Mobile Shops

[Joey Shabadoo]

Used to be a mobile shop round our way when I was a kid. I remembered it fondly but my mum's opinion is different. The guy preyed on young mothers, encouraging them to run up a tab to the point it became unmanageable, then he'd suggest "alternative" payment methods.

 

[raleighnut]

A pleasant short walk, some shopping and back. Perfect for health.

You obviously didn't know many housewives in the 70's, most of this bunch didn't get dressed til mid afternoon (think an estate filled with early 'yuppies')

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You obviously didn't know many housewives in the 70's, most of this bunch didn't get dressed til mid afternoon (think an estate filled with early 'yuppies')

As a child at that time. I would hope not as it would be weird.

 

[annedonnelly]

You obviously didn't know many housewives in the 70's, most of this bunch didn't get dressed til mid afternoon (think an estate filled with early 'yuppies')

Not where we lived.

Isn't it a more recent thing where people pop to the shops/garage/do the school run in their pyjamas?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I'd like to say it was something so quaint, but it was a modern lorry and trailer that telescopes and folds out.

Pretty sure it was this and it was 'Screen Machine 2' that I would have seen:

https://www.screenmachine.co.uk/about-us/


View: https://youtu.be/bGaxpp91jDA?si=YbUUJ1dH3Ql-2Jj4


https://www.screenmachine.co.uk/screenings/visiting-us/


View: https://youtu.be/SXwT3hkAEA0?si=bolEcZTW1-Wi_7em


Although...: https://www.screenmachine.co.uk/pause-in-service/

Then you come out the film and find yourself on a ferry.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Then you come out the film and find yourself on a ferry.

Oh aye, ferry good!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Then you come out the film and find yourself on a ferry.

It's such an amazing idea though, I wish there were more like it.


... Mobile Cinemas I mean, not ferries!

 

[raleighnut]

Not where we lived.

Isn't it a more recent thing where people pop to the shops/garage/do the school run in their pyjamas?

There was no 'school run' in the 70's, we all walked to school (or cycled) apart from the outlying villages where the kids came by chartered coaches (about 8-9 at Brockington in Enderby then at age 14 when we all went to Lutterworth Grammar around 80 or so (over 4,000 pupils in 2 years plus a 6th form (17-18 year olds)

As a child at that time. I would hope not as it would be weird.

Women often wore 'housecoats' (note not dressing gowns) for most of the day, they didn't go outside in them though but once the kids had been packed off to school they sat around drinking Tea/Coffee and listening to the wireless or reading magazines. My mates elder brother worked for the window cleaner so he saw them.
Note. These weren't Enderby people who lived on the 'Wimpey' estate but incomers for the main part.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Off topic but ...

What has three bums and is blue?
Bum bum bum Esso Blue!

I thought it was 4 bums not 3?

 

[Dogtrousers]

I thought it was 4 bums not 3?

My memory is three, but as is so often the case, it would appear that I am wrong. It was 4.

Source:

View: https://youtu.be/a9tT7F6K7Ps?si=sZ_2XWHWoO6E5J75

 

[FrankCrank]

Used to have a paraffin heater in our house as kids - amazed we survived all those fumes!

 

[Shearwater Missile]

Used to be a mobile shop round our way when I was a kid. I remembered it fondly but my mum's opinion is different. The guy preyed on young mothers, encouraging them to run up a tab to the point it became unmanageable, then he'd suggest "alternative" payment methods.

I take it that the "alternative" payment was on "easy terms" ?

 

[Accy cyclist]

One of the 40 odd jobs I had during my working life included renting out VHS video cassettes from the boot of a company provided Ford Fiesta, in Bolton Lancashire/Greater Manchester in the mid 1980's. I worked on some rough council estate which name I can't remember, but I bet @stephec will know it.😉 I gave it up after a while due to dodgy types nicking the videos while my back was turned, with the firm's owner taking the losses out of my wages.😏

 

[stephec]

One of the 40 odd jobs I had during my working life included renting out VHS video cassettes from the boot of a company provided Ford Fiesta, in Bolton Lancashire/Greater Manchester in the mid 1980's. I worked on some rough council estate which name I can't remember, but I bet @stephec will know it.😉 I gave it up after a while due to dodgy types nicking the videos while my back was turned, with the firm's owner taking the losses out of my wages.😏

Which part of Bolton, although that probably wouldn't narrow it down much? 😂

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Housing estate on the edge of Coventry in the 1960's and 70's, I can remember the milk float, ice cream van and pop van.

Most memorably, once a year, each year, for a few days, we would have an old French guy, cycle up the big hill (seemed big to me when I was a kid) on a c1930s sit up and beg bike, with loads of onions round his neck, and strung all over his bike, for sale.

Looked them up:

Onion Johnnies were Breton farmers from France who traveled to Great Britain, primarily on bicycles, to sell distinctive pink onions door-to-door from the 19th century through the mid-20th century. Known for wearing striped shirts and berets, they became a iconic, stereotypical image of French culture in the UK.