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From the age of 12 I was brought up in a Watney Coomb Reid pub in Thames Ditton, mum and dad were the landlords.

The days when pubs used to smell of beer and **** not over cooked and deep fried food.

My first proper job was in the Packhorse on Egham Hill (its changed names a few times since then.) That was a Watney Coomb Reid pub in those days.
 
Its amazing how things change as a child not every one had fridges and there were milk vending machines outside shops
hard to belive that 20 years ago most of us had never done much more than play tennis on a computer, a mouse was something you set traps for
 
Leaded petrol

cassette tapes

kris akabusi

pagers

A yellow pages outside your front door that's been left in the rain and all swollen up.

Dready t shirts and eclipse super baggy trousers
 
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More fishing boats than u can shake a stick at . Think it's the annual cannon ball swim ?
 
A yellow pages outside your front door that's been left in the rain and all swollen up.

I just thought about that last week when one popped through the letterbox.

Gentian violet

Weans out playing

Balaclava's

Nitted jumpers that weigh a half hundred weight when wet

Black and white tellies

Women with head scarves and rollers in
 
An email from unbunti or what ever the parent company of yell is. Not full of lies. Fact it fits through letterbox indicates less adverts. = less sense in paying for a listing !!
 
Things you don't see anymore

Its amazing how things change as a child not every one had fridges and there were milk vending machines outside shops
hard to belive that 20 years ago most of us had never done much more than play tennis on a computer, a mouse was something you set traps for
I remember the milk vending machines too Steve but can you remember the chocolate milkshakes in a bottle from the same machines called Micky ....regards Turnpin:smug2:
 
Cash points that have been emptied cos it was Saturday and everyone was busy in the beer garden
Petrol station that has run out of petrol/diesel cos every one were going out and about
1 and 1/2 for working Saturday and double bubble for Sunday
 
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I just thought about that last week when one popped through the letterbox.

Gentian violet

Weans out playing

Balaclava's

Nitted jumpers that weigh a half hundred weight when wet

Black and white tellies

Women with head scarves and rollers in

If its balaclavas you wish to see, then get a job in a bank .......
 
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Cash points that have been emptied cos it was Saturday and everyone was busy in the beer garden
Petrol station that has run out of petrol/diesel cos every one were going out and about
1 and 1/2 for working Saturday and double bubble for Sunday

you've been here longer than i thought Stan!
 
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Ill start, white dog sh@t

Yes !!

I was talking about this with a customer last week...you never see any white dog sh'ts anymore...not like in the 80's or earlier.

My girlfriend reckons they were Poodle sh@t but after researching the subject it seems its to do with dogs diets and calcium.

Apparantly dogs used to eat a lot of bone/bones in their food and when deposited on the pavement for a few weeks the rain would wash out the organic stuff and leave a kind of fossil behind of the bone matter. This coupled with the fact that dog sh@t is now more or less always picked up or a heavy fine that its just not left out in the street as long as it used to be.
 
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Paperboys

scrap man shouting "any old iron" roaming the streets
We've got a regular 'any old iron' man. I gave him one of those metal tool boxes full of old rusty tools from my shed only the other day.


Another thing you don't see is those 3 ducks on people's livingroom walls next to that Constable painting 'The Haywain' - just above the fishtank surrounded by multi-coloured bricks.
 
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An honest politician

We've got a regular 'any old iron' man. I gave him one of those metal tool boxes full of old rusty tools from my shed only the other day.


Another thing you don't see is those 3 ducks on people's livingroom walls next to that Constable painting 'The Haywain' - just above the fishtank surrounded by multi-coloured bricks.


Billy Bass
 
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Lancia Delta and Alfa Sud, eco friendly cars that degrade back to the earth. The most landfill friendly motors.
 
Stickers on vans saying "we're in the yellow pages"

Landlines 0926

Gold top milk

The milk bottles with Green tops

Pop crates as hop ups on site

Your mrs number in loos at local boozer!
 
Neck lumps

Hawking and gobbing in the gutter

Light and bitter

Watney's red barrel

Watney's party 7

fast food that doesn't defy the trade description on both counts.

Ferkin pubs

Flirty Gertie from number 30

That fit young girl I chatted up at a party in '86. By '98 it had turned into a monster so I gave it the heave ho.
 
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