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[Chippy_Tea]

When Matron was in charge.

 

[Dutto]

Not always for the best - unfortunately!

In 1966 I was laid in a hospital bed, after fracturing my left leg (*) in a motorbike accident, when the Surgeon (a Mr Thompson) did his rounds.

Mr Thompson was accompanied by the usual gaggle of Surgeons, Secretaries and other flunkiest, including The Matron; and he went about explaining what he had done to me to repair the damage etc in very technical language and with the x-rays.

I waited and waited for him to explain to me in layman’s language, but it was only when he started to move away that I spoke out and said “I’m sure that was interesting for everyone else, now could you please explain to me?”

The look I received from The Matron would have killed a lesser man; but Mr Thompson turned around, apologised to me, explained what he had done and why!

I spent four months in that bed - but Mr Thompson’s repair lasted nearly 40 years and he even turned up at my Court Case seven years later to give his evidence! What a man!

(*) The break was a “comminuted compound fracture of the left femur with a patellectomy”.

 

[crescent city Mike]

Milneburg area of New Orleans, La.

 

[sifty]

In 1966 I was laid in a hospital bed, after fracturing my left leg (*) in a motorbike accident, when the Surgeon (a Mr Thompson) did his rounds.

What sort of motorbike...?

 

[Dutto]

What sort of motorbike...?

Having ridden a Vincent, a BSA Road Rocket (courtesy of a mate and my brother-in-law) and many other bikes …

… I got nailed on a Suzuki 80!


I vowed never to ride a low powered bike ever again and moved on to an RT100 (*) an RT80 and a Pan European before arthritis finally got me and I gave up motorbikes when I was about 68!

(*) I passed my car Test in 1963 but never bothered with one for bikes (hence the Suzuki 80 on “L” plates).

Working overseas, I rode the RT100 in the UK and around Europe on a Kuwaiti International Driving Licence issued in Saudi Arabia for about three years before returning to the UK and going back to a car.

I finally decided to take my Test for bikes in 1995. By this time I was a consultant HSE Manager in Aberdeen for major oil companies and therefore a bit vulnerable if I broke the law!


I still miss the bikes!
:hat:

 

[Victor Churchill]

Don't know where this is, but a fine image. Four seasons, one tree.

 

[Victor Churchill]

Don't know where this is, but a fine image. Four seasons, one tree.
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Apparently, "Credit to the photographer, Jozef Morgos, who took these in Žabokreky, Slovakia. "

 

[Chippy_Tea]

1945 - 1965 London Docks, North Quay, Wapping, Stepney.
An elevated view looking down on the ground on the North quay in the docks. Barrels of wines and spirits were lined-up before being checked by officials for tax purposes.
Source :London Life magazine.

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[Dutto]

….. Barrels of wines and spirits were lined-up before being checked by officials for tax purposes.


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Apparently, if anyone wandered anywhere near those barrels they were searched …

… and anyone carrying a small gimlet and a cocktail stick was automatically thought to be a thief and fired.

I wonder why?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Rag n Bone man 1960

 

[Chippy_Tea]

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Imagine the uproar if they put this in a paper today -

 

[crescent city Mike]

 

[Erik The Anglophile]

Pic taken about an hour ago, 2300hrs.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

 

[Chippy_Tea]

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[hop-a-long]

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Imagine telling your car insurance your car got damaged as it got hit by a boat.....

 

[RichardM]

Rag n Bone man 1960


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That car on the left looks like an Austin 1100. If it is then it is later than 1960

 

[Chippy_Tea]

That car on the left looks like an Austin 1100. If it is then it is later than 1960

It probably meant to say 1960's

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I saw this on twitter does anyone know the location.