Things you don't do anymore.

The Lone Ranger wrote:See those things on top of the radio? Those are accumulators. I remember as a kid having to take them to the general store to get them re-charged.

Is that your dining room table Cam ?

That's a bit posh isn't it ?

Cups with handles and saucers !

Cutlery !

A stereo !

How the other half live eh

Afternoon Jim. That's a photo I took while visiting a folk museum last year. The scary thing was I remembered a lot of the things they were using. Thank God we've moved on, you forget how primitively we lived only a few decades ago.

It did us the world of good though.

Ive heard of those accumulators, Never seen one though, Er, What are they for ?,

Just remembered were i heard of them, Michael cain interview, Ask him a question, Guy rang in and said his father had the shop where cain went to get his accmulator
seen to, Cain said, "And you think ive always had it easy"

That's what they used before the new-fangled dry cell batteries came along. Had to get them re-charged every so often so we could all hear THIS

Blimey, I remember the song, But i was blessed with electric in our house, Father having a taxi business, I remember PYE coming to put a massive aerial on the roof, He spent a fortune on radio's for the cars, But all the nieghbours complained because the conversations came on their tv's and radio's, i soon twigged i could call the mates up without leaving the house, Mother was car 16, It went like this " A1 Base to car 16 over, Car 16 go ahead A1 Base, Whats for tea ma, Well father wasnt too impressed when he heard that, He started locking the office when nobody was in it,

We got the electricity into our dump when I was 6 for the birth of my little brother. No gas either. Used paraffin lamps and cooked on the fire range. Sod that nowadays.

Underdog wrote:
All phone boxes were good for the sinuses, and the reciever smelled of smoke, Couldnt walk past one without pressing button A, see if 4d dropped out, Plus if ever you wanted a light bulb they was free,

Here you go Reg. Press the button and see if any coppers fall out! There used to be a local directory in each one as well. You don't see that anymore either...

There is one in a hamlet near us, Fresh flowers in it every day, Bt was going to take it out, But somebody got it in the press, BT said nobody uses it, All have private phones, Thats not the point the hamlet said, Leave the blady thing alone, Not been past for a while to see what happened, But a guy from the motor trade lived there, We called him Deputy Dog, One week into retirement he got killed at a junction he used all his life, Dont know what happened there,
Somebody said he killed himself, Lived alone in the hamlet, And couldnt face life doing nothing,
Best not say where, You never know, I will report back on the phone box,

My mate bought one for his garden, got it all sandblasted and re-painted in the old PO red. Cost him over £2,000. He had to re-glaze it as well.

Thought an accumulator was something to do with betting

Cruella de Vil wrote:Thought an accumulator was something to do with betting

Vacuumlator, is what gals do when you have a hangover

Cruella de Vil wrote:Thought an accumulator was something to do with betting

Perfectly correct Cru. It means a lot of things.See Here

Thats what i like about this place, Educational too, not just drivell, Cam doe's Education, I do Drivell, Sorted then, The futures bright,

The Lone Ranger wrote:

Cruella de Vil wrote:Thought an accumulator was something to do with betting

Perfectly correct Cru. It means a lot of things.See Here

Gosh it has zillions of meanings