Magneteer

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And then beat you on experience !

Well, I for one would say it definately has made things cheaper and easier. Remember the days when we had to take a bus to town and queue up at the bank to draw some cash, queue to pay the gas, leccy, and phone bills? Take your roll of film to the chemist and wait a week for it to be processed. Tons of music stored on an ipod/mp3 player/ phone etc. Just think how much time we spent doing these, and a thousand other things that nowadays are done at the flick of a button, or can be if we embrace the available cheap technology.

Drove past there at 4pm and they've gone. All looks clean and tidy etc.

It Ain't half hot Mum Fawlty Towers Early Doors

Yes, yes, you're right of course.

You only have to look at the queues for Mcdonalds .... round the car park and off down the main road. They'll happily sit there for an hour or more to get their hands on the stuff. Society is definately on a downhill slide.

Just back from town in a taxi after waiting for a tram. Would it have been beyond the wit of man to flash up a message on the digital sign at tramstops..... saying, ....youknow..... something helpful , like..... Oh, I don't know ... say "No more trams from this stop tonight". I know, I know... I'm overthinking this and expecting to be handed the moon on a stick.

I remember leaving the job most Thursdays to go down to the Town Hall and collect our wages from an office in the basement. Two burly, crash helmeted Group 4 security guards would stride in with a large wooden trunk containing all the pay packets chained to them. You would wait in a long queue then recite your number and be handed your crisp, crackly brown pay packet, hopefully containing more cash than last week if you'd had a good bonus. My first one, in June 1972 contained £9.64. This was followed by a couple of pints in the Brown Bear across the road before returning to work. Happy days.

There are places that pay you approx 50p per KG for used clothes which would be roughly £5 per sackful. So a reasonable income could be had collecting from houses who think they are donating stuff to charities.

Yes Midowl, the snooker table is still there at the Nags.

My daughter had exactly the same issue with them a few years ago. Room thermostat on the wall packed up. This house had stood empty for about 6 months before we were able to go in and decorate top to bottom, new carpets etc. Anyway council bods turn up to look at fault and say "we'll fit a complete new system"...new combi boiler, radiators etc even though it all worked fine and just needed a £20 thermostat. So, up came all the new carpets to lay pipework etc and new rads which left areas of unpainted wall....a right mess. So, in hindsight why can't council, when a property come vacant and do a survey on it ? Clipboard out! Does it need a rewire, does it need new heating, windows, doors etc Then all that work can be carried out whist house is empty, ie no carpets to lift decor to spoil, no wardrobes and tv@s move and no tennants having to live amongst all the workmen and muck etc. No, we'll let em move in and then knock the place to bits. They'll love it!

As I remember, it was just a bit further down from the old police station/house ( across the road from Jet petrol station) i think theres new appartments built on there now. It was called West depot.

Yes... Thats how we do it. Have it as a starter, a couple of squares each for Sunday dinner with thick onion gravy made from the meat juices. My wife was shown by my mother who was taught by her mother in law. Mmmmmmmmmmmm delicious. No Aunt Bessies in this house!

I do hope that's an attempt at subtle irony padders😄

I've had it for years, started in my early thirties. Would'nt wish it on my worst enemy, it's a horrible condition but I don't get it as bad as in the early years. I've tried all the creams, steroids, puva light etc but nothing really cures it, not for long anyway. These days I try not to worry about it too much and just use the occasional dab of Calcipotriol around the eyes and ears when it flares up, and Diprobase moisturiser cream on a large patch on my lower back. The Enstillar spray worked ok but I think the doctors are reluctant to dole it out as its around £100 a tin. Alcohol does seem to make it worse too as does sugar although I've cut out most sugar.

PWD later to become SWD, had a few local depots dotted around the city ie. Greenhill, Crookes, Bramhall Lane( joiner's shop and transport) and a section based in the Polytechnic, Pond St.

The central depot was on Worthing Road until about 1978/9, when it transferred to Manor Lane. I worked in the Heating section.

They could install something similar in prisons where a sentence could be served, not in years but in Mega-watt hours (or Giga watts for really serious offenders) rather than years.

I find George Carlin (deceased) and Rich Hall (both American) very clever/funny. Both good at observing this crazy world and the crazy people who populate it. Modern comedians just don't do it for me and it always amazed me when watching "Live at the Apollo". The audience would be laughing their heads off ( I'm guessing out of politeness) at some weak jokey/wokey banter and I'm thinking " What the hell is so funny". But it's probably just me whose hard to please.

Towsure do number plates

Fire museum......formerly West Bar Police station

St. Lukes lottery for me

We used to go in Weston Park at lunchtimes and sling it between two convenient trees. Never had any problems or challenged etc.

Well, a Yorkshireman is very similar to a Scotsman, but with all the generosity squeezed out of him!