Blast from the past - remind us of a thing
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paulguitar said:
We had a thing called a 'milk hatch' which was a little box built into the side of the house. We also kept a spare back key in there, in an old tobacco tin.
Because obviously, no burglars would ever have suspected a key might be kept there.
Of course there were also the laundry vans, The Swastika Laundry had been there for decades and even after the war the red electric Swastika laundry vans were a common site around Dublin...into the 80s I believe...Because obviously, no burglars would ever have suspected a key might be kept there.
RDMcG said:
The whirring sound of the electric milk floats and breadvans in Dublin when I was a child. Then the sounds of the milk bottles being put on the step . You had to get them in quickly before the birds pecked through the foil tops.
Thanks to The Modern Milkman service this still happens and wakes me up at 5:30am. Funny how an electric motor can sound like an air raid siren.RDMcG said:
paulguitar said:
We had a thing called a 'milk hatch' which was a little box built into the side of the house. We also kept a spare back key in there, in an old tobacco tin.
Because obviously, no burglars would ever have suspected a key might be kept there.
Of course there were also the laundry vans, The Swastika Laundry had been there for decades and even after the war the red electric Swastika laundry vans were a common site around Dublin...into the 80s I believe...Because obviously, no burglars would ever have suspected a key might be kept there.
the Swastika was White on a black background
wasn't just the Irish Finland Airforce used the swastika
paulguitar said:
We had a thing called a 'milk hatch' which was a little box built into the side of the house. We also kept a spare back key in there, in an old tobacco tin.
Because obviously, no burglars would ever have suspected a key might be kept there.
I have often wondered if that is what this is on the front of my 1970's house. If you grab the handle the whole thing slides up an reveals an alcove in the brickwork.Because obviously, no burglars would ever have suspected a key might be kept there.
Cotty said:
paulguitar said:
We had a thing called a 'milk hatch' which was a little box built into the side of the house. We also kept a spare back key in there, in an old tobacco tin.
Because obviously, no burglars would ever have suspected a key might be kept there.
I have often wondered if that is what this is on the front of my 1970's house. If you grab the handle the whole thing slides up an reveals an alcove in the brickwork.Because obviously, no burglars would ever have suspected a key might be kept there.
Purosangue said:
RDMcG said:
paulguitar said:
We had a thing called a 'milk hatch' which was a little box built into the side of the house. We also kept a spare back key in there, in an old tobacco tin.
Because obviously, no burglars would ever have suspected a key might be kept there.
Of course there were also the laundry vans, The Swastika Laundry had been there for decades and even after the war the red electric Swastika laundry vans were a common site around Dublin...into the 80s I believe...Because obviously, no burglars would ever have suspected a key might be kept there.
the Swastika was White on a black background
wasn't just the Irish Finland Airforce used the swastika
https://youtu.be/h0gWtyCdji4?si=vHrLdv-aP2D5Jqao
RDMcG said:
Of course there were also the laundry vans, The Swastika Laundry had been there for decades and even after the war the red electric Swastika laundry vans were a common site around Dublin...into the 80s I believe...
Can we take it the Swastika laundry vans predate the 1930s by quite some time and not just surrender monkey neutralist De Valera's idea of a joke to irk the English ? Nethybridge said:
RDMcG said:
Of course there were also the laundry vans, The Swastika Laundry had been there for decades and even after the war the red electric Swastika laundry vans were a common site around Dublin...into the 80s I believe...
Can we take it the Swastika laundry vans predate the 1930s by quite some time and not just surrender monkey neutralist De Valera's idea of a joke to irk the English ? My grandfather told me about his insurance brokers in Bradford who used the original Swastika as their letter heading until the 1930s, they had to change it of course.
BigBen said:
E3134 said:
The Swastika was originally a symbol of good luck, the Nazis took the symbol rotated it through 90 degrees to become their own.
How did rotating it through 90 degrees help?The symbol adopted by the NSDAP was reversed and rotating to the left and 'downwards'.
droopsnoot said:
Q. When does Saddam Hussein have his dinner?
A. When Tariq Aziz.
Memories of when the latter was on the news all the time as some sort of spokesman. Can't tell it now, no-one will know who he was. Same as the Bobby Sands joke.
or kids in the 70s running around hitting the backs of their hands together ............shouting " Joey"A. When Tariq Aziz.
Memories of when the latter was on the news all the time as some sort of spokesman. Can't tell it now, no-one will know who he was. Same as the Bobby Sands joke.
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