Blast from the past

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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Mon Feb 24, 2025 11:01 pm

Remember the can drinks like coca cola when the ring pull actually came off and we thrown them away. :laugh:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Snowy » Tue Feb 25, 2025 6:17 am

Funny though how you get a mental picture of someone you’ve never seen based solely on their replies on here :laugh:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby MutleyRules » Tue Feb 25, 2025 7:14 am

Leggie43 wrote:Remember the can drinks like coca cola when the ring pull actually came off and we thrown them away. :laugh:

No because I was anti-littering even then...I popped mine into the can.
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby accrington fan » Tue Feb 25, 2025 10:51 am

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:laugh: Well the Accy one is easy he used to be a major actor in " Last of the summer wine " he played Foggy. :laugh:

not too bad a guess if you took his cap, specs and tash off and his hair was only half grey. i have always wondered if the character marina was based on one of our conductresses with the same name and appearance who worked for the company about a year before it started.
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Fensy » Tue Feb 25, 2025 1:47 pm

Leggie43 wrote:Remember the can drinks like coca cola when the ring pull actually came off and we thrown them away. :laugh:


How about getting the tags from loafs of bread and putting them on your bike brake cables
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Tue Feb 25, 2025 2:01 pm

Fensy wrote:
Leggie43 wrote:Remember the can drinks like coca cola when the ring pull actually came off and we thrown them away. :laugh:


How about getting the tags from loafs of bread and putting them on your bike brake cables


Yes Fensy totally forgot about them :clap:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Tue Feb 25, 2025 2:03 pm

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Leggie43 wrote:[

:laugh: Well the Accy one is easy he used to be a major actor in " Last of the summer wine " he played Foggy. :laugh:

not too bad a guess if you took his cap, specs and tash off and his hair was only half grey. i have always wondered if the character marina was based on one of our conductresses with the same name and appearance who worked for the company about a year before it started.


:laugh: clappp
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Tue Feb 25, 2025 3:09 pm

Do any of you remember back in late 70s early 80s sets of three monkeys smoking cigarettes. sctatchinghead
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Snowy » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:34 pm

Wonder how long cigarette and chocolate machines you saw outside shops would last nowadays…. sadx
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Wed Feb 26, 2025 5:43 pm

Snowy wrote:Wonder how long cigarette and chocolate machines you saw outside shops would last nowadays…. sadx


That's a very interesting thought and strange that we didn't take full advantage of those machines. :laugh:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Fri Feb 28, 2025 5:21 pm

I used to love going into Woolworths and getting the pick n mix. :wink:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Stocksfield_Poolie » Fri Feb 28, 2025 5:31 pm

Pick n Nick, I called them! :laugh:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Fri Feb 28, 2025 6:14 pm

Stocksfield_Poolie wrote:Pick n Nick, I called them! :laugh:


:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: To be honest Stocksfield_Poolie we definitely nicked more than we ever paid for and usually swallowed the evidence before paying for what we had in the bag. :laugh:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Fri Feb 28, 2025 6:32 pm

Did any of you make stilts out of soup tins. We would turn the tins upside down and poke two holes in each tin. Then thread a string through making two string handles one for each hand. They made loads of noise and would usually crumble after short distances but good fun trying. :laugh:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Reg » Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:30 pm

Beechams powders wrapped in paper
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:56 pm

Reg wrote:Beechams powders wrapped in paper


Yes Reg :laugh:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby MutleyRules » Sat Mar 01, 2025 8:30 am

Picking your nose and eating it.
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:02 am

MutleyRules wrote:Picking your nose and eating it.


You must have been hungry back in those days Mutters. Could be worse could be someone else picking his nose and you eating it. :laugh:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby MutleyRules » Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:02 am

Mam what's for tea??
Shit with sugar on.
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby MutleyRules » Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:04 am

Always got me when you called someone scruffy for having Jam and Bread...we never even had Jam!!!
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:13 am

MutleyRules wrote:Always got me when you called someone scruffy for having Jam and Bread...we never even had Jam!!!


:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: We had the Jam but no bread. :laugh:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby accrington fan » Sun Mar 02, 2025 11:17 am

Leggie43 wrote:
MutleyRules wrote:Always got me when you called someone scruffy for having Jam and Bread...we never even had Jam!!!


:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: We had the Jam but no bread. :laugh:

in yorkshire they gave you the choice. it was one or the other.
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Sun Mar 02, 2025 12:57 pm

accrington fan wrote:
Leggie43 wrote:
MutleyRules wrote:Always got me when you called someone scruffy for having Jam and Bread...we never even had Jam!!!


:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: We had the Jam but no bread. :laugh:

in yorkshire they gave you the choice. it was one or the other.


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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Thu Mar 06, 2025 7:29 pm

Toffee glue at school. :laugh: No wonder we ended up with thousands of bag heads. :laugh: Must admit I loved the smell and often found myself sniffing it during use. :laugh: Schools exposing young children to sniffing dangerous glue whatever next Kettering. :laugh:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Thu Mar 06, 2025 8:24 pm

What happened to the chicken factory. sctatchinghead Was the chicken factory part of cera boss. sctatchinghead
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Stocksfield_Poolie » Fri Mar 07, 2025 4:38 pm

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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Stocksfield_Poolie » Fri Mar 07, 2025 4:39 pm

Cerebos Salt Works produced salt and Bisto. It was taken over by RHM Foods in the 1960s and over the next years produced a vast range of foods including Paxo stuffing, One Cal lemonade, Capri Sun, Atora suet, Chesswood mushrooms and curries, Brands soup and sauces, Sharwoods chutnies and curries and Cracottes biscuits.

Salt production ceased in 1970 and in November of that year, the salt production block was demolished.

RHM Greatham became known as Sharwoods in the mid-1990s before becoming Centura foods prior to closure in 2003.
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Fri Mar 07, 2025 5:25 pm

Stocksfield_Poolie wrote:Cerebos Salt Works produced salt and Bisto. It was taken over by RHM Foods in the 1960s and over the next years produced a vast range of foods including Paxo stuffing, One Cal lemonade, Capri Sun, Atora suet, Chesswood mushrooms and curries, Brands soup and sauces, Sharwoods chutnies and curries and Cracottes biscuits.

Salt production ceased in 1970 and in November of that year, the salt production block was demolished.

RHM Greatham became known as Sharwoods in the mid-1990s before becoming Centura foods prior to closure in 2003.


Cheers Stocksfield_Poolie appreciated mate. :wink:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:20 pm

Stocksfield_Poolie wrote:If it was, here are some pics:

https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/c ... -09.44420/


Those pictures are brilliant it's the ghost of Christmas past. :laugh: I enjoy looking at old pictures particularly the very old and Hartlepool history etc. Cheers Stocksfield_Poolie it's appreciated mate. :wink:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby accrington fan » Sat Mar 08, 2025 10:00 am

Leggie43 wrote:
Stocksfield_Poolie wrote:If it was, here are some pics:

https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/c ... -09.44420/


Those pictures are brilliant it's the ghost of Christmas past. :laugh: I enjoy looking at old pictures particularly the very old and Hartlepool history etc. Cheers Stocksfield_Poolie it's appreciated mate. :wink:

yes. my mam worked there and her elder sister after they both left school. unless you wanted shop work they must have been one of the highest employers of women back in the day. do not think either of them would have made the dinner break if they had worked in a store.
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby MutleyRules » Sat Mar 08, 2025 11:40 am

The Tin Box Factory.
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Sat Mar 08, 2025 12:49 pm

MutleyRules wrote:The Tin Box Factory.


sctatchinghead Never heard of the Tin Box factory sctatchinghead
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby MutleyRules » Sat Mar 08, 2025 2:40 pm

Me Mam always use to mention it...think she worked there.
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby MutleyRules » Sat Mar 08, 2025 2:43 pm

Here you go Leggie...

https://www.hhtandn.org/relatedimages/3 ... treet-then

Bombed in 1940...don't think me Mam did work there...she wasn't born until 1943. :?
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:11 pm

MutleyRules wrote:Here you go Leggie...

https://www.hhtandn.org/relatedimages/3 ... treet-then

Bombed in 1940...don't think me Mam did work there...she wasn't born until 1943. :?


WOW Obviously a longtime ago so it's difficult to work out from the picture exactly what's what. Everything in that street I guess was pulled down. sctatchinghead I don't recognise any of it and had never heard of that factory or the Church in the picture. Cheers Mutters love learning about our town history especially the pictures. :wink:
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Re: Blast from the past

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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:35 pm

Brilliant cheers for that Stocksfield_Poolie. :wink:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Mon Mar 10, 2025 5:02 pm

MutleyRules wrote:
Leggie43 wrote:Remember the can drinks like coca cola when the ring pull actually came off and we thrown them away. :laugh:

No because I was anti-littering even then...I popped mine into the can.


What then drank from it. bbolt :laugh:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Kenny Bottles » Mon Mar 10, 2025 6:01 pm

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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Mon Mar 10, 2025 6:07 pm

Kenny Bottles wrote:Yifter the Shifter.


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He was some bloke him like. :wink:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Kenny Bottles » Mon Mar 10, 2025 6:17 pm

Leggie43 wrote:
He was some bloke him like. :wink:



Should be Featherstone's piss-takey nickname.
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Mon Mar 10, 2025 6:23 pm

Kenny Bottles wrote:
Leggie43 wrote:
He was some bloke him like. :wink:



Should be Featherstone's piss-takey nickname.


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Re: Blast from the past

Postby accrington fan » Tue Mar 11, 2025 10:28 am

Kenny Bottles wrote:
Leggie43 wrote:
He was some bloke him like. :wink:



Should be Featherstone's piss-takey nickname.

no thats a picture of him on the wall where you tell everyone that you have a still life portrait.
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Kenny Bottles » Tue Mar 11, 2025 12:56 pm

accrington fan wrote:
no thats a picture of him on the wall where you tell everyone that you have a still life portrait.



Aye, sounds about right. Bet when he was a kid, he always won when they played "statues".

Which is another blast from the past - as modern kids couldn't stay still if their lives depended on it..!
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Tue Mar 11, 2025 1:13 pm

accrington fan wrote:
Kenny Bottles wrote:
Leggie43 wrote:
He was some bloke him like. :wink:



Should be Featherstone's piss-takey nickname.

no thats a picture of him on the wall where you tell everyone that you have a still life portrait.


clappp clappp clappp
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Tue Mar 11, 2025 1:15 pm

Kenny Bottles wrote:
accrington fan wrote:
no thats a picture of him on the wall where you tell everyone that you have a still life portrait.



Aye, sounds about right. Bet when he was a kid, he always won when they played "statues".

Which is another blast from the past - as modern kids couldn't stay still if their lives depended on it..!


Thats so true about kids these days Kenny. :wink:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Tue Mar 11, 2025 4:15 pm

The best " Blast from the past " for me was when Jamie got a temporary ban. Just a shame it ever ended. :angry-screaming:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby accrington fan » Wed Mar 12, 2025 11:11 am

Leggie43 wrote:
Kenny Bottles wrote:
accrington fan wrote:
no thats a picture of him on the wall where you tell everyone that you have a still life portrait.



Aye, sounds about right. Bet when he was a kid, he always won when they played "statues".

Which is another blast from the past - as modern kids couldn't stay still if their lives depended on it..!


Thats so true about kids these days Kenny. :wink:

wrong. they can if they are on their bloody smart phones where getting them to move is the problem.
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Leggie43 » Wed Mar 12, 2025 1:01 pm

accrington fan wrote:
Leggie43 wrote:
Kenny Bottles wrote:
accrington fan wrote:
no thats a picture of him on the wall where you tell everyone that you have a still life portrait.



Aye, sounds about right. Bet when he was a kid, he always won when they played "statues".

Which is another blast from the past - as modern kids couldn't stay still if their lives depended on it..!


Thats so true about kids these days Kenny. :wink:

wrong. they can if they are on their bloody smart phones where getting them to move is the problem.

:laugh:
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Re: Blast from the past

Postby Kenny Bottles » Wed Mar 12, 2025 5:25 pm

accrington fan wrote:
wrong. they can if they are on their bloody smart phones where getting them to move is the problem.



They'd still lose playing "statues" as their thumbs would be going like the clappers...! :wink:
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