who remembers

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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 .eek

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  • Posted

    Was that the Bedford van with the column change?
    • Posted

      i cant remember hun i was only about 6yrs old i no the engine or the hot seat as we refered to it was in the middle of the two seats ,

      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 ,razz

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      actuly hun come to think of it my dads van might have been a commit 

      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 .razz

    • Posted

      My late uncle had one of those Bedford vans, and I remember the column change and the 'hot' seat - I loved it.

      I think they used the same type of van in 'Up the Junction'.

      Oh my, how that dates us?

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      i am 55 but except for the problems i have with my fibro 

      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 .

       

    • Posted

      There is clearly nothing wrong with your brain Tiwas, or with your thought process.

      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.

    • Posted

      oh yes such happy memeories shopping with my gran on saturday mornings we did all the shops starting with green crossers, the crossers ,news paper shop, bakers ,and butchers, our shop sold all sorts i suppose today it would be called a pound shop . .one side of our shop was an electric repair shop

      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 .razz

    • Posted

      Yes, these arte all good memories, but now we have to contend with the tribulations and pressures of this modern world, and the worry about how our children and grandchilden are going to cope with it, having not had the benefit of our experiences.cool
    • Posted

      i think the 60s child was the last child to grow into a rounded adult 

      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 .razz

    • Posted

      What's this, a trip down memory lane?

      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.

       

    • Posted

      yes best trip to take hun .memory lane. i remember the straws from school milk. £350  for a house amazing almost unbeleavable . .

      rolleyes

  • Posted

    I never had a van or a car so don't know about cranking up, but my family came to visit me when I lived in Torbay and I had a motorbike. My brother was about 9 or 10 and I was teaching him to kickstart it. He hurt his leg so I felt horribly guitly! sadrolleyes
    • Posted

      yes the kick start esp on old bikes could be a killer,

      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.

    • Posted

      Rolf my bungalow's pretty thick with blue language sometimes, wonder if I could crank it up to clean itself? question
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      really annoys me because i never use vile language expressive words like sh*t and bloody etc .and never aimed at anyone directly ,not even at those who aim it at me with abuse like macdonald .

      the moderater let his abusive post thru .eek your bunglow is called rolf is it

      whats your bike called question.

       

    • Posted

      god they have deleated me again .what a site the b----y and s--t hardly call them swear words .

       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.mad

    • Posted

      Wanna fight Montey Python style? That's nothin, they deleted one of mine for posting a nutirious food website. Yay think I'm the winner. cheesygrin
    • Posted

      But they're supposed to want to get us to help each other get well aren't they???????? eek
    • Posted

      The website wasn't advertising anything, it was simply giving nutritioun advice, not selling anything. They do exist, kind people who make websites to help.
    • Posted

      oh i no georgia its stupid you try and keep people safe by giving them proper web pages and safe suppliers . and if you forget to pm its deleated still think its stupid .esp when 
    • Posted

      esp when other sites have alsorts of info on them for anyone to see and a lot of it not correct eek
    • Posted

      yep supposed to . i mean you cant pm everyone that might be interested so not everyone will get the info .i no for sure i havnt got the energy to pm everyone with the same info .
    • Posted

      Yeah I haven't got the energy to pm everyone but I know things that are making me better slowly. Not allowed to say them! For f.........sake.

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