catfan 14,795 Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 One for carni 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,795 Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 Not PC anymore ! 4 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,398 Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 My grandfather had a very ornate brass bed, similar to the one in Catfan's photo. My mother and her siblings were all born in that bed. It had a metal mesh base and a flock mattress! Wish I still had the bed. It fascinated me as a child! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 Old fashioned egg box: 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 No idea what the sign is, Ian. Took the photo in a museum a few weeks ago. It was in a WWII cabinet so it must be something like and advert for the Women's Land Army or similar. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 The Silver Cross Parambulator: 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 Tan Sad prams were the ambition of all the unmarried girl/mothers around in my day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Waddo 921 Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 What were the ones with equal sized wheels, they made great trolleys (soap carts)the big wheels like above always tended to buckle if you cornered too hard. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,398 Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 I've noticed traditional prams making a comeback lately. They look much nicer than these buggy type contraptions. My mother walked miles with both my sister and I in our coach built pram. Up and down Gregory Boulevard, into town. She was very slim and fit due to all the exercise! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,300 Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 That Silver Cross pram looks in better nick than the pram I used to collect coke in from Basford gas works. I think the local coach built pram maker Greenwoods has been mentioned somewhere? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,274 Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 I thought it was coke that the people used to buy and collect in barrows from gasworks. Coal was the raw material they used to make the gas and coke and coal tar were sold off in small and commercial quantities as by products. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 On 06/02/2018 at 0:57 PM, Waddo said: What were the ones with equal sized wheels Swan? Here's a couple of Swan prams made with trolley wheels 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 That small photo of a pram looks like it was taken on an American or Canadian front porch rather than a British house. Just wondering? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,795 Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 Kids on trolley's as mentioned by Ian earlier, he will give the details of this photo. ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,795 Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 1 hour ago, IAN123. said: Mick- you are a saint. I know, I know. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,392 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 11 hours ago, loppylugs said: That small photo of a pram looks like it was taken on an American or Canadian front porch rather than a British house. Could equally be an Australian home, weatherboard construction is still quite popular here. Given the large overhang of the eaves it is more likely to be from warmer climes than the UK 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 5 hours ago, IAN123. said: Monkey Boots A young youth got on the tube on Saturday at Earls Court wearing a parka & brown Money Boots & yellow laces, looked brand new. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 Slightly off-topic but, in my cart/trolley making days, I had acquired a set of wheels, just needed the box to go on top. Off I go to the local Co-op (the one that was on the corner of the High St and Station Rd, Hucknall) and asked the girl behind the counter if they had any orange boxes (the carts being known then as orange box carts). "No" was her reply "but we've got the ordinary brown ones." 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 6 hours ago, IAN123. said: victory V's, Victory V's were banned in the 1970's (ish) as they contained a very tiny amount of chloroform. This was present to give the characteristic "kick" in the flavour of the lozenge and without it, they became just ordinary liquorice sweets and they were no longer interesting. Several other things contained chloroform in those days such as Throaties and Fisherman's Friends and it was also used as a sweetening agent in a number of brands of toothpaste. I know this because I was working on toothpaste flavours at the time. The amount of chloroform necessary to be noticeable was extremely small but, some clever clogs Eurocrat in Brussels must have read somewhere that chloroform was a carcinogen (most likely only in quantities sufficient to drown in) and it was duly banned. 3 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,392 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 10 hours ago, IAN123. said: Lord Toffingham suckers Banana flavoured ice cream with a chunk of toffee inside, I'd forgotten all about them. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,398 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 1 hour ago, IAN123. said: Gees Linctus..made by Boots...certain folk were swagging bottles of the stuff. Hunto bus sheds -full of brown bottles!* taken off the shelves. In my childhood, chemists were allowed to make their own cough linctus...bet that wouldn't be permitted nowadays! Mr Hobson, MPS, on Alfreton Road made the stuff I was given when I got the inevitable bronchial cough every winter. Similarly, there was a chemist on Radford Road, near to Godber, the butcher who made his own linctus. People queued up for it! Now they just flog what theyre told to! They call it progress! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 The " Banana flavoured ice cream with a chunk of toffee inside" reminded me of Palm Toffee: slabs of very chewy toffee (tuffy) usually presented as a sandwich with a different flavour in the middle layer. My favourite was banana with a caramel outer. I think I had this before I'd ever seen a real banana. Choc Stix, each the length of the sweet jat they were in, 3d each. Black Jacks (there was a fruit equivalent but I can't remember what they were called). 4 for a penny. Don't remember the price of Palm Toffee. Edit - I think the fruit equivalent of Black Jacks was called Fruit Salad. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Waddo 921 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 7 hours ago, jonab said: Several other things contained chloroform in those days such as Throaties and Fisherman's Friends I always thought that sucking a fisherman's friend was a bit dodgey!!. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Waddo 921 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 44 minutes ago, jonab said: there was a fruit equivalent but I can't remember what they were called). 4 for a penny. They were called, fruit salad. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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