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The Good? old days
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maggiewinchester | Report | 22 Feb 2015 15:28 |
I was living in either a converted bus or caravan with the outside loo. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 22 Feb 2015 14:45 |
Steam trains, telephone operators, typing pools, diazzo printing, Rotring pens, leaky ball pens, sky high income tax, coal, Lyons tea shops, circuses with wild animals, Berni Inns, leather footballs & rugby balls, lead shot and fishing weights, cotton and hemp sails and cordage, old style dentists and opticians, cigarette smoke everywhere, plastic airline flight bags, Readers Digest, corporal punishment of children, Godfrey & Siddons, JCL, black and white fuzzy tv, video tape, otter hunting, army boots, Browning mk1 semi-automatic pistol, Salvation Army band, measles, chickpox etc., low tech medicine, unsafe at any speed motor cars, London smog, filthy rivers ... the list is endless. No wonder they worked so hard at R&D with the aim of making life a bit safer and more comfortable! |
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Kense | Report | 22 Feb 2015 14:13 |
Tried to think of a tasteful comment about legs covered in gravy but couldn't. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 22 Feb 2015 14:02 |
The 'loo' - ie bucket in the shed :-( |
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lavender | Report | 22 Feb 2015 13:58 |
The twin tub ;-) |
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Harry | Report | 22 Feb 2015 11:59 |
Thought it might be interesting to catalogue things we had to put up with in the alleged good old days.(goose grease for one) |