The Poolie Bunker

Me mam worked part-time at "the Cerebos" in the early 1970s, and used to bring home loads of tinned soup with no labels on them. A list of which numbers stamped on the can signified what flavour was inside it was distributed round Hartlepool every Friday faster than a monkey running out of the town...!

These were a bit hit and miss if I recall it right, and the code you thought was chicken turned out to be minestrone or some other variety.

What soup are we having tonight mam..? Scotch chick-a-mato broth...

Not totally sure maybe snowy or derwent may have the answer to that question

RHM was Rank Hovis McDougall.
I remember their works bus fleet, proper bus services from around the town in double deck buses.

And if you were driving out of Greatham around finishing time you ended up in a queue back to the Smiths Arms. And that was before the traffic lights were put in at Sappers Corner! Lucky to get home for Corrie

Highlights from Hartlepool v Arsenal in the cup.
https://youtu.be/SW2HBij-d2E?si=5cltPY7qfXNkDVGr

Yep. Cerebos was Cerebos salt originally and then became RHM. My Auntie had a beautiful clock on her mantelpiece which was presented to her on her retirement from Cerebos.
A friend of ours used to keep us supplied with unlabelled tins of soup.

It then became Sharwoods. There were some attractive ladies in the offices as i recall.

I forgot about Sharwoods.

And Campbels soup.

Brian Honour

Shopping centre without a roof

Barry Manilow ‘coming out’

Didn,t even know he,d gone in,lol

Minis with the long gear stick.

Busy high streets.

…they were Goddess’s because you were young and daft and they were untouchable.

The Green Goddess fitness instructor and also Mr Motivator on morning tv

along with emmerdale farm stuck in its rightful place as an early afternoon tv programme when we were at work.

They could go and f@&k right off.

Co-op number (me nan’s was 930) and divvy payments……happy days as got a treat off her
….me mam kept it, the greedy bugger.

My Mothers number was 4 digits which I use to use as the pin code for my bank cards, I remember going to the coop and I got a suit with points.

When we first got married my mam bought us a three piece suite from there and in the packaging when it arrived was a bulging brown envelope full of co-op stamps…seriously my tongue was turning to sand paper with my lick n stick technique ….it only came to just over £6 when cashed in

Bee-Line coach trips.

Bensway Travel

Pools used the bus.

First got married how many times have you married this lady

I should have said…’shortly after we got married’…….I’ve only had the one and even on the wedding day I was only invited to the night do

The ‘Manhattan’ four flights of stairs and various pools players worse for wear falling down the stairs….happy days.

I am on my 3rd

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I could only eat one.

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You did your stretches along with Jane Fonda then Snowy?

Shippams beef or crab paste.

Used to go to the Manhattan myself, And your right about pools players.
Used to get some decent bands on as well.
Remember seeing Brass Alley on there, brill night I mean morning, lol

You just can’t keep a bloody secret on this board
We saw each other occasionally, sometimes in Monaco sometimes in Nice but I had to disappoint her in the end….. by offering to marry her….Ah well

No names, no pack drill wouldn’t want to shatter a few reputations.

Those were the days, my friend as Mary used to say.

Some people think we have never lived, being from the olden days.lol

At least the shops were half decent back then-

Woolies, Marksy's, Binns, Asda, Fine Fare, Newbold's, Tandy's, Mothercare, Argos, Solid Sounds, Main Post Office, Pools Surplus Stores, Whitaker's Art Shop (even if it was a bit ripe in there) Three Crooks bakery, Rumblelows, Dixon's, Billy Brett's sweetshop and the spiral ramp that vibrated when it was busy!

and FREE Car parking!

Would happily forgo the roof to have that lot back in the town centre!

column gear selectors.

Went on some great trips with my Gran and younger brother in the summer holidays, great memories, mind you the mystery tours were a bit hit and miss.
But a good laugh all the same.
The worst part was if it was raining where you went, you felt as if time stood still until you got back to the bus.
Still made you appreciate the smaller things in life.

Coach load of people went on a mystery tour, they had a raffle to guess where they were going, the driver won it !

It always seemed to include a stop at Skipton.

Oh Dear.

I have edited my post in case offends anyone.

The woke people win yet again

must have employed better drivers than some i have known or more knowledgeable passengers. think the best one was a passenger who came up to the front and told me i had gone the wrong way on a mysters tour as the driver the week before went a different way. could not wait to get back into the canteen to tell that one.

Arm Wrestling after a Yard of Ale competition..i remember taking no prisoners.

Same here, but why did they stop at bloody Guisbrough on the way back from Whitby.

‘One for the Boys’ at clubs on a Sunday dinner time.

Smelly farts.