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zoony

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Re: do you remember
« Reply #30 on: Oct 26, 2020, 01:10:05 AM »
They were useful people.. Horse muck for roses, donkey stones fer't steps and a balloon or something for the kids plus a real horse to touch!..
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Re: do you remember
« Reply #31 on: Oct 26, 2020, 02:42:30 AM »
There was a similar guy used to come down our road in the late 40s. Can’t remember when he stopped. We also used to see a French onion seller on a bicycle
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Re: do you remember
« Reply #32 on: Oct 26, 2020, 08:04:02 AM »
I believe rags and bones were collected for the Workhouse. Bones being a component of glue and rags used in paper making, the inmates had to grind  the bones and tear the rags. Before my time.
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Re: do you remember
« Reply #33 on: Oct 26, 2020, 08:24:43 AM »
Quote from: biglouis on Oct 26, 2020, 12:04:07 AM
He also used to sharpen knives and scissors.
That was one of the offerings of gypsies when I was a lad. If you were fool enough to give them a knife they'd scrape it on the kerbstone a few times and expect some coppers.
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Re: do you remember
« Reply #34 on: Oct 26, 2020, 09:08:24 AM »
where i live in Goa a guy comes round once or twice a year with a cycle contraption and a carburandum stone to sharpen you knives and scissors..
and did you know that in 1752 The 3rd of September became the 14th as the Gregorian Calendar was introduced into Britain. Crowds of people rioted on the streets demanding, 'Give us back our 11 days.'
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« Reply #35 on: Oct 26, 2020, 09:10:12 AM »
I did know that, although I could not have quoted the date, and by no means every country followed suit.
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« Reply #36 on: Oct 26, 2020, 02:57:42 PM »
I dont know about rags and bones but i can remember the second hand man. He used to give us goldfish in plastic bags as kids. Poor things, they nearly always died.
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Re: do you remember
« Reply #37 on: Oct 26, 2020, 07:02:52 PM »
Instamatic cameras. Weren't they neat!
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« Reply #38 on: Oct 26, 2020, 07:52:17 PM »
the hula-hoop...lol... how many of you were champions
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Re: do you remember
« Reply #39 on: Oct 26, 2020, 07:54:54 PM »
I was a champion spectator. Yoyo too.
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Re: do you remember
« Reply #40 on: Oct 26, 2020, 08:00:52 PM »
Soap box carts  made using old pram wheels and scrap wood.


Catapults.


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Michael Rolls

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« Reply #41 on: Oct 26, 2020, 08:05:19 PM »
Pal and I made a soap box cart and I managed to tear my trousers on it. Mum was most upset; money for a new pair was hard to find. I’d forgotten that
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Re: do you remember
« Reply #42 on: Oct 26, 2020, 08:41:35 PM »
Quote from: Ashy on Oct 26, 2020, 07:02:52 PM
Instamatic cameras. Weren't they neat!


I loved mine, took great photos of my kids when they were young.  I am going to be called a dinosaur but it was simple not like complicated digital one I have now I'd have mine back.
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Re: do you remember
« Reply #43 on: Oct 27, 2020, 01:29:24 AM »
Do you remember when you had a brilliant thought and remembered it long enough to write it down?.. Just lost another one.  ???
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Re: do you remember
« Reply #44 on: Oct 27, 2020, 03:10:49 AM »
Davy Crockett hats
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