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[ellie ellins]

I'm a Derby Hiller and a Catholic and we all called them tut tuts even the C of Es. Sort that one out for me please.

[Dave]

I've added a poll for this exciting debate.

[Alan]

Dave what's going on? I saw on the index page that you'd posted on this thread at half two this morning. I could hardly contain my excitement wondering in which direction this vintage thread had lurched but it must have been a phantom post as there was nowt to be seen

[SaintJeff]

it happens when someone makes a vote on the poll alan, i was confused with one while back thinking they where posting then deleting it

[conrad]

They was always tut tuts. never heard them called trolleys,

[splus]

Go carts for me too SteveO. I am from Rainhill.

[D S]

I miss the double decker 27 0r 27a that went to cement city jumping off as it round about before stop lol. id kill myself now

[Alan]

Well it's sort of Tuttutish. Do you remember tying a lolly stick to the forks of your bike so it ratatatated against the spokes and pretending it was a motorbike?

[Griffin]

We used a folded cigarette packet - it was less hard on the spokes. What was also quite the thing was to jam on the back brake of the bike and skid sideways. This was made possible by some roads not being tarmaced or cobbled, but still surfaced with finely-ground cinders and ash. Such roads were - Ruskin Drive, Ainsworth Road, Coleridge Avenue; and, further up the Green, Rosebery Road, Devonshire Road and Hartington Road. What seems strange now is that there used to be a Guy Fawkes bonfire lit at the corner of Devonshire Road and Hartington Road, right on the road, as recently as maybe 1960-61. Anyone recall that?

[norman]

well its deffo called a tut tut iam from the poshest part of st helens lol haresfinch an we also used to power down woodies road the park side because it had more turns than the houses side an in the winter we got my mums oven tray and made slides on the cobbled stones of hamblett cres an if we got really dareing we would take a piece of cardboard an slide down the burgys i nearly broke my back an that was 10 years ago lol iam 44 now an just thort i would see if i could still do it

Edited by norman, 12 October 2006 - 11:22 AM.

[Mr.Yat]

Tut-Tut’s it was for me. As kids we used to make many a flying tut-tut with old pram wheels, my favourites where from a “Silver Cross” (bigger wheels at the back than on the front).

Front axle would always steer thanks to a drilled hole and a spare nut and bolt from my Dad’s shed and a spare length of my Mum’s washing line tied to each side. I had brakes in the form of a short length of wood, again bolted to the plank “chassis” that when pulled applied pressure to one of the wheels. We used to secure the pram axles to the wooden planks simply with nails bent over with a hammer … I’m a H & S Manager now and when I think back!!!

I lived in Roland Ave., and that was pretty gentle but you could progress to the top corner of Chadwick Road or the full length of Litherland Crescent as you got braver (more stupid???).

I well remember my mate Frankie Preston (his Mum & Dad still live there) whose Dad was a joiner and he made young Frankie an absolute cracker out of tongue & groove – it was a two-seater (one behind the other) and had a car’s steering wheel rigged up with a metal “steerer” below so that once tied to the front axle it did the same job as your feet and rope combination. It even had efficient braking and a perch at the back for the third “pusher” who could then kneel on it once they’d got it up to speed.

Happy Days indeed!

Made one for my kids, years later for them to hurtle(?) down Saleswood Ave.

[Alan]

Wonder why we called them tuttuts

[Voll]

I can't imagine, but I do know that anyone using the name "tut tut" for anything would not have survived in our neighbourhood.