Merthyr Imp
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. I always thought it was Macadam that invented it but it was a Mr Hooley when he noticed that some chips spread over a spilt barrel of tar produced a smooth surface .
But then he found he had to eat the fish on its own.
(Sorry about that)
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Camphorated Oil; wonderful stuff for rubbing on my children's chests when they had breathing difficulties - just a few warmed drops did the trick for a good night's sleep.Surely someone must remember the old song?
All together now (to the tune of 'John Brown's Body'):
John Brown's baby had a cold upon its chest
John Brown's baby had a cold upon its chest
John Brown's baby had a cold upon its chest
So we rubbed it with camphorated oil
Camphor, amphor, amphorated
Camphor, amphor, amphorated
Camphor, amphor, amphorated
So we rubbed it with camphorated oil
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Kunzl Cakes.
I think my mother used to get them from Burton's on Smithy Row, but by the time I was buying groceries myself (mid-1970s) you could get them from the local supermarket - or at least you could from Elmo on Mansfield Road in Sherwood. Then they just seemed to disappear from the shops.
Sorry if these have been mentioned before - I haven't looked back to the beginning of this topic.
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Well it's stone, not ston, and throne not thron, and I say scone not scon (like the husband!!!), but then again up here and to the east the place is pronounced scoon!!!!
In broad Lincolnshire it's ston! But they say scone...
As someone else said, I've always thought scon was the posh way of saying it.
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Best I can do is this photo which I put on another thread, which shows a West Bridgford bus just turning onto Canal Street.
Regarding Barton's route 2 to Melton Mowbray, here's a photo of AEC Reliance no. 777 at Broad Marsh. But whether it started at Huntingdon St and then called at Broad Marsh I can't remember. Sorry for the poor colour. This would have been taken in either 1969 or 1970.
Barton's route 12 to Leicester did start from Huntingdon St. Here's an example of a service leaving that bus station - AEC Reliance no. 1129. This can be dated to 1969, as the vehicle was acquired that year from Stanhope Motor Services of Frosterley in County Durham. It was still in its previous owners colours which is why it's not the usual Barton livery.
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Quite right! Sondor it was. Also in the Eagle were Tommy Walls and Harris Tweed. Lots more too!
Jack O'Lantern, Riders of the Range, Storm Nelson - Sea Adventurer, Luck of the Legion...
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If I remember right the friendly Treen was called Sondar. I'm not sure, but weren't the Treens a race created by the Mekon? As I remember, they were from Venus, and the native, or at least the other, Venusian race were the Therons - blond humans with blue skin - and were friendly to Earth.
There were a gang of regular characters as well as Digby - Sir Hubert Guest, the Controller of Space Fleet, Lex O'Malley, the Irish naval officer, an American called Hank (no surprise there), an Frenchman called Pierre (or there), a kid called 'Flamer' Spry, and Professor Jocelyn Peabody, the scientist and token woman.
And don't forget Dan Dare's spaceship, the Anastasia, which was capable of atmospheric flight also.
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The first comic I had as a very small child was Sunny Stories. Then it was on to Beano, Beezer and Eagle, which were the ones I read every week for years. I was never as keen on Dandy and Topper although read occasional copies. Others I used to read fairly regularly at times were Knockout and Swift. I also remember a comic called Zip, which was later merged into Swift.
And who remembers a comic called Buster? The title character was billed as the 'son of Andy Capp'.
Wizard came later - I was still reading it when I was about 13 or 14.
Remember Eagle was part of a group of comics for all age groups? Small children could start with Robin, then progress to Swift, then when they were older still it was Eagle for boys and Girl for - er - girls.
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Lots on twitter about it and a pic of the freight wagons stuck across the level crossing . Network rail not sure how long it will take to remove . Could be days .Someone says its "traffic carnage" in the area and buses were dropping of at Dr. Parks Corner
Carnage: 'The killing of a large number of people'
It was that bad, eh?
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We young bus spotters used to call them 'lean-backs'. They were still in service on other routes into the early 1960s.
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The blob of jam was compulsory, Had to have it. Just imagine Delia on the Telly stating "and now we add the blob of jam" in the middle.
And of course you stirred the jam into the semolina so it turned it pink.
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"English Muffins" this side of the pond aren't cakes, more of a bread type of item...
Yes - they're just called muffins here. But then so are the cakes...
Confused?
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It was actually Mike Nesmith's mother who invented Tippex:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Nesmith_Graham
Although Tippex was actually a different brand of the same sort of stuff.
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I always understood pyclets (as we called them) were the same as crumpets. Best toasted on an open fire - when we had such things! - as was toast itself.
Muffins ('English Muffins') are not something we ever had when I was young, although I think they did 'down south' (e.g. the scene in The Importance of Being Earnest when they're eating muffins). Nowadays, of course, they have these cakes which are called muffins.
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Mine is from where I live now, plus my old football team (I now get to see Merthyr Town play a lot more than I do Lincoln City)
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I think I'm right in saying that none of those you mention were two-stroke engines. Two-stroke engines were mainly associated with Commer vehicles, and I think some Foden buses, but that's about all, and were rather in a minority. Commer mainly made coach chassis in the 1950s/1960s, and I don't think produced any double deckers.
Bristol Lodekkas could have either Bristol or Gardner 5 or 6-cylinder engines, and as Stephen says, a few later versions appeared with Leyland 6 cylinder ones.
From what I remember of my bus enthusiast days (up to mid-1970s) nearly all chassis manufacturers still in business at that time ended up being taken over by British Leyland as it became! (Daimler being another).
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That took me back! I could just imagine I was going up Mansfield Road!
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Here's a picture of Lady Angela taken this week at Buckfastleigh. She's on display in a siding but out of use.
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Could "marble" relate to the gleaming new concrete construction - when new, it would have been quite a contrast to the old, smoke-ridden brick structures there before?
As I remember it, it was built of red bricks. How the nickname originated I don't know, but I've always taken it to be a humorous comparison to the real Marble Arch in London.
At High Pavement school in the early 1960s when it was cross-country running during games we were sometimes instructed to go along Hucknall Road, 'through the Marble Arch' and back along Andover Road (or vice versa).
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I think it was into the 1970s that they used to have chocolate machines on railway stations, but it was Nestles chocolate - I can never remember buying that in a shop.
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I remember back in the early 1980's my brothers an I had to put up with the most irritating combination ever to hit the Nottingham airwaves ie. Dennis Mcarthy and his equally annoying daughter Tara for the BBC Radio NNottingham Sunday morrning swapshop and giveaway show. aaaargh
'Dennis, Digger and Tara ensure fast and furious fun'
Well that's what it used to say in the Radio Times
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The Archers on a Sunday morning while having pork pie for breakfast. Apart from Uncle Mac on Saturday mornings that was all I ever used to listen to on the radio in those days.
I perhaps ought to mention Sunday mornings is STILL The Archers and pork pie for me over 55 years later. Sadly no more Uncle Mac though - or even Ed Stewart. Kids today are missing out on all those good old songs.
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AND, Don't forget Dixon of Dock Green, didn't that make the crossover from radio to TV??
I could be wrong, but I don't believe it was ever on the radio before or after TV. The main character, PC George Dixon, featured in the late 1940s film 'The Blue Lamp'. He was actually shot and killed in that film, but I think because the character as played by Jack Warner was so popular he was 'resurrected' for the TV series.
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The Archers on a Sunday morning while having pork pie for breakfast. Apart from Uncle Mac on Saturday mornings that was all I ever used to listen to on the radio in those days.
I also remember The Appleyards on TV.
Old Broadmarsh bus station
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AEC Regents I would think. And more likely Leyland PDs, as TDs were pre-war (although quite possible some could have rebuilt with doors in later years).