OneGuyFromBarlick

Lathe,with differences, no bore in head stock, single drive to carriage ie. screw or cutting speeds, appears to have a "back gear" drive, slow speed rpm, two tool posts >, and cannot identify the the three round objects on the apron, other than that no cone pulley so single speed belt driv...

China, sorry for your troubles, what's the food like in hospitals there?, can you request an "English" ?. bodger

Shades of the early Fords with wiper ran from the inlet manifold the faster you drove the slower were the wipers.

Tripps & Stanley correct, i didn't know that it was only Northwestern that had them, for a while i lived in the corner of Cheshire, Derbyshire, % Lancs, and they serviced that area

If you were sat downstairs on a double decker bus , in front of you could be a sign, "Mind your head when rising " Why ?

Sammy Connors was the boiler man where i did my apprenticeship he used to warm his meal on a steam trap, one day the fitters did some work on the the trap and when finished did not replace Sammys basin , when he went to collect it he blew his top, " some effin lousy bastard has let my lunch go ...

I think circumstances made me so !, before our marriage i had moved 7 times.my mother married twice and my father four times plus a few stray ones in-between, so i lived with various half siblings, step mothers & fathers, including a grandfather. I read that some tear away's get an excuse for th...

Just done a quick count and we have moved 17/18 times since our marriage in 1963, , we bought our third, fourth and last house , the others were mostly rented houses paid for by the companies i worked for.

When we first came to Ireland c. 1970, we lived next door to an elderly couple,Biddy & Johnny , we have four daughters three who at the time were 7, 6, & two, Biddy called to the house and asked if the two eldest would like to go on the bog with Johnny and his donkey & cart to save turf,...

One for the likes of us Stanley !! An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h in 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with Tempo Mach 2 appears. The pilot of the fighter jet slows down, flies alongside the Airbus and greets the pilot of the passenger plane...

Urine for the local tannery ?

Swan Uppers ?

Many years ago i had an operation for piles, sorry can't spell haemorroids, in Ashton u Lyne , after the op. i was sent to Woods Hospital Glossop , this was a recuperation hospital and was run with the minimum of staff and had a great atmosphere re patient & carers, as you say Stanley a good use...

So we have a Shook of Staves or a Stook of Sheaves, English, you have to love it !!

tinsmith

Any relation to a stook as in harvesting corn ?

Staves ?

Firewood ?

In Ireland if you go into an off licence for a bottle of wine, spirits etc, they always put it in a brown paper single bottle bag, i always refuse, if people dont realise why you have been in the place, what do they think you are carrying, in a similar vein i also still hold my wifes hand and give h...

3 body's turn up at mortuary all with smiles on their faces. Cop ask's coroner "why r they all smiling" coroner says "1st guy died of heart attack while making love to his wife, hence his smile. 2nd guy won lottery, spent it all on whisky+died of alcohol poisoning hence his smile, 3rd...

Five surgeons are discussing what type of person makes the best patient to operate on. The first surgeon, from Belfast City Hospital, says, "I like to see accountants on my operating table because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered." The second, from Antrim Area Hospital,...

One of my hobbies was collecting truck drivers badges, these were lovely enameled lapel emblems of the manufacturer, I used to write to Leyland, Albion, Thornycroft , Sentinel etc. and the generally replied in the affirmative, i had over 12 at one stage but like other things i cannot recall where th...

I remember these working in Glossop up to 1960
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As of similar age to yourself Stanley we have the 4 daughters + partners/husbands, 9 grandchildren & 2 g. grandchildren,all my belongings, books, records, tapes, tools, even the pot bellied stove have all been requisitioned, but have had no takers for the 2 dogs 1 tom cat & donkey plus in th...

As an apprentice i was often told to develop blueprints on a carbon arc lamp with a tray of ammonia evaporating as the developing activator, it looked like the photo ?