Still got mine! A bit battered, but given a new lease of life with an led 'bulb'.
Still got mine! A bit battered, but given a new lease of life with an led 'bulb'.Petzl Zoom head torches with the flat 4.5V battery. Plus a halogen bulb you could pop in if you needed to pick up a landmark in the dark.
I could pick that phone padlock with ease, had nobody to phone but if a padlock is put on something I had to try and defeat it!!!the "duplex" telephone line my grandparents shared with neighbours living next door. One phone line for 2 families. Not sure it existed in UK, it was quite normal in Italy in the '80s.
And that was the telephone set:
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They had a small padlock to block the dial, and I had no access to the key.
Still a few paraffins in Edinburgh lolYou still get pickled eggs in chippies though, so they've not died out. They've only moved.
Thing's you don't see anymore:
Tramps.
(Homeless people are not the same thing as a proper Harold Ramp. Your old "gentleman of the road" was a slightly comic figure whereas rough sleepers are far too tragic. And they don't stuff paper in their pants or have big oily beards and belts made of rope).
Edit: Dammit, too late.
Or pigs heads, for that matter. Not that I want one. Just saying, like.Very few places to get OX ( Beef ) Kidneys to make Steak and Kidney Pie. Supermarkets all stopped selling them as not enough demand.
They brought back some memories, the penny tray reminded me of Penny Arrows, Black Jacks, fruit salads and strips of licorish.Haliborange tablets
Kids with styes
Kids wearing balaklavas
Frozen Jubblies… you’d suck all the orange juice out of them and be left with an iceberg big enough to sink the Titanic
Foghorns (if you live near the coast)… creepy things, especially if it was… erm… foggy
The smell of coal fires
The smell of the gas works when we still had coal gas
Whole families going off on holiday in a motorbike and sidecar
People sitting in their houses with the front door left open
The Arthur Haines Show
The broken biscuit tub at the Grocer’s
The penny tray at Bob’s the Newsagent
That’s enough… my brain’s getting overheated
And don’t forget Alf Tupper, “the tough of the track”.
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