Chulla 4,946 Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Like this one, CP? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Chulla,that's it! I think they must have stopped printing them as no one stays in the same home forever.Where did you find it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 We had one, I lived in Hucknall and they were obtained from Hayward and Davenports Stationers on Watnall Road........ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 We used to have Corona Pop, the van came every Friday and we had 5 bottles, American Cream Soda, Dandelion and Burdock, Lemonade, ginger beer and Orangeade, lasted all week, one glass per person per day.................And there was a dessert (pudding) called cremola, I just loved it....... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Things you don't see anymore,my dad used to have a gas poker thing that he stuck in the coal fire to get it going,I was terrified of the thing when I was a kid. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 We had one of those.......... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 So did we got rid when we had a gas fire. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 CP. It dates from the 1960s. It belonged to my dad, and I 'inherited' it when he died. Moral - never throw anything away; today's junk will be tomorrows talking-point. Like Blondie's listing, it was published by the local printer - in this case Butler of Bulwell. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,458 Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 When did you last see this kind of motorbike and sidecar; and this kind of crash helmet ? (Saturday Night Sunday Morning, on Faraday Road) 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,599 Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 My mum's cousin had one like that and he used to have his wife and child in the sidecar. That was about 60 years ago, though! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 My dad had a very strange vehicle,it was like a motorbike at the front with a square box thing on the back,us kids had to sit on the floor,it had no seats! Don't know if he made it himself or it was bought from somewhere. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 My mate Wally Batty also had a combo like that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 'orrible things combos; they have a mind of their own. Years ago I was with the Bulwell motorbike lads, and one of them - Johnny Bennett (his mother had a sweet shop on Nuthall Road) and I were standing outside the Olympia in the marketplace. He was waiting for a young bloke who had an ex-Army Norton 16H combo to arrive and let Johnny ride it. He had never ridden a combo before and was looking forward to the experience. The bloke came and John got on it rode off towards Cinder Hill. He was gone for ages when another of the lads rode up and said there had been some kind of accident at the Fire Station. We put two and two together, got on our bikes and rode down there, arriving just in time to see John coming out of the Fire Station on a stretcher into an Ambulance. The Norton had its girder forks bend back and the bollard in the middle of the road was flattened. He wasn't too badly hurt and was soon back in his own saddle again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
davep5491 360 Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 My dad had a BSA /Watsonian combination and later an AJS /Swallow combo. I used to love going in them particularly when it was dark. Through scratched perspex, each street light was an enemy plane coming towards me and I was in my Spitfire. Imagination running riot. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 When I was 14 years old my older brother bought a 650cc Triumph ? with a double adult sidecar. The reasoning being on a provisional license you could only ride a bike up to 250cc but with a sidecar fitted there was no limit to the size of the bike & could legally be ridden with L plates displayed by a provisional license holder. I kept pestering him for a "Go" on this motorbike, a real beast it was too. Unbeknown to the both of us the previous owner had removed the steering damper, us not having a clue tried to work out why the combination was so unstable, almost impossible to ride in a straight line, but when it was going in a straight line, boy did it go ! At the time we lived on Union Road, St Anns & he let me try it out on Northumberland Street. Being 14 years old I knew everything there was to know about motorbikes, I had never ridden one of these things but this would be such an easy task, or so I thought. I climbed on the bike & managed to kickstart the "Beast" into life, what a noise it made, especially as I kept revving the thing even higher, just so as many of my mates as possible could see me on the bike. I squeezed the clutch lever on the handle bars & selected first gear, giving the engine even more revs I let the clutch out & took off like a rocket ! I knew straight away then what a steering damper was for, without one you had serious problems trying to keep the combo in a straight line until speed was reached & the initial drag from the weight of the sidecar was balanced out. As I tried to accelerate the combo pulled into the kerb then I pulled on the handlebars to try & correct the steering, impossible. This was not going to work. Not realising I then had a horrible thought, St Anns Well Road was fast aproaching in front of me, what was I going to do ? I decided to select a lower gear for some reason which I don't know even to this day why, but the combo stood on it's nose & then the sidecar smashed into the nearest lampost, this double adult sidecar was now a single adult sidecar, suitable for a two foot midget only. I was propelled over the handlebars to finish sprawled out on the road, after picking myself up off the ground I saw my brother running down the street towards me, not having the slightest concern of my wellbeing, no, only the condition of his beloved combo he bought the previous night for £8 off a bloke on Carlton Hill. After he surveyed the damaged sidecar I remember him chasing me back up Northumberland Street, threats of death & violence filled the air with one or two choice words thrown in for good measure. That, was the first & last time I ever rode a motorcycle combination. As all lads wanting big poweful motorbikes at sixteen years of age I passed my test & bought a big solo motorbike. Happy days ! 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 Nice one Catfan,youth is fearless!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 My mum's cousin had one like that and he used to have his wife and child in the sidecar. That was about 60 years ago, though! My uncle Alan had one........ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 My brother as never lived it down Ian, especially as the "Old Woman" gave him a good hiding for letting me have a "Go" ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 #2963: Gas pokers for lighting the fire........ I have an open fire and use a gas poker. However, we don't have mains gas here in Caithness so I use a home-made version that uses Calor Gas from a cylinder thus: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 Catfan, you have just made me laugh.. funny how Mams belted the wrong person. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Steam loco water tower. This photo was taken yesterday at Altnabreac railway station, said to be the most remote station in the UK network, some 16 miles from the nearest village or shop. More photos of the area here: https://picasaweb.google.com/paul.simonite/Altnabreac12September2015?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCMfr-5Lc9eeppAE&feat=directlink Water tower: 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 Here's a photo I took by the Trent in early summer, 1969. Note the large river barges moored at the British Waterways warehouses. I haven't seen a large river barge for many years. Are there any remaining on the Trent I wonder? The lad is my younger brother and he is holding the biggest fish of the day. The girl almost out of shot was my wifey and unborn daughter (Sorry about the quality - taken from an old and battered slide): 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,580 Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 Barges still carry sand and gravel along the Trent from the Gainsborough area towards Cromwell daily Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
parmitage 127 Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 Talking about Corona - Blondie #2692 - do you remember Beer at home means Davenports? Mum and Dad had some every Friday. One Friday they were having a big row when he looked in through the front door saying cheerfully "Davenports" - "s**t" shouted Mum. Yes people call it that but I am supposed to say Davenports he replied. It stopped the row Mum and Dad fell about laughing. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 Compo (#2980), when I was a kid, living on Grainger Street, my mates and I used to dive off those barges into the River Trent during the summer. Great fun but it's not until you get older that you realise how dangerous it was. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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