Does Anyone Remember:

[desy]

Remember scrapping bitumin from the cobble sets and rolling it into a ball the top of wood street traffic lights.

Not chestnut man in Pond street (Barry Blacks dad) in the 50,,s

Tag men walking round the streets and you got a goldfish or s balloon for the tags.

Playing on old deralict factories during the slum clearance in upperthorpe/Netherthorpe.

Being able to step off back loader buses when they went that slow between stops.

[hillsbro]

7 hours ago, Ontarian1981 said:

I remember ET being Rotherham and Petula Clark paying handsomely for an old car with the reg. PET 1.

Yes, ET was Rotherham, EH was Barnsley and DT was Doncaster. My dad's motorbike, an LE Velocette, was PET 661 - I suppose the number would be quite valuable now.

[carosio]

11 minutes ago, hillsbro said:

Yes, ET was Rotherham, EH was Barnsley and DT was Doncaster. My dad's motorbike, an LE Velocette, was PET 661 - I suppose the number would be quite valuable now.

6 minutes ago, hillsbro said:

 

Wasn't Barnsley HE?   I had a bike WET 409, a '54 Morris Oxford RAT 440, and back in 50s father had an Austin van LRF 1, although fancy plates had no value then.

[hillsbro]

8 hours ago, carosio said:

Wasn't Barnsley HE? ...

Yes - my mistake, Barnsley was HE!

[trastrick]

Remember old tires and a stick?

 

Some lads used bike rims, too noisy.  Car tires were heavy to steer with a stick.

 

The best ones  were motor bike tires, just the right size and weight to control.

 

Somebody mentioned orange box swords.  Some bin lids were perfect shields for the stone throwing gang wars we had!

Edited November 2, 2019 by trastrick

[Gormenghast]

1 hour ago, hillsbro said:

Yes - my mistake, Barnsley was HE!

I was told as a kid that the Queen had  her official car registered in Barnsley  as THE 1.

 

 

[Rockers rule]

10 hours ago, hillsbro said:

Yes, ET was Rotherham, EH was Barnsley and DT was Doncaster. My dad's motorbike, an LE Velocette, was PET 661 - I suppose the number would be quite valuable now.

Try   www.nicereg.com.uk /info/areaofissue

My first Big Bike BSA A10 (with sidecar and L plates) 944 DA - (Wolverhampton)

What a registration for a Teddy boy - whish I'd have kept it long enough for when

Porsche brought out their 944.

I had a Mk6 Reliant Regal (the round one before Dell boy was even thought of) 

ending in ND - (Manchester).

Back on subject I remember when Onions didn't have a sell by date.

Didn't Onions and other veg last forever back then? not a few days like we buy 

from super markets now??????

What about the old guy's who used to Shaddow box? 

there was always one at the bottom of the Moor (when it had a roundabout).

and there was one near the old (proper) Market i remember. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Lord Lucan]

Toast made by the fire on toasting forks. We made at School a Toasting fork in the Engineering class Circa 1960

[DUFFEMS]

On 02/11/2019 at 07:19, hillsbro said:

Yes - my mistake, Barnsley was HE!

We lived in Barnsley for a short time when our first child was a toddler, we bought him a ride on bus at Christmas and funnily enough the registration was "1 THE".  When our neighbour ( a local bloke with a strong Barnsley accent) saw it he said "Tha reight, tha's gorrareightun theer, tha's gorra Barnsley bus" to the bewilderment of our youngster.

 

One of our cars was a powder blue Austin A35 registration 880 BTC, funny how the registrations stick in your mind even though we've had dozens of cars since, can't recall our current one!

 

Regards,

Duffems

[Ontarian1981]

15 hours ago, Lord Lucan said:

Toast made by the fire on toasting forks. We made at School a Toasting fork in the Engineering class Circa 1960

I still did that quite recently on a campfire.