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[Alan]

Packs of dogs following a bitch in heat. In fact come to think of it you rarely see a dog without its owner
Rag and bone men
Sally Army bands in the street at Christmas

[kizzy]

November 5th bonfires on wasteland.
People standing on buses.
Queues outside bakeries/butchers at Christmas.

[Alan]

Cross-over pinnies
Women shopping in rollers
Tuttuts

[SKYMAN]

Trench macs,packer macs,ox blood shoes,brothell creepers,crombies,white silk scaves,fancy ties,braces,collar studs,
fag holders,silver fag cases.tandems,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,whats a TUTTUT Alan,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Alan]

Finger-stalls
Arm-bands
Tut tuts? see http://www.sthelens-...__fromsearch__1

[Lowe House Boy]

Seafood sellers in pubs,women cleaning steps with ashly stone and before long you could be adding milk men to that list.

[SKYMAN]

Alan are you realy P ort O utward,S tarboard H omebound ,are is it just a guise,,,,,,,,lol

Tut Tut,,, ( Trolly )

[Alan]

Posh as chips me, Skyman

[boxkey4]

Buses full of people at 6.0 in the morning,pubs full to the door,everywhere a ghost town on Sunday.

[Alan]

Kids with ringworm with their heads shaved and gentian violet painted on
Women going shopping with wickerwork shopping-baskets
Proper prams

[tessmop]

Coalmen with their wagon and horses.couples holding hands or linking arms.

[Thumpa lumpa]

Smiling Faces!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kneeshin]

Kids playing out Hop Scoch, Stoneis, Tincan bung of, Skiping ropes, swing on gas lamps,Bottles of cold tea, Home made toffee, Leep frog, Fighting with wooden sticks,Lacky guns, Catapults, Blindmans bluf, Hide and seek the list gos on and on OH to be a child to-day

[bridger]

Local Bobby (whether you needed him or not)

Walking days led by a Brass Band

May Queen's

Heinz 57 variety dogs with names like Gyp, Rover, Blackie, Fido, Mickey etc

Park Keepers

[JFM]

People whistleing, Singing at work, Factory Hooters, School Bells, Horse Muck in the Road, Miners Black Faces, Darned Socks, Short Pants, Plaster of Paris on broken Arms and Legs, Washing on the line covered with soot spots, Proper Fog, Newspaper Squares on a nail at the back of outside toilet doors, Frozen toilets, Donkey stones, putty, wooden gutters, liquorice sticks, oil cloth, gas lights, Varanders, Christmas Games Compendums, Clogs, Laced footballs / rugby balls, (Boy did they hurt) Pipe Smokers, Snuff Taking, smelling salts, separate Collers and Cuffs, moth balls, rag a bone men, handcarts, horse hair blankets, palliasses, poes, (adult Potties) fireguards, nicotine stained pubs and cafes (thank God) game birds hanging in butchers, butter pats, bacon slicer, powdered egg, icycles on the inside of windows, Ewbanks, the list go's on