Things Us Old Farts Miss

[Tuerto]

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A ‘Why Aye Man’............according to Miss Birtley 1964:hehe:

'I'll fookin brayne ye' Translated to 'I'll ****ing Brain you' which meant (I think) that she was about to hit someone.

[light up the darkness]

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Don’t get me wrong I love it that I can watch away midweeks live on various outlets. You can follow the games as things happen in loads of places. But getting home tonight got me thinking about the old broadsheet Echo. You’d listened to the game on the wireless last night (or usually just the second half), you’d read a small snippet about the game in that morning’s Daily Mirror, the main football stories were the European Cup matches.

The report in the big Echo was something to look forward to, I read it and read it again after a big away win, once when having my tea, then again later. Practically memorising Peter Corrigan’s or Peter Jackson’s words.

As I said, I do love news and sports at your fingertips but I am glad I lived in the evening Echo years, it was an institution in our house.

A long long time ago I worked for a Works manager who used to stand by the clock at 6 am waiting for everyone to clock on.

After 5 minutes he’d take any cards left in the rack so if you were late and wanted to,clock on you’d have to go and find him.

Two of his favourite very loud ripostes were “what happened..shit the bed did you “ and “ did you bring the evening echo with you “

A very large chap with whom very very few people ever argued

[Moodybluebird]

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I miss Dial-a-Disc and particularly the woman on the line saying "that was Rivers of Baby Lon (sic) by Boney M" in a nasal Essex accent.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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Going into the local supermarket, picking up a Gayday and asking the assistant if they've got any Ayds?
Well okay, I never actually did that... but I could have. :hehe:

[NYCBlue]

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I was always a 'Full fat' man....

Still am. We drink a lot of milk in this house.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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Weird, they were always Battery operated, weren't they? Used to love that humming sound and the milk bottles knocking against each other. Lovely when you were tucked up in bed and you didn't have to be up for work. I might put one of those relaxation vids up on Youtube, 8 hrs of Milkfloat :hehe:

A lot of them were three-wheelers without a steering 'wheel' as such, but they had like a metal bar that moved side-to-side.
Remember collecting the milk from outside the door, only to find the bluetits had pecked at the foil tops to get at the cream.

[Moodybluebird]

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Peanut Treets
Football Echo
White dog poo
The Empire Pool
Top Rank
County Cinema
Steam Trains
Foghorns in the Bristol Channel
Trolley buses
Hot salted peanuts
Collecting Brooke Bond tea cards
Combes Pasties.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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Don’t get me wrong I love it that I can watch away midweeks live on various outlets. You can follow the games as things happen in loads of places. But getting home tonight got me thinking about the old broadsheet Echo. You’d listened to the game on the wireless last night (or usually just the second half), you’d read a small snippet about the game in that morning’s Daily Mirror, the main football stories were the European Cup matches.

The report in the big Echo was something to look forward to, I read it and read it again after a big away win, once when having my tea, then again later. Practically memorising Peter Corrigan’s or Peter Jackson’s words.

As I said, I do love news and sports at your fingertips but I am glad I lived in the evening Echo years, it was an institution in our house.

My mother always said, if it was a personal choice between going without food or going without the Echo, she'd choose the former.
She used to read it from cover to cover (even all of the 'Deaths' column).
Of course, the broadsheet version was ideal for rolling up and making them into firelighters by making a kind of knot out of them and putting them on the coal fire.
Also, the Echo broadsheet was the perfect size for placing over the fireplace and "drawing the fire" :hehe:

[Moodybluebird]

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Also, the Echo broadsheet was the perfect size for placing over the fireplace and "drawing the fire" :hehe:

Until it turned brown, caught fire and disappeared up the chimney !

[splott parker]

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Until it turned brown, caught fire and disappeared up the chimney !

With your hands instinctively following it before you pulled them away a bit sharpish :hehe:

[the other bob wilson]

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At the risk of taking the thread back in a former direction, remember when blue tits used to peck their way though the foil milk bottle tops and start drinking what the milkman had delivered?

Also, I can remember getting told off something rotten by my parents when I either lost or forgot the green Shield stamps from a fairly big shop they’d sent me on.

[bobh]

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At the risk of taking the thread back in a former direction, remember when blue tits used to peck their way though the foil milk bottle tops and start drinking what the milkman had delivered?

Also, I can remember getting told off something rotten by my parents when I either lost or forgot the green Shield stamps from a fairly big shop they’d sent me on.

I lived in Garnlydan during the 1963 winter - bluetits didn't need to peck through the foil - the milk and cream had frozen and a small column of cream pushed the foil up an inch or so.

[xsnaggle]

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the 'Pink' on a Saturday evening when you could read how shite (or not) your competitors had played.

Listening to the results on a Saturday evening with Dad marking his pools coupon. club names from Scotland that seemed so exotic and far away, like Hamilton Academicals. Even when I think of it now it reminds me of hot home made rice pudding.

Sittiing on the gate post listening to the roar of the Crowd in the old Arms Park to guess if Wales had scored. There was a lot less traffic in the 50s and the sound travelled up the river. (NB. I'm talking about the old old stadium with the wooden north stand.
The green grocer calling with his horse and cart 2 or 3 times a week. (Ours was Wallt Self)

[Des Parrot]

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At the risk of taking the thread back in a former direction, remember when blue tits used to peck their way though the foil milk bottle tops and start drinking what the milkman had delivered?

Also, I can remember getting told off something rotten by my parents when I either lost or forgot the green Shield stamps from a fairly big shop they’d sent me on.

1/3rd pint bottles at primary school, with cardboard tops, left in crates in the playground, when it was cold, the tops used to get pushed off.

[BLUETIT]

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FA Cup draw on a Monday, all gathering around the wireless