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who remembers cranking there cars or vans in the morning
this is where i learnt my first swear words ,my dad cranking our van going to market early in the morning in winter .
it was a bedford with sliding doors and windows . also dad had to pay extra for it to be sprayed in green apparently then a lot of vieacles only came with just undercoat .even passager seats were extra .
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my uncles ford zodiac or may have been a ford zepher was column change i remember the big wheel no gear stick ,everything was on the steering wheel , but i was about 12 then ,so memory a bit better ,
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it had a kind bull nose quite flat front .with a grill .
its the same van that dennise water man drove in in the film up the junction .
thats not much help i know but every time i watch that film i say my dad had that van .
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I think they used the same type of van in 'Up the Junction'.
Oh my, how that dates us?
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i still feel about 35 . any way whats wrong with classic films and memories its better than the mindless pap they turn out today .
at least we have memories things change so fast these days .memories will be quite forgotten .for future generations .
do you remember milk dispensing machines you used to get at railaway and bus stations and on corners out side diarys . not many people do .
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I am 16 years older than you, but like you I have my mental factulties, I think - who said that? Just Joking.
I remember much of the past as if it was yesterday including milk machines, and milk bars (a bit like cafes but selling only milk-based products) - do you remember them?
And then there were the old fashioned sweet shops where you could buy a couple of ounces of sherbert with a liquorice twist, and then the traditional hardware shops with that lovely smell of paraffin, where you could buy 2 nails.
Oh yes, those were the days.
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he other side o f us was a book shop .i loved living in a shop .
i remeber getting a block of ice cream wrapped in newspaper to keep it cool, from the ice cream van. i am not quite old enough to remember milk bars , but i remember going in to cafes with those orange machines with floating plastic oranges in them. and mc vitites single biscuites wrapped in blue foil for milk or red foil for plain .
i love hard ware shops they have one in the black country musem
has all the old stuff in it .buckets fire irons etc . i love living musems .
every time i see a hardwhere shop , i think of the sketch , fork handles .by the two ronnies . brilliant .
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we had boundries, consequences , and freedom .
these things are needed so we can learn ,right / wrong, so we can learn about danger, and we gained so much experence due to our freedom .
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Yes dear I remember waxed paper drinking staws, as they used to have them in the Milk Bar.
I also remember my parents being able to buy a semi-detached house for £350 and a pound for cheese for one shilling.
Can't remember how much a tram or bus ticket was though, but I know it was cheap.
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the crank on cars and vans was to turn the engine over and on cold or damp mornings athe air was thick with blue language.
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the moderater let his abusive post thru . your bunglow is called rolf is it
whats your bike called .
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god kids use them in the street from the age of 5 round here . there not nice words if aimed at somebody but as a decriptive word
what the h--l is wrong with them talk about gagged.
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