Guest poppins Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 any one work at oxo in the 60s or so ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katrina Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 where was it, anywhere near burdalls? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest poppins Posted October 1, 2004 Share Posted October 1, 2004 oxo was down the wicker, don't remember the street, you walked past the station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitsmoorboy Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 I think it was Johnson St. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banksia Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 No - but your mention of Oxo brought back memories of scrounging Oxo tins when we were kids. They seemed to be a precious commodity back in the fifties.We used them to keep our marbles, fireworks and bits and pieces in. When I went to work at the co-op after leaving school, I took great delight in handing over the red tins to eager young faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owdlad Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Originally posted by Banksia No - but your mention of Oxo brought back memories of scrounging Oxo tins when we were kids. They seemed to be a precious commodity back in the fifties.We used them to keep our marbles, fireworks and bits and pieces in. When I went to work at the co-op after leaving school, I took great delight in handing over the red tins to eager young faces. We have still got a couple of the old Oxo tins in the house, they have been used for donkeys years to hold dominoes, we have also got a Zubes (who remembers them) tin full of buttons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest poppins Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Originally posted by owdlad We have still got a couple of the old Oxo tins in the house, they have been used for donkeys years to hold dominoes, we have also got a Zubes (who remembers them) tin full of buttons. Sure, everyone had a tin full of butttons, mostly white shirt buttons in there, mom kept our tin on the stone slab in the pantry, tin was always cold. Now you go to buy a card of buttons they come 5 on a card, a real rip off as you either need 4 or 6 buttons if your making something 1 button if your doing a repair job usualy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beansfeast Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Originally posted by poppins any one work at oxo in the 60s or so ? I used to work there.... made the chicken variety.. hehehe (Sorry, couldn't resist!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banksia Posted January 20, 2005 Share Posted January 20, 2005 Originally posted by poppins Sure, everyone had a tin full of butttons, mostly white shirt buttons in there, mom kept our tin on the stone slab in the pantry, tin was always cold. Now you go to buy a card of buttons they come 5 on a card, a real rip off as you either need 4 or 6 buttons if your making something 1 button if your doing a repair job usualy. My you were "posh", you had a pantry. We had a stone slab in the cellar where Mum kept food. When the coalman was due we had to make sure to remember to cover the food up well otherwise "nutty slack" would be all over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malxx Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 oxo... when I was about 13 I was in a gang called the oxo gang we used to boil water on a camp fire then sit round drinking oxo or better still we eat it raw! the gang had about 8 members and for the initiation we used to have to eat about 6 cubes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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