I once had a Ford Sierra that often stopped within 200 yards of setting off (some weird fuel starvation problem I think), anyway if you left it a few minutes it would then restart and be OK for the rest of the day. Anyway it got stolen once and my mate suggested we phone the police and report it, I said no lets just have a walk around the corner, if I'm in luck it won't have gone any further than that. Sure enough there it was, about 150 yards from where I'd left it. The buggers had stolen all my cassette tapes though!
I once had a Ford Sierra that often stopped within 200 yards of setting off (some weird fuel starvation problem I think), anyway if you left it a few minutes it would then restart and be OK for the rest of the day. Anyway it got stolen once and my mate suggested we phone the police and report it, I said no lets just have a walk around the corner, if I'm in luck it won't have gone any further than that. Sure enough there it was, about 150 yards from where I'd left it. The buggers had stolen all my cassette tapes though!
The good old days of simple car mechanics when a switch and a few feet of wire joined in to the coil wires made a cut out switch which you hid somewhere in the car. No one was stealing your car with one of those fitted cost about £5 or simply pop the bonnet and take the coil wire indoors. Nowadays you've got £50,000 cars with ultra sophisticated security systems being stolen by laptops,scanners etc progress at it's best!
Also remember the Salvation Army folk braving the pubs with copies of the War Cry.
But when they used to come in to the pub at Christmas and start singing everyone used to stop,listen to them and pay them respect.
Ahh the hypocrisy of the Sally Army. Standing outside berating people for taking their money into those "Dens of iniquity" Then taking the collecting boxes in for donations just before last orders.
In fact you could set your watch by the schedule. 22.00 - 22.15 Kershaws man with the cockles and mussels, 22.20 - 22.30 Sally Army rattling the tins, 22.35 - 22.45 Last orders please. And thus ends another Friday night in the 80's in Stoke.
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In fact you could set your watch by the schedule. 22.00 - 22.15 Kershaws man with the cockles and mussels, 22.20 - 22.30 Sally Army rattling the tins, 22.35 - 22.45 Last orders please. And thus ends another Friday night in the 80's in Stoke.
LOVED that orange film they wrapped it in.
Best thing about being ill was we got treated to Lucozade.
These days it's an energy drink, whatever that is.
Tudor gammon crisps, loved them.
If you got skelpt with one of these you were oot of action for a while