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Ronniej
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 Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2015 6:27 pm Post subject: THINGS YOU JUST DON'T SEE ANYMORE. |
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As we get older once familiar sights become rarer. I came across this photo and it struck me that it must be years since I saw a couple of Daleks waiting for a bus[url][/url][img][/img][img] [/img] |
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peter scott
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Ellis
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Men smoking pipes :
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or even more rare :
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Penguin45
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I was at Cambridgeshire College of Art and Technology (CCAT) at the end of the '70's and by a bizarre and convoluted series of circumstances, finished up as chairman and founder of the CCAT ESPSA. This was the Extremely Silly Pipe Smokers Association...... By scraping up 24 members (including 3 girls) we managed to get funding from the Students Union! And, with the formal recognition, blagged an awful lot of free 'baccy from just about every British manufacturer, culminating in a day trip to the WD & HO Wills factory for a visit.
Happy days.
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*Smoking is bad for you. As a youthful prank intended purely to defraud our Student Union, this was fair enough, but don't do it.*
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Mog
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| I remember one of those " Dr. Who " square police boxes. It was at the entrance to Alexandra Park ? Hastings. |
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Rick
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Penman
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| Mog wrote: | | I remember one of those " Dr. Who " square police boxes. It was at the entrance to Alexandra Park ? Hastings. |
There is still one in use outside Earls Court underground stationb and I have been told it isn't the only one still being used.
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Rich5ltr
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Location: Hampshire, UK
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 10:39 am Post subject: Re: THINGS YOU JUST DON'T SEE ANYMORE. |
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| Ronniej wrote: | | As we get older once familiar sights become rarer. I came across this photo and it struck me that it must be years since I saw a couple of Daleks waiting for a bus[url][/url][img][/img][img][/img] |
That's hilarious! Well done! And the 207 was my local bus route too! Shephards Bush to Uxbridge. I lived in Ealing but never saw any Daleks queuing up outside British Home Stores for the bus! |
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Ashley
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I think it shows why world domination was never on the cards. Idiots waiting for a bus they wouldn't be able to get on.
I found a picture of Tony Blair and Jimmy Saville together, but copyright has robbed you all of a rare treat.  |
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Rick
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| Ashley wrote: | I think it shows why world domination was never on the cards. Idiots waiting for a bus they wouldn't be able to get on.
I found a picture of Tony Blair and Jimmy Saville together, but copyright has robbed you all of a rare treat. |
A TV company once emailed me a photo of T. Blair as a long-haired hippy, sat on the roof of a (from memory) Thames 400E van. I think posting it online - assuming I could ever find it again - would see a fleet of blacked-out vans and chaps with dark glasses on my doorstep, pretty sharpish.
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Rootes75
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Cast iron county council road signs.
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Rich5ltr
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| Another little snippet about that b us picture is the number plate - WLT I was told stood for West London Transport. I know LT also had some CLT reg numbers that I was told stood for Central London Transport. Don't know how true that is but many of the buses in my area wore WLT plates. |
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Phil - Nottingham
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Old style lamp posts - Notts CC are on a programme of replacing all the old SOX (orange) lamps with LEDS but not the columns some of which are 1950's concrete or Victorian cast iron which were originally gas until the 1950's. Some of these cast iron lamp posts will therefore be on at least their 4th lamp fitting - but some have been left with the old SOX lamps when all others in the street have been converted to LEDS which probably mean the whole column is to be replaced with modern steel ones which last only 20 years before rusting away at the base (dogs!)
Pictures a few weeks ago but another of our road and bungalow 50 years ago showing also the old telegraph poles which are still in situ as a bare distribution pole as are the street lamp positions
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ukdave2002
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| Rick wrote: | | Rootes75 wrote: | | Cast iron county council road signs. |
There are quite a few of the old "finger" style direction signs around here.
RJ |
About 10 years ago ,100 or so yards up the road from me, the council fitted a brand new cast iron black and white finger style signpost at a cross roads , and I think there is an original old cast iron triangular waning sign a bit further down, that hasn't seen a coat of paint in many years...
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