How far did you or your parents walk to save money.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Stevie R

That`s it Jaysay,nobody wears a coat when they are out on the lash,call me a taxi !!

Stevie Your A Taxi

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Stevie R

That`s it Jaysay,nobody wears a coat when they are out on the lash,call me a taxi !!

Stevie R, you are a taxi

[Stevie R]

For Eric and Jaysay,thanks for the replies cos my wife has never ever found that taxi joke funny.....

[maxthecollie]

My dad used to walk from Green Haworth every day to the factory bottom to where he worked as a bolierman. Even in winter he walked on top of the farm walls above the snowdrifts.

[Judith Addison]

In the 60s my Dad, then aged about 50, used to walk from home in Ossy to Perseverance Mill, Grange Lane, Accrington in a morning. He walked home at lunch-time and back again afterwards, then walked home at the end of the afternoon. He walked in all weathers and wore waterproof over-trousers and over-shoes if it was raining. Also, when much older, he would walk to Blackburn on a Sunday morning if preaching and would regularly walk to Queen's Park Hospital to visit an old lady in residential care there. He was never interested in learning to drive and rarely used a bus. When we went on holiday to Llandudno or Bridlington in the 50s and 60s we always went on the train. It seemed a big adventure in those days! I can still see my Dad walking us all down to Church Station with the two suitcases balanced in each hand!

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Stevie R

For Eric and Jaysay,thanks for the replies cos my wife has never ever found that taxi joke funny.....

Mine never did Stevie,yeh can't put women n humour in the same sentence.

[Stevie R]

Not a word of a lie,today was a bit wet,my wife ,looking out the window said 'it's a bit of a damp squid today!

[Stevie R]

Not a word of a lie,today was a bit wet,my wife ,looking out the window said 'it's a bit of a damp squid today!

[gdm27]

Back in the late 50's we used to go and see my Nan who lived the top end of Blackburn. We lived in Pendle St and Dad would always set off half hour before us pushing my baby sister in a huge pram. We always passed him just about at the Redcap every time. He said he used to love walking pushing the pram. I used to hate pushing my daughter around in the buggies you get now!

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Stevie R

Not a word of a lie,today was a bit wet,my wife ,looking out the window said 'it's a bit of a damp squid today!

Um such a good post you posted it twice Stevie your not Fred Elliott in disguise are you, I say, your not Fred Elliott in disguise

[Stevie R]

burning the midnight oil and whiskey I say.........Jaysay

[garinda]

Originally Posted by gdm27

He said he used to love walking pushing the pram. I used to hate pushing my daughter around in the buggies you get now!

True.

Pre-buggy you had to knuckle down, and cart on with a pram.

You'd never get a coachbuilt Silver Cross perambulator in the boot of a car, or on a bus.

[mobertol]

They were such big things that it was quite normal for women to leave their kids outside shops...

That would be unthinkable these days.

[Less]

Originally Posted by mobertol

They were such big things that it was quite normal for women to leave their kids outside shops...

That would be unthinkable these days.

No, not unthinkable, just bloody depressing, way back then, the only fear was if you left a pram unattended you might find it propped up on a set of bricks because the local scrotes would nick the wheels to make a trolly, (flat wagon), unfortunately now the perves have replaced the kids, you'd be left with the pram, but the sicko's take the child.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Less

No, not unthinkable, just bloody depressing, way back then, the only fear was if you left a pram unattended you might find it propped up on a set of bricks because the local scrotes would nick the wheels to make a trolly, (flat wagon), unfortunately now the perves have replaced the kids, you'd be left with the pram, but the sicko's take the child.

Think they call that progress less.