Old Photos.

[Chippy_Tea]

I saw this on twitter earlier.

Show us in pictures the memories from your childhood.

I will kick it off with -

Washing the steps.

I remember the house wives (it was ok to call them that back then) washing the steps in our street then rubbing the front edge with what i believe was a donkey stone to make it bright white you can still see the steps today with the warn edge on the old streets here.

 

[stoob]

This brings back memories of my childhood playing in the park. No health and safety considerations or soft surfaces - if you fell and broke a bone: it was a case of hard cheese! I can hear our screams of laughter as I type.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

This brings back memories of my childhood playing in the park. No health and safety considerations or soft surfaces - if you fell and broke a bone: it was a case of hard cheese! I can hear our screams of laughter as I type.

We had big slides back in the day non of these small things we see today and no bouncy floor if you fell off we had concrete, you only fell off once

 

[chillipickle]

 

[stoob]

We had big slides back in the day non of these small things we see today and no bouncy floor if you fell off we had concrete, you only fell off once

Oh, the queues to get on the slide, hahaha

 

[chillipickle]

Thankfully times have changed

 

[DavidHatton]

To keep the bucket theme going, Home cut hair, Commonly know as the bowl head or the crash helmet!

 

[chillipickle]

And we never had lock down as an excuse for bad hair cuts lol.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Bristol Commercial Vehicles about 1981. First Leyland Olympian chassis. I'm there somewhere.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Proper old Ironmongers where you could take a screw in and ask for two of the same which would be placed in a paper bag after you paid the 10 pence, ours closed down fairly recently so now we have to travel to the next town to a huge B&Q and buy 20 in a sealed plastic container with a cardboards backing and end up with 18 in a drawer that will never get used.

 

[chillipickle]

And the shop keeper knew exactly what drawer them screws were in.

Forkcandles !!!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

And the shop keeper knew exactly what drawer them screws were in.

Forkcandles !!!

Not forkcandles but four candles or fork handles. Clever but not funny. Monty Python would have done it better.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Northwich salt manufacture and the consequences

 

[foxy]

Proper old Ironmongers where you could take a screw in and ask for two of the same which would be placed in a paper bag after you paid the 10 pence, ours closed down fairly recently so now we have to travel to the next town to a huge B&Q and buy 20 in a sealed plastic container with a cardboards backing and end up with 18 in a drawer that will never get used.


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Reminds me of fork handles

 

[foxy]

 

[Chippy_Tea]

@foxy my nan had one of those and the meal tub she washed the clothes in.

 

[Polcho]

And the shop keeper knew exactly what drawer them screws were in.

Forkcandles !!!

 

[DocAnna]

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One of my aunts in Sheffield that we used to visit had one of these mangles. I found it genuinely scary after seeing how it could drag things in and squeeze them, didn't like to even get close . Mind you my great aunt Ethel also lived a bit out of the city and still took her water from the well in the garden that still had the bucket and winder attached, she had a hand pump though as it had been 'modernised' which needed a bit of hard work at it if you wanted to turn the tap on.

 

[foxy]

One of my aunts in Sheffield that we used to visit had one of these mangles. I found it genuinely scary after seeing how it could drag things in and squeeze them, didn't like to even get close . Mind you my great aunt Ethel also lived a bit out of the city and still took her water from the well in the garden that still had the bucket and winder attached, she had a hand pump though as it had been 'modernised' which needed a bit of hard work at it if you wanted to turn the tap on.

I used to turn it for my gran, lived out in the bush, no power and paraffin lamps, a wood fired boiler for heating the water, which was on the inside. Used to make a furnace of the house on a 38 C day.
First house I bought had the same boiler, was living with a Russian girl at the time, was late for work, told the boss I had to shower with my girlfriend in the morning as there was only enough water for one shower. One thing led to another and that is why I was late. No loss of pay for being late, he told me it was the best original story he had heard since the broken bicycle chain, I asked why that was original he replied when he asked the employee where it broke, he replied, in the middle.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Remember when you used to put phone numbers in the flip up index.