olden days (1 Viewer)

[Momo]

can remember when you got four gallons of petrol for a quid..
happy days..

Me too! That was in 1963 - the year I passed by driving test!

 

[parknride]

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I had white ones with a buckle at the side, didn't half make you er, perspire!

 

[denisejoe]

Bloody 'ell.....52 gallons a week, must have had a colander for a tank.

I never said all at once! But if you put your foot down you could see the gauge moving!

Joe

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[Bailey58]

I remember the name Aztec Bar but not the content, what I did like was the Nux Bar, Picnic Bar is not the same.

 

[Tootles]

Here we go.
Mars Bar....4d
Milky Way...3d
Un-sliced loaf....10d
Sliced loaf....11d
Bottle of Tizer, or Jusoda.....1 shilling, (3d back on the bottle).
5lb spuds........1 shilling
McEwans toffee bar....3d
Frozen Jubbly......4d
Radio licence.......10 shillings
Dog licence.....7/6d
Marriage licence.......7/6d.....(funny, same price for having a dog).
Four Bazooka Joes.....1d
Road Fund Licence 12.10.0d
Rates.....2 shillings in the pound.......

 

[Old Soldier]

What a great thread, brings back so many good memories...

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[Old Soldier]

Here we go.
Mars Bar....4d
Milky Way...3d
Un-sliced loaf....10d
Sliced loaf....11d
Bottle of Tizer, or Jusoda.....1 shilling, (3d back on the bottle).
5lb spuds........1 shilling
McEwans toffee bar....3d
Frozen Jubbly......4d
Radio licence.......10 shillings
Dog licence.....7/6d
Marriage licence.......7/6d.....(funny, same price for having a dog).
Four Bazooka Joes.....1d
Road Fund Licence 12.10.0d
Rates.....2 shillings in the pound.......

You run a shop Tootles? Still waiting to pay the VAT!!? Oh, we did not have VAT in those days did we!

 

[Tootles]

I had white ones with a buckle at the side, didn't half make you er, perspire!

I remember a pair of white ones wedged, (one each side), in the hand straps of my Ford Cortina Mk1.

 

[Tootles]

You run a shop Tootles? Still waiting to pay the VAT!!? Oh, we did not have VAT in those days did we!

Those prices included 'purchase tax'. Oh, Ten Park Drive (plain), and a box of matches 1/- 8d.......Pint of bitter 11p, mild 10p.

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[Old Soldier]

Those prices included 'purchase tax'. Oh, Ten Park Drive (plain), and a box of matches 1/- 8d.......Pint of bitter 11p, mild 10p.

Do you know what the rate for purchase tax was?

 

[Tootles]

Do you know what the rate for purchase tax was?

No, but I remember the boots..........*SLURP*..

 

[parknride]

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&s...TPf-JJ4SjyXHQvVBg&sig2=KflUfkpfV5tLSuiIwTq7Iw

I remember a pair of white ones wedged, (one each side), in the hand straps of my Ford Cortina Mk1.

Wasn't me toots!

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[Tootles]

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=BkMqVYbfMofYarGVgfgF&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SAbJjktk7E&ved=0CCEQyCkwAA&usg=AFQjCNHvDUON3kuQ3TPf-JJ4SjyXHQvVBg&sig2=KflUfkpfV5tLSuiIwTq7Iw

Wasn't me toots!

No, I just posted a vid of the owner..........

 

[parknride]

How the flipping heck do you upload those you tube video please?

 

[Old Soldier]

Just took it from the t'internet, its where the buses used to turn round at the top of Barnet Hill, by the church.

Paul

Thought it looked familiar. Climed that hill many a time. Remember the big red lion mounted over the Hotel half way up on the left?

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[Tootles]

How the flipping heck do you upload those you tube video please?

Well, just get the vid on your YouTube, then highlight the address from the top, copy, and paste into *FUN*.

 

[Larby]

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You win today's prize!

Hope it's a bar of chocolate.
Every time I read your funster name reminds me of my white Cortina 1600 GT, I used to park and ride in that!

 

[parknride]

Well, just get the vid on your YouTube, then highlight the address from the top, copy, and paste into *FUN*.

Right off to try it, love the vid soley solely, great song, did you hear it or were you busy slavering?

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[Tootles]

Right off to try it, love the vid soley solely, great song, did you hear it or were you busy slavering?

Both.

 

[Tootles]

I met her in the buffet/bar here.....Anyone know the station?

 

[parknride]

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&s...q98xZzlsqC96r3QAw&sig2=gYv7uyQiPdAYejPdPc3UNA

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[parknride]

Darlington

 

[parknride]

Well, just get the vid on your YouTube, then highlight the address from the top, copy, and paste into *FUN*.

I wanted to post the vid of the smash advert instead I posted gobbledygook, how do I copy the image with the little arrow in front to start the video, pretty please?

 

[Ninovan]

I must have been about 7 or 8, late 50's, & my Dad came home in his first car (company vans or bikes before). Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire. I remember being allowed to sit on his lap & steer it down our lane. It was his Dad's before. I vaguely remember it had a pre-selector box.

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[Old Soldier]

I must have been about 7 or 8, late 50's, & my Dad came home in his first car (company vans or bikes before). Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire. I remember being allowed to sit on his lap & steer it down our lane

Sounds familiar, Dad came home in a Wolsey 6:80, ex police car. Cracking motor.!

 

[Easyliving]

Sounds familiar, Dad came home in a Wolsey 6:80, ex police car. Cracking motor.!

I think its a Wolsey in the titles on this old No Hiding Place episode. I can only remember them driving round in Humber Supersnipes.



Paul

PS

Humber Hawk Supersnipes I think they were called...

 

[appydaze]

What is a tuppenny master?

tuppenny masters were cigarettes that were in a large box with flap on. You could buy one or more for tuppence each. Times were 'ard in them days

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[appydaze]

fag and a match for a penny (old one) from the local shop - us 10 year olds couldn't afford to buy a pack! Oh yes - they were Cadets, if you remember that brand.


... nostalgia ... it's not what it used to be ;-)

remember them well also Turf, Craven A, Senior Service, Guards, Weights & Woodbines not forgetting Russian Blacks......

 

[appydaze]

Aaagh tiger nuts, they chewed forever!
In Haworth there used to be old fashioned sweet shop, think they still sell liquorice root(wood) we got some tiger nuts last year in Whitby too. Spoilt the memory....

Just bought some liquorice stick on Amazon as a nostalgic present for my cousin. We used to call it Spanish wood. It was as near to sweets as you could get due to rationing after the war....

 

[Wildman]

typical Sat night out was off to the wrestling 5/-, followed by Chicken, peas and chips in a restaurant 10/-, then off to the pub for a few pints and home having spent a pound in total, 2 stroke petrol for the motorbike was 2/8d a gallon went up to a staggering 5/- a gall by the time I got a car. Milky way 3d, mars bar 4d bag of chips 3d, superb leather jacket £5.a new motorcycle 500cc £400 my Ariel leader only 8 months old £40.

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