It is truly remarkable how quiet their companion air compressors are now.dont see these much now
You don’t want to, dug half of Birmingham up with one of those Jack Hammers when I first worked for Post Office Telephones.dont see these much now
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Told a friend who works for Ladbrokes this morning, I will not be watching got 0.0 written all over it for me.Having just watched the F.A. Cup Final one thing gone out of fashion is the good old community singing prior to kick off. My first experience of this was around 1958 when I went on a trip to Wembley to watch a schoolboy international between England and Scotland.
Is this a Tardis.
The No 6 Perry Barr tram service ended in 1949 and 4 years later in March 1953 they were taking up the tracks as seen in Birchfield Road.
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i have only one left now that is used just for my curriesI've still got some. More lids than bottoms though.
pyrex dishes
The Aussie Opal miners still use a Jack Hammer.dont see these much now
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Perhaps the fashion that we have moved away from is the white glass with floral patterns? Clear glass Pyrex is still being made, (and used!).Our Pyrex dishes are still in regular use for cooking microwave items that need a lid, and for storage of items in the fridge. I don’t see that they are out of fashion at all.
Pete, in the US these are making a comeback at BBQ’s. They fill them with ice and see how long you can sit in it for. No I didn’t
My grandmother had a smaller one than the one above. Her house had a bath. The galvanised one was used to put the Shallots in after we peeled them in October, then salt shook over the top which was then covered with fresh water left in front of the open fire to keep it warm. 24 hours later drained Shallots put in jars and her own made spiced vinegar added plus two teaspoons of soft brown sugar added this would keep the Shallots crisp.
Also the tin of National Dried Milk seems to have gone out of fashion. As a nipper I was sent every Saturday to Lewis's for two tins for my sister. Happy days.
We have a version of that in our cars.Used to have one for school trips. It’d fit into a duffle bag along with a purse with spending money and a packed lunch. Viv.
Had one. We used it has a goal post in the summer when the frame work had been taken down.
Mainly because of white finger, but they are still required in streetworks training and assessment and in a lot of cases now they are petrol driven, so do not need the compressor. I remember when I ran a plant hire company, we had one and two toolers as standards, but also a bigger CP four tooler which spent most of its life out on hire.dont see these much now
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Never have used any other knot than a Windsor and have not worn a tie for about three years, so this topic sent me to my ties and yes can still tie a Windsor knot.Thanks for the memory. When I got married, my best man and mate tied my tie for me and he used a Windsor knot because he said it looked neater than the normal knot. I have no idea how he tied it, and even today I could not tie one. When I took the tie off, I pulled it over my head still tied, and it hangs in the wardrobe to this day, Windsor knotted, ready to be put on again. That would be 1971.
Andrew.
Prior to JCB, this looks like an American machine, but I the UK Ruysto Bucyruse were king, hard to beat an RB22 face shovel, I last used one, an old dog ,from the fifties in 1991. You knew at the end of the day, it was not operated by hydraulics.It is truly remarkable how quiet their companion air compressors are now.
Hydraulic power made a big change in the machines doing construction work. Something not seen now, but common from Victorian days, are excavators with scissor-action jibs. It probably started with the JCB 'diggers' and then spread larger and larger machines.
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