Nostalgia : Trolleys / Bogies

jimmi5bellies · 23-12-2005, 18:30

If you was to ask a child today what a trolley was, how many would come back with the answer : you push your food around in it at the supermarket.

How many remembers the good old days, looking for a pair of silver cross pram wheels, some planks of wood and some nails and building your own trolley. They was the "in thing" when i was a kid and gave hours of pleasure. OK they was a bit dangerous when you are clocking up speeds of approx 30mph + going down Fielding Lane and the cars are coming at you from the junction of Fielding Lane Catlow Hall Street

, but they was the good old days !

And if you didnt have a trolley, the local lads took you around the block for 2p a time.

Ernie · 23-12-2005, 19:53

Oh yeah, I remember the trolleys we had, my mate Geoff and I had a two man trolley where we used to sit back to back and the person on the back used to supply the propulsion and as I was heaviest of the two it invariably was me on the back. We finished with trolleys about 1964 when our legs were long enough to ride a bike, it was then when the quest for tractive power took off, five years later I passed my driving test. Thinking back, if it wasn't for those long summer days on Sandy lane and Adelaide Street on the trolley I may have had more money in the bank now by not having spent it on so many different cars/motor bikes etc...

West Ender · 23-12-2005, 20:59

I suppose anyone around my age remembers "trollies". Most of the boys I knew made them.

Come to that, my husband had 2 false teeth in the front of his mouth. Why? Because at the age of 12 he raced down a hill (in Bradford, where he lived, the hills are steep there) on his trolley, couldn't stop at the bottom as his home-made brakes failed and smashed his gob on a stone wall.

park381 · 23-12-2005, 21:31

Aye those were the days, no question of saying "there's nowt to do" 4 pram wheels a bit of wood and away you went...........progressed to making a bike out of bits, no brakes but then it did'nt matter, foot on front tyre used to slow you down

junetta · 23-12-2005, 22:18

This has made me chuckle.........Uncle Jim made us a trolley one year but my brother seemed to think it was solely his. Little brat used to promise that if I pushed him up Holland Street he would let me ride down.........I can't believe that I was so stupid

It was good that not many cars passed through Lower Antley Street in those days or we wouldn't be here today. Good fun though!

park381 · 23-12-2005, 22:26

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Originally Posted by junetta

This has made me chuckle.........Uncle Jim made us a trolley one year but my brother seemed to think it was solely his. Little brat used to promise that if I pushed him up Holland Street he would let me ride down.........I can't believe that I was so stupid

It was good that not many cars passed through Lower Antley Street in those days or we wouldn't be here today. Good fun though!

Tell me about it, we used to sledge down a side street off Fecitt brow, that joined the main Accrington / Blackburn road............think of it now