Things our parents used to say


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If anywhere, especially the house, was untidy, my Mum would say. it: 'Looked like Jackie Pownall's' (I believe Pownalls scrap yard was down by the old Vic baths?) Another variation was .'Looks like

My old mum, now passed, grew up in old St Anne's and knew hard times from being little until she met and married dad, one of her regular sayings was "If you can't afford it wi real money, you can

Tomlinson, In answer to your question #1387, I used to have some really good Tide Marks on my neck and running up my arms. The back of our house on Hardy's Drive, Gedling was a shared yard, I can'

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Me mam used to say "Go to Beebyes" (sleep), but me mate's mam used to say "Go to Bobboes" (sleep). Our mam called horses 'bobboes' when we were young.

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To requests for me mam to do things would be met with the response "I'm not your slave, you know", or "What did your last slave die of".

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Spelling in following? Me mam used to go "Up th'obbocks" I can't remember where that was.

A place we used to go for a walk was "Up Jonahs". Land at the back of Sandfield Road in Arnold.

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Thanks Stu - thought it was up that way somewhere but scared to commit myself <g>

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Too right Beefsteak! The wimmin on our street had sideburns fit for Englebert Humperdink!

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£10 to fill up the car! it was about 6/8 a gallon when I was first driving - that's £2/13/4 per 8 gallon tankful!

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I used to fill the cylinders with Redex and start the engine. It smoked like a factory chimney (Anyone remember them?) but it cleared out all the gubbins from the cylinders.

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