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Dale80

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What do you remember?
« on: 06:12:49, 04/08/09 »

What do you rmember?

I remember when the extremely bitter tasting  “Cascara” was given by the spoonful as a purgative.  Whoever thought of the idea must have been a sadist. 

I remember when the coal fire with its oven and hob (Kitchen range) was more common than the gas cooker, there were no electric cookers to be heard of.

I remember, the iron kettle on the hob was always kept full by the efficient housewife.  Then, visitors never had to wait long for a cup of tea.

I remember the “pea-soupers” (fogs), sometimes so dense that one easily became disorientated if they dared to venture outside.

I remember when shops did not sell sliced bread,  bread was bought from the confectioners or the bread shop.  Unlike wrapped sliced loves it quickly became hard.  The hard bread was saved to make the bread pudding, very acceptable to most children.

I remember when there were no tills in the large Lewes’s stores.  They had a system where the bill and cash tendered was put into a small cylinder and then inserted into a vacuum tube that went  to a central depository who returned the receipt and change the same way.

I remember the old ritualistic “Washday Mondays” when the coal fire under the “copper” (boiling bowl) had to be lit.

The washing equipment was: -
Scrubbing brush.
Dolly tub
Dolly legs.
Dolly blue
Rubbing board.
If they had non of that gear then they were visitors to the washouse.

I remember when the word television wasn’t even invented.  Also Supermarket.

I remember when we would see sides of smoked bacon hung up in the grocer’s shops,

I remember when the bicycle was far more popular than the motor car.

I remember the “Dairy’s“ where we always obtained fresh milk or cream, fresh eggs and butter.

I remember the children’s comics, Dandy Beano, Tiger, Funny Wonder. 

I remember when a great many of the working people’s houses did not have either a bath installed or hot running water and gas lighting was their source of illumination.  Easily broken mantles were their trouble.

I remember when meals were mostly taken with the family seated at the table, Sunday dinner was ritualistic and the best meal of the week.

 I remember the reliable knocker-up woman who had her long stick with a thin cane tied on the end.
She would rattle on the ordered bedroom window until a face appeared at the window.  She was usually paid three Pence per week.  Alarm clocks were notoriously unreliable.

I remember when motorcars had no means of heating in them.

I remember when we would be given a half day’s holiday on “Empire Day”.

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« Reply #1 on: 08:02:46, 04/08/09 »
I remember rushing downstairs to get my favourite comic which had been delivered every Wednesday


I remember riding round the garden on my three wheeler bicycle

I remember white socks and white cotton knickers for parties and holidays

I remember a clothes rack in the kitchen that hung from the ceiling

a black fire range instead of a fireplace

a huge grandfather clock in one corner of the hall near the front door

climbing over the back garden wall to play on some spare land full of trees (before bungalows were built on it :()


a teenage lad giving me a lift on his crossbar to school


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« Reply #2 on: 20:07:37, 11/08/09 »
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I remember rushing downstairs to get my favourite comic which had been delivered every Wednesday
I remember this too, it was a Wednesday when my Beano was delivered, even though I'd see it in other newsagents on Tuesdays. Mine was delivered just before I set off to school which really used to wind me up, but my newsagents was less than 60 seconds away, so i'm not sure why it was delivered, and I used to pop in every day to buy a packet of football stickers on the way to school.

I remember..... when I could name everyone who lived on my street.

....water fights with the old fairy white 2 litre washing up bottles, then being banned until I washed it out properly as my mate Andy got the soap in his eyes...it was impossible to wash them bottles out!

White dog turd

The pain caused by not having long enough legs on a bike that was too big for me.

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« Reply #3 on: 20:16:06, 11/08/09 »
The pain caused by not having long enough legs on a bike that was too big for me.(HMN)


haha

I got my new bike  out which hadn't been used although I've had it 18 months.  Had to lower the seat as I like my feet to touch the ground when I stop - a neighbour shouted to me that you never forget to ride a bike!!  Well I'll have to try again as I was thinking stabilisers :o
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« Reply #4 on: 03:05:29, 28/08/09 »

I remember “O2E”, this was the call sign we would hear whilst gathered around the table with our ears close to a bowl in which, was a head-set of ear phones that was connected to a crystal set with its “cat’s whisker to fiddle with.

This was before BBC started fleecing people with inflated licence fees, to become one of the most powerful private commercial concerns in the country-


I also remember the whacking big dry-cell battery and wet-cell accumulator that serviced the “wireless”.

How could I forget the accumulator?  In the evening my father would tell me to take it to the chandlers shop before going to school, then I could retrieve it fully charged before he returned from work.  There was so many times that I would forget to take it and was in the dog-house for the rest of the evening because dad had no wireless to listen to.

I remember also the wind-up gramophone, one full winding would serve one side of the record and one needle would only be good for one record.  The needles were purchased in tins of a hundred. 


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« Reply #5 on: 16:46:34, 28/08/09 »
I remember having an empty stone jug (which I think once contained ginger beer ) as a hot water bottle.

I remember playing out all day in the summer with a bottle of tap water and an apple.

I remember my mother and me watching " Cafe Continental " on Saturday nights at mother's friend's house further up the road. The only TV in the street.

I remember my parents listening to " The Archers " every night at 6-45.

I remember my grandmother rushing into the street when the death of King George was announced.

I remember getting our first TV in 1953 for the Queen's Coronation. It was a 17 inch Bush and cost £99-19-11 including the stand and some time later our front room being packed out for the Man.City / Birmingham City cup final.

I remember catching the bus to Infant School ( the fare was a ha'penny ) and a few years later catching the steam train to my Senior School before Dr. Beeching axed all those lines.

I remember travelling to my first day at work - by bus - and buying the Daily Mirror for threepence and the NME for, I think, sixpence.

I remember spending my lunch times browsing the book and record stalls in front of the Moseley Arms on Shudehill.

I remember buying my first " legal " pint  in The Manchester Arms on Corporation Street.

I remember watching Engand win the World Cup.

I remember seeing The Hollies , The Beatles and other groups at The Oasis Club.

I remember getting married and fathering kids.

I remember my retirement party.

I can't remember what I did yesterday !!

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« Reply #6 on: 20:07:37, 29/08/09 »
For some weird reason those spaceship shaped sweets filled with sherbet, also coltsfoot rock [a penny each]. Going out in the morning at weekends and school holidays and getting back at dusk [starving!] Kids could do that then [sixties]. Used to spend every minute I could on the golf course in Burnage. There were horses in a field near there, also a man who kept rabbits, probably for food but I did not realise that.  He used to let us pet them. Oh, the hours spent gathering newts and frogspawn!  Does anybody think kids miss out these days?

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« Reply #7 on: 00:57:37, 02/09/09 »

I remember
In the days well before encapsulated electronic circuitry micro-miniaturization (chips), Dick Barton used a two-way wrist-radio.

Do you remember? Who was Dick Barton?



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« Reply #8 on: 01:01:52, 02/09/09 »

I remember Locust Beans.

As a boy, if I was lucky enough to have a penny to spend I could buy  a “lucky bag” which amongst its broken wafer biscuits and peanuts etc. was inevitably a couple of  pieces of locust-bean.
 
Because the locust tree, otherwise known as the Carob tree is indigenous to the Mediterranean aria, its fruit, the carob bean is rather hard causing it to be not so popular with many oeople in the UK.  The ground bean can be used as a substitute for chocolate.  Because of that, the tree is sometimes called “the chocolate tree”.

Once introduced to the tree itself one will easily identify afterwards.  It is rather spidery with small thin leaves.     

Carob flour is very popular with vegetarians because of its nutritive value


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« Reply #9 on: 01:05:50, 02/09/09 »

I remember “Pasha” .

“Pasha” was the name of a Turkish brand of cigarette, a blend that was almost as bad as smoking tea leaves.  This, as kids, many of us had tried.

During the war, it was the only cigarette that easily available, no wonder!


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« Reply #10 on: 01:16:22, 02/09/09 »


I remember the sculpture in Piccadilly Gardens, it was called “The Kiss” and was a reproduction of a sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)  Rosin’s work was sculptured in marble.  The reproduction was not but, was worth its place in the heart of Manchester and was well situated  attracting the admiration of many art lovers and arousing  the curiosity of many others.
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“The Kiss” was originally called “Fancesca da Rimini”
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Come on you lurkers!  Can anyone tell me where the piece that was taken to from Piccadilly is now resting?

Incidentally!. there was another sculptor that created his own original sculpture which he entitled “The Kiss”, he was Alexander Carrick

http://www.alexandercarrick.webeden.co.uk/the-kiss/4529164562


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« Reply #11 on: 01:20:07, 02/09/09 »


I remember when the “Whit-walks” were a very popular feature I the city, Monday was the day the Protestants paraded and Friday was when the Catholics walked.  All contingents would form up at their churches then proudly traipse to Albert Square where the Bishop would give a prayer then feeling quite righteous we would disperse an go home.  The city centre was cleared of traffic for the convenience of the celebration.

I was a trumpeter with the 2nd. 71st St Barnabas Boy Scouts Troop in the Butler Street area, (Miles Platting) So we had quite a distance travel and shortly after we had left our starting point we had to pass the predominantly Catholic Jersey Street dwellings and because of the religious rivalry, and we being Protestant, from the balconies of the dwellings, we would be showered with whatever the Catholic kids could muster, especially from the rubbish bins.  That was despite the the fact that we would not sound our drums and trumpets prior to approaching the flats.

We didn’t  look quite as smart after passing there as we did on approaching.

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« Reply #12 on: 01:23:06, 02/09/09 »

I remember “Zeltners”.

Zeltners was a well run and really friendly pork shop, their black-puddings, “spice-balls” and pork tripe were favorites of mine.  Just a few days after war was declared, to my disgust, the front of their shop was smashed in. obviously by persons that didn’t really know the proprietors and because they had a German   name.

The shop remained closed and I have often wondered what happened to the Zeltner family.

Have you encountered the name at all?


I remember the Italian residents.

I remember after the beginning of the war, some of the Italian community were taken away to the Isle-of-Man for internment as aliens. The most ridiculous factor about that, was that many of them actually had sons that were serving in our forces.  The Italian residents were then and still are, respectable hard working traders and trades people, I did live and enjoy being amongst them in New Cross before and at the beginning of the war.




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« Reply #13 on: 11:37:43, 03/09/09 »
I remember the Naval base which I had to pass on the way to school, and it had a clock in the window so I knew if I'd be late or not.  Two guys there used to wave at me so I'd wave back.

My friend Angela and I am got them with our water pistols one afternoon, and we were lucky to get away I tell you. ;D
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« Reply #14 on: 11:40:07, 03/09/09 »
I remember three of my schoolfriends and I playing 'knock and run' and being chased by the son of the house - I have to admit to enjoying these daring games which I'm sure lots of kids played
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