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This message was updated on 7/9/2005 12:49:32 PM by Azzabuv

 Things you dont see anymore
replied on: 7/6/2005 7:20:59 PM
Trolley Buses. Wermacht. British Motor Cycles. Cigarette (fag) Cards. Transistors. Ford motor company. Boiled Wormwood juice (HOORAY). Hula hoops. Noso. Black ford 'T's. Black lead fire ranges. Gas mantles. House Gas lights. Street gas lamps plus post. Paraffin lamps. Paraffin heaters. Tin baths. Brick Coppers (fire). DEEP Snow. 12 inch black and white TVs. PC Plod. Washing mangles. Three pronged Ponches and Ponch tubs. Nibs and pens, as in school. Ink pots. Free school milk. Free sustaining school dinners, with pudding afters. The school cane. Davy Crocket's 'Racoon' headwear. -**Castle Crisps**-. Loose yeast. LANGLEY SWIMMING BATHS - HIP HIP HOORAY. The old insurance schemes of the 1940s, the dues usually collected in the pubs on one particular night = 'The Lord Nelson' on Nelson Street. The Lord Nelson Pub. Tandems. Smashed-up pianos on Heanor Market. 1950s style electrically propelled milk-carts/lorries. Coppice, Woodside and Ormonde Collieries. Miners. The swamp in the Dumbles. It suddenly dried out/away, years ago. Loose balm. Loui's Milkbar. Jukebox. Stereograms. Whitened doorsteps. Flit fly-spray can sprayers. Black fire-places, oven on one side, hot water boiler the other. Hot brick bed warmers. The Eagle comic - Dan Dare. Small yellow plastic? Ducks, perpetually bobbing up and down in shop windows. (A glass of water included). Box-sided, solid tyre prams. Tudor's tea-bar, on Heanor Market. The name - 'The King of Prussia'. Caps, for cap-guns. The blue twist of waxy paper, containing salt, in crisps. Mussel broth. The old 'Sir John Warren', Loscoe. Pit-hills. The Loscoe Road Boys School garden allotments. Ink monitors. The old Heanor Market, brick built toilets. Heanor Co-op. 'Number 6' cigarettes. The Heanor Observer newspaper. Fairview houses, Heanor. Morley's factory. (Shades of Frederick). FWK shops. 1940/50s Dustbin lorries. Steam trains, in regular service. Aspey Sic. Wireless. Wireless accumulator. Accumulator recharge shop. Wireless valves. Trolley bus over-head electric cables. Trolley bus conductor's cable pole. The Empire and Cosy cinemas. Fletcher's factory. Shipley Hall. The 'OLD' Heanor Church. The 'Cat's whisker' home-made Wireless. The superb 'Skin-Deep' drumming performance.

Will add to later.
Azzabuv.
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