Things you don't/rarely hear anymore

[Tim in the North East 200]

You can no longer wake up in the middle of a still summer's night and through your open bedroom window (on the high ground near Mapperley Road) catch the sounds of:

- a steam train emerging from the Mansfield Road tunnel, clanking through the Carrington Station cutting, before going quiet again as it plunges into the Sherwood Rise tunnel

- distant barges hooting on the River Trent

[Bubblewrap 3,815]

Steam through Carrington not been able do so for nearly 50 years

[Tim in the North East 200]

Indeed - my memory is from the late 1950s!

[crankypig 457]

Not heard anyone driving along telling us that our water will be shut off while they do repairs,I can remember years ago they would knock on doors to warn you.

[Guest]

Crated milk bottles chinking ,the hum of the milk float, factory hooters,

Segs on the pavement, click of hedge shears, brass band in the park,

Coppers whistle,neighbors chatting,a quiet Sunday.

[loppylugs 8,429]

Any classical music on any Atlanta radio station.

[radfordred 6,284]

Creepers/Basford Miners Welfare I attended a wedding there Saturday night I only drink in town, so it could be me, but they called "Last orders at the bar" at 11pm? I've not heard that for years? They even had an old fashioned flashing sign saying "Last Orders" that then moved over to "Time" Thought I'd gone back in time. 

[radfordred 6,284]

This might have just been a council house kid thing? But me Mam would stand on the doorstep on Brixton Road & shout "NNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCKKKKKKK" I could have been a mile away, but I aways heard her & came running. 

[radfordred 6,284]

Q : "Have you got a match?"

 

A : "Your face, my arse"  

 

I always wondered If I'd got it the right way round? 

 

[Compo 10,328]

When coppers stopped you when speeding: "Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss?!"  Nowadays it seems to be an instant breathalyser test and then a speeding ticket.

[FLY2 10,108]

Yes, they always used to come out with real corny snippets. In the early 60's, I was once asked if I could read, by one cocky oik, as late one Saturday evening, I was parked on the frontage of the council house. I told him that I could read, and he then asked, was I honoured in parking there. Other cars were there, but he only confronted me, as I had long hair, and an MG. A £6 ticket came my way.

Several days later, I was parked outside the Flying Horse, and was asked by a similar oaf why I was still parked there, well after my hour was up. As I felt somewhat belligerent, I told him that as no other cars were in the vicinity, it didn't matter. Another £6. 

 

[West Bridgfordian 144]

As a youngster (17) I got stopped for speeding on Radcliffe Road. My old banger of a car was a bit noisy and the policeman asked if there was something wrong with it.

No I replied with a smile, it's just old, a bit like yourself!

No sense of humour some people, fine and endorsement...

[catfan 14,793]

Classic examples of failing the "attitude" test.