time. I don't ever remember falling asleep - just being bored silly and told to stop shuffling and talking

Phil W · Post by **Phil W** » Sun 01 Mar, 2009 1:36 pm

Did anyone ever take part in childrens day at Rounhay park,Maypole dancing with the infants school or the mass PT display from the junior school,They always gave you a free lunch,I think it was a potted meat sarny and a bun,

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Sun 01 Mar, 2009 3:02 pm

Phil W wrote: Did anyone ever take part in childrens day at Rounhay park,Maypole dancing with the infants school or the mass PT display from the junior school,They always gave you a free lunch,I think it was a potted meat sarny and a bun, I won a silver spoon in the Bonny Baby competition of 1958, they'd want it back if they saw me now!