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I used to be wakened by the noise of the dairy horse’s steps.

I once typed in a game, from the pages of 'Input' magazine.

KungFooBob wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:29 pm I once typed in a game, from the pages of 'Input' magazine.

My mum used to type in our games every single time we wanted to play, cos the tape machine on our second-hand ZX81 was broken (and we were poor). System memory, whassat?

Not that youngsters go in pubs now but...

Pubs used to sell booze. Pub food was crisps, peanuts and, for the adventurous, they might have a jar of pickled eggs on the counter (that had probably been there since the pub was built).

Count Steer wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 8:06 pm Not that youngsters go in pubs now but...

Pubs used to sell booze. Pub food was crisps, peanuts and, for the adventurous, they might have a jar of pickled eggs on the counter (that had probably been there since the pub was built).

My rents used to take me to the local working mens club and between the turn and bingo rounds a man used to come round selling jars of cockles.

KungFooBob wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 8:21 pm

Count Steer wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 8:06 pm Not that youngsters go in pubs now but...

Pubs used to sell booze. Pub food was crisps, peanuts and, for the adventurous, they might have a jar of pickled eggs on the counter (that had probably been there since the pub was built).

My rents used to take me to the local working mans club and between the turn and bingo rounds a man used to come round selling jars of cockles.

Used to get the seafood man coming round the pubs in Newcastle on a Friday night. (Used to get the chaps that started Viz selling copies in pubs too!).

I think most pubs had a guy like this on sunday nights plus we used to ge the SallY Army selling The War Cry! No one took teh paper but they did welll with donations!

We didn't have a freezer, went shopping to a 'market' where we would buy fresh foodstuffs from a man with an apron on and a set of scales and some cheeky patter!
No microwaves, air fryers, no just eat, no hello fresh!!!!!

Men from Brittany sold strings of onions, that they carried on their bicycles.

Sadlonelygit wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 8:59 pm We didn't have a freezer, went shopping to a 'market' where we would buy fresh foodstuffs from a man with an apron on and a set of scales and some cheeky patter!
No microwaves, air fryers, no just eat, no hello fresh!!!!!

We didn't have a fridge, a bathroom or paved roads, or a house if we're going into details.

Two years ago 1970 was 52 years ago.... 52 years ago from 1970 was the end of WW1...

Count Steer wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:13 pm Kids used to walk to school (or even get a bus) - on their own).

1 Mile walk, & later a 17 mile bus ride.. altho it often became a shorter bus ride as several of us would get off the bus at Tregantle Fort & spend the day on the beach (a great way to spend the Summer of '76).

The first three houses I lived at all had outside toilets. The first two were flushed by waste water from the kitchen sink.

https://ramsbottomheritage.org.uk/CrowL ... pplers.htm

My Gran was considered a disgrace in the village, she rode pillion on my Grandad's motorbike, sitting ASTRIDE rather than side saddle.

Cousin Jack wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:08 am My Gran was considered a disgrace in the village, she rode pillion on my Grandad's motorbike, sitting ASTRIDE rather than side saddle.

Oddly enuff I just read an article about the huffing and puffing from generally outraged Victorians that went on when women started riding bicycles. Scandalised they were!

(Apparently the bicycle was one of the main reducers of 'inbreeding' too 'cos people could relatively easily get from one village to another and meet and court folk from outside the limited population of their own village).

Cousin Jack wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:08 am My Gran was considered a disgrace in the village, she rode pillion on my Grandad's motorbike, sitting ASTRIDE rather than side saddle.

Is that what “village bike” means?

In about 2006 or 2007 I was working with a group of 20 to 30 year olds. They started discussing the TV programme Life On Mars as if they thought it was set in medieval times. Bloody kids!

The building I was born in was a workhouse* and I've worked for the company that made the lift up door for the Millennial Falcon*
I've been on the blade of a shovel held at the back a van in the snow at 43 mph.


*Not when.I was there though.

demographic wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 4:09 pm The building I was born in was a workhouse* and I've worked for the company that made the lift up door for the Millennial Falcon*
I've been on the blade of a shovel held at the back a van in the snow at 43 mph.


*Not when.I was there though.

BWAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Count Steer wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 8:06 pm Not that youngsters go in pubs now but...

Pubs used to sell booze. Pub food was crisps, peanuts and, for the adventurous, they might have a jar of pickled eggs on the counter (that had probably been there since the pub was built).

Cornish pubs added pastys to the menu.