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Rock_Flock_of_Five
Cylinder lawnmowers that you had to push.
Rag 'n bone men calling out in the street.
The sound of milk bottles being delivered/collected.
Stubborn sash-cord windows being opened and closed.
We still get a weekly rag and bone man and my mum in law still gets milk delivered - both in neath which might explain it 😂
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Used to love the smell of fresh bread being cooked in the bakers on the way to Severn road school back in the 70s and since when did Severn road fall in pontcanna and not canton
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BlueTiT proclaiming his love and support of his local council and Welsh government, after having his rubbish collected on the correct day.
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The swish of teachers' canes.
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Ding Ding "Hold tight, please"
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Taunton Blue Genie
The swish of teachers' canes.
The swish of parent's canes
Marching bands at half-time
Lassies cries, as they sell watercress in the city centre
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The sound of “crab sticks “ in city centre pubs
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All the drunks selling the ECHO first edition in the town centre.
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the other bob wilson
The sound of the day's second post delivery dropping through your letter box.
with the rise of Amazon and other online retailers, we get half a dozen separate deliveries these days, depending on how much the Mrs has been hammering her account
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The wobbly music sound of your cassette being chewed up by your tape recorder.
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‘Cockles, Prawns, any Cockles gents’…… a once a night visit by the Cockle Man or Woman with their big wicker basket in Cardiff pubs.
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Has anyone heard the bell and ‘Last orders please’ and 10 minutes later, ‘Time, gentlemen (never ladies) please’ lately?
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Students selling rag mags
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cyril evans awaydays
An amateur band rehearsing in a nearby yard
Watching the tele and thinking about your holidays
You are Paul Weller and I claim my fiver.
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KingOfSiamIAm
As you are B Oddie... loads of Sparrows twittering away in bushes/hedgrows.
Loads in our hedgerow - I call it that rather than hedge as it is the border to the farm next door and has a big variety of vegetation. That might have something to do with the industrial quantities of bird seed and nuts mind.
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Your gonna get your fecking heads kicked in !
Wafting gently across the bob bank
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SLUDGE FACTORY
Your gonna get your fecking heads kicked in !
Wafting gently across the bob bank
Or "Let him die, let him die, let him die"
Or "You're going home in the back of an ambulance"
Or "Harry Roberts is our friend, he kills coppers".
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RichardM
Or "Let him die, let him die, let him die"
Or "You're going home in the back of an ambulance"
Or "Harry Roberts is our friend, he kills coppers".
It's a long way to Cardiff Central
You'll never make the station
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The sound of the Western Mail & Echo presses doing their thing in Thompson House, before it all went to sh!t
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Majorblue
You are Paul Weller and I claim my fiver.
I think that everyone got that…..
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SLUDGE FACTORY
It's a long way to Cardiff Central
You'll never make the station
I’m sure you mean Cardiff General, you’re not that young!!!!
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Moodybluebird
Fog horns sounding in the channel and trains shunting in the sidings yard. All heard when I used to live in Adamsdown
I used to lay in my bed in Llanrumney listening to those foghorns. Sound travels far at night. Also, a hooting owl in the forest.