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Originally Posted by DWRAT
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whadya mean "was back in Tinny's days', no way, in my days we never even had TV's, dvd's or videos, we had a radiogram, AKA wireless, AKA radio, AKA crystal set and listened to exciting drama in the evening. Plus the telephone had just been commercialized. Cars were called tin-lizzies and the means of public transportation was by Omnibus, the original word for what we now call a bus.
Not that I am dating myself of course, but most fine upstandin gent's in Lancashire, wore Trilby's and or flat caps, smoked Woodbines, had shirts with removable collars, wore clogs, worked in the pits, cotton mills or in the trades and a pint o' beer cost a tanner.
Cheers, John, AKA, tin-man