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This message was updated on 9/27/2004 11:37:00 AM by Azzabuv

 Bygone Shop Names
replied on: 9/27/2004 11:36:16 AM
It appears you were at Humphrey's several years before i was (1957).
My first m-bike was a good old 125 cc BSA Bantam, can you believe it. It believed it should go backwards more than forwards. Retarded timing, they told me.
Next the good old 250cc R.E.Crusader. A good bike unless you happened to do around 150 miles a day for a couple of days, then the head cylinder gasket used to distort and let the oil trickle free. Can you imagine meeting your mates with an oil trickling cylinder. You'd never live the total disgrace down.
Some time later, a battered 350 Bullet, the best m-bike i ever had.
Later i acquired a 750 Constellation plus side-car, from King's of Nottm.

Yes, i can remember the battered red-bricked swimming pool wall at Ormonde Colliery. From the laughter and shouts we used to hear on occasions as we passed by, someone was making use of a free swimming baths.

Did you ever visit the small concrete Observation post on top of the tallest tip-hill. It's small observation window faced towards Langley Mill, no doubt the expected advancing direction of the German Army if they had ever landed?
Two men, with their light sub-machine guns, would no doubt have halted them in their tracks..........or........
Azzabuv.
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