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Bygone days

Post by Steve1956 » Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:18 am

Anyone remember queuing for a phone box :D
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Re: Bygone days

Post by TheFamilyCat » Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:20 am

Yes, people were more private in those days and didn't just pee in the street.
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Re: Bygone days

Post by Steve1956 » Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:23 am

Or having your sweetie's measured into a bag 😊
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Re: Bygone days

Post by Im_not_Robbie_Blake » Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:28 am

I started school in 1957 - we had milk tablets every day. No idea why we didn't get milk. The tablets looked and tasted like the rubbers.

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Re: Bygone days

Post by Steve1956 » Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:28 am

Or an Advert for Bass Beer...with a gun 😂
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Re: Bygone days

Post by Im_not_Robbie_Blake » Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:28 am

In those days men were men and women were men too.
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Re: Bygone days

Post by Steve1956 » Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:29 am

Im_not_Robbie_Blake wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:28 am
I started school in 1957 - we had milk tablets every day. No idea why we didn't get milk. The tablets looked and tasted like the rubbers.
The milk sat in the school yard all morning in the glaring sun,then you had it at dinner time warm.....rancid stuff 🤮
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Re: Bygone days

Post by Conroysleftfoot » Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:33 am

Steve1956 wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:29 am
The milk sat in the school yard all morning in the glaring sun,then you had it at dinner time warm.....rancid stuff 🤮
Remember it well, yuck. Then in winter it was frozen.

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Re: Bygone days

Post by Polesworth » Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:33 am

I remember it being 4d for a call (4 single old pennies). You put the cash in and dialled the number. When they answered you pressed button 'A' to connect. If they didn't answer you pressed button 'B' and got your cash back. Seems archaic now but back then was just the norm as few people had telephones installed at home. It was a bugger if you asked someone to call you at a phone box, at an arranged time, only to find someone was using the phone box.

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Re: Bygone days

Post by durhamclaret » Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:40 am

I can remember queuing to use a public phone on holiday in Spain on a Saturday night to find out how the Clarets had got on, in those days you didn’t even get a newspaper until 2 days after!
Imagine that you young uns but it was true.
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Re: Bygone days

Post by Marney&Mee » Fri Feb 26, 2021 12:47 pm

Steve1956 wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:18 am
Anyone remember queuing for a phone box :D FB_IMG_1614337812852.jpg
is that lady on the left an undercover detective ?

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Re: Bygone days

Post by Jel » Fri Feb 26, 2021 12:53 pm

Hooker!

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Re: Bygone days

Post by huw.Y.WattfromWare » Fri Feb 26, 2021 12:55 pm

Tapping dial a disc repeatedly just to shelter from the rain. Until the local bobby showed up, then SCATTER!!!

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Re: Bygone days

Post by Dyched » Fri Feb 26, 2021 12:59 pm

When wearing a face mask meant you were either a welder or a bank robber.

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Re: Bygone days

Post by CaptJohn » Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:21 pm

I used to have a regular call set up to a girl friend every Sunday afternoon at a pre-arranged time. The phone box was nearly always occupied if the handset was in place, which it often wasn't, and stunk of urine and fags. Then someone caught on to an idea how to remove the smell. They smashed all the windows in, which worked a treat. The good old days??? I think not in some ways.

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Re: Bygone days

Post by Bosscat » Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:32 pm

Marney&Mee wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 12:47 pm
is that lady on the left an undercover detective ?
Not sure about that, but the bloke on the right obviously playing pocket billiards whilst looking at the young lady in the mini skirts legs 🤔

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Re: Bygone days

Post by Billy Balfour » Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:53 pm

The woman on left has been there so long that's she's turning into a flower.

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Re: Bygone days

Post by Billy Balfour » Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:55 pm

Also, there's a ghostly head of a Mohican peering out from the window on the right.

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Re: Bygone days

Post by BenWickes » Fri Feb 26, 2021 3:47 pm

Is the little bloke on the right the Wealdstone Raider in his younger days? 'You want some?'

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Re: Bygone days

Post by tim_noone » Fri Feb 26, 2021 4:00 pm

Billy Balfour wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:53 pm
The woman on left has been there so long that's she's turning into a flower.
And Those to fellas....Which ones Bill? And which ones Ben?

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Re: Bygone days

Post by tim_noone » Fri Feb 26, 2021 4:05 pm

Steve1956 wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:23 am
Or having your sweetie's measured into a bag 😊

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Plundered many a sweet shop....

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Re: Bygone days

Post by Peter Loo » Fri Feb 26, 2021 5:05 pm

Tap on the window are you going to be long? some used to pretend they were deaf I'm sure.

And of course no eye contact with the outsiders :D
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Re: Bygone days

Post by Dark Cloud » Fri Feb 26, 2021 5:12 pm

Getting someone to phone you back in the box was really naughty (and selfish!) but we all did it!!
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Re: Bygone days

Post by Buxtonclaret » Fri Feb 26, 2021 6:56 pm

Hands up if you had an early morning trip to the loo in the backyard? 8-)
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Re: Bygone days

Post by Chester Perry » Fri Feb 26, 2021 6:58 pm

Dark Cloud wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 5:12 pm
Getting someone to phone you back in the box was really naughty (and selfish!) but we all did it!!
Richard Branson built his first business on it
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Re: Bygone days

Post by Aclaret » Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:04 pm

10 fags (No.6) and a book of matches for 10p.
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Re: Bygone days

Post by Aclaret » Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:07 pm

Buxtonclaret wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 6:56 pm
Hands up if you had an early morning trip to the loo in the backyard? 8-)

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Show off....we had a block of perhaps 6 outside bogs at the end of the street that our row of houses shared.....the women took it in turns to clean.
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Re: Bygone days

Post by spadesclaret » Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:18 pm

Who remembers bathing in a tin bath in front of the fire?
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Re: Bygone days

Post by Aclaret » Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:28 pm

spadesclaret wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:18 pm
Who remembers bathing in a tin bath in front of the fire?

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Hand up here Spades, yes I remember it.
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Post by tim_noone » Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:35 pm

spadesclaret wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:18 pm
Who remembers bathing in a tin bath in front of the fire?

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Wow!! You had a fire?
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Re: Bygone days

Post by bfcmik » Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:43 pm

Aclaret wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:07 pm
Show off....we had a block of perhaps 6 outside bogs at the end of the street that our row of houses shared.....the women took it in turns to clean.
My grandma lived in one of the back to back houses on Deer St. in Weir and we used to have to go up to the top of the street to use the toilet. Of course, there were chamber pots if you just needed a wee or during the night, but those had to be emptied at the top of the street too. I can remember her having a small section of the back bedroom partitioned off to have a proper toilet fitted in the mid 60s. She moved to Anchor Court in Burnley when it opened and said it was the best place she ever lived in!

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Re: Bygone days

Post by claret59 » Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:44 pm

In my grandmothers kitchen was a full size bath. Quite a luxury in those days especially when the wood cover over the bath doubled as the only work surface in the kitchen.

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Re: Bygone days

Post by Burnley1989 » Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:54 pm

durhamclaret wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:40 am
I can remember queuing to use a public phone on holiday in Spain on a Saturday night to find out how the Clarets had got on, in those days you didn’t even get a newspaper until 2 days after!
Imagine that you young uns but it was true.
That’s only about 20 years ago as well, I’m 31 but remember that

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Re: Bygone days

Post by tarkys_ears » Fri Feb 26, 2021 8:09 pm

Im_not_Robbie_Blake wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:28 am
In those days men were men and women were men too.
At least SOMEONE was allowed to be a man!

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Re: Bygone days

Post by Aclaret » Fri Feb 26, 2021 8:11 pm

Steve1956 wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:18 am
Anyone remember queuing for a phone box :D FB_IMG_1614337812852.jpg
And phoning the speaking clock, to see if you were in for a bollocking off your Dad for being home late.

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Re: Bygone days

Post by Buxtonclaret » Fri Feb 26, 2021 8:16 pm

Aclaret wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:07 pm
Show off....we had a block of perhaps 6 outside bogs at the end of the street that our row of houses shared.....the women took it in turns to clean.
Yep.
We were posh. :)
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Re: Bygone days

Post by Steve1956 » Fri Feb 26, 2021 8:54 pm

Does anyone remember going to the chippy and getting a Hollands pudding in a aluminium pot,and you took it back the next day to get your deposit back

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Re: Bygone days

Post by bfcjg » Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:57 pm

Men wearing ties on the Turf, now only directors do.

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Re: Bygone days

Post by RammyClaret61 » Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:42 am

spadesclaret wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:18 pm
Who remembers bathing in a tin bath in front of the fire?

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Hand up here, in front of the fire in the living room. Every Sunday evening, wether I needed it or not!!
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Re: Bygone days

Post by Jimmymaccer » Sat Feb 27, 2021 7:18 am

I remember going round to my uncles house on the day colour tv was broadcast for the first time..........sat waiting for the telly to come on (no “breakfast tv” in those days!!!).

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Re: Bygone days

Post by bfcjg » Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:29 am

Donkey stones for buffing up the doorstep

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Re: Bygone days

Post by RammyClaret61 » Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:40 am

Doing the washing in a dolly tub with a posser. That was one of my Saturday morning jobs.

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Post by wilks_bfc » Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:06 am

Jimmymaccer wrote:
Sat Feb 27, 2021 7:18 am
I remember going round to my uncles house on the day colour tv was broadcast for the first time..........sat waiting for the telly to come on (no “breakfast tv” in those days!!!).
On a similar theme, my dad use to work at Asquiths Electicals in Colne

I remember him coming home on day, with a video recorder

Not just any video recorder, but a remote control one.....

......connected to the recorder by a wire that couldn’t have been more than a meter long and wouldn’t reach any of the chairs in the room

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Re: Bygone days

Post by BenWickes » Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:26 am

wilks_bfc wrote:
Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:06 am
On a similar theme, my dad use to work at Asquiths Electicals in Colne

I remember him coming home on day, with a video recorder

Not just any video recorder, but a remote control one.....

......connected to the recorder by a wire that couldn’t have been more than a meter long and wouldn’t reach any of the chairs in the room
Same here. My Dad brought back a TV and video with remotes attached to a wire. Would have been late 70's. I remember thinking then. What's the point when you still have to get up to change channel.
Anyone remember PIP (Picture in Picture) TV? When they first came out in the early 80's? We had one but was more of a novelty than anything. You could watch TV in Sepia, monochrome, pixelated etc. Not that anyone wanted to. I guess the only benefit in the days when there were only 3 channels was you could see the other channel in the corner so you could avoid the commercials or see when the programme started on the other side.

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Re: Bygone days

Post by spadesclaret » Sun Feb 28, 2021 6:32 pm

Does anyone remember these?
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Re: Bygone days

Post by tarkys_ears » Sun Feb 28, 2021 6:37 pm

I remember when we used to show the "big boys" what we're all about, no fear, put it about a bit, maybe get a goal or two. Gained the respect of the media, unassuming opposition teams and other fans.

...and if we got hammered, we could leave with our heads held high.

Alas, alas!
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Re: Bygone days

Post by durhamclaret » Mon Mar 01, 2021 8:32 am

5 Park Drive (that’s not my address for you lot under 40)

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Re: Bygone days

Post by what_no_pies » Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:45 am

tarkys_ears wrote:
Sun Feb 28, 2021 6:37 pm
I remember when we used to show the "big boys" what we're all about, no fear, put it about a bit, maybe get a goal or two. Gained the respect of the media, unassuming opposition teams and other fans.

...and if we got hammered, we could leave with our heads held high.

Alas, alas!
Aye, we got relegated.

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Re: Bygone days

Post by bf2k » Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:57 am

what_no_pies wrote:
Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:45 am
Aye, we got relegated.
Aye, we've got better players now

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