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Offline Tosh

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« Reply #15 on: August 13, 2013, 12:41:45 pm »
Aaah, the dear old Burco, Hotpoint, Hoover and Servis wringer models, what fun times we had together.
It almost makes we wish I was 25 again.
ME might remember back to his apprenticeship days at GEC when we could purchase the front loaders with staff discount.
Oh dear, is nostalgia a thing of the past?

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« Reply #16 on: August 13, 2013, 05:19:19 pm »
Oh dear, is nostalgia a thing of the past?

Nostalgia IS the past!

I remember when we had a big copper boiler in the outhouse, fired by a coal fire underneath.  Then it was a rubbing board, later used with a few thimbles, by skiffle groups as an instrument.  There was also the wooden "dolly" with its three legs that we used to agitate the washing in the tub.  Those were the days.  No electricity bills and everyone as fit as a fiddle!   :D

Maybe we need a Nostalgia thread?
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« Reply #17 on: August 13, 2013, 05:53:43 pm »
Goodness gracious Yorkie, those were the days, wet washing hanging on the overhead rack in the kitchen every Monday.
Doors wide open to let the damp air out, freezing cold air rushing in.
I really miss those wonderful childhood days.


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« Reply #18 on: August 13, 2013, 06:55:16 pm »
I remember when we had our gas lights changed to electric with the DC current.   The loo at the end of the garden and bath time every Saturday in the tin bath in front of the fire.  I was the youngest so always had the water last, but topped up with a kettle just off the boil to warm it up a bit.  I'm sure I came out dirtier than when I went in!   Such was life.

No TV and a radio run from an accumulator that you had to take to be charged every so often.  Or if you were a bit clever you made your own crystal set, and listened with a pair of headphones.  Dick Barton et al!  Memories, . . . . . .  ;)
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« Reply #19 on: August 13, 2013, 07:53:06 pm »
I remember when we had a big copper boiler in the outhouse

Did she look like this?  ;D

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« Reply #20 on: August 13, 2013, 07:54:18 pm »
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Maybe we need a Nostalgia thread?

Nostalgia's not what it used to be...
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes.

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A Trip Down Memory Lane
« Reply #21 on: August 13, 2013, 08:09:46 pm »
Opening the book of time
Pages engraved forever in my mind
Worn old pages all tattered and yellow
The house of my childhood
Memories twirling . . .

The smell of old wood and stained glass
French doors and a curved staircase
My little room
Overlooking the garden
The big claw foot bathtub
A lake to a child
The kitchen old and cozy with wonderful smells
Mom smiling  . . .

A girl playing quietly on the front porch
Long hair in tangles and rosy cheeks
Grannie rocking and rocking
Dad busy in the garden humming a tune
Baby boy in his stroller sleeping
The hush of happiness . . .

A child's table set for tea and dolls sitting pretty
Real teapot and cracked china cups
Kitty cat asleep in the sun . . .

I walk the shady street of memory
The big hill where I rode my bike
At the end of the street
A park lush and still green
Where water lilies float
And white swans drift . . .

Down the street
The old church with its big doors open
I enter the gloom of my mind
Sweet the smell of candles flickering
The memories flood back . . .

All the worn old pages
All tattered and yellowed with age
I open the book of time . . .

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Re: A Trip Down Memory Lane
« Reply #22 on: August 13, 2013, 08:10:29 pm »
Thanks to Yorkie for the idea and to Nathan A for the poem.  $good$

(Maybe you could move some threads into here Ian/Dave)

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« Reply #23 on: August 13, 2013, 10:08:56 pm »
I remember when we had a big copper boiler in the outhouse

Did she look like this?  ;D

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« Reply #24 on: August 13, 2013, 10:09:37 pm »
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Maybe we need a Nostalgia thread?

Nostalgia's not what it used to be...

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A pigeon is for life not just Christmas

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« Reply #25 on: August 13, 2013, 11:01:53 pm »
there was a wooden top on our boiler and the washing would  lift it up letting out the steam, I remember my little cousin lifting the lid and putting next doors cat into the boiler before anyone could stop him, the cat gave out a loud squeal and ran off up the side of the hill, it was the last time we saw it, I remember taking the glass batteries to be recharged, they gave you a replacement for a tanner, and listening to Dan Dare on radio Luxembourg. ah nostalgia

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« Reply #26 on: August 13, 2013, 11:29:39 pm »
This is turning into.......
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

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« Reply #27 on: August 13, 2013, 11:39:39 pm »
E by gum that were good and I,m not from yorkshire

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« Reply #28 on: August 14, 2013, 05:39:30 am »
there was a wooden top on our boiler

There was a whole bloody family on ours.

I used to watch them with my Mother. <:>

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« Reply #29 on: August 14, 2013, 05:45:48 am »
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Maybe we need a Nostalgia thread?

Nostalgia's not what it used to be...

 L0L

 :laugh: That's one thing I miss....British humour.