THINGS YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE (Part 1)
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BLAKEY
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book wrote: James 125 motor cycle Wonderful little motorbikes, fitted like many makes with Villiers engines. There was also a James 98cc. The 125 was a similar machine to the wonderful BSA Bantam 125 which was ridden by thousands of GPO Telegram boys.
There's nothing like keeping the past alive - it makes us relieved to reflect that any bad times have gone, and happy to relive all the joyful and fascinating experiences of our own and other folks' earlier days.
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yorkiesknob
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[quotenick="Caron"]Happy smokers in pubs [/quoteDon't forget the nicotine droplets on the ceilings.Also seen on the upper deck of the buses, if you could see them through the thick cig smoke on the early morning winter buses.Oh and the hacking coughing came with the fare too.Happy days.
Where there's muck there's money. Where there's money there's a fiddle.
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Caron
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I have to be honest and say that a smoking ban on buses and taxis is fine but smoking carriages on trains should still be in use and a smoking room in a pub should still be available (not some wooden shack where you're treated like a leper). As for outdoor non smoking zones...who owns the air we breathe???I'm a non smoker and fag smokers have never been a problem to me.This country is getting worrying.
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Si
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Jogon wrote: The Hesketh V Twin A bit nearer to home, the Silk 700S roughly based on Bradford's Scott.There were a few similar bikes launched in the 70s in an attempt to rejuvenate the British motorcycle industry, including the Healey, based on the Ariel Square Four.
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Bruno
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Telex machines with punched paper tape. Used to have to operate one of those for a major Leeds city centre firm, until the fax machine arrived.I felt a bit sorry for the inventors of word-processor based telex machines, they superseded paper tape machines but they only lasted about two or three years before fax made them obsolete. BT Cheetah, anyone?
The older I get, the better I was.
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chameleon
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Jogon wrote: New members reading all of this. You're right jogon - can't think why they wouldn't though(It's around 2600 posts btw!)
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Caron
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chameleon wrote: Jogon wrote: New members reading all of this. You're right jogon - can't think why they wouldn't though(It's around 2600 posts btw!) It took me 2hrs to read through this thread and the Dialect/Slang thread. I did have a giggle though especially when I read the "White Dog Poo" comment and after all these years I now know why it was white...SL....An education