....I often crave what was called a Cider lolly (as sold outside my school gates)....never come across them anywhere else. Particularly delicious when melting (to the correct degree)....
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I used to get them when we lived in Swindon, back in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The ice cream van's tune was from Mahler's 1st.Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostComment
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....obviously inflenced by Chippenham though, Eh??....Originally posted by Bryn View Postbong chingComment
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Except where the bike sheds are behind the ziggurats... https://www.themodernhouse.com/journ...uea-ziggurats/Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostComment
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... when was the last time the 'ladies' left the dinner-table so that the menfolk could continue with port, nuts, and smutty stories? I remember it occasionally happening in time-warped counties some twenty- thirty years ago - but recently??
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... when was the last time the 'ladies' left the dinner-table so that the menfolk could continue with port, nuts, and smutty stories? I remember it occasionally happening in time-warped counties some twenty- thirty years ago - but recently??
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The Go-Between contains many of my favourite scenes in all films - namely that in which the young boy staying with the family of a local squirearchy finds his way to the gentlemen's smoking room and for the first time discovers about "adult" matters.Comment
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I've seen this only in old films and TV dramas, never in real life. I even wonder if it really happened as much as we are led to believe.Comment
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Sherbet fountains (with liquorice 'straw'); penny chews.Comment
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I don't know, but surely "smoking rooms" in grand houses would have been for the gentlemen to retire to and the "ladies withdrawing room" is self explanatory.Originally posted by smittims View PostComment
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It crops up in novels - I'm re-reading Pride and Prejudice - and also accounts of life "below stairs" include references, not least as it meant extra work and hours for the servants.Originally posted by smittims View PostComment
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... well, certainly in Wiltshire in my younger days this happened pretty regularly (my parents loathed it) - and I have been at suppers in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire this century (yes, the 21st century) where it still happens (my wife and I loathe it).Originally posted by smittims View Post
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Private Eye cover flexidiscs at Christmas, etc.Comment
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So, vinteuil, maybe time hasn't quite forgot, in that case! I agree with you; I think it's a ridiculous idea today.
I've just come across some people who may be forgotten today but who were once sufficiently well-known to be mentioned in EMI adverts. Many older collectors will recall that EMI (never Decca, I think) used to decorate their LP inner sleeves with adverts for recent LPs. My example is from CSD 3539 ('Sargent conducts popular string music') published in 1966. The classical recordings mentioned on one side are still too well-known to concern us here, but on the other side 'some outstanding HMV LPs' include:
'The White Heather Club Party: ...familiar songs from north of the border' (doubtless including Andy Stewart);
'Best songs and ballads featurng the versatile voice of John Leyton' (anyone remember him?);
Danny Williams (12 evergreens including 'the nearness of you');
Show Boat ('a star-studded recording with Shirley Bassey, Inia te Wiata..') surely the only time those two singers appeared on the same disc.
'Magic hour with Semprini' ('...in his own inimitable style.') I'm not sure that's entirely a compliment.
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