bamber 128 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 Dixon & Parkers are closing. Getting fitted-out at D&P (then on Friar Lane) was one of the landmarks in your childhood. New blazer, new tie and all the other gubbins as you moved from one school to another. I think D&P must be ust about the last of the local retailers to close. It was always Sisson & Parker's for your books and stationery; Smith Englefield for your bag; Gunn & Moore for your sports kit and Barton's for the bus to and from school. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 And when you left School and started work. If you were 'on the tools' you got them from the tool shop on Station Street. What was it called? Hutchinsons or something. Now long gone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted November 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 Hopkinson's ? Or "Pools for tools" at the top of Carlton Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted November 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 Hopkinson's ? Or "Pools for tools" at the top of Carlton Street. http://www.lathes.co.uk/pools/ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 Thanks Bamber. Or for your craft tools or supplies, a virtual Aladin's cave to me as a Lad. Halls on Derby Road, later to become Ben Bowers Restaurant Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 It was Hopkinsons hardware on station street and Pools for tools on carlton street opposite George street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted November 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 Don't forget Mitchell's on Lenton Boulevard. Sadly, they too closed last year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted November 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 Where do you buy a left-handed screwdriver nowadays? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 The same place as the left-handed screws. Signed: a left-hander. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 During the 70s/80s there was a youngish chap worked at Hopkinson's Hardware who was a first class folk singer. Can't remember his name but he had a fantastic and powerful voice. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,877 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 I used to go in Hopkinsons early seventies, was there a one armed man worked in there? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 I used to visit Hopkinsons almost daily in the 70's, my employer had an account so any hardware or special screws, threaded rod etc. we picked up on the way to the job. My mums next door neighbour worked at Halls on Derby road, she was there for years. Her name was Audrey. Mum got my uniforms from D&P in the 60's Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 All screws and Screwdrivers are ambidextrous nowadays as part of the diversity policy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 When I worked at "Brush" Loughborough we had some screws with a "left hand" thread. To tighten them you turned them anti-clockwise. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 Is there legislation yet promoting "positive discrimination" to make sure that any quanity of screws sold must have an equal number of right and left hand examples? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 I well remember D & P's Children's School Outfitters on Friar Lane and my mum taking me there, late fifties to be fitted for a school blazer. The one we chose was cherry red, 100% wool and cost over £40; a fortune in those days but well worth it because the blazer was beautiful. Back then there was a frequently used superstitious saying: 'Never Cast A Clout 'til May is Out'; I was simply dying to wear the blazer and willing like mad for 'Flaming June' to arrive. I do recall though the weather being particularly good that year and I could wear 'My Beautiful Blazer' - complete with school badge - well before superstition allowed! A Classy shop was D & P's, Friar Lane; expensive but quality goods only. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 All screws and Screwdrivers are ambidextrous nowadays as part of the diversity policy. Even 'dextrous' is derived from dexter, meaning 'right'. :tongue: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,877 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted November 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 Even 'dextrous' is derived from dexter, meaning 'right'. :tongue: I thought is was something altogether more sinister. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 I left that part out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,488 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 You don't get clever jokes like that on the Facebook version, do you? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 Talking of left-handed screw threads, I lost a nut from the head of my petrol strimmer. I struggled to find a replacement in my nuts & bolts tin, until I realised that it was a left-handed nut that was missing and mine were all right-handed threads I was forced to search throughout the garden where I had been strimming for ages, until I finally found the missing left-hand thread nut. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 Perhaps these Keck-Handed threads are coming up from the southern hemisphere smuggled in via Keywest from a distribution depot on Dry Tortugas? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,877 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 I got caught out once with a flat tyre on a Sherpa van. Couldn't get the wheel nut off after hammering and jumping on it, near side was left hand thread, offside was right hand. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted November 22, 2012 Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 Even 'dextrous' is derived from dexter, meaning 'right'. :tongue: So ambidextrous = two right hands. On the football field I always had two left feet (and I was hopeless at kicking with either of them) - so I guess I was ambisinistrous ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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