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In message , charles
writes
In article ,
Martin wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:43:36 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Martin wrote:
Was it really a *steam* roller? You must be old!

I'm old enough to remember real steam rollers.

I can just remember steam trucks still in commercial use. Owned by a coal
delivery company, which might explain why.

I can remember the milkman delivering with a horse and cart. His name
wasn't Ernie.

I can remember the fishwife with a creel on her back. No idea what her name
was though, but I do remember Mr Cadona - the one man band.

I remember "Onion Johnny", a vendor who used to cycle round our
Edinburgh estate with onions tied around himself and his bike.

I was told he came all the way from France, but people hoodwink children
all the time, don't they?

In my mind I even picture him in a striped matelot shirt and beret.
--
Ian

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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
...
In article , Steve Terry

wrote:


I remember Steam Lorries, i'll get my zimmer frame

The current issue of 'Hi Fi World' features a steam-driven
turntable for
playing ye olde-fasioned LPs.



Was that in your column Jim or is it a very early April fool?



--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

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"Ian" wrote in message
...
In message , charles
writes
In article ,
Martin wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:43:36 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman
(News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Martin wrote:
Was it really a *steam* roller? You must be old!

I'm old enough to remember real steam rollers.

I can just remember steam trucks still in commercial use.
Owned by a coal
delivery company, which might explain why.

I can remember the milkman delivering with a horse and cart.
His name
wasn't Ernie.

I can remember the fishwife with a creel on her back. No idea
what her name
was though, but I do remember Mr Cadona - the one man band.

I remember "Onion Johnny", a vendor who used to cycle round our
Edinburgh estate with onions tied around himself and his bike.

I was told he came all the way from France, but people hoodwink
children all the time, don't they?

In my mind I even picture him in a striped matelot shirt and
beret.
--


Cynic. Actually many of them did come from France but were part
of larger groups with big vans bringing stock.


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

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In article , Andy Wade [email protected]
well.myzen.co.uk scribeth thus
On 12/01/2013 12:36, tony sayer wrote:

Never bothered with transistors, much too flimsy. Once after I got a
ECC88 going there was no stopping thru 807's and 813's then QQV03-20A
VHF valves;)...

Wot, no 4CX250s? You haven't really built a transmitter until you need
a good 2kV on the anodes...


Never went that high with valves, we found transistors at that age to be
more useful for err, mm "field" operations;)...
--
Tony Sayer

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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
scribeth thus
In article ,
Martin wrote:
I can remember gas street lighting.

Me too!

Remember a terrace of rented houses still with gas lighting when I were a
lad. Saw it from the tram on the way to school.



Umm ... just around the corner from where our HQ is there is this
rather quaint street.

What do you notice about it;?...


http://goo.gl/maps/SO2rm


--
Tony Sayer

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On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:12:45 +0000, Ian wrote:

I remember "Onion Johnny", a vendor who used to cycle round our
Edinburgh estate with onions tied around himself and his bike.

I was told he came all the way from France, but people hoodwink children
all the time, don't they?

He might have been from France, Brittany specifically.

http://www.roscoff-quotidien.eu/johnnies-fr-gb-bzh.pdf

Scroll down to the English translation:

THE JOHNNIES OF ROSCOFF AND ITS REGION
Sellers in Great Britain since 1828
of the “rosé “ onion” of Roscoff
....
The onions and the men were, for many years, carried over the
Channel by sailing-boats : schooners, dundees from the coastal ports
of Tregor : Paimpol, Perros-Guirec, Pleubian. This sailing fleet
disappeared with the outbreak of the 2nd World War; cargo ship had
replaced it, thus involving a concentration of exports and the
services of freight companies and brokers. From that time, the men
crossed by rail and ferry-boat. There were those who lose their
lives in these ships: 70 men perished in the wreck of the steamer
“HILDA” in 1905.
Already, by the start of the 20th century, men of the Roscoff
region : Saint Pol de Léon, Santec, Ile de Batz, Plougoulm, Sibiril,
Cléder, had covered the whole of Great Britain: Wales, England,
Scotland whilst selling their onions from door to door. English were
touched by the young age of some - 9, 10 years, and called them
“Johnny" ( little John ). The onion sellers adopted this name in
calling themselves "Ar johnniged”: the Johnnies.

lots more information (in English, French and Breton)

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

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On Monday, January 14, 2013 6:00:44 PM UTC, tony sayer wrote:
Umm ... just around the corner from where our HQ is there is this

rather quaint street.



What do you notice about it;?...

There's no used Durex in the gutters, no MacDonalds wrappers, nothing. Weird...

Bill

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In message en.co.uk,
Roderick Stewart writes
In article , Martin wrote:
Was it really a *steam* roller? You must be old!

I'm old enough to remember real steam rollers.

I can just remember steam trucks still in commercial use. Owned by a coal
delivery company, which might explain why.

I can remember the milkman delivering with a horse and cart. His name
wasn't Ernie.

I can remember gas street lighting.

They still have gas street lighting in the Malverns!
--
Kennedy

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In article , Ian
wrote:
In message , charles
writes
In article , Martin
wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:43:36 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article , Martin
wrote:
Was it really a *steam* roller? You must be old!

I'm old enough to remember real steam rollers.

I can just remember steam trucks still in commercial use. Owned by a
coal delivery company, which might explain why.

I can remember the milkman delivering with a horse and cart. His name
wasn't Ernie.

I can remember the fishwife with a creel on her back. No idea what her
name was though, but I do remember Mr Cadona - the one man band.

I remember "Onion Johnny", a vendor who used to cycle round our
Edinburgh estate with onions tied around himself and his bike.

I was told he came all the way from France, but people hoodwink children
all the time, don't they?

In my mind I even picture him in a striped matelot shirt and beret.

you obviously missed the large lorry (almost furniture van) from which he
got his supplies (and transport to & from France).

--
From KT24

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18

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"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
In article , Andy Wade
[email protected]
well.myzen.co.uk scribeth thus
On 12/01/2013 12:36, tony sayer wrote:

Never bothered with transistors, much too flimsy. Once after
I got a
ECC88 going there was no stopping thru 807's and 813's then
QQV03-20A
VHF valves;)...

Wot, no 4CX250s? You haven't really built a transmitter until
you need
a good 2kV on the anodes...


Never went that high with valves, we found transistors at that
age to be
more useful for err, mm "field" operations;)...


An old and long gone mate of mine, Jack Tweedy G3ZY (I was at
school with his son as well,) used to have an HF transmitter that
used no less than 19 807's. Never needed a heater on in the shack
when that was running!



--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com