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[Dutto]

Remember when travelling by train looked like this -


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Yes, but I only found out a few years ago why the brass handle that said “COOL - WARM - HOT” didn’t do anything to warm the compartment in winter.

That was when I’d been to the Railway Museum in York and then visited my Uncle George who was a fireman on steam trains.

Uncle George pointed out:

“In that museum they tell you what
this or that horsepower
each engine had,”​

I nodded in agreement,

“but they never told you it was
some poor bugger like me
throwing coal into the firebox,
did they?”​

This time I shook my head and Uncle George carried on:

“That’s why the first thing we
did when we took over a train
was to disconnect the heating
system, especially in winter!”​

All of a sudden, I realised exactly why all my attempts to get warm on a train had been futile!
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[Chippy_Tea]

1953 A child with measles sitting alone during a Coronation party on Hortensia Road, Chelsea.
Image credit: Kensington and Chelsea Chronicle 1953

 

[Dutto]

1953 A child with measles sitting alone during a Coronation party on Hortensia Road, Chelsea.
Image credit: Kensington and Chelsea Chronicle 1953

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Typical London! In my village in Derbyshire she would have been in the thick of it, just to make sure that the other kids caught it!

That’s how I managed to get Measles, Chicken Pox, Mumps and Whooping Cough out of the way before I turned seven!


The Impetigo was apparently an accident caused by my Dad ‘cos Mam was away for the weekend! Go figure!

All I know is that I got a week off school (Yay!) to dig my Dad’s allotment! (Oh dear!)
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[Clint]

Deal of the week -


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Only 49p in Adsa...(single pack).
I think!

 

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[Dutto]

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Love the picture!

I welll remember a radio programme which had dozens of phone calls, from very irate Road users, complaining about the congested state of Britain’s roads.

Then came “the” phone call. The caller explained how he drove Britain’s roads every day, how he never got upset by traffic jams and indeed, how he had never even seen one!

The radio presenter was rendered speechless (and I nearly crashed my car laughing) when the man ended his phone call with the advice “Personally, I think everyone should tow a caravan!”
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[Chippy_Tea]

 

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Who remembers this from their school days -

 

[Dutto]

Who remembers this from their school days -

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Question:

“What is worse than a caterpillar in your school salad?”

Answer;

“Half a caterpillar!”
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[Chippy_Tea]

1986

 

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When you don't like cyclists -

 

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This would never work on our roads the pot holes would ruin the tune.

 

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Imagine the uproar if those people could see todays films.

 

[Gingerbrews]

haha, The Life of Brian was banned in Glasgow

 

[Chippy_Tea]