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Signs of being an old git
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Remembering the bath being in the kitchen and the bog being in the yard0
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Having to go to the public phone box to be able to use a phone.
A and B buttons.0 -
Making free calls in the A and B phone boxes by 'tapping' the phone. It worked too!1
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Still happens in my local. The wonderful old gents at the bar go apeshit if its less than three quarters of a pint. Woe betide you if you decant the bottle first!RedChaser said:
My old Dad would never drink mild, reckoned it was all the regurgitated slops. He drank light and bitter (always got more than a half of bitter) and if the light ale went in first, he wouldn't accept itbobit's less ro said:
Mild and bitter!Baldybonce said:Your first pint was lager 'n' lime.
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Dial a disc. As a kid I thought it was crap (it was) and to think today people complain about MP3 bit rates.SuedeAdidas said:Remembering dialling 160 to hear the latest Number one record.
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Party-line they were called. My parents had one. You could listen to your neighbours conversation if they tried to us the phone at the same time.Miserableoldgit said:
....when you was allowed to use the phone, and, other people in the street were not using it.SuedeAdidas said:Remembering dialling 160 to hear the latest Number one record.
*A phone line used to be shared by many houses in a street.
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Remembering trolley buses fondly.1
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Remembering when the Valiant 900* was actually only 300.
*Or whatever it is this week.1 -
Hinds in Eltham High Street.4
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TUF shoes with the compass in the heel3
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Valerie Singleton1
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Only being able to buy school uniform from Eric Thomas in Bexleyheath, not Asda, tesco, poundshop or anywhere else.1
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You get a Bowel Cancer Screening Kit, bit awkward to use but well worth it if it detects any problem.0
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PwR so apologies if said already. The first sign of being an old git is reading threads about the first sign of being an old git.2
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I assume you mean tapping the two little knobs the 'phone sat on? I used to do that in my first student digs, the landlords put a lock on the dial when they were out but that didn't stop me. I must have saved at least 50p and I didn't have to trudge to the 'phone box.seth plum said:Making free calls in the A and B phone boxes by 'tapping' the phone. It worked too!
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Yes. You had to dial 1 or 0 and tap the other numbers like a Morse telegraph operator. This was in phone boxes.AddicksAddict said:
I assume you mean tapping the two little knobs the 'phone sat on? I used to do that in my first student digs, the landlords put a lock on the dial when they were out but that didn't stop me. I must have saved at least 50p and I didn't have to trudge to the 'phone box.seth plum said:Making free calls in the A and B phone boxes by 'tapping' the phone. It worked too!
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Buying a volvo0
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Thinking that you'd never make the last 6 steps of the old East terrace1
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A foreign car was a real novelty0
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Saying. ...I learnt all my football skills just playing in the street0
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You just reminded me that the Abbey Wood Comprehensive School uniform could only be bought from the Co-op or Cuffs in Woolwich..Justin20474 said:Only being able to buy school uniform from Eric Thomas in Bexleyheath, not Asda, tesco, poundshop or anywhere else.
The Co-op uniform came with a separate school badge which had to be sewn or pressed on; the Cuffs badge was integral to the fabric.
Anybody remember the huge Christmas trees that Cuffs and Co-op had on their awnings every December?
Used to love Woolwich when I was a little boy; the open and covered markets, the old ferry approach; the Odeon and ABC cinemas.My Mum says there were 5 cinemas in Woolwich when she was young.
When MacDonald's opened their first UK outlet they said they chose Woolwich because it was a "typical English town".
God help us if it still is!6 -
When you have become one of the guys who seem to take ages to finish their half time pi$$
When you are standing behind said person and tutting, looking at your watch, only to then do the same thing.2 -
Thinking that an automatic gearbox and a driver's seat that slides backwards when you switch off the ignition to facilitate egress are essentials on a car.0
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Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
You just reminded me that the Abbey Wood Comprehensive School uniform could only be bought from the Co-op or Cuffs in Woolwich..Justin20474 said:Only being able to buy school uniform from Eric Thomas in Bexleyheath, not Asda, tesco, poundshop or anywhere else.
The Co-op uniform came with a separate school badge which had to be sewn or pressed on; the Cuffs badge was integral to the fabric.
Anybody remember the huge Christmas trees that Cuffs and Co-op had on their awnings every December?
Used to love Woolwich when I was a little boy; the open and covered markets, the old ferry approach; the Odeon and ABC cinemas.My Mum says there were 5 cinemas in Woolwich when she was young.
When MacDonald's opened their first UK outlet they said they chose Woolwich because it was a "typical English town".
God help us if it still is!Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:Justin20474 said:Only being able to buy school uniform from Eric Thomas in Bexleyheath, not Asda, tesco, poundshop or anywhere else.
Day 1 at Abbey Wood Comp in 1968 with Royal blue blazer and cap.
Roller skating down Powis Street in short trousers and fag in mouth.
Being able to buy potassium nitrate and sulphur from Cuffs.
Being rejected by MacDonalds for a Saturday job because I was only doing one A Level at the time.1 -
When a semi was the last 4 in the cup6
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COD chips 1/6 and in newspaper.1
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a six of chips0
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So true, received one of these on Tuesday.iaitch said:You get a Bowel Cancer Screening Kit, bit awkward to use but well worth it if it detects any problem.
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Remembering Cuffs of Woolwich!Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
You just reminded me that the Abbey Wood Comprehensive School uniform could only be bought from the Co-op or Cuffs in Woolwich..Justin20474 said:Only being able to buy school uniform from Eric Thomas in Bexleyheath, not Asda, tesco, poundshop or anywhere else.
The Co-op uniform came with a separate school badge which had to be sewn or pressed on; the Cuffs badge was integral to the fabric.
Anybody remember the huge Christmas trees that Cuffs and Co-op had on their awnings every December?
Used to love Woolwich when I was a little boy; the open and covered markets, the old ferry approach; the Odeon and ABC cinemas.My Mum says there were 5 cinemas in Woolwich when she was young.
When MacDonald's opened their first UK outlet they said they chose Woolwich because it was a "typical English town".
God help us if it still is!
Lived in Bexleyheath until I was 5. If my mum couldn't get something she wanted in The Broadway, we'd be off on the bus to Woolwich for a nose around the market and into Cuffs. Her other favourite expedition was to Lewisham to go to Chiesmans.
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