Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 And it's almost certainly a "Raleigh" cycle too. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Or a Rudge. Anyone remember them ? I had a Rudge Whitworth in the early 50's . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Well, Mr Basfordred........I had a Pink Witch........ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 I did....... My mother...LOL 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Wot, no grafitti! And by the look of it, it smells lovely and fresh, not like a urinal or a tramp's bedroom. Yes - you picked up the phone and the operator said 'Number Please' - then it changed and you dialled the number yourself and inserted your three pennies, if the person answered you pressed button 'A' - if they did not you pressed button 'B' and got your money back..............The phone booth had telephone directories which nobody ever stole and the booth's were never vandalised.........In my teenage years I spent many a happy time in them snogging......... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 They are still around. My beloved Raleigh Transcend is waiting patiently in the garage for me. The best Mountain Bike I've ever had! Love It! What you don't see; is me on it! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ivor Thirst 120 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 A call to our Grandmother. Dial 100. "Exchange,can I help You"? "Trunks Please" ''Connecting you'' ''Trunks, can I help you?'' ''Seaburn 984 please'' ''Connection you'' ''Sorry the party line is engaged, could you try again later" And you did and there was congestion on the trunk line, please try again later.... At least some things have improved, but the telephonists were all so very nice and polite. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Yes - you picked up the phone and the operator said 'Number Please' - then it changed and you dialled the number yourself and inserted your three pennies, if the person answered you pressed button 'A' - if they did not you pressed button 'B' and got your money back..............The phone booth had telephone directories which nobody ever stole and the booth's were never vandalised.........In my teenage years I spent many a happy time in them snogging......... If we passed a phone-box when we was kids, we'd always run in and push button B to see if anyone had forgotten, hoping some pennies might come out. Can't ever remember getting any though. I was once doing a bit of snogging in a corner in the Tavern in the Town. There was a bang on the table and the landlord, an old misery, had put down a salt-pot. ' There's some salt for your meat ' he says. Cheeky git! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 I'm sure it was fourpence in my day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ivor Thirst 120 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Was in my day also, I remember borrowing the four pennies for the Cubs Telephone Test! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 The electric meter being emptied of pennies. I could never work out why it was the bloke doing it rolled some of the pennies in paper then gave them back to us. Still not sure about that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Re #2164 - Remember doing that in Westport, Ireland once - about 1970. Wanted to book a cabin on the boat from Dun Laoghaire to Heysham (after the Britannia Bridge had been burnt - before you tell me the boats went to Holyhead!) First, you had to wind the handle to attract the operator's attention. Then you asked for the number. Then she said, "There's a two hour delay on calls to Dublin, I'll book your call for 3 o' clock" [or whatever time it was]. Then you went back to the phone box at that time (hoping there was nobody monopolising the thing) and went through the rigmarole all over again, and then she put you through. How that all worked I have no idea - but it seemed to ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sue B 48 1,226 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Assistants coming and filling your car up in a petrol station. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 The electric meter being emptied of pennies. There again, in my day (mid-1960s at any rate) it was shillings. People in our shop were always asking for shillings in their change for the meters, and my mother would often send me to the bank on a Saturday morning (they closed at 11.30am I seem to remember) to get £5 or so of shillings. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 A Shilling(5p) wouldn't last long today. Now I think you would have to feed the meter with pound coins. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 #2162 I always thought it was fourpence. ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 I think the price went up - well, it wouldn't go down would it? Can't remember when. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Seem to think shillings were for the electricity meter; pennies for the gas. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 We always put shillings in the gas meter when we lived in Gedling. And we often got a rebate when the meter man came round. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 bubblewrap 2153# Looks like a morris eight in the foreground nice pictures Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 What about Blakeys the metal things you nailed on yer boot heels, and studs. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 You can still get them http://www.amazon.co.uk/eCobbler-BlakeyS-Metal-Heel-Segs/dp/B007VA1H6I Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ivor Thirst 120 Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 In the 60s all things American seemed to be popular from President Kennedy to all the American TV programmes that were the staple early evening - I Love Lucy, Bilco, Bewitched etc.It also seemed all the children 's programmes were American - Casey Jones, Whirlybirds, Rin Tin Tin etc.In many of the few UK programmes the accents were American too all the Jerry Anderson series for example. With all the American cowboy programmes we watched little wonder American Civil War cards took over from stamps or book matches as the thing to collect.I think they came with bubble or chewing gum but this was an irrelevance. Rare ones were being bartered in every corner of the playground. I guess these were the forerunner to Pokemon today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
... 1,411 Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 Ivor thirst seem to remember there were always yanks around nottingham castle. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ivor Thirst 120 Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 Looking for the Sheriff probably... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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