General Chat

The coal lorry coming, and the coalman carrying the coal from the lorry to the bunker.
Didn't they wear some sort of leather back protection?

Coal bunkers!!

The binmen collecting your bin from where you kept it and carrying it on their backs and then returning it to the same spot.

Walking to school whatever the weather and mum and dad cycling to their jobs as the bus service didn't go to any.

Jumpers hand knitted from wool from unpicked rummage sale finds and a skirt made from one of mum's old ones.

No TV before age 7 and then it was so tiny.

Those horrid black bath chairs.

No street lights.......oops that's come back so the past has slightly reversed Dermot. :-)

Pick n shovel work

The black death.

An American dollar (inside a colourful Christmas Card) was worth 7s & 6d.

Still get nits, David :-(

..and most young people have a job!

Diphtheria, nits, worm cake

School milk, Janet and John books :-| :-| :-| :-| :-| just to start with :-D

Oh to go back to those days! Rickets, polio, corporal and capital punishment, rationing.... anyone want to add to this list?

oh the good times then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlMjSESoz9A

The past cannot be reversed.

Public services were slowly reduced. Bus services cut, fares increased, the same with trains.
People had to get cars to go to work.
Now, many jobs expect a person to work in multiple offices, a car is needed.
Don't forget, nowadays, many people live on credit - something the wasn't possible years ago.

Entitlement happened!

Long ago, when I was young, adults had a job. They got to their place of work on a tram or a trolley bus.You'd to go upstairs if you wanted to smoke. At the end of the week people were paid in cash. This cash they gave to their wives to pay the rent buy the food, buy clothing, pay the insurance and so much more. Few people owned a car. Holidays were wishful thinking. Maybe a week end at the sea side.
Now, several years later, seems everyone has a car, mabe two. Yet so many appear to be unemployed. Many are on benefits that can only be funded by taxes. What happened ?