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  1. Charlie1

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    No Idea HG, I'll ask me dad and get back.
     
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    She's gone all in.
     
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    My grandmother had a screen magnifier in the '50s. You can still buy them.
     
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    Can you still buy a 'Wang calculator'? I might be interested in one of those:grin:
     
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    Man at C & A
    Hydes Pie Shop
    Gainsboro Fish Restaurant
    Trog Bar
    Hot Dog Carts outside ABC
    Bun in the Oven
    YEB buying a cooker and taking 4 years to pay for it on your electricity bill
    Water charges being £10 at the bottom of your Rates bill
    Limited Stop Buses
    Golden Rail Holidays
    Brentford Nylons
    Willis Ludlow or Willis's
    Meccano
    Chemistry Sets
    Jumble Sales
    Yankee burger
    Conner & Graham Buses
    Hopfenperle Lager
    The Humber Hovercraft

    The Cinema advert was "H. Goldstone & Son, Anlabby Road , Opposite this Theatre"

    The shop on monument bridge after Lipman's went was "Discount Menswear". You Went in for a shirt and came out with a Star jumper
    and a pair of Brutus Faders aswell.
     
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    I used to be that bloke who delivered them and tuned them in, worked for Newland TV on Chants Ave.
     
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  8. swftiger

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    The East Yorkshjre domed roof buses.
     
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    Clifford Dunns.

    Busses with a winder on the window to open and close it.
     
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    Hull City AFC (DMD) Well done for this thread.
     
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    Beer drey and horses.

    Looking into Hull Daily Mail down Jameson St to watch the press being printed.

    We had a bloke on a bike with a grind wheel to sharpen knives.

    Hot cake van, with a hand bell. 'Hot cakes, hot cakes'.
     
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  12. Chazz Rheinhold

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    Emergency stop button on the back of a bus.

    Is anyone watching It Was alright in the 70's?? Bit disturbing
     
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    Used for for Whitsun displays.
     
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    Bus tickets. Either the rectangular ones that the ticket collector's machine took out more or less depending on the journey or the rolls.
     
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    Boothferry Park
     
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    Those machines on buses where you put the money in to buy your ticket.
     
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    Campher balls or whatever in the urinals for the first home game of the season. Thereafter ............
     
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    Dedicated buses from Endyke Lane down Hall Road to BP.
     
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    Tea strainers.
     
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    Ceiling drying racks.
     
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