Who Remembers Thread

[BrianW]

I remember when we had dead thick fogs (you couldn't see across the road) they used to put oil lamps, like Aladdin's lamp, on the traffic islands.

You would go to Maine Road and stand in the Kippax, and they would still play matches when you could not see one of the goals for the fog. So the crowd would only know from cheers (or groans) at the far end if someone scored.

The mind boggles, looking back, but it was accepted as normal. As was walking back all the way to Gorton if the buses stopped running, which they sometimes did.

 

[mexico1970]

I remember them having a compass in the heel too.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Far superior to the average hoover at picking up hairs and small bits. I have a modern electric carpet sweeper, about £40 ten years ago. Brilliant.

There's a wee mat by the back door that every vacuum cleaner we've ever had tries to suck up at the point of contact and yer end up standing on the fuckin' mat to retrieve it from the jaws of the cleaner, My little mini-Ewbank just rolls over and sweeps effortlessly into its pan! Sometimes neither electricity nor high-tech are needed.

 

[stonerblue]

There's a wee mat by the back door that every vacuum cleaner we've ever had tries to suck up at the point of contact and yer end up standing on the fuckin' mat to retrieve it from the jaws of the cleaner, My little mini-Ewbank just rolls over and sweeps effortlessly into its pan! Sometimes neither electricity nor high-tech are needed.

I love my ewbank. the only thing my mutt doesn't attack when it's being used.

 

[manclad]

I am just watching the Repair Shop Christmas Special and two sisters had their family radiogram restored - they remembered their mum and dad dancing to records played on it and broke down in tears at the big reveal.

Then I remembered ours when I was a kid......2 Way Family Favourites and Sing Something Simple on the radio ,,, scratchy Beatles and Frankie Vaughan records - it took me right back and I welled up too. Great great memories of simpler times.

Remember singing to away fans,back in the 1960s.
"Sing something simple,
You simple cunts".

 

[xgorton]

I remember when we had dead thick fogs (you couldn't see across the road) they used to put oil lamps, like Aladdin's lamp, on the traffic islands.

You would go to Maine Road and stand in the Kippax, and they would still play matches when you could not see one of the goals for the fog. So the crowd would only know from cheers (or groans) at the far end if someone scored.

The mind boggles, looking back, but it was accepted as normal. As was walking back all the way to Gorton if the buses stopped running, which they sometimes did.

Yes the 53 route,did that walk back to the lake hotel many times.The spurs on ice 67 remember walking to Maine road.

 

[sky tot]

I love my ewbank. the only thing my mutt doesn't attack when it's being used.

That is a blast from the past. My gran used to have one , didn’t know they were still available

 

[KS55]

I remember when we had dead thick fogs (you couldn't see across the road) they used to put oil lamps, like Aladdin's lamp, on the traffic islands.

You would go to Maine Road and stand in the Kippax, and they would still play matches when you could not see one of the goals for the fog. So the crowd would only know from cheers (or groans) at the far end if someone scored.

The mind boggles, looking back, but it was accepted as normal. As was walking back all the way to Gorton if the buses stopped running, which they sometimes did.

In those fogs, the sweet smell of coal burning. Some kids wore a white mask, home made with lint and elastoplast. When you took it off, there was a black ring which surrounded a bright yellow patch of sulfur. And we lived to tell the tale, but many did not; lung disease did for so many in industrial areas.

 

[oldhamblue]

Does anyone still have a butter knife?

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Yep
They all came out on Christmas Day.