THINGS YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE (Part 2)

[Johnny39]

Nuns, a regular sight years ago. I mean the ones in black robes and white headgear.

[liits]

Nuns, a regular sight years ago. I mean the ones in black robes and white headgear.

If anybody of a "Religious" disposition find the following to be offensive, tough.
They are still around although, now, in disguise. I encountered a pair of them several weeks ago. At first I thought that they were just two nasty old lasses until I heard one call the other "Sister" then it all fell into place. Straight away I was transported back to my school days and the evil, repressed, bitter, vile creatures we had at school. I think the reason they wear mufti is to deter the clouts they would almost certainly get if they were wearing the garb. I was certainly very, very tempted once I'd twigged.

[tyke bhoy]

Nuns, a regular sight years ago. I mean the ones in black robes and white headgear.

Certainly up to the turn of the century there was a convent on mill shaw in Beeston. I fairly regularly saw a couple of nuns out and about in Beeston but the only identifying feature was the banded headdress (white band and blue shoulder length). I suspect Liits is partly correct about trynig to be incospicous but I also think a combination of women's lib/independence and decline in religion simply means there are much fewer nuns anyway.

[j.c.d.]

Nuns, a regular sight years ago. I mean the ones in black robes and white headgear.

Certainly up to the turn of the century there was a convent on mill shaw in Beeston. I fairly regularly saw a couple of nuns out and about in Beeston but the only identifying feature was the banded headdress (white band and blue shoulder length). I suspect Liits is partly correct about trynig to be incospicous but I also think a combination of women's lib/independence and decline in religion simply means there are much fewer nuns anyway.

One Christmas Eve, about 1980 i was self employed and had about 20 brand new very large Teddy Bears left. I called at the Convent which was from memory approx. opposite St Anthony's Road on Millshaw and offered them free but i got a knockback so the following morning took them to the L.G.Infirmary and one of the children's wards snapped them up.
So a Convent was still open about that time.

[j.c.d.]

Sometime about the 1970s large vans appeared on the Leeds streets , these were very smartly painted and bore the logo in large letters " SNAP ON TOOLS" they obviously contained what they advertised but as they went around the city there were lots of ribald comments and comical remarks.
Probably still going but they don't seem to have the high profile they had then.

[blackprince]

Sometime about the 1970s large vans appeared on the Leeds streets , these were very smartly painted and bore the logo in large letters " SNAP ON TOOLS" they obviously contained what they advertised but as they went around the city there were lots of ribald comments and comical remarks.
Probably still going but they don't seem to have the high profile they had then.

They are still going and you still see the vans occasionally. They are high quality tools made in the US used by engineers & mechanics. I think they are sold via the franchise method.

[buffaloskinner]

Now just called SNAP ON

http://www.snapon.co.uk

[Leodian]

Sat on a bus today and hearing the cacophony of endless ringing of a bell as people wanted to get off it reminded me that the strip that used to be on a bus that when pressed rang the bell is no longer seen (at least on buses I use).

[BLAKEY]

This infuriating habit sends drivers and passengers to distraction - one after another people will ring the bell repeatedly even though most of them MUST have heard the previous ones and then the illuminated signs "BUS STOPPING" are lit as well although I must concede that the latter are far too faint, are the wrong colour, and are placed in hopeless ;positions. I simply cannot understand why the manufacturers don't fit a switch costing next to nothing in the circuit so that when the bell has rung once it will not ring again until the bus stops and the doors have opened and closed.
Regarding the once common full length strip bell pushes - these were notoriously hard for passengers to press effectively and I have no doubt were comparatively very expensive indeed, and they were prone to partial or entire failure.

[sparky415]

oh....on the subject of buses....remember 'saver strips'???

Kerchings we used to call em...