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"When dustmen came up your back alley (To collect your bin)" And swept the full heavy metal dustbins, full of ashes from the fire and all the household waste off the ground, onto their shoulders to manually tip it into the side or back of the bin-lorry then return it to where they found it at the back of your property. Do you remember the 1970's TV comedy? "The Dustbin Men" It used to start with a lad shouting "Hey! Mum! It's the dustbin men". 😅 | |||
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"When dustmen came up your back alley (To collect your bin) And swept the full heavy metal dustbins, full of ashes from the fire and all the household waste off the ground, onto their shoulders to manually tip it into the side or back of the bin-lorry then return it to where they found it at the back of your property. Do you remember the 1970's TV comedy? "The Dustbin Men" It used to start with a lad shouting "Hey! Mum! It's the dustbin men". 😅" It was a very hard and dirty job back then. (Not decrying those that do it today) I remember the TV show | |||
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"Our band had a Morris Oxford van and the windscreen wipers were hand operated. It was a bit of a throwback though, we called it 'Tubby '." Lol hand operated wipers? Now that is old  | |||
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"Chatlines " I used to be one of the chat line hosts that would answer your call. | |||
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"My Nan used to live in a house in the 1950s that had a toilet at the bottom of the garden which wasnt attached to the sewage system They used to have the "shitmen" call every week to empty the contents It makes me laugh just thinking about it What a job ! " Wouldn’t laugh about it. Many of the houses (and some businesses) here in Guernsey are not (and/or cannot be) connected to the main sewage drain and have cess pits emptied on a regular basis. | |||
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"The days long ago when people would show respect by removing their hats and bowing their heads as a funeral cortege passed by, often making the sign of the cross as a mark of respect for the deceased." Even uniformed police don't do this anymore, and most have no idea it even existed. | |||
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"partick thisle 2 dunfermlamlim rangers 1" Was that was the same weekend as East Fife scored 4 at home to Forfar’s 5? | |||
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"Duckhams oil !" Duckhams oil and filter change at the local Tyre Services for £9:99. | |||
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"A tin bath filled with kettles and saucepans of boiling water" Yes, or similar, but half the size, and used to be called a baby bath. | |||
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"No calculators in exams Mental arithmetic " Unheard of these days !! | |||
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"partick thisle 2 dunfermlamlim rangers 1 Was that was the same weekend as East Fife scored 4 at home to Forfar’s 5? " I think it was East Fife 5, Forfar 4 | |||
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"The Good Old Days with Leonard Sachs 😀" Ah yes! The inimitable Leonard Sachs, a maestro of mirth, a sultan of sagacity, and a veritable fountain of fanciful phrases. His prognostications on "The Good Old Days" were a joy to behold, a coruscating blend of wit and whimsy that left audiences in stitches. With his ventrilloquial virtuosity and a personality that sparkled like a panoply of pyrotechnics, he guided us through a plentitudinous parade of performers, each one more evocative than the last. His oscillatory movements, a symphony of silliness, added a touch of mountebankery to the proceedings, making us laugh and remember the good old days with concupiscence incarnate. His loss was a catenatory one, leaving a chain of memories that will be cherished for years to come. His extraordinary exuberance of pizzazz, verbosity and plumacious presence are sorely missed. Leonard Sachs - 1909-1990 Verbi gratia, magister. Requiescat in pace🌿 | |||
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"The Good Old Days with Leonard Sachs 😀 Ah yes! The inimitable Leonard Sachs, a maestro of mirth, a sultan of sagacity, and a veritable fountain of fanciful phrases. His prognostications on "The Good Old Days" were a joy to behold, a coruscating blend of wit and whimsy that left audiences in stitches. With his ventrilloquial virtuosity and a personality that sparkled like a panoply of pyrotechnics, he guided us through a plentitudinous parade of performers, each one more evocative than the last. His oscillatory movements, a symphony of silliness, added a touch of mountebankery to the proceedings, making us laugh and remember the good old days with concupiscence incarnate. His loss was a catenatory one, leaving a chain of memories that will be cherished for years to come. His extraordinary exuberance of pizzazz, verbosity and plumacious presence are sorely missed. Leonard Sachs - 1909-1990 Verbi gratia, magister. Requiescat in pace🌿 " 🤣🤣🤣 It’s as though he is back in the room | |||
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"The Good Old Days with Leonard Sachs 😀 Ah yes! The inimitable Leonard Sachs, a maestro of mirth, a sultan of sagacity, and a veritable fountain of fanciful phrases. His prognostications on "The Good Old Days" were a joy to behold, a coruscating blend of wit and whimsy that left audiences in stitches. With his ventrilloquial virtuosity and a personality that sparkled like a panoply of pyrotechnics, he guided us through a plentitudinous parade of performers, each one more evocative than the last. His oscillatory movements, a symphony of silliness, added a touch of mountebankery to the proceedings, making us laugh and remember the good old days with concupiscence incarnate. His loss was a catenatory one, leaving a chain of memories that will be cherished for years to come. His extraordinary exuberance of pizzazz, verbosity and plumacious presence are sorely missed. Leonard Sachs - 1909-1990 Verbi gratia, magister. Requiescat in pace🌿 🤣🤣🤣 It’s as though he is back in the room" Gratias ago pro humanitate tua. May I offer my most sincere and hyperbolic plaidoyer of gratitude, for your exquisite phrase has not only rekindled the warm glow of nostalgia but has also, in its understated majesty, rendered further tribute superfluous, thereby exemplifying the very essence of Leonard Sachs' own effortless mastery of the spoken word. | |||
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"Felix the cat cartoon, going to the minors cinema club on a Saturday morning, outside toilet bottom of the garden with frozen water in winter, bathtime in the zinc bath in front of the fire sharing the water, outside telephone where you had to push your penny in before you spoke, the 3 Rs at school (writing, reading and arithmetic), £ / and D (pounds, shilling and pence), scrumps from the fish and chip shop, I'm from Penzance Cornwall so you may have a different name for the bag of bits, batter, I can go on but I'll leave some for y'all "Yes I remember frozen water in toilet at the bottom of the garden, and small zibc bath, usually called baby bath, in front of the fire, and filled from kettles and pans of water that was heated on the same fire. | |||
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"When we had Woolworths at Christmas "according to a recent survey Woolworths was the most miss store on the High Street | |||
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"When we had Woolworths at Christmas according to a recent survey Woolworths was the most miss store on the High Street "I can believe that. Loved Woolworths | |||
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"Having to do PE and forgetting the kit" And having to do PE in your underwear. | |||
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"Crossroads Benny, Miss Luke,Miss Diane and Amy Turtle Plus What ever the Chef was called " The chef was Shughie Mcfee | |||
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"Muffin the Mule !!!! "You aren’t old enough. | |||
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"The old roadside Shell filling stations where the pumps had light up glass shell shaped shades on top and an attendant would appear in a white coat with an embroidered Shell badge on the top pocket, exchange a few pleasantries with the driver who would often say "full her up please!" and the pump would whirr away and for less than a quid the tank was full! …and “Put a Tiger in your tank” ESSO garages with tokens to collect for sherry glasses. The old Shell TV advert too with the jingle:- "Keep going well, keep going well, Britain goes better on SHELL! SHELL! SHELL! - You can be sure of SHELL!" 😊 " | |||
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"The old roadside Shell filling stations where the pumps had light up glass shell shaped shades on top and an attendant would appear in a white coat with an embroidered Shell badge on the top pocket, exchange a few pleasantries with the driver who would often say "full her up please!" and the pump would whirr away and for less than a quid the tank was full! …and “Put a Tiger in your tank” ESSO garages with tokens to collect for sherry glasses. The old Shell TV advert too with the jingle:- "Keep going well, keep going well, Britain goes better on SHELL! SHELL! SHELL! - You can be sure of SHELL!" 😊 " Ah yes! I remember the "Tiger in your tank" Esso sales campaign. Also the government drive to boost UK exports in 1968 with the "I'm backing Britain!" campaign, British made goods had Union Flag stickers with the "I'm backing Britain" slogan displayed, I also remember being given a button badge displaying the same too. We were still in the age when we still had a huge manufacturing export trade of course before much of it was all lost during the following decade. | |||
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"When it was posh to have a colour TV.." Lol. When it was posh to have a black and white TV!😄 | |||
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"Speedway, rainy nights on dirt track ovals, working class blokes in leathers and the smell of Castrol-R. Was it mainly a northern thing? Speedway used to be massive in the north east." Ipswich speedway on a thursday night, also proper 60s scrambles, Vic Eastwood, Dave Bickers etc. My older sister dated John Louis when he did scrambles before he got into speedway. | |||
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"When it was posh to have a colour TV.. Lol. When it was posh to have a black and white TV!😄" We thought it was posh when we had a radiogram. A LW/MW radio (no DAB or FM or mp3 back then), and record player, and two speakers, all built into a wooden cabinet that was about 5 feet long. | |||
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"The old roadside Shell filling stations where the pumps had light up glass shell shaped shades on top and an attendant would appear in a white coat with an embroidered Shell badge on the top pocket, exchange a few pleasantries with the driver who would often say "full her up please!" and the pump would whirr away and for less than a quid the tank was full! The old Shell TV advert too with the jingle:- "Keep going well, keep going well, Britain goes better on SHELL! SHELL! SHELL! - You can be sure of SHELL!" 😊 " Commemorative footie medallions you'd get whenever you filled up. I was so excited when England qualified for Mexico 70, having been a bit too young to have witnessed 1966, and collected all the player medallions. To say I was gutted when they got knocked out doesn't even come close. | |||
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"Speedway, rainy nights on dirt track ovals, working class blokes in leathers and the smell of Castrol-R. Was it mainly a northern thing? Speedway used to be massive in the north east. Ipswich speedway on a thursday night, also proper 60s scrambles, Vic Eastwood, Dave Bickers etc. My older sister dated John Louis when he did scrambles before he got into speedway." I don't remember that many names. Ivan Mauger was one, and I seem to remember many Scandinavians (coming over here, winning our speedways, bloody Vikings!) | |||
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"Listening to James Alexander Gordon reading the football results at 5pm on Saturday's Queen Park Rangers 4 Tottenham Hotspur 3. Crewe Alexandra 2 Oldham Athletic 1 ." Not forgetting the Scottish league division one. Forfar 5 Fife 4 | |||
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"Speedway, rainy nights on dirt track ovals, working class blokes in leathers and the smell of Castrol-R. Was it mainly a northern thing? Speedway used to be massive in the north east. Ipswich speedway on a thursday night, also proper 60s scrambles, Vic Eastwood, Dave Bickers etc. My older sister dated John Louis when he did scrambles before he got into speedway. I don't remember that many names. Ivan Mauger was one, and I seem to remember many Scandinavians (coming over here, winning our speedways, bloody Vikings!)" Ivan Mauger rode for Belle Vue Aces. Manchester. | |||
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"Pam Hairs cooking programme Keith chegwin cheggers goes pop Hawaii 5 0 The double deckers The high chaparal " Who was Pam Hairs? | |||
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"Pam Hairs cooking programme Keith chegwin cheggers goes pop Hawaii 5 0 The double deckers The high chaparal Who was Pam Hairs?" Pam Ayres. Can’t remember if her hands were hairy though. | |||
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"On Christmas Day morning at daybreak kids riding their brand new bikes in the street. " Hardly anyone had a car so the streets were great for playing in and riding your bike | |||
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"On Christmas Day morning at daybreak kids riding their brand new bikes in the street. Hardly anyone had a car so the streets were great for playing in and riding your bike" Yes, indeed they were far safer times. | |||
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"When kids used to have soap-box carts / carties cobbled together from salvaged timber and old pram wheels with a length of rope to steer it - usually down the nearest steep incline. " Safer times indeed 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 | |||
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"Pam Hairs cooking programme Keith chegwin cheggers goes pop Hawaii 5 0 The double deckers The high chaparal Who was Pam Hairs?" Pam Hairs had a cooking programme on the telly | |||
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"When kids used to have soap-box carts / carties cobbled together from salvaged timber and old pram wheels with a length of rope to steer it - usually down the nearest steep incline. Safer times indeed 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣" The application of Dettol or Germoline and a big fabric Elastoplast or perhaps a few stitches and a bandage from matron at the Cottage Hospital, you were sorted and then it was back in the driving seat of the ol' cartie attempting to break the speed limit heading down bonc with your mate on the back as the brakeman with a wooden stick that made contact with the road as a retarder! Danger? It just didn't exist in our young minds then! 😅😅😅 | |||
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"Listening to James Alexander Gordon reading the football results at 5pm on Saturday's Queen Park Rangers 4 Tottenham Hotspur 3. Crewe Alexandra 2 Oldham Athletic 1 ." East Fife 4 Forfar 5 | |||
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"Runaround with Mike Reid" "Awright you lot..." | |||
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