A Bit Of Light Hearted Banter, Remember When

Bobbisox1 | 16:58 Wed 08th Jul 2020 | ChatterBank

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you had to dial up the Internet which made your landline busy
Shops closed half day every Wednesday

Anymore?

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On the shopping front: Mums' Co-op divi number, 15456 Biscuits were bought loose and weighed out. Butter and cheese was cut from a block and weighed on the Avery scales. Going the herbalist to get a "blackdraft" when my dad had a hangover. Taking the accumulator (battery) to be charged for the wireless. Cost - 2d per time. Going to the pub with a jug to get my dad 2...

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People went to church on Sundays, and they didn't hang their laundry out on Sundays, either.

I rememeber when there was NO internet and if you wanted to phone someone you went to a red phonebox to do it. Only very rich people had a telephone and even they used it sparingly because of the cost.

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BB that’s so true , I forgot all about the laundry on Sunday

Shops closed half day on Thursdays here in London.

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Then came the Party line Woof

people didn't hang their laudry out on sundays? where did you live? if it was drying weather, you got the washing out!

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Wednesdays here Sharon

Sharon it was Wedenesdays in Battersea and Chelsea

oh yes...the party line :(

Bakers stopped baking on the Friday so I had to buy 4-5 loaves on the Friday to do us over the weekend.

Phone line blocked? Not a problem if you had a mobile like I did !

Shops closed half day was a pain.

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You couldn’t use dial up Internet on your mobile ymb, could you ? Or did you mean you had the mobile to fall back on?

Petrol stations shutting up on Saturday nights. I remember my dad rushing to fill up.

I remember that weird modem dial up noise.

I used to work with two people who boasted about sending things called "emails" to each other in the evening.

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Standing in a listening booth to hear your favourite 45 single before buying it

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When the postie came twice ,early and late delivery

Gromit

If you had a colour telephone, you were really rich ;-)

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Ours was red Gromit haha

The 'Pools Man' came to my Nanas and the Insurance man too.

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