DUNKS
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Forgot that one. It was my job to take the glass accumulators to the bike shop to get them charged so dad could listen in to the footy results. Remember listening to Lord Haw Haw also Valentine Dyall the man in black horror stories.
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7 minutes ago, marsh man said:
You sounded if you lived next door to me in the mid 50s , although we never had a horse drawn milk cart but we did have an old four wheel barrow that the milkman pushed around the streets in all weather , yes we had the coalman bring us a cwt of coal on his back down our narrow passage , the dustbin men with the galvanised bath on there heads ,the chap on his bike to sharpen your shears , the chimney sweep who had a trailer on the back of his bike , he would sweep your chimney and it took a week to clear the soot up . You are the only one who seemed to remember the old penny gas meter that you put a penny in the slot on the top and wound the lever round until the penny dropped to the bottom of the meter , what about the ole linen mangles with the big wooden rollers ? Also at the end of our road we had an emergency phone box with a Blue light on the top , now that is going back a bit
Wifey insists hat the meter man collected shillings and not pennies. Probably correct and yes I remember the old mangle in the back yard. Monday was wash day.
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just had a session down memory lane with my wife. We both remember the knocker upper who came to a neighbours house every morning. He worked on the railway. also we remember the road sweeper with his broom and horse cart. There was the knife and scissor sharpening guy with his grindstone mounted on a bike who came quite often, the rag and bone man with his shout "anyoldragbone". The milkman with his horse drawn cart filling the jugs you took out to him. The guy who came round in the evening with a long pole turning on the street gas lamps, not forgetting the man on a bike calling to empty your gas meter of pennies. The coalman dropping bags of coal into your coalhouse which sat next door to your outside toilet. and last but not least the dustman who actually came into your garden and lifted your galvanized dustbin onto his back to carry it to the cart. We lived on a road bordering the Grand Union canal which was busy with horse drawn barges carrying coal. There was even one guy who pulled his own barge with a shoulder harness. Life has altered a bit since our childhood. At least Gerry is not now dropping bombs on the local railway sidings while we hid under the kitchen table.
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13 minutes ago, London Best said:
Yeah!
My god’s better than your god.
And my god is the only real god.Right.
You mean "your imaginary god"
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Bring em round LB and my son can use them in the keel of one of his boats and crack open that wallet.😄
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23 hours ago, Cranfield said:
This has been a problem for many years and |I agree its a PITA.
What is another PITA is really heavy regional accents, coupled with poor sound, you have to guess whats going on.From what I see of a lot of TV now. You might as well guess what's going on!
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8 minutes ago, ditchman said:
get yourself a 26" o/u or sxs....choke cylinder and a 1/4......use 28gm #7 shot carts....this will do you for everything at your/our level....it wont hurt you..and it will move well
Good advice. You do not want a gun that you feel is too heavy. I am 87 and now shoot a 26 inch O/U browning game gun with 21 gram cartridges and I can break all the clays at my local ground. (on a good day)
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is this still unavailable is a default. I think it gets sent all the time.
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35 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said:
Hello, i read there are people going back to using 35mm Cameras and you can still buy the film and get photos printed including contact prints
I certainly hope so. My cameras will again be worth good money. I usually take black and white and process myself but yes you can get film processed and prints or digital from it.
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Anyone on here use this site for bargains. I know it's a pain with time wasters if you are selling but I have just had my third absolute bargain off his site. I tend to be a bit of a collector. Just got a 45 year old film camera and three lenses, boxed and looks as new. That's three mint cameras in a year. they wont get much use but they are nice things to have. If only they would allow guns to be sold!
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Saw it on the news. Was the bridge in use? Looks real nasty. Ship that size takes a fair bit of stopping.
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1 hour ago, mellors said:
Possibly because his next holiday will be a very long one. 😊
In the tower!
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How can it be a frightening remark? Who would bother shooting such a stupid person? Just not worth the effort.
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2 minutes ago, Bigbob said:
The local environmental health put a box up on a local playground that was being vandalised it emitted a hum that teenagers could hear and it bothered them and they stopped hanging bout there , Maybe a form of tinnitus ? you spoke to a doctor ?.
Yep spoke to an audiologist she said tinnitus was usually in the higher frequencies and the sound is only in my house. Pop your head outside and you cant hear the noise.
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39 minutes ago, ditchman said:
the ground conditions matter.....is it sitting on clay or sandy substrata ....wet or dry ?......alll will effect the peak particle velocity of the waves of sound...which will manifest itself as sound in your inner ear..
OK so you lost me!😁 Nomatter that sounds a very likely solution. We are in a clay area with a very high water table. Thanks
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2 hours ago, ditchman said:
are you living near an electric substation ?
There is one not too far away but why should the environmental health microphones not pick up the sound? The operator said it would pick up sounds way below and above human hearing. Also why quiet for years? only one of my neighbours ca hear it.
Thanks.
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4 minutes ago, ShootingEgg said:
I'd say you would need to have the sound metre for a long period of time to be able to get a recording, as you said you heard it, then the recorder was installed but not for long enough potentially
Thanks but no the recording device was with me for a whole week and we heard the noise every night and sometimes during the day during that week and after.
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Hi. Does anyone here suffer from hearing THE HUM? A low frequency rumble or hum. intermittent and only heard inside a house, usually at night. I had this problem a couple of years ago, I could hear it my son also could and a near neighbour as well. Local environmental health put a recording device in my home for a week and the recorder heard nothing in that frequency. The sound went away and now is back with a vengeance. We live quite close to an airport where they do occasionally run up engines all night but it's not that and apparently can be heard all over the world. I think over the years I have read most of what has been published on this and still no solution.
The question I ask is do any other members hear it please.
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53 minutes ago, derek876544 said:
looking for 20 bore/guage cartridge belt cheers
Where are you?
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Sleep!
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Or perhaps joining the navy as long as she does not have to go to sea.
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I sold Chubb fire equipment for many years. " This was a few years ago" It all depends what is actually burning, water is best for most small house fire but you do need a couple of gallons to be effective and of course it's no use on oil or fat. I am not a lover of powder as it does not cool. The newer foams are very good and can be used on most fires. BCF Bromochlorodifluoromethane is far far the best extinguisher but is now not available to the public although I think racing cars still have it in the cockpit. the containers are green. It interrupts the chemical action of fire and acts instantly leaving no mess. BUT I dont think it's good for your lungs. Banks and safety deposits used to use it as a drench.
You might just find a BCF extinguisher or two they dont degrade with age . I have several.
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5 minutes ago, Andy H said:
I don't know where you are but if you are near the south coast ( Brighton), Try here http://www.gun-powder.co.uk/blackpowder.html
They sell BP at £14-99 for 500g of coarse .
Thats an amazing price Mr Krank wants £45 for 500g
Just now, DUNKS said:Thats an amazing price Mr Krank wants £45 for 500g
Anyone else remember?
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I remember a week off school for potato picking and mangle chopping "whatever that was" I never went! Also Devonports beer at home van and the man from the PRU collecting pennies every week. Shipstones brewery was not far away and we used to see the horse drawn cart returning to base after a busy day delivering barrels of ale to pubs, with both drivers nissed as pewts. The horses knew their way back home.