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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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The "Club Man" collecting weekly payments.

Me mam sed she int in mester !

My mam sent me to the door often to get rid of people........I used to say, "me mam says she's not in" and I'd get a clout.......

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The man from the Pru.....

Our dog chased one up the terrace once, ripped the ar*@ out of his trousers, was funny at the time, but Dad wasn't too pleased when he got the bill for a new pair of trousers...LOL

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The 31 terminus was on the top of Westdale Lane wasn't it? Was it by a school building or was it a library?.....can't remember.

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There used to be a café coach stop on the way to the east coast at Wragby, not far from the level crossing. Was it the George's Inn café?

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The 31 terminus was on the top of Westdale Lane wasn't it? Was it by a school building or was it a library?.....can't remember.

Picture of the 31 outside Plains Rd Junior school on this thread

http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8348&page=6&hl=%2Bplains+%2Broad#entry134367

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Meat safe

Ewbank sweeper

405 lines black and while TV

525 lines TV

H and X shape TV aerials

projector light beams in cinema

leaded petrol

one small stiff cardboard train ticket for whole journey and return

black lead

gasworks

Jug and Bottle section in pubs

stand-up comedians who didn't have to swear and tell sex jokes to be funny

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I have a ewbank sweeper...use it in the caravan

what you doing with a German footballer' in your caravan Darkazana?

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Don't think people bother with children's trikes anymore - they just have a bike with stabilisers on

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A Copper walking the Beat.

A copper anywhere.

In the early days of living at Clifton,, my mum washed the clothes in what she called "the copper". I don't remember it being a man in a uniform.

Looked a bit similar to this.

copper.jpg

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Dunno about Oxo crisps, but used to love Bovril crisps and been told they don't make them anymore.

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Iced Gems

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