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Old 03-08-2003, 13:13   #1
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there was no trees on the coppice!!!!
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Old 03-08-2003, 13:22   #2
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Hyndburn Sports Centre wasn't there, and we went to the baths on St James St. Boys' changing rooms on one side and girls on the other, and you couldn't go in unless you'd been in the cold shower.
Before the centre was built, it was  spare land in front of Emma St (Nelson's Tenement I think)and we all used to ride our bikes there, and messabout in the River Stink.
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Old 03-08-2003, 21:35   #3
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I remember when you could go into the local chippy, ask for an "Upside down mixture" and they knew what you were talking about...
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Old 03-08-2003, 21:36   #4
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AND you could get a bag of bits...
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Old 03-08-2003, 22:59   #5
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Tippler toilets at the bottom of the yard!

Had to make sure enough water went down the pipe or it got blocked. When it did you had to poke it with a long sick.

And squares of newspaper hung on the lavvy wall on a string.
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Old 04-08-2003, 05:40   #6
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Daily Herald squares were much softer to delicate backsides than the Manchester Guardian  ;D
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Old 04-08-2003, 09:55   #7
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I remember the tippler toilet in my grandma's backyard when the newspaper used to leave the print on your backside.when she had a bathroom installed she upgraded to izal. :
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Old 04-08-2003, 10:06   #8
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Still have the problem now when we run out of bogroll!!

Izal used to hurt your bum!!
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Old 04-08-2003, 11:49   #9
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Thought some of you might like this:

I remember the ol' Tippler toilets,
but the skill I once 'ad is now gone.
Finely balanced it were like a seesaw,
that flicked off the bits yer dropped on.

Judgin' it right were an art form,
t' know when t' squeeze in yer cheeks.
An' jus' 'ow to 'it it dead centre,
adjustin' yer bum on the seat.

The pride that I felt when I'd finished,
if it were clean as a Cooper's new keg.
An' the trouble it caused me t' free it,
if I'd 'appened t' drop a chair leg!

Now the toilets t'day are dead borin',
yer don't 'ave t' use 'alf yer brain.
Cos they all float about jus' like goldfish,
'til yer flush all the lot down the drain.

So, now that me skills are redundant,
I've found summat else I can do.
I take up me fags an' the paper,
some biccys an' a freshly made brew.

(Copyright S. Brown)

More of Stan's stuff at: Sensa Yuma
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Old 04-08-2003, 12:32   #10
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The Policeman's special phonebox in Accy centre.
Can't emember exactly where it was though.
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Old 04-08-2003, 14:09   #11
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When we were at junior school, each term, someone had to volunteer to be the "Sick Monitor"

Some boy always did!!
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And Mr Vallis, our headteacher at St Andrews, squashing cockroaches in the school hall with his shoe
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Old 05-08-2003, 03:41   #12
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we used to buy a bag of broken biccys from the stall in the inside market for 3p!!! used to do it every sat afternoon
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Old 05-08-2003, 10:32   #13
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Having to light the coal fire first thing in the morning or you had no heat.
Cleaning the grate out, kindling,screwing up newspaper and arranging the coal. then putting the shovel up against it with a newspaper in front of it to get it going. If you weren't careful it set on fire! (We had bigger newspapers then!)
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Old 05-08-2003, 10:34   #14
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SMOG!!
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Old 05-08-2003, 11:39   #15
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I it was great then
haveing to get the chimmney sweep in every so often
running outside to see the brush come out the chimmny
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