piggy and babs 544 Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 my cabinet was a lot wider than that compo about 6ft wide and 5 to 6 ft highlooked a bit lie a fitted kitchen but with side panels. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted March 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 Spent many hours with one of those. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 Tinplate spud guns. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 Oh, and Home made catapults Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted May 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 How about reading lights that clipped on the back of the headboard on your bed? I remember these from my childhood, not that I had one, [wished I had!] but my parents had one. It was a translucent plastic, not smooth, kind of beige colour, with a on-off switch on the cord. Also I do believe you could plug a round electric socket into the lightbulb fixture that hung down in the middle of your room. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,879 Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 When i lived in the medders there was only one power socket in the house. Hanging from the ceiling there was a Y shaped adapter, light bulb one side and a round electric outlet to plug the TV into. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted May 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 What about those 'slimming' machines. You face the machine, put a wide belt around your back and hook both ends onto the machine, switch it on and it wobbles your fat! Saw one of these yesterday on a program called Storage Wars, a group of folks bid on abandoned storage units, one of these machines was in there. I'd forgotten all about them. I remember there being on in a ladies loo in the early 60's, somewhere in Nottingham. I think you put 6d in to make it work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 When i lived in the medders there was only one power socket in the house. Hanging from the ceiling there was a Y shaped adapter, light bulb one side and a round electric outlet to plug the TV into. You used to see electric irons plugged into these light sockets! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 You can still buy these on the internet but they are smaller than the originals. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Anyone mention STILTS yet? My uncle made himself a pair so high, he had to climb an 8 foot rockery to get on them! Remembering the Norman Wisdom film where he wanted to join the Police Force and he was turned down because he was too short; so he went off home, made himself a pair of stilts, then went back so many feet taller hoping he'd be reconsidered! Yeh Crazy Man! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Stilts in the Great rift Valley November 2010: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Aaaaaaaaah Bless 'em, aren't they wonderful? Talk about 'Walk Tall'! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 I couldn't believe they could stand still on stilts for long enough for me to take several pictures. They were 'Arsi tribe' boys. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 A few more tribal people from the Omo Valley in Southern Ethiopia: Above: Mursi women SCARY! Below: Mursi village Below: Mursi Teenagers Below: Roadside fruit sellers (Forget the tribal name - sorry) Below: This Oromo boy followed me around for ages (his willy is defying his trousers) I'll post few more pics if anyone is interested in wildlife and scenery in Ethiopia. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 Lilac Leopards Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 Compo You could do with a separate thread* under members interests. Do these people not mind you taking pictures of them. The story of your visit would make interesting reading. *<split topic?> 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 Real library tickets: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Keep em' coming Compo, terrific photo's,thanks' for posting them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Mudgie - I've been asked to start a new thread "Members' interests". Mick2me will add those photos to that thread when I start it, perhaps in a few minutes when I get through my emails. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bazza 71 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Mudgie - I've been asked to start a new thread "Members' interests". Mick2me will add those photos to that thread when I start it, perhaps in a few minutes when I get through my emails. Get checkin Compo. Interesting stuff that Baz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Does anyone recall the "boom time for lit up advertising"? suddenly on Nottingham Rd New Basford there was a surge in factory etc electric signs, no idea who's was first, but recall them springing up, Walker Read, Mayfair Manufacturing, Spreckley & Evans, Wombell,s, Cheshires of Nottingham, Rouquinet, all I think had some sort of illuminated signs and the best of all was Taylors Box Factory, corner of Malton Rd who had their name at front as per joined up writing in red neon, and down the side of the factory in similar style "Have your boxes Taylor made"! whilst on the opposite corner Cheshires "Concord House" became Conccrd House for years after a mate Geoff Hart hit the sign with a football! went past all those buildings the other night, not only a ghost town but a dark and dismal one too Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dgbrit 258 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Thing you might be able to see this weekend Bits from Haley's comet Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Still got my little red book but its not mr chairman moa's book. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.