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eamonn1983
When working on an installation with mixed wiring is it adviable to sleeve the conductors if two differant colours are present at the same accessory or is it ok to just place a mixed wiring notification at the db?
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Geordie Spark
Butlins??!!!!! Don't talk to me about bloody Butlins!!!
Mum & Dad had scrimped & scraped to get enough money to take us on holiday and so it came to pass one day in 1956 we found ourselves in a hut in Butlins "Holday Camp" in Filey and I hated ever bloody minute of it.
All these idiots in silly clothes bullying you into getting involved in playing games and other pointless activities and telling you to laugh or cheer when there was nothing funny or interesting to laugh or cheer about. If I want to play a game or laugh,scream, shout or clap my hands I'll just do it ..or not. I DON'T need an idiot in a red blazer and silly hat to tell me to!!!
Then there was the dreaded Tannoy with it's "Good morning campers" like an Imam calling the faithful to morning prayers at half past frickin' sparrow fart telling you to rise and shine and march half a mile up the road in the pi$$ing rain and gale force wind to the canteen where breakfast would be served.
At the end of that 1956 "holiday" it was almost a pleasure to get back to school with I normally hated and I vowed NEVER again to set foot in a Butlins Holiday Camp - and I haven't and won't!!
The best part of the whole thing was the ride home on the train which was steam hauled. Wish I knew what the loco was.
Edit: I think it could have been a K1
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Early thirties? Didn't know you had running water up there in the thirties!
There's an old terraced house, just down the road from us, that used to belong to a 96 year old lady who used to say what she wanted...and nothing more or less. Grand owd lass, about 4'10'' and lived on her own 'till the end. After her husband died in the nineties, she used to shove a little note through the letterbox 'Excuse me, somatts up wit lectrics, can t' call an ave a looke forus'. Now that was a hell hole, twisted vir extensions all over and fixtures much akin to those you mention with her late husbands DIY additions everywhere. It was usually changing a lamp or a tube/starter in the kitchen fluorescent. But she wouldn't change anything and always tried, unsuccesfully, to pay before I left. Real shame when she had an accident with her gas cooker and ended up in hospital badly burned and couldn't recover. One of the old school.....damn shame for Alice, going like that.
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Geordie Spark
Oh aye ... we had running water and a hot water tank & flushing netty in the hoose!
The hot water tank was a total disaster. Mounted high up on the kitchen wall and heated by the open fire in the front room. This thing had a patent on it because it was special in it was supposed to store both hot AND cold water in the same tank!!!
It never worked. on the day of Bath Night, Mother would be stoking the fire like a demented fireman on the footplate of the Flying Scotsman and she'd keep that fire blazing all day - even in summer - in the vain hope that in the evening we would have six inches of hot water in the bath!!
Your Alice sounds a bit like my maternal Granny - a hard as nails no nonsense business woman who made a lot of money selling petrol, coal, ladies lingerie and baby clothing during the war. God knows where she got it from - it was strictly rationed - but she got it from somewhere & did quite canny for herself.
She kept the business going until the late 60s and had a garage, coalhouse, air raid shelter and a bedroom full of "stock".
Watch Last of the Summer Wine on telly & you'll see my granny in the form of Auntie Wainwright.
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tazz
was funny how they wired these old chalets.....in the apex roof, center was a full length bare copper cable for the earth, left was vir run for neutral, and right vir was line......each chalet was tap off and feed 1 5amp socket and a 1kw heater, later they tapped off with 60amp wirelex fused boards....totally crazy......dont know abaut 56 but in the 80`s it was more like a knocking shop...lol
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Geordie Spark
I was too young to know about such things ...... unfortunately.
'56 was 11 years after the end of WW2 and I think people had got so used to being told what to do that they maybe needed telling how to have a holiday so they got these Redcoats as they were called to organise everything for them.
It probably created jobs for a few ex RSMs too !!
We went to a place in Wales called The Robin Hood Camp, where Holiday On the Buses was filmed. It was in Prestatyn and a total tip. It reminded me of Winson Green Prison which is now famous due to the Benefit Street TV programme. On the day we left, my dad who
was a straight talker like myself banged on the reception desk when presented with a bill. He said Robin Hood? It's more like
Robbin' Ba$***d$.!!!! I made friends with a boy there who kept writing to me for a few years................. ah to be young. :wub:
was a straight talker like myself banged on the reception desk when presented with a bill. He said Robin Hood? It's more like
Robbin' Ba$***d$.!!!! I made friends with a boy there who kept writing to me for a few years................. ah to be young. :wub:
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Geordie Spark
You should have asked me and I would have told you - it's your default state. It's all to do with your jeans.
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