Things you don't/rarely hear anymore


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Cars backfiring

Blakeys in shoes

Tills ringing

Whistling kettles

Cycle bells

national anthem in cinemas

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Dad chopping off-cuts of wood into sticks in the backyard, to start the fire with. Then when the fire wouldn't 'catch' and a page of the Post held up in front of it, the sudden whoosh as it all ignite

The suck and splosh of a ponch in a dolly tub.

One of my pet hates ........ people who make any noise whatsoever when they are eating !!

A bus conductor yelling 'holdy tight' to a full bus.

The old fashioned bell of a police car or ambulance.

Air raid siren being tested. (After the war)

'Any old rags'

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A factory whistle at the end of the day

The ping of a cash till opening

A noisy computer room and the sound of punch card machines

The sound of coal being delivered

Kids playing in the middle of the street

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#11. Dave, I heard a cuckoo a couple of times this year - in late April I think it was - so perhaps it depends where you live and how much noise is around?

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Whistling kettles are still available and can be heard on campsites :biggrin:

Have to say I thought I would hear a cuckoo this year at Sandringham being in the middle of the woods, but not once, nor come to that have I heard a woodpecker, though often heard them at our old house.

Don't hear ice cream vans playing their chimes as they drive round the houses, nowadays they just park up at prime locations and wait.

Air horns on cars that were so popular in the 70's

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The clank clankity clank of trucks being shunted in the railway yard.

The far off sound of a steam locomotive's haunting whistle in the dead of night.

The sound of Father Christmas's sleigh bells on the roof (sure I heard them once!)

My Mother wishing me a happy birthday...

Good news on the TV.

The whirr of trolley buses.

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The screech of chalk on a blackboard.

From halfway along the Vic Embankment, the tumultuous sound of the crowd when Forest score.

Children reciting their times tables (do they still do that??)

Now I live miles away, the sound of "Little John" chiming in Slab Square.

The bell inside the petrol pump at filling stations.

The gentle reassuring hiss of the paraffin heater.

The pips on the radio (might be on Radio 4 - not sure?)

People eating pomegranates with a pin.

Hat Pins (my Grandma & Aunts had deadly ones!)

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#24 Sorry, the last two are visual in my last post (although I could always hear my Uncle sucking them off the pin)

Come to think of it (Hat Pins) the noise made when someone found one of them when feeling down the back of the settee for loose change on cleaning days !

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#24 Sorry, the last two are visual in my last post (although I could always hear my Uncle sucking them off the pin)

One of my pet hates ........ people who make any noise whatsoever when they are eating !!

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