Re: Olden day good times!

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:46 pm

https://twitter.com/danro_art/status/1778621088185938237?t=ZStQre6KMgtom379iCmvrA&s=19

by Butterfield Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:03 am

This is quite fascinating. I considered posted it in the olden day bad times thread as it all looks so crude and hard work, but these tough women seemed happy enough in the video, probably more content than some people today with much more in life.

@blighty3248
3 years ago
There was a saying in Liverpool.. about certain women...."She'll be the talk of the Wash House "

by cosmictanya Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:55 am

‘We was ‘appy. All ‘appy. I never did understand why Margaret down the road stuck her head in the oven right after we got gas in the street, and then Ruby and Joan did the same within months’.

‘My Pete was out of work, course he’s been dead for 40 years now, but if it hadn’t been for all the handjobs I gave round the back of the wash house, we’d never have even been able to afford the bus fares to go and see our Terry and our Barry in borstal. Oh they was ‘appy days - me mam lived just round the corner until she dropped dead at 52 - the neighbours had a whip-round for the gravestone’.

‘I’m 90 next month, and I’d love to have a party but everyone who survived lives in Australia - were they not ‘appy here or something? Who knows’.

‘I miss it - sometimes I leave the bathroom window open in January just so I get the warm glow that comes from breaking the ice in the loo in the morning, but it’s not the same with it being indoors’.

by stedorlordendel Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:02 pm

I found this photo (50s? 60s?)on the interwebs of a chip shop I used to go to in the 80's. It's so weird to see it looking so housey. In my day - eeh by gum when I worra lad- the door was under that 'chicken and chips' sign, with another door up opposite end. The front was all glass.

Here comes an artists impression of how I remember it...
Olden day good times! - Page 24 Chip

Sadly while still in the 80s, it turned into a place that sells oil and wipers and furry dice and whatever else a car needs. :tear

by Butterfield Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:32 pm

That's excellent! Nice Beetle too.

by Nightjar Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:47 pm

I reckon that picture's as late as the '70s (or even the '80s).

by Nightjar Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:47 pm

by cosmictanya Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:47 pm

What is that, East Germany?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue May 07, 2024 10:08 am

https://twitter.com/GarrattJohn/status/1785937964360691907

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon May 13, 2024 11:31 am

https://twitter.com/daysofspeed/status/1789823899649126594

What's going on with Brian Moore's feet? scared

by cosmictanya Mon May 13, 2024 1:16 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
https://twitter.com/GarrattJohn/status/1785937964360691907

So she’s alive and in a nursing home.

All that ‘relatively young death after falling over p*ssed in Marbella’. stuff was just her burnishing her rock’n’roll credentials.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue May 14, 2024 12:13 pm

https://twitter.com/screwloose1980/status/1790249341061398924

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