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At a previous house we had a multi fuel stove called a Bosky. It really would burn anything but was a bit messy to do the weekly clean. There was no mains gas  in the village at that time so we installed a Calor tank and had regular gas deliveries. When we moved to the family home which was being doubled in size to create extra bedrooms and a granny flat, the rural gasification programme was just starting in the area so we went on to mains gas with the installation of a 100 metre gas supply pipe. That was about 35 years ago and I still haven't had the invoice for that!

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Maybe this should be posted under “things you don’t see any more”. A coal man, and a lorry piled up with sacks. On Clifton in the early 60s, almost every house still had a coal f

A lot of people don't realise that the coal doesn't find it's way into the sacks on it's own ! It has to be shovelled in & weighed as well. Trading standards were always hot on coal men, by law sc

I got a temp job as a teenager delivering coal, I stuck it one morning only ! Sod that !

'The Gas Man Cometh!' At the time British Gas were doing a big installation job for us at the factory, replacing all the oil heaters for gas fired ones. I discussed the work at our home with the chief engineer and I think my bill might have been swept under the carpet! 

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When the gas or electric man used to come round me mam would always put newspaper on the table for them to count the two bobs and shillings out on to, I can still see the stacks of coins now. When he'd read the meter and took the money they'd hand what was left to me mam. I used to think they were giving her free money in the same way as when she got change in the shop! :Shock:

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Hey Arnold 

What about the large pennies and tanner's? my mum used these for her gas and electric meter.

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Just adding little more to this thread CT 

 

I think co-op were the first to deliver to your door.

Coal/bread/milk/ groceries. not for getting the Hovies Bike Boy.

At the top of our road  was a pub, and Fridays the dray men would  delivery the barrels of beer.

Like co-op who at one time the bread/milk carts were used.  The cart was pulled by 2 beautifull horse's

Co'rrrr-- don't half mak u feel ood.

 

ps. When we lived at the coast we had a cesspit and who would empty it ""Cess Pit SID"""

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The terraced house in Radford where I was born and lived the first 16 years had fireplaces in all the rooms, upstairs and down with the exception of my bedroom which had been the upstairs bathroom but the bath was moved downstairs to the pantry and the ‘bathroom’ became my bedroom. The only fireplace ever used was the main living room other than there was a fire lit in my sisters bedroom when she was very ill with German measles. I can still remember 60 years later how odd it was to walk in a bedroom in winter and it being lovely and warm. I regularly had to use a finger nail to scrape the frost from my bedroom window. I had a thick grey army blanket hung across the window in winter.

I remember how the coal man used to throw the bags in a pile after they’d tipped them in the coal house so my mum could count them to ensure the delivery was correct.

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19 hours ago, Hey Arnold said:

When the gas or electric man used to come round me mam would always put newspaper on the table for them to count the two bobs and shillings out on to, I can still see the stacks of coins now. When he'd read the meter and took the money they'd hand what was left to me mam. I used to think they were giving her free money in the same way as when she got change in the shop! :Shock:

Remember the gas meter man , when we were nippers we'd gather around the table as he pour the money out , his hands  always smelled of money , and his name was mr Forbes , when we lived in st ann pre demolition,  on leicester street,  which was off st anns well road at one end and hungerhill rd t,other end !

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@David sheridani would imagine most members on NS have that same memory of the meter man counting the money, i also remember that the electric always used to run out at the most inconvinient times ie when me mam was watching coronation st or crossroads & her often sending me round to neighbours to see if they had 2 shillings to exchange for a 2 shilling coin.

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X@RadFordee, I can beat that, but I can remember when the meters took pennies ! I was always intrigued at the way the meter bloke used to stack the coins and with a square piece of paper he would proceed to lay the coins down and roll them in the paper. It was usually done in the blink of an eye. He finished up with what looked like little sticks of dynamite.

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Can you imagine gas men nowadays walking up the street in uniform with their cap on, leather bag across their shoulder bulging with their collectin's.........Then some hoodie wearing youths would pounce and have it away with the lot on mopeds!! :ph34r:

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11 hours ago, mary1947 said:

Hey Arnold 

What about the large pennies and tanner's? my mum used these for her gas and electric meter.

I'm sorry @mary1947 unlike @Beekay I'm not quite old enough to remember pennies and tanners for the meter only being born in 1962. For me it was shillings and two bob

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2 hours ago, Hey Arnold said:

I'm sorry @mary1947 unlike @Beekay I'm not quite old enough to remember pennies and tanners for the meter only being born in 1962. For me it was shillings and two bob

HI Hey Arnold your only a younster yet 

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Just getting back to eletric meters, we lived in a house where the meter was at the bottom of the stairs near the front door.  M.ost people came to our back door. At the time I had been doing working dog training with my "ROTTI" There came a knock on the front door, so poping my head out of the back door which was only 3ft away  i saw that it was the man come to read the electric meter. My Rotti pip had not barked at all, so when i ask the man  to come the back way this is what happened  his eyes poped out his head and he stood very very still., not daring to move a mussel. I told Pip to sit and ask him to come though he watched her all the time (I think he was ready to run away) as he went to bottom of the stairs I just told Pip to go away and watch,

When training if you gave a command away that dog would keep going till you give it another command, So away to bottom of the stairs then command Sit / Stay / Watch  I never thought I would ever see a man shaking like this eletric meter man. Then Pip and myself escorted the man to the door.

Naughty but nice.   PS PIP WOULD NEVER HAVE HURT A FLY.

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15 hours ago, RadFordee said:

@David sheridani would imagine most members on NS have that same memory of the meter man counting the money, i also remember that the electric always used to run out at the most inconvinient times ie when me mam was watching coronation st or crossroads & her often sending me round to neighbours to see if they had 2 shillings to exchange for a 2 shilling coin.

Once remember in the evening we were all watching a film ( hell drivers ) halfway through the film the electric ran out , and with no money to put in the meter we were all sent to bed , years later i managed to see the film in its entirety!

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19 hours ago, RadFordee said:

@letsavagoowhere in radford were you born? i was also born in radford & lived in the area till the mid 70's,

we did have fireplaces in the bedrooms on gamble st but they were boarded up hence the ice on the inside of the windows in winter.

I was born just off Churchfield Lane, in the shadow of Players factory. Left early 70’s when my parents bought a new house in Lenton although I more or less moved in with my girlfriend back in Radford.

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@letsavagoothanks for your reply, you were much further down alfreton rd than me then, although i did used to go down that end quite a bit as my grandparents lived on wallan st for a few years in the late 60's & early 70's. One of my most vivid memories of the area is the smells from the player's factories down there, also can anyone who lived in that area confirm that one of the streets near wallan st had a factory with a high walkway from one side of the street to the other? I have been on google maps but am guessing it's long gone now.

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19 hours ago, Beekay said:

X@RadFordee, I can beat that, but I can remember when the meters took pennies ! I was always intrigued at the way the meter bloke used to stack the coins and with a square piece of paper he would proceed to lay the coins down and roll them in the paper. It was usually done in the blink of an eye. He finished up with what looked like little sticks of dynamite.

I lived across the road from the 22 bus terminus, and remember as a little kid, visiting and chatting to certain crews on the buses while they were parked. Your memory sparked mine as I watched the conductor roll coins in the paper.

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