Keys on strings nailed just above the letterbox on the inside front door, in case you had lost the front door key. Must have been well trustworthy folk in those days.

Those trays of penny sweets on the counter in shops.

 

'Penny corner'?

Women donkey stoning their step.

 

 

Can we deduce from that that all women these days are slatternly harlots?

 

There's been a drop in the use of net curtains which would probably be undeniable proof of this hypothesis (if they were dirty).

 

 

Don't remember some of the past with rose tinted spectacles...

 

Women under peer pressure to perform meaningless and physically demanding household chores.

Piss and shit ridden manky toffees at vastly increased price, sat for God knows how long uncovered.

Mangy dogs running amok biting and leg-humping at will.

Pikeys meithering door-to-door.

Dog shit everywhere.

Smelly (as in B.O. smelling, not of curry products) understocked, overpriced, "we're doing you a favour", shut at 8pm whitey-owned shops.

People bumming int' bogs.

Kirby Cleaner Scouse c*nts.

 

 

Aye, I'm really missing all that...

Edited August 20, 201312 yr by Youri McAnespie

Women donkey stoning

 

This sounds like something The Gonzo would watch on LobsterTube

 

People bumming int' bogs.

 

 

You can still see this if you know where to go........so LW tells me

What did pisspots do between 4pm & 7pm when the boozers were shut?

Ramps in streets for kids to ride their BMXs over

What did pisspots do between 4pm & 7pm when the boozers were shut?

 

Kwik Save at the bottom of Churchgate then onto The Parish Church, another spot where the alky held court was near the Elephants on Newport Street - dunno where they got their brown glass bottles of Strongbow from though? I'm sure the old Morrisons didn't do booze, I think there was some restriction on selling alcohol off-licence within certain areas. Hanburys didn't do booze either IIRC.

People bumming int' bogs.

 

 

 

You can still see this if you know where to go........so LW tells me

 

 

LW - clear your inbox...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Joke'.

Edited August 20, 201312 yr by Youri McAnespie

People selling the Bolton Evening News on the street, because the newsagent was shut for Bolton Holidays.

Lads being wanked off by their mates.

Rattles at football matches (not that I remember them)

 

Clipper Cards on buses (do they still do them? I remember being pleased as fuckery when I got one)

Teenths for £7.50

dogs shagging

Rattles at football matches (not that I remember them)

 

Clipper Cards on buses (do they still do them? I remember being pleased as fuckery when I got one)

 

Aye, there was nowt better than a brand new, unbent clippercard ... especially if they gave you a nice new sheath to go with it.

 

Can any of the bus wankers amongst us confirm if you still get weirdos on buses who stand next to the driver talking to him all the time.  There used to be one on the 506/507 all the time.  He wore a coat like Columbo and had hairy ears iirc.

Edited August 20, 201312 yr by DazBob

Can any of the bus wankers amongst us confirm if you still get weirdos on buses who stand next to the driver talking to him all the time.  There used to be one on the 506/507 all the time.  He wore a coat like Columbo and had hairy ears iirc.

 

Haha, I remember him..."The Conductor" we used to call him.

'Real' tramps - like that fella with the beard who was variously described as a ex-Police Chief, Fire Constable, Army Captain, Millionaire etc. By 'real' I'm meaning not beggars who are smackheads, but ones that walked the walk - sleeping on benches, looking in dustbins, carrying a bindle fashioned of a stick and spotted hanky (alreet, maybe not the last 'un ).

Tortoises.

 

Kittens in pet shop windows.

Aye, there was nowt better than a brand new, unbent clippercard ... especially if they gave you a nice new sheath to go with it.

 

Can any of the bus wankers amongst us confirm if you still get weirdos on buses who stand next to the driver talking to him all the time.  There used to be one on the 506/507 all the time.  He wore a coat like Columbo and had hairy ears iirc.

 

They get free travel all over the borough and beyond...

 

Surely, as they're already spending all day aimlessly mooching about on buses/trains, they could act as some form of non-urgent courier service to earn their keep? Douse them with half a bottle of the cheap knock-off Febreeze from the £1 shop and they'd be away.

Edited August 20, 201312 yr by Youri McAnespie

Nice looking ladies in Bolton town centre.

Shoes/trainers hanging from telephone wires.

 

 

That's still rife in Manchester

A Bolton Wanderers player getting a hatrick

Coca Cola man, used to walk round town with two bottles of cheap supermarket cola.

Traf said that he stopped doing it, as nobody ever called

 

Bloody Tease!

I still accept bookings via email, text or Private message.

You never see old bike tyres around the bottom of lampposts anymore either - probably because kids these days are too obese and/or easily distracted/bored to 'hoopla' them over.