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John Appleton

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Thanks for that Tracy. It brought back some memories, but not only the motorcycling. About two minutes in, there appears a T.K. Bedford owned by the Tartan Arrow company who employed a young John Appleton as a vehicle inspector. We operated more than 200 of these vehicles during the 1960,s and 18 fgu was one of my charges, and I used to travel to work from Southend-on-sea to Hackney wick in east london on the same Rapide that I still use today.
I feel old !
John
 

petermb998

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does this fit with this thread?





Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite fast food when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'

'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious
internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his
system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans , set foot on a golf course,
travelled out of the country or had a credit card.
My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 10 stone, and
only had one speed, (slow), or i walked.
We didn't have a colour television in our house until I was 17.
Most programmes were black and white, and the station went off the air at 11
o'clock, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on
the air at about 9 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and
farm show on, featuring local people...

I never had a telephone in my room.. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no
movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy
viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some
of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

MEMORIES
from a friend :
My friend is cleaning out his grandmother' s house (she died in December)
and he brought me an old chip shop vinegar bottle. In the bottle top
was a load of extra holes . I knew immediately what it was, but my
daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or
something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to
'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons then. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Starting handles
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner ...
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Collecting separate shillings

Older Than Dirt
Quiz :Count all
the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.

1.Sweet cigarettes
2.Coffee bars with tableside jukeboxes
3.Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5.Newsreels before the film
6.TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV
shows started again in the morning. (there were only 2 channels[if you were fortunate])
7.Peashooters
8. Muffin the Mule
9.. 45 RPM records
10.Radiograms
11. Metal ice trays with lever
12. Blue flashbulb
13.Cork popguns
14. Steamrollers
15.Washing machines with wringers

If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 11-15 =You're older than dirt!

I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my
life.

Peter
 

timetraveller

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Oh dear! Not only do I remember all of these, I even remember a time before some of them. How about flat irons that had to be heated on a stove before they could be used? Will now go and sit in a corner and dribble.
 

nkt267

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You forgot :-
Washboards
Skiffle
Mangles
Rag and Bone man
No telly till Watch With Mother
Listen with Mother
Sixpence for the meter(not parking meter)
Dividend back when the meter was emptied
Policemen directing traffic

The list is endless..John
 
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