h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

just a quick fly thru this post...
memory lane... well cast your memories back to a friend on here.... jazz/darrell..... well he's back, and he's an ace too......

jim, if memory serves a charabang was a coach.... lol...
wot bout a portmanta.... (not sure of spelling)....

sheryl, & s &...all...

OMG.... he's here, and in person.....


hi jazz.....

sent reply to your e.mail darling....

been so without you....

sheryl... xxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi all whoever is still on, it's just a quick note to tell you all that i am going to bed.
So goodnight to all.
xx*NATS*xx

hi sheryl

wasn,t it a piece of furniture.

can anyone remember the portable 45rpm recordplayer,i think it was called a discatron.i had one when
i was a work,to listen to my 45,s

i was about 16,can,t remember what job i was in.

it came and went,must have been in the 1960.they didnt last long,
i watch bootsale,but never seen one,saw a dennsette radio on a sale on tv other day thoughjim

Hi Jim

My mum has got one of those record players, it use to belong to my dad.
It still works aswell, my plays all the old records on it.
She has many of them in the bedroom cupboard, likes of Nat King Cole, Ruby Murray, Patsy cline and many more.
xx*NATS*xx

hi nats

i have no 45,s anywhere,not even a cassette tape,

do you remember the poor mans video,not the beta,(the two sided
philips 2000)it weighed a ton.
but the picture quality was good,but finding any films was like look for a needle in an haystack,

and we can,t forget the 8 track stereo(although we try)they still
pop up on the bootsales and the tapes tojim

hi all.... just passing... hope you are all well...

jim, a portmanta is a suitcase....maybe it's only in the lancashire dialect....

see you all soon... take care...

sheryl.... xxxxx

hi al,jim,a sharabang was a coach,i'm almost certain it was...unless anyone can tell us any different.???
i havent noticed nyone mention a wringer,,the old iron ones with rubber rollers ,i seem to remember my mother having one of those but i must have been little....and the singer sewing machines with the treadle!!!!
i think a portmanta was a case ,,even in yorkshire sheryl!!!xx

hi sal.... yes your right hun... i remember my grandma and auntie having the wringers, or mangles as we called them, and still using them in the 60's..... although my gran didn't need it, she could hand wring a sheet and it would be nearly dry.... i could never manage to wring out anything by hand... lol..
then came the single tub washing machines with the electric mangle.... never liked the look of them....

sheryl...xxxx

Boy! I must be old!!! not only do I remember the mangle and the singer sewing machine!!but I also remember the old hand pump on the kitchen sink!! You had to crank it to get the water out and the old home made rugs, made from scrap material!! OK! Im old, Im off for a lie down now
Smudger.

hey smudger,i remember those rugs,my gran had them all over her stone floor!!!!and a rocking chair with circular knitted cushion covers in it,and a shawl over the back!!!!she had a massive black eaded fireplace as well,with an oven on one side,and a pot sink in the one single room that did for everything !!!!!a big scrubbed table in the middle wtable cloth on it!!!!xxx

i remember the old stone sinks.... massive they were.... doubled as a bath for the kids..... everything got washed in there, from pots n pans, to clothes n beddin', to people.... lol....
a damn sight better than these piddly things we get these days.... seen bigger pots for soakin' teeth.... lol...

when i went in the kitchen this afternoon the boiler was coming on,and i remembered the old heating system for hotwater,

the boiler bricked in behind the kitchen fire(no fire no hot water)and i can remember at least three times when we came down in the morning,the kitchen wet with water as the boiler behind the
fire had sprung a leak

that was the only time back then you could get the council out the same day,jim

i remember me mam and gran having the old baxi boilers, you had to get the poker and pull a lever down or summat to get the boiler heated up for the hot water....

Hi all

I forgot to tell you that i have an old spool tape, it use to belong to my grandad.
It is very old and it still works. lol
On one of the tapes has got James Last, aswell as The Ink Spots
xx*NATS*xx

Have you heard of Spike Jones then?
*nice to see you BTW*

i had an old typewriter,it had no return spring,and i could,nt afford to get it mended,so i used
a coil spring from an old grandfather clock.(it was a royal)i was one other day on bargain hunt,worth £200,and i threw mine out.

yep sal,the sharabang,was a sherabus,it was used to take people on the whit mondays out,

the shootingbreak was a kind of
estate car,if i remember well it had wooden frame sides.

in the 50,60 hospitals used them
as follow up visits,transport
to keep the abulences free.jim

i used to worki shipley jim,and i had a friend used to give me a lift home......he had a morris van,and that was trimmed with wood.a square looking thing it was.not a shooting break though,but i know whichyou mean.we have a few old 45's.beatles and old 60's songs,but no record player anymore....i'll have to get them out and see what they are!!!!sheryl..my grnas sink was in a cupboard....bug double doors on it,so you could hide the washing up !!!!i cant remember what else was in that room try as i might.just the sink ,the rocking chair,table,and a clock....very big with a glass dome over it.i dont even know what it was stood on!!!!!!

hi sal
theres one thing i,ll never forget.when we lived in the house without lecy.

we had one of those cloth dryers you fixed to the ceiling and lowered with ropes,then after you put the wet clothes on,you pulled it back up,

but why i,ll never forget ours was the only place it could go was the long the passge to the front door,and as we only had lino on the floor,if it was hung at night, you could hear the drip,drip all night.
and it had to be mopped up every morning.(what about the coal hole
outside the front door)when we had coal delivered back then.