olden days

[Tootles]

YOU are very rude.

Thank you. It's not very often I get nice things said about me on here. Most people are broad-minded, and just laugh. However, you do seem to have a good understanding of the subject. You must have travelled in a Cortina?

 

[Old Soldier]

Quote....
As the old man used to say blimey her legs go all the way to her bum



We better not go there.........That's the bottom line!

 

[parknride]

Remember these? Used to sit ages cutting these up. Can't see my granddaughters bothering!

 

[GWAYGWAY]

Thank you. It's not very often I get nice things said about me on here. Most people are broad-minded, and just laugh. However, you do seem to have a good understanding of the subject. You must have travelled in a Cortina?

I had two at various times but one was an ESTATE with loads of room in the back.

 

[Tootles]

I had two at various times but one was an ESTATE with loads of room in the back.

AHHH, well, that's the problem solved then!! Mine was a Lotus Cortina, which meant of coarse that it always attracted the faster women.

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[parknride]

 

[PeteH]

"Sweeps, as it Beats, as It Cleans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pete

 

[Old Soldier]

AHHH, well, that's the problem solved then!! Mine was a Lotus Cortina, which meant of coarse that it always attracted the faster women.

Mine was a sit up and beg Ford Popular.....No chance!!

 

[Old Soldier]

"Sweeps, as it Beats, as It Cleans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pete

Sounds like my Wife!!!

 

[Old Soldier]

Remember these? Used to sit ages cutting these up. Can't see my granddaughters bothering!

My twin sister use to play with these, I use to nick the one in the underwear!!

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[PeteH]

Glass spark plug tester brand name was Gunstone colour tune, use to set petrol mixture on old cars, if it showed yellow it was running too rich so adjusted it till it turned blue, Mick still has one, old b***er

So have I? Doesn't everyone? along with the Strobe light "gun" for setting the timing?

Mind. I`ve still got the old man`s Deck Caulking Tools. (he was a shipwright), and an Adze. You have to be careful swinging that, it can take your ankle out.

Pete

 

[Tootles]

Still got my Gunson, in it's black box, with the HT extension lead as well. AND, a side valve lifting tool!.

 

[John.]

Sounds familiar, Dad came home in a Wolsey 6:80, ex police car. Cracking motor.!

Bought one of these to "do up"in my spare time never did finish it

Sure I stumbled across a workshop / owners manual a while back.

 

[jollyrodger]

1st car bought at Auction(Stapleton road Bristol) old moggy minor 195?convertable £15 fitted with moggy 1000 wings so 4 headlights this was 1965 only me 15yr old got it home to Plymouth pre motorway days was fine going forwards but reverse and banging from the rear end spring hangers were shot went for scrap

 

[Jaws]

Bet you a tanner if you started a new thread on valves someone would come up with one!

There are hardly ANY valves that are not available if you look hard enough !
I recently got hold of PCL86 ( audio amp ) and a PL500 ( line output ) bottles for someone resurrecting a 1966 /67 Thorn 2000 series chassis ...

Oh.. Jamboree Bags ( 3d ) and Jubbly's ( 4d I think ?? ) that were available as a drink or frozen

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[Easyliving]

The Bald Magician?.

That would be David Nixon, here's the man himself in action



Paul

 

[Easyliving]

What about this Heineken ad from the 80's (I think).

 

[Jim]

The cinema on a Saturday afternoon. given 1/6 each that was 9d to get in and 9d to spend. We were rich.

 

[Jaime]

Semi-detached house in nice area, £220.

 

[parknride]

The cinema on a Saturday afternoon. given 1/6 each that was 9d to get in and 9d to spend. We were rich.

Rich indeed Jim, we had a bob to go with, threepence bus fare each way, tanner to get in. We wanted an ice cream one time so spent busfare on that and decided to walk home. (3 of us) got horribly lost went into a police station had a lovely ride home. Then a good belt because "what will the neighbours think you've been up to"

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[MikeandCarolyn]

We use to get into the dollies for a sprarsy on a Sat morning-unless one of us went in and opened the fire exit Banned from Colindale Odeon at 10yrs of age

 

[jollyrodger]

Fire door think a lot of us did that and banned plaza and belgrave flea pits in Plymouth

 

[jollyrodger]

Opps double up.

A local one now any plymouth folk remember the midnight walk every good Friday out to the plympton ridgeway bakers for the first and hottest hot cross buns ? People from
All areas walked and gathered just for the hell of it

 

[GWAYGWAY]

That is the new one we had a cast alloy one with the motor on top It was a real Hoover, and it had an attchment to blow when you took the bag off the back. Had it for years until it started to leak (electricity that is) so it went out. seems some people collect things like that and use them in period films etc. Downton abbey???

 

[Jaws]

Semi-detached house in nice area, £220.

There still that price in Watton in Norfolk !!!!

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[appydaze]

Who remembers biting into a nice fresh apple and finding a big juicy maggot inside. They were the days of no pesticide...

 

[Momo]

Remember my parents buying a 2 bed bungalow, bathroom, kitchen and large lounge with detached double garage and oil central heating which was being built in High Crompton, Shaw for £2,200. It was in 1958!

 

[Larby]

Who remembers biting into a nice fresh apple and finding a big juicy maggot inside. They were the days of no pesticide...

Better than finding half a maggot !

 

[2657]

Remember my parents buying a 2 bed bungalow, bathroom, kitchen and large lounge with detached double garage and oil central heating which was being built in High Crompton, Shaw for £2,200. It was in 1958!

Got the school bus from Newhey to Chadderton Grammar through Shaw and Royton from 1960 to 1964, we lived at Milnrow at the time. Family then moved to the other side of Rochdale and I had to make my own way on the 24 bus from Rochdale to the top of Burnley Lane on Broadway until I got a motorbike when I was sixteen.Sometimes met mates in the North Star for a beer or two and walked home to Rochdale more than once.......happy days

 

[kglblue]

I remember the Saturday matinee full of loud and raucous kids, the ice cream usherette came round at the interval. The choc ices and lollies were about 6d. On this Saturday when the ice cream came round it was cornettos and magnum lollies at 2 bob or 2/6d. We kids were devastated, a defining moment when the life of a ten year old was for ever changed.

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