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On 19/12/2018 at 20:50, evo1 said:

In this topic post anything to do with remembering the good old days with lifestyle in the 70's & 80's that you remember.

The Pay On Answer Phones.

Often housed in these dirty, urine smelling boxes although some still do remain in operation theres very few left.

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And the phones that was in them. You could spin a 2p coin in the 10p slot but be quick before them pips run out (for those that remember what pips was) and not Gladys Knight and the pips.

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Replaced by these on the early 80's

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beep beep beep beep shit I cant get the money in ahhhhh the good old pips lol

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On 20/12/2018 at 22:24, evo1 said:

Toilet Paper.

Anyone else remember using newspaper when you was a kid because your parents couldn't afford toilet paper.

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And back then the print didn't stay on the paper like it does today lmao you know what I'm saying also the only thing worse was British Rails toilet paper or should I say tracing paper that just smeared everything around lol

 

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On 24/12/2018 at 19:47, evo1 said:

Telephone Lock 80's answer to locking a phone.

Well with Reg getting a new toy,  and how the telephone lock has been discussed it leads me to place the telephone lock in this topic.

The days when your parents would go down the club and leave you with an underage babysitter only to find that when the bill come in the babysitter had been on the phone all night.  So the telephone lock was needed.

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wow I remember these all you needed was a small pair scissors and you were in lmao it was a couple of years before my mum cottoned on to this

 

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On 29/12/2018 at 21:48, becks said:

Me mum did the pools ,a pools  dude would come round  , never understood it , she must have told me a hundred times ,  score draws or some shizzle . Beer adverts were awsome , i recall a butter advert used to mess with my head , a women dives in it ! , st ivel gold or something , it was like butter porn ?

you needed 8 score draws to hit big money but only if there were 8,9 or 10 score draws on the whole pools coupon 

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On 02/01/2019 at 19:37, evo1 said:

Single Tub/Twin Tub

Even though these came out the 1950's it wasn't until the early 80's we had a twin tub(someone's pass down) mum use to struggle trying to get the thing out from under the counter.

Single Tub

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Twin Tub

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wow a Mangle there worth a few bob now rich people like them in there gardens as features twin tub used  to bounce there way around the kitchen smashing into anything in there way 

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On 04/01/2019 at 20:58, evo1 said:

White Arrow.

The days when parcel delivery was easy not like today's cowboys. Used by catalogue company's back in the day to deliver and collect returns. If you remember you had a white arrow card you placed in your window if you had a return, the guy would knock on/or if you was out you left on the door step, he would collect everyone's happy.  The good old days.

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Days ....(you missed it of the good old)

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Milk Float.

Dont see many of these about anymore, with an average speed of 15mph every morning going to school or work would see one delivering everything from eggs, bacon, bread, potatoes and of cause milk in all weathers inc snow. not like today when we get an inch of snow the country stops.

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On 13/01/2019 at 19:41, evo1 said:

Milk Float.

Dont see many of these about anymore, with an average speed of 15mph every morning going to school or work would see one delivering everything from eggs, bacon, bread, potatoes and of cause milk in all weathers inc snow. not like today when we get an inch of snow the country stops.

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crashed one of these into a tree when I used to help on a milk round to make £ when I was at school it was the tree or a metro it had been snowing (should have hit the metro shit cars)

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Yellow Pages

Well with Good Old Yellow Pages coming to an end at the end of January, that was once a big thick book and the closest to the internet with info at the time, as a kid spent many a time just looking though at the pictures/ad's Its an end once again to the way we used to live. 

So iv linked so ad's that i think we all remember back in the day.

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Plus an updated classic. Did J R Hartley take up golf?

 

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On 16/01/2019 at 01:13, 1969kappa said:

crashed one of these into a tree when I used to help on a milk round to make £ when I was at school it was the tree or a metro it had been snowing (should have hit the metro shit cars)

i was a helper too back in the 70s...hands used to freeze to the bottles in the winter..

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50p gas and electic meters.

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Well what can i say about these apart from when ever they came to empty the thing there would only be one 50p in there cause for some reason money was tight and dad would brake the lock and just keep putting the same 50p though all the meters then when he wanted some fags use the 50p at the shop then we would run out of electic and send me around next door with a load of pennys for a 50p piece late at night.

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1 hour ago, evo1 said:

50p gas and electic meters.

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Well what can i say about these apart from when ever they came to empty the thing there would only be one 50p in there cause for some reason money was tight and dad would brake the lock and just keep putting the same 50p though all the meters then when he wanted some fags use the 50p at the shop then we would run out of electic and send me around next door with a load of pennys for a 50p piece late at night.

The gas was best you could lift it up and balance it on a milk bottle(lol perfect for job)and this would stop the needles from spinning

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On 13/01/2019 at 19:41, evo1 said:

Milk Float.

Dont see many of these about anymore, with an average speed of 15mph every morning going to school or work would see one delivering everything from eggs, bacon, bread, potatoes and of cause milk in all weathers inc snow. not like today when we get an inch of snow the country stops.

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I loved hearing the electric milk float making its way up our street at the crack of dawn on a cold dark morning accompanied by the sound of clattering bottles. The Co-op milk float would always turn up in the street late morning, not good for the folks who needed some milk early.

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20 hours ago, 1969kappa said:

The gas was best you could lift it up and balance it on a milk bottle(lol perfect for job)and this would stop the needles from spinning

My dad never knew that one.  He would be turning in his grave if he knew he missed that trick

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On 17/01/2019 at 22:40, 1969kappa said:

The gas was best you could lift it up and balance it on a milk bottle(lol perfect for job)and this would stop the needles from spinning

British Gas eventually got on to this scam and started replacing the flexi pipes on the inlet and outlet with solid copper ones 😪

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On 17/01/2019 at 21:15, evo1 said:

50p gas and electic meters.

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Well what can i say about these apart from when ever they came to empty the thing there would only be one 50p in there cause for some reason money was tight and dad would brake the lock and just keep putting the same 50p though all the meters then when he wanted some fags use the 50p at the shop then we would run out of electic and send me around next door with a load of pennys for a 50p piece late at night.

There was also the old scouse making Ice 50p pieces get some plasterscene press 50p in it (many times lol) pour in the water pop in the freezer and leave until needed 🤣 quality only trouble is that when the meter man came there would be rust inside the box

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On 17/01/2019 at 21:15, evo1 said:

50p gas and electic meters.

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Well what can i say about these apart from when ever they came to empty the thing there would only be one 50p in there cause for some reason money was tight and dad would brake the lock and just keep putting the same 50p though all the meters then when he wanted some fags use the 50p at the shop then we would run out of electic and send me around next door with a load of pennys for a 50p piece late at night.

We never had the gas meter, only the electric one and the number of times I was playing on the Spectrum and the bloody electric suddenly went off, then would hear them downstairs scrambling around for a 50p in the dark. I always knew when the electric man had been, there would be a stack of 50p pieces on the kitchen table.

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1 hour ago, evo1 said:

Back when we only had three channels and BBC 1 would close down early hours and turn over to BBC 2 and you got the test card.

The classic shutdown, wow this takes me back.

 

Turn over to BBC 2

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And how that girl turn out.

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Which channel went to the black and white buzzy ,snowy screen always used to wake up freezing my arse off on the settee when I lived at my mums in my youth after coming in pissed lol

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On 17/01/2019 at 21:15, evo1 said:

50p gas and electic meters.

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Well what can i say about these apart from when ever they came to empty the thing there would only be one 50p in there cause for some reason money was tight and dad would brake the lock and just keep putting the same 50p though all the meters then when he wanted some fags use the 50p at the shop then we would run out of electic and send me around next door with a load of pennys for a 50p piece late at night.

They are still using the meter in pic 2 for leccy to the washer on our campsite, only it now takes quids.

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