chillipickle
Landlord.
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Do you remember.
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stubrewworx
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Think they're in the same group as marmite, gherkins etc
If i was given the choice of eating a tube of PV's or a tablespoon of marmite i would take the PV's every time.
Remember when your car radio was just that.
chillipickle
Landlord.
That's what we do now !! Mind you, it then just sits there for a month and then gets recycled...
Pah. Fancy modern stuff. We had one that said LMMMM.
It is long winded...Chalkie needs to use paragraphs that's way too much of a challenge.
Going round the neighbourhood knocking on doors with my best mate, aged about ten, with a bucket and sponge asking people if they wanted their car washed for half a crown. A week's pocket money, that was.
My Dad ordered our first television set, a Ferranti, in around 1950,as a third Transmitter was being built at Holme Moss, which would be in range of our house in Preston. He chose it as it had all the knobs (contrast, brightness, horizontal and vertical hold, volume etc.) in the front, rather than round at the back. It didn’t start transmitting until October 19 51, and Dad couldn’t wait that long. One or two people he knew had sets with special amplifiers that could sometimes get pictures from Sutton Coldfield, the only other transmitter apart from Alexandra Palace in London, so he made a large ‘H’ shaped aerial to the dimensions needed, and fixed it to our chimney.
He worked out the magnetic bearing from our house to the transmitter, and using the hand-bearing compass from our boat set the aerial at the correct angle. With great excitement we turned the set on and waited for all the valves to warm up, then after gazing at a screen full of dancing dots for ages suddenly saw a collar and tie appear. And that’s all we ever saw from Sutton Coldfield – a collar and tie!
He worked out the magnetic bearing from our house to the transmitter, and using the hand-bearing compass from our boat set the aerial at the correct angle. With great excitement we turned the set on and waited for all the valves to warm up, then after gazing at a screen full of dancing dots for ages suddenly saw a collar and tie appear. And that’s all we ever saw from Sutton Coldfield – a collar and tie!
When we all had one of these and every high-street had a film processing shop.
Outside toilets.
My Grandads house had one.
My Grandads house had one.
Unfortunately we have some people like that in work...
Ah, the amount of times we put in a film of 36 exposures into the Chemist, waited a week for it to be processed then went to collect and pay for it only to get outside, open the pouch and find all but one or two were blurred
I had one of these. Ours had a door that stopped about a foot from the top and the bottom. I can still remember one day when I was about 4 or 5 years old sitting on that outside loo when I encountered hail for the first time. That vision of thousands of white stones suddenly hitting the door and bouncing underneath it will be with me forever
Nope...you know the sort...the brick built outside lavatory type...always humping the bosses leg...
...just the ****house.The old expression - he was built like a brick s**t house.
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Do you remember playing 'knock door run'? Hours of fun doing that when we were growing up. I bet most kids wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about if you asked if they play it these days.
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