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New film for pensioners

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 10:37 am

The oldest rocker in town!

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Posted by nek <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=nek' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 11:04 am, in reply to "New film for pensioners"

'Things to come' is more apt.

or maybe 1984 delayed.

got to be careful now of wrong speak or I might be in line for a 10yr stretch.

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Posted by Lannis <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Lannis' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 1:03 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Your "wrongspeak" enforcer says that he's going to charge and extradite Americans who violate his standards on his territory.

We just laugh and keep on with our target practice... !

Lannis

I don't take health advice from people who think the world is overpopulated.

Re: New film for pensioners

Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 11:46 am, in reply to "New film for pensioners"

Now why do I not find that funny?
Den

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Posted by Dennis M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Dennis+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 11:51 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

6TDen, Maybe because you are old.

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Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 12:38 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

I knew there would be a reason.
Den

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Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 12:45 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Us old people lived in the cold in the 1950s. No heating, just a hot water bottle. Water was heated once a week for a bath, no double glazing or loft insulation. We were wellard

Re: New film for pensioners

Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 1:08 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Ah memories, memories but we are a little older now and as the times have changed, a little softer I feel.
Den

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Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 1:16 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

My first house with heating was 1983 so i managed without any until i was 30. Next year, i might get some of that electric lighting so many people now have. Its getting hard to find gas mantles now.

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Posted by Hants Ian <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Hants+Ian' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 2:09 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

In the 50s the government didn't need to worry about a rising number of OAPs as no heating and smogs kept the population down.

The light at the end of the tunnel maybe an oncoming train

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Posted by MadMike <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=MadMike' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 2:20 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Gas lights and mantles are still readily available. Fitting gas lights is permissible in homes.

Other opinions may be available but this one is always correct.

Re: New film for pensioners

Posted by laverdabru <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=laverdabru' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 2:20 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Fair point, Ian. Both sides of my family came from 'The Smoke' & I remember as a kid them telling me about the smogs back in the '50's & early '60's.

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Posted by Hants Ian <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Hants+Ian' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 2:39 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

I lived next door to a blind man. When we had smogs he used to take me and my sisters to school, as literally you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

The light at the end of the tunnel maybe an oncoming train

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Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 4:26 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Been through all of that the house we bought on dartmoor no heating apart from coal stove and four storage heaters in a three story ten bedroom house manged to have central heating on two floors and moved the storage heaters to the top floor central heating was coal fired so was like stoking the boilers on the Tianic.. we survived ..

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

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Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 5:23 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

I can remember the bus conductors walking by the near side kerb with a torch so the driver could finish his round, and sitting on the upper deck above the fog and feeling like I was floating on top of it - eery feeling. A friend of my Dad was injured, slightly, in an accident approaching a round -a -bout when on a dual carriageway. A chap who had been on the round-a-bout had misjudged his exit and came straight at him. Happy daze!!
Den

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Posted by calidavid <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=calidavid' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 4:30 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

I remember my childhood bedroom on the third floor of a converted oast house in Kent where the taps on the basin in the room used to freeze and ice formed on the inside of the windows.
There was a coal fired boiler in the kitchen and I can still hear my mother “riddling” it first thing in the morning while coughing on her first Batchors” of the day.
Happy Daze!?

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Posted by Will <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Will' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 6:36 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Likewise! Parents riddling the kitchen range & filling it's fuel hopper with anthracite are sounds of my childhood. My bedroom was above the kitchen so always warm.....or sweltering in summer!
I can also remember the coal for the open fires being delivered in vast boulders that the merchant broke up with a pickaxe & sledgehammer before shovelling it off his truck. He'd deliver a ton and it would be 3 or 4 big lumps until he got to work!

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Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 6:54 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

All these stone age heating systems are making a comeback. My neighbour and his wife sit beside a metal bowl with burning sticks in the rear garden. In the Winter, the Teacher wheelbarrows a truck load of logs through the house to the garden and spends 3 days splitting them to burn indoors.
Me, i just push the boost button on the timer and sit indoors in the warm. I am surrounded by wood burning stoves and the stench they create.

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Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 9:38 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

I grew up in a 3 bed semi council property which my parents ended up buying.

I can remember when we had no central heating we would get ice on the inside of the windows.

Bath water was heated in a "copper" by way of a fire.

I can also remember damping down the fire in the evening to "keep it in", if succesfull it would still be burning in the morning, if not then total clean out of the fire and "start up again".

Used to enjoy the open fires.

Who needs a signature anyway......

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Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 10:13 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Its so much nicer now we have Global warming though. Live in Greece and the fire really warms your cockles.

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Posted by spriddler <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=spriddler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 8:52 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

<<<Us old people lived in the cold in the 1950s. No heating, just a hot water bottle. Water was heated once a week for a bath, no double glazing or loft insulation.>>>

Cuh! You were lucky...........

'There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at at the flood.....'

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Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 9:36 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

I had one of those stone bottles Sprids. We also had ice on the inside of the windows especially during the 1962 freeze

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Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 10:38 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Ice on the inside of the windows but also the net curtains would stick to them. Happy daze...I think.

The oldest rocker in town!

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Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 10:47 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

The red Indians never had ice on their tepee windows. Maybe we should all buy tents

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Posted by Lannis <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Lannis' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 11:27 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

I knew that the Four Yorkshiremen were lurking somewhere where in this discussion, with their shoebox and hot gravel ...

Lannis

I don't take health advice from people who think the world is overpopulated.

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Posted by Nigel B <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Nigel+B' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 2:19 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

I knew that the Four Yorkshiremen were lurking somewhere where in this discussion, with their shoebox and hot gravel ...

You could afford hot gravel ? Luxury !

If we could ever afford gravel it was always cold ....

Nigel B.

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Posted by Hants Ian <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Hants+Ian' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 3:08 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

What's gravel?

The light at the end of the tunnel maybe an oncoming train

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Posted by Beezabryan <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Beezabryan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 6:04 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

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BeezaBryan

He knows not where he's going, For the ocean will decide,
Its not the destination, It's the glory of the ride (Edward Monkton, Zen Dog)

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Posted by Leon Novello <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Leon+Novello' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 13, 2024, 11:14 pm, in reply to "New film for pensioners"

I remember ex-pats returning to Australia, talking about how British people stunk of BO, probably because of the one bath a week in most homes that did not have a water heating system.

Leon Novello

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Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 7:46 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Sunday was bath day, only time Dad turned on the immersion heater. Other days we washed in the sink using hot water from the Ascot water heater. No one complained as
I recall. Probably used Old Spice or the like to cover the emissions from dodgy areas.
Den

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Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 7:54 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

There were my 2 parents and us 6 kids in our house having just one bath a week. The Rayburn slowly warmed up the water and each had to have a bath on different days as there was just one storage cylinder. I suppose we all smelt the same so not noticing we may have smelled a bit.
Being a 10 roomed hotel, the guests had to book a bath, there being only one bath in the house and the charge was one shilling. House was sold in 1973 and became a rest home and later on, an HMO.

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Posted by nek <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=nek' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 8:52 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

shocking how primitive some houses were well into the 1970s.
about 1973/4 when I lived in Sth London council was tarting the area up with trees and BS, at one meeting a bloke stood up and said "never mind trees, can we get water in our house?" turned out his rented house had ONE water tap between each pair pf house and outside at that.
Peabody buildings in London with sight of Buck house had one shared cold water tap on each landing.
My first house had outside loo in 1970. Not uncommon then.

Lots of improvements in house since as newcomers won't put up with such basics.

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Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 9:29 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Thing is at the time we didn’t know anything was “unusual”. As a child and a yoof I don’t recall being unhappy. I was loved by both parents and knew where the boundary’s were. The people next door were always Mr and Mrs, never referred to by Christian names. But times move on, people’s expectations change and wages and living conditions improve by the year. Whether the current generation enjoy the situations they experience anymore than we did is only for us oldies to speculate about and for them to know. All I know is, other than adding a few years on my life expectations”, I wouldn’t change places with any of them.
Den

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Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 10:22 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Spot on Den.

The oldest rocker in town!

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Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 8:54 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

As a kid I brought home a Gudgeon I had caught whilst fishing. He was kept in the bath all week but had to be moved out to the sink on Sunday so we could all have a bath. He was not happy and even leapt out on a couple of occasions and landed on the floor. I eventually took him back to the lake where I had caught him and let him go to save him committing suicide!
Den

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Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 8:54 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Boxing day meeting at Brands Hatch 1962 the paddock tanoy asked drivers of vans and transporters to drive around the track to clear the snow only a hand full of spectators made it to the circuit we managed in the J type Morris nice and warm engine in the cab..

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

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Posted by MadMike <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=MadMike' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 8:57 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

I was there and remember the snow on the track. However I thought that it was the first meeting of the season rather than Boxing Day. Perhaps it happened more than once.

Other opinions may be available but this one is always correct.

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Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 10:10 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

I think it was East Kent and District MCc used to run it every year I was a member though the memory is not as good nowdays.. but definitely Boxing day I have been in contact with people who remember on F/B sites.

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

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Posted by Brickboy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Brickboy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 9:24 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Same here, Den, all through the 1970s in fact. Ice on the insides of the windows so net curtains stuck to them, thick blankets and aero-blankets along with hot water bottles: two on extreme nights which seemed much more frequent then and the Sunday night bath in shared water as the hot tank only held enough for one bath and a bit of topping up. Kettles often to the rescue!
I recall a winter where the bus doors stuck open with snow/ice which made for a chilly 7 mile journey to college. Earlier than that school never seemed to shut - if we couldn't cycle we walked in.
It's a funny thing and probably like a lot of us I look back very fondly to the proper darkness of night, proper cold of winter and how simple life seemed: walks in the woods, watching trains go by at the country station etc - all free activities I later realised. But I do wonder whether my parents had the same feelings - probably not as dad being the bread earner had no pay rise for years and later said he had worried they'd lose the house. I think they struggled a lot but I was never aware - kept blissfully ignorant was their way to ensure childhood was fun.
Dad's retirement was long, healthy and he had enough for a good lifestyle and to pass on to his kids. Mum not so healthy sadly and not so fortunate. I still think of their childhoods - dad's father always looking for work, renting rooms and just getting by - in two generations how life can change due to dad's hard work, night school whilst living in a freezing caravan on an airfield and just being incredibly tough. I feel like a lightweight and lucky man in comparison to how hard he had it but he always said (unusually given his politics were very right) that he saw signs of the 1930s again and thought things were going downhill where quality of life, respect for authority etc was concerned.
I'm scattering their ashes next week, where they loved to walk in the 1940s when the area was beautifully peaceful. I'm instructed to try and imagine it without the M25! It's certainly made me think about their lives.

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Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 10:20 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Succinctly put, Simon. My Dad passed almost 60 years ago and my Mum 46 years ago and there aren't many days I don't think about them. Lovely people.
Den

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Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 10:25 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Bus doors stuck open? Blimey in my day buses didn't have doors.

The oldest rocker in town!

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Posted by Hants Ian <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Hants+Ian' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 10:27 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

No they didn't and working as a conductor was bloody cold in the winter.

The light at the end of the tunnel maybe an oncoming train

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Posted by Brickboy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Brickboy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 10:30 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

I remember these too on local routes when I was very young. The new, more squared shapes had lovely double doors at the front. These were the ones that stuck making it like a wind tunnel for poor passengers!!

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Posted by spriddler <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=spriddler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 10:34 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

My house was at an uphill bend and when coming home from work a couple of us would jump off the slowing bus as the driver crunched down a gear.

'There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at at the flood.....'

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Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 12:09 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Remember the sign at the top of the stairs on the bus..
NO EXPECTORATING ..

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

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Posted by Hants Ian <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Hants+Ian' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 12:17 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

No crunching of gears on London Transport. Rt buses had pre-select gearboxes and RMs had auto boxes.

The light at the end of the tunnel maybe an oncoming train

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Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 12:30 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

My Dad drove the buses out of Mortlake station and they had pre select gears. I was always fascinated sitting in the front by the driver watching move the lever under the steering wheel and nothing happened.

The oldest rocker in town!

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Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 1:05 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Wouldn't have mattered if we did Dave none of the lot I hung out with would have known what it meant!
Den

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Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 2:16 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Den I think it's means no looking up mini skirts when girls are going upstairs in front of you?

The oldest rocker in town!

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Posted by spriddler <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=spriddler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 2:27 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

I used to upstairs where I could have a fag.
I guess we all remember these.......

'There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at at the flood.....'

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Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 3:14 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Bum, that's me off the bus then Jerry.
Den

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Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 4:33 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6lVmvdIYyI8

The oldest rocker in town!

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Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 1:03 pm, in reply to "New film for pensioners"

Great thread and some great nostalgia.

This thread would not be complete without:

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Who needs a signature anyway......

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Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 2:40 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

I used the trolly bus every day to go to and from the Open Air School in my younger days the used to accelerate realy quickly ...
Happy days..

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

Re: New film for pensioners

Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 2:52 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

I remember my first school coach, a petrol driven thing with a sliding door to get in an out, think it was a Beford.

Light green and a sort of cream colour paint job.

Used to be pretty slow, made an awful racket and had a very loud gearbox.

Who needs a signature anyway......

Re: New film for pensioners

Posted by Hants Ian <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Hants+Ian' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 3:13 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Most likely an OB Bedford

The light at the end of the tunnel maybe an oncoming train

Re: New film for pensioners

Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 14, 2024, 8:32 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Think it may have been a Bedford SB - it did not have the sticking out nose at the front.

Been looking at Bedford coach pics on the web.

Who needs a signature anyway......

Re: New film for pensioners

Posted by Hants Ian <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Hants+Ian' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2024, 10:06 am, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Not really up on all the different makes.I worked on the buses for London Transport and was part owner of an RT bus for 33 years.

The light at the end of the tunnel maybe an oncoming train

Re: New film for pensioners

Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2024, 4:42 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

Go on Butler.......get that bus out......

Loved those old buses.

Who needs a signature anyway......

Re: New film for pensioners

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2024, 5:41 pm, in reply to "Re: New film for pensioners"

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