Things you never see any more No.361

[martint235]

Orpington every saturday..

We still have them out selling the Watchtower in Welling pubs on a Friday night too. Welling is not really the place I'd go up to someone at 10pm in a pub and say "Have you found God yet?"

 

[biggs682]

a pay rise or pat on the back from the boss

 

[ColinJ]

The bloke selling sea food in little cartons down the pub.

Ah yes - I haven't seen that since about 30 years ago!

(I always wondered if they slipped the landlord a few quid or just pushed their luck?)

 

[vernon]

That was a pic of a little girl. The one outside our local newsagent/sweetshop was a little boy.
The metal calliper used to freak me out as a little kidda.

As a child I used to envy the spastics. I so wanted to wear calipers as a kid.

 

[vernon]

Draught sherry in off licenses

 

[Arch]

We still have them out selling the Watchtower in Welling pubs on a Friday night too. Welling is not really the place I'd go up to someone at 10pm in a pub and say "Have you found God yet?"

Errr.. Isn't that Jehovah's Witnesses? I'm not sure the Sally Army do that sort of thing.

 

[vernon]

Ah yes - I haven't seen that since about 30 years ago!

(I always wondered if they slipped the landlord a few quid or just pushed their luck?)

The chap that had the fish round that tookin the Royal Park pub in Leeds used to sell cold fried fish and keep a few of the old style five pence pieces in the folds of his ear to dish out as part of the change.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

[QUOTE 2062273, member: 45"]Those lorries stacked with wicker baskets containing homing pigeons.[/quote]

Went past one last week near Halifax

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

The words in small print

 

[Matt1705]

Old style Silver Cross prams.

My wife's parents still have the one they used for her when she was a baby.
We dug it out their loft to use as a second pram for our little one, and we'll probably use it for his brother or sister when he / she arrives in November

 

[trampyjoe]

The bloke selling sea food in little cartons down the pub.

Was in a pub in Corby back in march and one came in.

Didn't have any jellied eels though

 

[slowmotion]

Draught sherry in off licenses

Armadillo! (With authentic wonky soundtrack)
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[AnythingButVanilla]

My wife's parents still have the one they used for her when she was a baby.
We dug it out their loft to use as a second pram for our little one, and we'll probably use it for his brother or sister when he / she arrives in November

My mum had one for each of us, bottle green for my brother, navy for my sister and no idea what I had. They're lovely to push, if heavy and unwieldy, and you can fit a sh*tload of shopping in the bottom of them without worrying about them tipping over. They were all bought second hand and cost nowhere near what they do now. I think my brother's one was about £30 off my gran's neighbour.

 

[theclaud]

Woops sorry! I hadn't thought further explanation would have been necessary, I even anglicised it from the more commom 'Ingin Johnie'. This was the name given to the door to door onion sellers who came from Brittany every summer wearing their traditional blue berets and pushing their heavy bikes laden with strings of onions hanging from the handlebars. They got as far north as northern Scotland, so I would think they would also have been a common sight further south.
Obviously they set up a distribution centre to cycle out from every day, but I don't know any details.

We have them in The Mumbles...

 

[ayceejay]

Dinner ladies
Nurses that squeak when they walk
A factory turnout - overall clad men on bicycles
Slow bicycle races
Jug and Bottle