mick2me 3,033 Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Remember making these? The kids are really missing out nowadays! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,535 Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Ayup Mick, Yep I remember them, Trollies or soap carts, Used to go to Trickets down Meadow lane to scrounge or buy some old pram wheels, knock the back gate to bits to provide the frame and pinch some nails off me grandad to put it all together, oh and the bolt for the steering pivot and washing line for the steering. We had to bend the nails over the axles and into the planks of wood to secure the wheels on. Would you get away with "driving" one of these on the pavement today I wonder? Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,869 Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Where's the engine and the Satnav Mick?. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Ayup Mick, Would you get away with "driving" one of these on the pavement today I wonder? Rog No problem considering every other form of transport uses the Pavements these days. Sometimes the pavement gets that congested one has to step into on coming traffic just to make room for them. Spent many a happy day playing on my trolly, such nottstalgia. Bip. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ube 38 Posted April 14, 2008 Report Share Posted April 14, 2008 Ayup Mick,Yep I remember them, Trollies or soap carts, Used to go to Trickets down Meadow lane to scrounge or buy some old pram wheels, knock the back gate to bits to provide the frame and pinch some nails off me grandad to put it all together, oh and the bolt for the steering pivot and washing line for the steering. We had to bend the nails over the axles and into the planks of wood to secure the wheels on. Would you get away with "driving" one of these on the pavement today I wonder? Rog wow trollies yeh remember getting the poker red hot in the fire so you could burn a hole through the plank for ya steering bolt......can remember too the binmen striking and we would use our trollies to cart the bins over to the brickyard.....5 bob a throw Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 15, 2008 Report Share Posted April 15, 2008 I went down Gordon Road on one of them with me Grans dog following on behind me! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted April 15, 2008 Report Share Posted April 15, 2008 Fell off one and cracked my head open (Never been the same since) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mickety 1 Posted April 15, 2008 Report Share Posted April 15, 2008 Fell off one and cracked my head open (Never been the same since) hehehe... I loved them, we used to flatten baked bean tins to nail on the axles, some posh lads would cruise by with theirs carpeted...happy days before £1.16 a litre of diesel... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,869 Posted April 15, 2008 Report Share Posted April 15, 2008 Baked Beans? Carpets? You must have lived in a posh area, i didn't see a carpet until i was 16. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted April 15, 2008 Report Share Posted April 15, 2008 Baked Beans?Carpets? You must have lived in a posh area, i didn't see a carpet until i was 16. Then e ad t nick it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Outlaw99 2 Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Hey trollies yes but dont forget the roller skates!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Hey trollies yes but dont forget the roller skates!!!! !! I had some really posh rollerskates, circa 1960, they were made by 'Davis'? and had rubber 'brakes' just under the toeplate at the front, any one remember this type of skate? I think they may have been imports !cheers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carltongal 101 Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 Couldnt afford two roller skates so i had to manage with just one, the left foot, but that didnt matter as i am a lefty anyway !rotfl! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 Couldnt afford two roller skates so i had to manage with just one, the left foot, but that didnt matter as i am a lefty anyway !rotfl! When we had only one skate left,(one always broke first) we'd get a board, or an old Beano/Dandy?Eagle annual to sit on, put in on the skate & career down Amersham Rise (Aspley)...................... , dangerous toys for dangerous boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted May 21, 2021 Report Share Posted May 21, 2021 Those woke health & safety snowflakes have a lot to answer for, just look at her little face! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,268 Posted May 21, 2021 Report Share Posted May 21, 2021 That has to be Jill 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted May 21, 2021 Report Share Posted May 21, 2021 It doesn't look unlike me, PP! I think it's a boy, though. I once put a photo of me, aged 3, on here as my avatar, showing a curly headed tot with her mouth wide open (my father used to say he'd never seen my mouth closed!) screaming because she hated being photographed. She still does! The roller skates were my sister's passion, not mine. It's not her. She had sleek, straight black hair and looked like a very young Audrey Hepburn! 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.