Now we all like a survey....dont we?

i seem to remember the gaslighter did his knocker up, as he came round in the early morning?? to get the workers up for there shifts.most where railwaymen. music:gnthb:

 

sorry takemore02 ignore above (is a load of ****) i will have to cut down on the (grouse!). you are not that far away with your calculations.
6d ,the old sixpence = 2 1/2 new pence, so 19/7d is around 97 to 98 new pence.
i was counting as 100d = £1.00 forgetting we had 240d in a pound.
imagine £5 of small change in your pocket??? . thanks. music .:cnfs::flag:

 

hello ALICE, the lovely conservatory hotel, could it be THE ISLE OF SKYE HOTEL???.
as i have been there almost every year for the past 20 years. music.:gnthb:

 

There you go... they very error I mentioned earlier

 

another memory of school. a cold winters morning,getting ready for school,my mother would say
"have you got everything son,school bag, books?" AYE MA I HAVE GOT EVERYTHING" rushing to the door,then the voice would shout "SON YOU FORGOT YOUR BALACLAVA!!!!!.
that was the most hated thing in my life, THE WOOLY,ITCHY BALACLAVA!. had to put it on at the house but as soon as i was round the corner ,IT WAS OFF and after a few scratches at my face and neck off i went to school.hated it that much threw it over a wall and told my mother someone pinched it. never helped ,she bought another one!!. music.

 

another memory of childhood.i would only be about 4 or 5 years old. the blast walls they had built at the entrance of the tenement buildings! .these were built to stop the blast of any bombs that would drop onto our street. the bombs never hurt us,the wall did. as being children we kept forgetting the wall was there.many a sore face i got running into the wall!!! music

 

Infant school::
Sitting round the pot belly stove trying to keep warm.

 

Heres one we all remember.
Proper winters when it snowed!

 

Thanks woo.
We all remember it well.
That must have been the year the sea froze in Ramsgate habour and you could walk to end of Margate pier over the sea ice if you judge the tide correctly!

 

I've been reading this with interest and I remember the outside loos with newspaper and the tin bath tubs once a week and jellies setting on the outside windowsill ..... but woo just hit a chord with me ...

The winter of 1962/63 I walked to school in snow knee deep in Luton and then in July emigrated to the States for the second time (Alabama this time) and went to college in September and the temp was 100oF .... contrast or what?