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  1. Qatartiger Cambridgetiger

    Qatartiger Cambridgetiger Well-Known Member

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    Yankee Burger ... Jameson Street

    Loved emmm ... The massive queue's The old lass who shouted the orders, lovely lass but didn't take any **** though. Chip spice was invented there wasn't it? lol :emoticon-0105-wink:

    John expected kids had to behave in his restaurant though if they didn't he kicked the whole family out.

    you've probably read this before.

    http://www.thisisull.com/people/855973026_cillajohnsciencegallery1.html


    <cheers>
     
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  2. TigerinSydney

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    Tiger cola

    Frank the yank and fries with Yankee salt

    Kids playing football any time they were not at school

    Sony Walkmans

    Video rentals

    Cheddar whirls
     
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  3. Qatartiger Cambridgetiger

    Qatartiger Cambridgetiger Well-Known Member

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    kids playing marbles in the gutter Sucking used penny lolly sticks oh aye
     
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  5. jacksdad

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    Milkman on milk floats.

    Post being delivered before lunch.

    A bloke selling hot bread cakes from the back of a van (they used to sell like...).

    Women scrubbing door steps.

    Blokes fighting on the tops of trains, it was in all the films at one point.

    The BBC test card.
     
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  6. chien

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    My Dick :embarrassed:

    Piglets Crisps

    Mazies corner shop on spring bank

    cheesy snaps

    Dip Dap

    Chip Spice (have to come to hull to stock up)

    Candy Cigarettes
     
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  7. Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC

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    I think it was called a 'posher'
     
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  8. originalminority

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    Top Of The Pops
     
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  9. Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC

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    Murdens pop
    Robinson & Speights pop
    Laws pop, delivered by lorry
    Sherbert dabs
    Trebor Refreshers (they might still exist?)
    Keil Kraft balsa and tissue-paper aeroplanes
    Clockwork model trains
    Poliomyelitis (and kids with 'scaffolding' on their legs)
    Cliffords news-stand in the bus station
    Duggleby's Toyshops in bus station and at Botanic
    Trains to Hornsea and Withernsea
    Bicycles made by Hercules, Rudge, Robin Hood, Humber, Triumph.
    AJS and Matchless motor-bikes
    Cops on 'Noddy' bikes (LE Velocettes)
    Velocette, Sunbeam, Douglas, Francis-Barnett, Panther and Royal Enfiels motor-bikes
    All those British cars - Alvis, Lea Francis, Jowett, Jensen, etc.
    Eagle Comic - and 'Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future' on the wireless
    Journey Into Space
     
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    the square plastic twist things on a loaf of bread you collected on your bike spokes
     
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  11. GLP

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    Successful professional egg chasing teams from Hull.
     
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  12. GLP

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    Citra Pop
     
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  13. Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC

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    Wide-necked milk bottles, with waxed cardboard caps. You pushed in a perforated tab and hooked the cap off with your finger
    School milk in 1/3-pint bottles. Milk-monitors
    Priestman cranes
    News Chronicle, Daily Sketch, Daily Herald newspapers
     
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  14. DMD

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    1/3 pint dilute orange from the milkman.
     
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  15. Kempton

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    Until recently, Hedgehogs, but we've started getting them in the back garden again. I'm really excited about that :smile:

    The green sports mail :emoticon-0101-sadsm
     
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  16. tiger d

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    Golden Goal girls in hotpants sponsored by Crystal of Hull

    Hyde's Pies

    Limited Stop Buses

    The Humber Hovercraft

    The "Gentle Giant" at Hull Fair (a 6'10" Scotsman in a kilt with a knife in his sock in case anybody decided to question his gentleness)!!!

    White Eggs
     
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  17. Stuart Blampey

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    Hull Savings Bank account book at primary school.
     
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  18. Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC

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    Yorkshire Penny Bank
    William Cussons/Carlines
    Clifford Dunns
    Hicks
    Mackmans
     
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  19. Stuart Blampey

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    Thee number 26 Fish Dock bus- always a single decker.
     
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  20. tiger d

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    Good thread this

    Hotdog carts outside the ABC cinema

    Bun in the Oven

    Western Jean Company

    Discount Menswear on Monument Bridge (Formely Lipmans) You would go in for a shirt. Then end up coming out with a shirt , tie, jumper, trousers, belt shoes and a leather jacket.

    H. Goldstone & Sons (Opposite this cinema) adverts at the "Cecil"

    Josie's Sweet Shop on Anlaby Road (now where "Brownies Bar" is) opposite Stan Leeman international hairdresser

    The white dot when you turn off the telly

    Hearing the pips in phone boxes
     
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