The Poolie Bunker

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

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.

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

Yes Fensy totally forgot about them

Do any of you remember back in late 70s early 80s sets of three monkeys smoking cigarettes.

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

That's a very interesting thought and strange that we didn't take full advantage of those machines.

I used to love going into Woolworths and getting the pick n mix.

Pick n Nick, I called them!

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.

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.

Yes Reg

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.

Mam what's for tea??
Shit with sugar on.

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

We had the Jam but no bread.

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

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

What happened to the chicken factory. Was the chicken factory part of cera boss.

If it was, here are some pics:

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

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.

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

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.

The Tin Box Factory.

Never heard of the Tin Box factory

Me Mam always use to mention it...think she worked there.

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. 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.

https://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/gallery

Loads of photos to browse!

Brilliant cheers for that Stocksfield_Poolie.

What then drank from it.

Yifter the Shifter.

He was some bloke him like.

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.

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.

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

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...!

Throston bridge. I remember walking through on the way to the carnival back in the day. If memory serves it had metal stripped black n white pillars.

From your posts on here you sound about my age, but for the life of me I can't remember Throston Bridge. I thought it was pulled down before I was born.

My nana lived on the Headland so I used to go over there every week, so it's not as if I don't know where it was or never went to that side of town.

Anyone have any idea when it was demolished? Snowy perhaps, he has a good knowledge of the town from years ago?