MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
F.. kin 'ell how old are you!?!?!
maybe i should add 'respect for elders' to the list.
Things we used to do
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maybe i should add 'respect for elders' to the list.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
and having to be absolutely silent due to the lack of a lead.... condenser mic tapes were always the best.
Padraig
Active Member
- Location
- St. Helens, Merseyside
I used to be terrified by the various tradesmen's horses. The coalman's was often in the back entry as I arrived home from school. I tried to sneak down one side and it would turn its head that way, then the other and it turned that way. Probably quite harmless, but the teeth were daunting. The milkman, Mr Fenney, had a horse too. The first couple of years in grammar school, we had a lunch break of almost two hours. A local ice cream business, Vincent's (real name Vernazza), would send a horse-drawn ice cream van, presumably using dry ice as the refrigerant. This arrived in the quadrangle as we broke for lunch, and remained there for the duration of lunch break with a nosebag on the horse. It was very content and well-behaved, despite the hundreds of boys milling around. When we moved to a new building in 1965, they'd gone over to motorised vans. Curiously, none of our rag and bone men ever had horses, just handcarts.
61.F.. kin 'ell how old are you!?!?!
maybe i should add 'respect for elders' to the list.
Milkman's horse was called 'OMO' - after the soap powder - as it was white. At least that's what I was told; it might have been gay for all I knew.
Milkie operated out of the old Co-Op dairy on Showell Green Rd in Birmingham, just around the corner from where I used to live as a nipper.
Not in those days.....................
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Mrs M
Guru
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I had a collection of golliwogs all in different outfits.
Wish I'd kept them, would have been worth a fortune now.
Davos87
Guru
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Use the rubber ring from the lemonade bottle top to attach the elastic band to make a pea shooter.
When it snowed go round knocking on doors asking if people wanted their drives clearing to earn a few bob.
Scraping ice off the inside of your bedroom window on a winters morning.
Having an outside loo with a Tilly lamp near the cistern to stop it freezing.
When it snowed go round knocking on doors asking if people wanted their drives clearing to earn a few bob.
Scraping ice off the inside of your bedroom window on a winters morning.
Having an outside loo with a Tilly lamp near the cistern to stop it freezing.
mrbikerboy73
Über Member
- Location
- Worthing, UK
Buying 10 B&H and a box of matches for under a quid.
Buying 5 Park Drive for a bob (5p).
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
read last week's news whilst eating chippy chips
Padraig
Active Member
- Location
- St. Helens, Merseyside
Of course you could once buy a packet of five Woodbines, but a local shop (actually next door but one to Geoff Duke's motor bike showroom) run by two old ladies would sell children cigarettes individually, with a couple of matches thrown in. Can't recall how much they charged, but I suspect it represented a profit over selling the complete packs. Appalling, really, when you think about it.
Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
- Location
- Basking in my own brilliance.
61.
Milkman's horse was called 'OMO' - after the soap powder - as it was white. At least that's what I was told; it might have been gay for all I knew.
Milkie operated out of the old Co-Op dairy on Showell Green Rd in Birmingham, just around the corner from where I used to live as a nipper.
Useless fact of the day:
OMO stands for "Old Mother Owl".
