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8 Aug 20, 02:32 PM

#641

Juliemack

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Originally Posted by silverfox46

For those of us on Teesside ****

I remember well a shop on Linthorpe Road near to the village , there used to be a Dolls Hospital 🥰🥰. Part of the model shop, you took your doll or any toy that was broken and hey presto they fixed it. No throw away society those days

We had a dolls hospital too (Merseyside). My dolls went there a few times after action man (my big brother) had attacked them.

I-Drive, HRH, SSR :)

8 Aug 20, 02:34 PM

#642

SussexFamily

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Join Date: Jul 19

Location: Wessex

Originally Posted by silverfox46

If only I had known that ... my action man suffered major trauma when his home made parachute failed on first test flight from 2 storeys up!

Good to see correct spelling!

I used to love the model shop on station road when I was a nipper.

Edited at 02:38 PM.

Time to go back ...

11 Aug 20, 01:16 PM

#643

SussexFamily

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Location: Wessex

Come on own up ... who had one of these...

Time to go back ...

11 Aug 20, 04:04 PM

#644

Ds4ljs

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Originally Posted by SussexFamily

Come on own up ... who had one of these...

We did🤣 and a heavily patterned carpet!

Special birthday trip!

11 Aug 20, 07:14 PM

#645

SussexFamily

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Join Date: Jul 19

Location: Wessex

How disturbing was this fella?

Time to go back ...

14 Aug 20, 01:13 PM

#646

Gill635

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Originally Posted by Omega1

We had one of these in the kitchen- always full on wash day.

I still have one of these over my stairs! I live in a very old terraced house, and we think it may be the “original” from whenever they were first installed. We have had to update the ropes though

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14 Aug 20, 06:10 PM

#647

Magicsky

Trying for More Ears

Join Date: Jun 18

Location: South Wales

Originally Posted by SussexFamily

Anyone remember this phenomenon?

I can... oooh the smell as the fire catches

What else don’t we see nowadays? Join in ... just for fun..

Aw, I remember my grandparents doing this, or can remember the heat and smell so clearly.

14 Aug 20, 06:17 PM

#648

marypoppins38

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Join Date: Mar 10

Originally Posted by SussexFamily

How disturbing was this fella?

Hartley! (has to be said in a brummie accent though...

)

14 Aug 20, 06:26 PM

#649

JudgeJ26

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Join Date: Apr 16

Location: Whitstable

Originally Posted by marypoppins38

Hartley! (has to be said in a brummie accent though...

)

Oh yes the Brummie Pig😂

Just the two of us

16 Aug 20, 02:59 PM

#650

SussexFamily

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Saturday night dinner was so easy in those days...

Time to go back ...

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