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Things you don’t see anymore (times 2) A 1945 photo of my aunt, wearing a turban and scrubbing her front door step on Queens Grove, Meadows. She dug her heels in and refused to move when the

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I actually wore a flat cap for a while sometime in the late 70s early 80s and thought I was so cool !!!. It ended up in the canal by London road after I got in a bit of a ruck with some Aston Villa fans one afternoon 845t4rd5!!!

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The price of things in guineas. I know there was no such coinage, but a lot of stuff was in guineas. Like my first trip abroad in 1965, all in for 2 weeks in Lloret, was 18 guineas. [took some save up for, I'll tell you. Laughable now]

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The price of things in guineas. I know there was no such coinage.

oooops,,,,, there were indeed guinea coins,,,, (and I rekkon some stalgians will be old enough to remember !)

I don't want to list them all,,,, but George I, II & III had actual guinea coins,,,,,,,,

Baz

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Bread Poltice fer the boil on yer neck.......

Lion Ointment........

Cow 'eal sandwiches...........

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Nuff said really, with most folk now having a mobile phone there is no need for the road side box, took this today in Norfolk, (are they trying to tell us something????)

Rog

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winter green some horrid stuff that was rubbed on ya chest........kids with thick ears............summer.......Carboncles

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True they did inter fit , back in the day you got your metal badge with a matching key (Both numbered ) if you were able to get hold of a matching pair it was worth a fortune (So I was told) whilst working for the RAC in the late 80s and early 90s, an old boy came up to me and handed over a matching set, saying he had no need for them as he had stopped driving!! He asked me to hand them in for him, I accidently forgot (MMMMMMM!!) and it is in my loft as an heirloom

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