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"See them that moved into number 25, they are a very musical family".
"Really"? "Yes, even their sewing machine`s a Singer" !!  |
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Tommy Two Toes is/was a hunter chaser whose carer record amounted to £1,331 - but he was a trier!
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He certainly was tommy, but he was apt to taking the wrong course
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I used to be a removal man - I hated the fookers with a vengeance. The old Singer sewing machines were murder to take down stairs and 8 out of 10 tenements seemed to have them in the 80s...and by then, they were just about worthless...had to wear feckin' shin pads...
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Indeed, Mac!
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Am I right in suggesting that...basically EVERYONE is named after a horse of some description?
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They are worth a right few bob now
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Surely cmat must have had the name of a horse in one of the 78 names he's used on here? Can't think of one though, don't think SEED GIRL was a horse was it?
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We used to dump them by the ton - and I mean that literally...the old oak ones and mahogany ones with the fancy iron sides...sometimes people hid money in them...sometimes, we used to rip out the sewing machines to make them lighter...it was acceptable in the 80s...
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A horse named Joel raced in the Melbourne Cup one year.
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Another thing we used to dump was Lloyd Loom chairs - worth a few bob now...and some real crap, like Utility furniture...and sort of blonde-walnut fitted bedroom suites...and Bex Bissell carpet sweepers
...and tea chests full of books ...and Burco boilers that you could use to cook whelks ... |
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Havin' a breakdown here, thinking of the pre-eBay world...
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There were always second hand shops that such stuff could have been taken to, that's what I did. Pull yourself together man.
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ffs Velasquez you could have been a millionaire by now if you had had the foresight to keep all that old stuff.
I sold a comic on ebay for ...... wait for it ...... £243 Best 2p I ever spent Think two guys wanted it to make up their collection and they got into a bidding war. I had a suitcase of the in the attic for over 40 years knowing that one day they would be worth something.  |
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Mac - don't get me started - I have more sob stories than Lovejoy.
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What comic was it, Mac?
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Its the lack of foresight that creates the value. If we had all hung on to the tin trains and wooden rocking horses they would be worth fa
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The weird thing is that people hold on to the wrong things...BTW, Dobbo - huge fire at Glasgow car boot caused massive disruption a few days ago -- trails of thick black smoke spreading across M74...fire brigade demolishing building...
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And old singer sewing machines are not worth a fortune now, or anywhere like it.
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Crags - people like to convert them into desks n stuff.
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This absurd vintage mania has wounded the antiques trade and energised the sewing machine/typewriter/decorative crap market but its temporary
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I hope
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desks
Imagine what it would have cost you to store all these monsters the years, Vel, you'd be out of pocket. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-29792979
There is the link, Dobbo - some photos there, of the fire. |
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*over the years*
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Exactly, Crags - you'd run out of room to store that stuff.
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I wonder if Singer's did trade-ins over the years?
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It's a vanished world, the world of conscientious ladies making and mending at home...a vanished world, just like Fiddler Goodwill's yard...
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Singer certainly made a few bob in his time and his house was utilized during the first and second World wars The old gaff is well known in the part of the UK I live in and is now Council owned
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldway_Mansion |
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http://www.torbaydevelopmentagency.co.uk/projects/paignton-projects/oldway-mansion
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Time for bed I think
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldway_Mansion |
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I always preferred Husqvarna Sewing Machines
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Crikey...Britain is some country. Surely they must have used that for Poirot or something?
Good night Crags, I'm up early for the golf tomorrow. See Rory cost Laddies £5 million with his winning streak? So they say... |
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Good night Joel...we've run out of horse names...
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hehehe goodnight!
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