Web Page No 2592

22^nd June 2019

1st Picture. Postal Order

2nd Picture. Exchange and Mart

3^rd Picture. Milk delivery

4^th Picture. Corona Lorry

TOP  THINGS WE DON'T DO ANY MORE

As I fairly recently turned 73 I thought it would be a good idea to look back and list 73 things we don’t see or do anymore. Can you add to the list?

1. Ring the local cinema to find out the times of the films

2. Going into the High Street travel agents to research a holiday

3. Record things using VHS or Betamax

4. Dial directory enquiries

5. Use public telephones (if you can find one)

6. Book tickets for events over the phone

7.Take films to the chemists to be processed.

8. Put a classified ad or card in the shop window

9. Ring TIM the speaking clock

10. Carry portable CD players

11. Write handwritten letters especially Thank You letters after Christmas or birthdays

12. Buy disposable cameras

13. Take plenty of change for pay to use the phone

14. Have a party telephone line in your house

15. Pay bills at the post office

16. Use an address book

17. Check a map before or during car journey

18. Reverse charges in payphones

19. Go into the bank or building society to conduct your business

20. Buy TV listings magazines

21. Own an encyclopaedia

22. Queue to get car tax in Post Office

23. Develop and send off for photographs

24. Read a hard copy of the Yellow Pages

25. Look up something in a dictionary or encyclopedia

26. Remember phone numbers/ Have a phone book

27. Watch videos

28. Have pen friends

29. Use a telephone directory

30. Use pagers

31. Fax things

32. Buy CD's/ Have a CD collection

33. Pay by cheque

34. Make photo albums

35. Watch programmes at the time they are shown

36. Dial 1471 when you get home

37. Warm milk or other hot drinks on stove

38. Try on lots of pairs of shoes in a high street shop

39. Hand wash clothes

40. Advertise in trading papers such as Exchange and Mart

41. Send love letters

42. Hand-write essays / school work

43. Buy flowers from a florist

44. Work out how to spell something yourself

45. Keep a personal diary

46. Send post cards

47. Buy newspapers

48. Hang washing out in the winter

49. Keep printed bills or bank statements

50. Visit car boot sales 

51. Have milk delivered to your door  

52.Take slides or transparency’s  

53. Buy Five Boys Chocolate bars     

54. Drink Cremola Foam 

55. Buy home made ice lollies from the corner shop 

56 Use Trugel Hair gel or Brylcreme

57. Use Charlie or Tweed perfume 

  58. Buy Postal Orders and pay for goods with them 

 59. Have conductors on buses

 60 Have a Rag and Bone man come to the door

  61. Peasouper fogs 62. Go out and leave the door unlocked  

 63. Put up with Izal toilet rolls 

 64. Trainspotting   

 65. Listen to radio serials such as Journey into Space  

 66. I-Spy books and Big Chief I-Spy  

 67. Home made bacon pudding  

 68. Plying Five Stones and Conkers  

 69. Open fires and coal deliveries 

 70. It seemed that everyone smoked and collected coupons 

 71. Airfix Spitfires, sold by Woolworths for 2/-     

 72. The playing of card or board games 

 73. Lastly my favourite deliver man the visit of the Corona lorry 

Peter

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Biff Writes:

What we did when we were Kids Hi all, Roger, Stephen, the twins Peter and David and I would play for hours at the redoubt and the dell at the back of Portsdown Hill. Making dens and catching grass snakes Every now and then we (Roger and me) would have a day travelling. Walk down Rectory Road to catch the bus to Cosham from Farlington, 3 pence return. Walk to the railway station and get a 6 pence return to the docks, getting off at Commercial Road and getting the next train. At the docks a 3 penny returns to Gosport on the ferry. Play around and then back home all for 1 shilling. Weekend camps on Horsea Island with the scouts, swimming in the torpedo lake and playing on the mini submarines leftover from the war. Collecting lead shrapnel from the piles left over from the disassembly of large diameter cannon rounds. (I still have a couple I use for fishing 61 years later.) Down to the marshes and first kiss with girlfriend on the grass tops of the Bomb shelters Swimming in the Lido Throwing sticks to get conkers at the bottom of Rectory Road Scrumping. Playing on the cart rail tracks at the disused sewage works next to the Zetland Road and the Eastern Road. Making our own fireworks and blowing things up. Making dens out of hay bales on Mr. Wares(?) farm and smoking Gipsy tobacco (this was a dried leaf from some weed found at the bottom of the bomb crater at the recreation ground) Walking home from school to save the bus fare to buy Black Jacks. Apologies to Roger Dawkins Stephen Carter, Peter and David Martin and I forgot Bobby Cummings. All the best Biff

News and Views:

On this day 22nd June 1960-1965

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On 22/06/1962 the number one single was Good Luck Charm - Elvis Presley and the number one album was West Side Story Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

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On 22/06/1964 the number one single was You're My World - Cilla Black and the number one album was Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 22/06/1964 the number one single was You're My World - Cilla Black and the number one album was Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.