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Peter Chamberlain Researcher	Can you Remember replied on: 4/24/2007 8:10:57 AM Stan And what a great substitute for playing Skimming when cigarette cards stopped being issued during the war Peter
stanley	Can you Remember replied on: 4/23/2007 5:25:32 PM The school milk bottles pre-war and sometime after cannot remember when had cardboard caps whith a semi perforated ring in middle you could push it in with your finger and insert your straw.I must have delivered thousands in my time as a milkman STANLEY
germanrockstar	Can you Remember replied on: 4/23/2007 12:44:27 PM Maggie Thatcher was known as "Maggie Thatcher - Milk Snatcher" in playgrounds and staff rooms throughout the land.
WesleyLees	Can you Remember replied on: 4/23/2007 11:01:34 AM I remember the milk bottles. They were abolished for secondary schools by Harold Wilson, but Margaret Thatcher got the blame when she abolished them for primary and infant schools. You wern't allowed to swig the milk from the bottle, you had to use a straw in case there was "glass in the bottle" and of course there never was! [When I first typed this I did a typo and wrote mild bottles. Now that would be an interesting idea!]
frontcentre	Can you Remember replied on: 4/20/2007 2:16:56 PM Those little 1/3 pint milk bottles at school? They used to freeze up in winter which was great as it took longer to drink!
stanley	Can you Remember replied on: 4/19/2007 5:32:45 PM Can any one remember the winter of 1947.It started snowing in the middle of january and there was still snow on the ground at easter.I remember delivering milk up woodlinkin;the snow was piled up as high as my cart on the down road I seem to remember it being closed for a few weeks.
Volksman	Can you Remember replied on: 4/19/2007 10:50:51 AM Re: not letting women into the tap room. When I see chucking out time on the country's town centres, and see some young women falling out of the pub, out of their low tops and into the gutters, I wonder if we have made progress or reverted to the "gin mothers" of the 19 century. Bring back "Men only Taprooms!" Or am I just a Grumpy Old Man. V
germanrockstar	Can you Remember replied on: 4/19/2007 7:54:43 AM Can you remember when women weren't allowed to go into some of the pubs in Heamor? In others they couldn't go into the "tap room" and had to sit in the "snug" or lounge.
frontcentre	Can you Remember replied on: 4/19/2007 5:56:21 AM Drivers Christmas Catalogue ariving in July.
porkpiebaby	Can you Remember replied on: 4/18/2007 10:01:39 PM When my mum and dad moved into this, their first house after leaving the RAF, they bought the house and inherited a lodger who lived in the front room! Can you imagine that happening nowadays?!
Iceboy53	Can you Remember replied on: 4/18/2007 7:46:35 PM same method stanley...but we used bricks.
stanley	Can you Remember replied on: 4/18/2007 6:26:10 PM I wonder if any one can rember how cold the bedrooms used to be in the old days,we had an oven heated by a coal fire,mum use to take the iron shelf out,wrap it in a blanket and put it in our bed for an hour before we went to bed.STANLEY
suzard Researcher This message was updated on 4/18/2007 1:56:47 PM by suzard	Can you Remember replied on: 4/18/2007 1:54:31 PM Another use of the parlour! very often the parlour was let to a young married couple to begin their new life together. it was known as "living in rooms!" Stanley, you have so many memories of how life used to be - you are an inspiration. Let's have some more
stanley	Can you Remember replied on: 4/17/2007 11:27:07 PM We lived in mums parlour for two years when we married for two years from 1947 until our first son was born in 1949 STANLEY.
Iceboy53	Can you Remember replied on: 4/17/2007 9:21:57 PM i certainly remember those curlers LOL like a permanent fixture underneath those headscarf's or something like a turban i mentioned earlier. and i also remember that lavender wax you speak about suz...lovely smell..even the fireplace was spotless and paper and sticks already put in its place ready for a fire...i wonder why the parlour was such a no go area in those days...bit of waste

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