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Iceboy53
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Things you dont see anymore
replied on: 7/17/2005 12:48:52 PM i'll tell something you don't see anymore or i don't. it's russian slab cake,i used to be able to get it out of vending machines and market stalls, but now it's vanished. unless suzard is listening...come on Suzard your ears sshould be burning now!!!!!! where is it and where can i get it from. ice |
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frano
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Things you dont see anymore
replied on: 7/17/2005 8:08:46 PM Just to lower the tone a bit. There are no bits of newspaper to read on the back of the toilet door. frano |
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suzard
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Things you dont see anymore
replied on: 7/18/2005 8:35:11 AM Sorry to disappoint you Iceboy, but I don't remember Russian Slab Cake!!!! Other things you don't see anymore-fairs and circus at langley Mill, trolley busses, children offering adults their seat on the bus (maybe cos buses aren't full nowdays) |
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philfred
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Things you dont see anymore
replied on: 7/18/2005 6:53:25 PM I can get Russian Slab Cake from a bakers in New Ollerton in North Notts. The baker's name is Copelands and it comes in at around 500g (1lb in real money) slabs. regards Phil |
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Iceboy53
Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 7/21/2005 2:55:50 PM by Iceboy53 |
Things you dont see anymore
replied on: 7/21/2005 1:38:31 PM somethings you'll never see no more and one of those is..."beer at home means davenports remember"  ice |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 7/21/2005 1:44:29 PM The sign inside shops, Etc. - "The Customer IS always right". Azzabuv. |
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suzard
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replied on: 7/21/2005 3:28:25 PM Good one Azza. You don't see "proper" lamp-posts with a bar across from which you could swing. |
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Iceboy53
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Things you dont see anymore
replied on: 7/24/2005 4:02:40 PM Licenses. Dogs: 7/6; (puppies under six months of age, dogs kept by blind people and sheep dogs are exempt). Renewable annually. Driving license: 5/-; Renewable annually on the date first taken out. Information about Gun and Game license can be obtained from the post office or police station. ice |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 7/24/2005 4:43:48 PM The pot/enamel/tin 'Potty' - under the bed. Don't say you've seen one of those to, recently, Ice? Azzabuv. |
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Azzabuv
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Things you dont see anymore
replied on: 7/27/2005 1:52:30 PM The 'Home Guard' and its members. A miner's canteen, with its hot, nourishing meals. Miners with blackened faces, crossing Heanor Market on their way home to the tin bath in front of the fire. Trainee miners going to work in their white pit helmets. Bus conductors - or their ticket machines. Old style buses. Trim-phones. Austin Princesses. Home made/grown English Motor Cycles. Women's everyday wear - old style wide brimmed hats, mostly black in colour. Heanor cinema tickets. Barrage Balloons. The 'Bisto Boy'. Juke Boxes in everyday use. (shades of Loui's Milkbar). Loui's Milkbar. Milkbars. The Marlpool Cemetery chapel used as the Heanor History Society's Heritage Centre. Solid tyre bikes. 1930s motor cycles. Electrically powered Trolley Buses. Tram tracks in the local area's roads. Local Collieries and their steep pit-hills. The burning sulpher waste-bank at Loscoe Dam. The stickleback fishing gully at Loscoe Dam. The area's wartime bomb-shelter bunkers. The area's local wartime fortified bunkers. The original Loscoe to Langley Mill Lane, which ran past Bailey Brook Colliery. The original Woodlinkin 'Thorn Tree' public house. A litter free Hog Barn Lane. The old farm house which stood across from the Loscoe Chapel. The old FWKs shop/factory which stood at the end of Nook end at the top of Nelson St; across from Carringtons green grocery shop. Loscoe Rd; Boys School garden allotments. Heanor train station. Clay snobs. Milk-churns waiting to be collected. Trouser braces. Shirt collar studs. Threpny or Tanner ice cream cornets and wafers. Children attending their Sunday School. Children's Sunday School outings/street parades. The 'Langley Castle' folly. An uncommercialised Shipley Park. Heanor Market packed to capacity with numerous canvas topped stalls. Tudors Tea-bar, on Heanor Market. Morley's factory. Fairview and its houses. Just the one broadcast TV channel - the b/w BBC. 'Number 6' cigarettes. The man with the pole - 'The Street Knocker-Up in the Mornings'. FWKs. Pride of place - Aspidistras. Heanor Court, held in the Town Hall. The street Organ Grinder with/without his head be-capped monkey. Elliott's fish and chip shop. The Wesleyan burial ground. The Wesleyan Church extension. The original sized Dumbles. Codnor Castle - without its guard fence(s). The round, Codnor Castle Oast/pigeon House. The Farm/Bailey Brook Houses/Bailey Brook Offices. Ormonde Colliery Offices, at the Loscoe Dam end of Bailey Brook Lane. The Bailey Brook abandoned Drift-mine entrance. The original Mundy St; School - alive. The original house-free lane leading down the side of Heanor Church to Peacock Town and 'The Falls' house. Heanor's Midland Rd; railway station. Large glass containers, each filled with a different coloured liquid in the chemists window(s). The locally named 'Fishponds' areas. Loscoe Brickworks, with its round-shaped brick kilns. The original 'Sir John Warren', public house at Loscoe. A building-uncluttered Slack Lane, leading to the ex-Coppice Colliery Site. The train guard's hut, at the entrance to Slack Lane. Marlpool's 'Cricks' public house and Coppice Colliery Miners gambling den. Fletcher's factory. Berle House, at Smalley. Ice's uncaged fan. Azzabuv. |
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frano
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Things you dont see anymore
replied on: 7/27/2005 7:33:08 PM What about liquorice root sticks.Are they still available? frano |
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suzard
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replied on: 7/27/2005 11:26:59 PM Only in health food shops Tiger nuts seem to have disappeared too. |
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Iceboy53
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Things you dont see anymore
replied on: 7/28/2005 1:30:22 PM the cane and slipper in school .... ice |
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Iceboy53
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Things you dont see anymore
replied on: 7/30/2005 11:18:42 AM football rattles.... ice |
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Iceboy53
Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 10/23/2005 2:41:49 AM by RMMee |
Things you dont see anymore
replied on: 7/30/2005 11:25:38 AM you don't see them shoes you used to get when you we're kids with the compas in them..pathfinders i think they were called,by clarkes. ice |
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