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Things you don't see now

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  • Ketman
    Ketman Posts: 6,796
    Common Sense being used
  • rubbish bins up town
  • AshTray
    AshTray Posts: 1,036
    Santa going round the streets on the back of a trailer.

    I was at a mates a few years back and a bloke knocked on his door offering to sharpen his knives at 10 bob a time. He put his bike up on a stand and then pedalled to make a whet stone spin on the handlebars to sharpen the knives. Lovely piece of village life....
  • AshTray
    AshTray Posts: 1,036
    Red setters
  • Santa came down our road monday night sitting in a half caravan pulled by a range rover.
    (Courtesy Erith round table)

    And we still get Rag n Bone man occasionally.

    Don't see the Grooms' van anymore though.
  • gypsies selling wooden clothes pegs door to door.
    national health spectacles.
    A sticker on the back of a new car saying "Running in, please pass"
    The Saturday night dance at the local hall.
  • bloodnut
    bloodnut Posts: 2,146
    A proper bush on a fanny.
  • AshTray
    AshTray Posts: 1,036
    edited December 2009
    [cite]Posted By: DaveStorry[/cite]Santa came down our road monday night sitting in a half caravan pulled by a range rover.
    (Courtesy Erith round table)

    And we still get Rag n Bone man occasionally.

    Don't see the Grooms' van anymore though.

    Must be the fact I no longer live in a suburban setting!
  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,227
    edited December 2009
    [cite]Posted By: bloodnut[/cite]A proper bush on a fanny.
    i know!

    broadway video, tw records and discarded 'gentlemens literature' in the woods
  • AshTray
    AshTray Posts: 1,036
    [cite]Posted By: bloodnut[/cite]A proper bush on a fanny.

    Saw one in Leeds at the start of Oct. Lovely girl, but put me right off. Sorry.

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  • east terrace peanuts
    edited December 2009
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]The Saturday night classified Evening News (or Standard) with all the football results!

    How long ago did that stop?
    And the multi pictured souvenir editions before the match......... Used to get home just in time to get the classified at about ten to six.
  • Spangles Old English (or any Spangles)
    Rosettes
    Corona delivery lorry
    Mackintosh's delivery lorry
    Faggot Man (no not what you young'uns are thinking)
    Mikki Chocolate Drink
    Coalman/Dustman/Milkman/Rent Man/Insurance Man all coming to your door
    (Are you listening Mr. Refuse Collector)
    Rossi's ice cream man.
    Cuffs of Woolwich
    Bewley & Co. Tobacconist
    Lyons Tea House
  • Round black plastic dustbins with removable rubber lids
    People walking away from football grounds at 5PM with a transistor radio glued to their ear
  • Those pale blue three wheeler invalid carriages that used to be lined up alongside the pitch
  • Kids with rickets
    The Queen Mum
    Jade Goody
  • BDL
    BDL Posts: 6,004
    [cite]Posted By: AshTray[/cite]Santa going round the streets on the back of a trailer.

    I was at a mates a few years back and a bloke knocked on his door offering to sharpen his knives at 10 bob a time. He put his bike up on a stand and then pedalled to make a whet stone spin on the handlebars to sharpen the knives. Lovely piece of village life....

    Erm - this was two years ago, annual event round our way.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k5aBhmN0GE
  • Ashers
    Ashers Posts: 419
    Bloke selling bags of monkey nuts on East Terrace.
    Satin scarves tied round wrists.
    Good old fashioned proper tramps.
  • Proper bus tickets you could play a game on
  • People being put in the stocks and having rotten vegetables thrown at them.
  • RedZed333
    RedZed333 Posts: 3,103
    Lewis Coaches...

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  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    Eltham Park Station (and Eltham Well Hall)
    RACS
  • AshTray
    AshTray Posts: 1,036
    The "Aylesbury Charlton" flag. Even used to be at England games if I recall. Whatever happened to that and who the f**k was behind it??
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Trolleybuses and trams,espcially the 32 tram that went from Abbey Wood to the Embankment via 'Charlton Athletic Football Ground'.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,962
    [cite]Posted By: March51[/cite]Trolleybuses and trams,espcially the 32 tram that went from Abbey Wood to the Embankment via 'Charlton Athletic Football Ground'.

    Nice one ........ but you're the only supporter still alive who can remember them!
    *big smiley winky thingy*
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,962
    In my village, Len ........ we still have red phone boxes.

    In my village, Ash Tray .....Santa came round only last night inside a "sleigh" trailer.

    In my village, Bloodnut ....... we still have girls with a proper bush on their fanny. But personally, no thanks - prefer it smiling and winking at me.

    ;o)
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    Space raiders

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    A pint of larger for under £2.00
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,594
    kids playing cricket in the street
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,506
    [cite]Posted By: Kap10[/cite]kids playing cricket in the street

    Kids playing cricket 'full stop'............................................................mores the pity I have to say.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,506
    Y-Fronts.
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,594
    [cite]Posted By: SoundAsa£[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Kap10[/cite]kids playing cricket in the street

    Kids playing cricket 'full stop'............................................................mores the pity I have to say.

    I tend not to check them out in their gardens :-)