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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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My Grandad had his own window cleaning round, he called the ladders that were pointed "pointers".

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Michael booth #2783: Each player takes a stick and drops it into the water under a bridge. The stick that crosses the finish point (Decided beforehand) is the winner. You don't have to dress up like these idiots though!

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Don't often see women in turbans and rollers sweeping the street these days either:

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Men smoking pipes

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OR women..............my Gran smoked one.....................no wonder Grandad left her . :biggrin:

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Rough Old 5hag was it !!!!!! LOL

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Kids playing 'Hop-Scotch' - Marbles - Snobs, with small cubes and other small games. Miners coming home still black from the coal face - bus conductors - men tipping their hats to the ladies and something I saw the other day for the first time for ages. A man wearing black boots that came laced well above the ankle and with a toe cap.

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Compo..re #2786...I had to Google the term 'pooh stick' as I was unsure exactly what it was. A mine of information about the sport! Saw your post of the lads on the bridge as well as much more.

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To quote Wikipedia, Poohsticks is a sport first mentioned in the Winnie-the-Pooh book 'The House at Pooh Corner'.

And since you, Poohbear, or your family have apparently been playing it as a sport for some years now, I guess that you would have to be a cert for the Gold? thumbsup

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I was brought up on the 'Winnie the Pooh' books - still love them. Some of the poems are cute too

When I was one I had just begun

When I was two I was nearly new

Who can post the next line?

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When I was Three
I was hardly me.
When I was Four,

I was not much more.
When I was Five, I was just alive.
But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever,

So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.”

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