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Police officers 'on the beat' wearing traditional domed 'Custodian' helmets.

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Are surviving city centre phone booths still plastered in ads for 'adult services'?
 
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Are surviving city centre phone booths still plastered in ads for 'adult services'?
Phone booths themselves, there's still some in Chesterfield but I'm not checking next time I'm up there as generally the only thing that's plastered in there are the frequent users ...

(Doncaster has some phones on the side of their information displays, the local drug using population have to use these, slightly less private for them ... )

I was going to say the old style milk bottles on the doorstep, but my neighbours have started having them delivered (from a van, not a float), they're the only ones I've seen in the area though
 

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I was going to say Ford Escorts but then I saw one of the convertibles in good nick at the lights the other day.
If you have a fair bit of money down the back of the sofa you can buy a "new" one

 

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If you have a fair bit of money down the back of the sofa you can buy a "new" one

Wow that is amazing, i think i like that even more than the Singer 911 lol
 

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Yellow sodium lamps with a sort of ‘box’ for the electrics at the bottom.
Also the greenish white mercury arc streetlamps - I remember them on my street and in many places in the 1970s before these were replaced by sodium lamps by 1990. Now they are all LEDs!
 

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Gas lamps. They were there before they were replaced by those greenish white mercury arc street lamps.
 

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Signs that say "WE ARE UNABLE TO ACCEPT £50 NOTES"

I'm not sure if places have stopped rejecting them or if they just don't feel the need to display a sign to that effect any more.
 

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Saw a live flat bed coal truck with open sacks on the back, driving through Horden, Co. Durham in November.

I thought at the time haven't seen one of those for 40+ years.
 

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bit cliche and on the big side but considering their size mostly disappeared on the quiet

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Phone booths themselves.
In one or two semi-rural places, they seem to have been mostly converted into locations for AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) and/or informal community libraries.
 

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A small thing that has probably gone unnoticed: yellow "No waiting at any time" signs have all been removed since 2002 following a change in regulations.

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...there used to be a lot of public Gents urinals, which were little more than a wall, with a bit of a curved entrance so people couldn’t see inside, and a drain...
A notable one was in Truro on the Wilkes Walk bridge: you could urinate straight into the river through the drain. https://goo.gl/maps/wxN3HsLFAyjLyiR27

Saw a live flat bed coal truck with open sacks on the back, driving through Horden, Co. Durham in November.
Still common round here, and now the only way to buy 'traditional' coal. Totnes still had a coal yard next to the station until about ten years ago.
 

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Cold war air raid sirens on telegraph poles.
Again, we have a couple in Hebden Bridge. They're connected to electronic river level measuring devices and sound to give warning of imminent flooding. IIRC, they're tested once a month on a Wednesday afternoon at 14 00.
 

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Those extra roadside telephone boxes provided by the AA and RAC. Members were sent a key, and could use both networks. Obviously one of the skills a driver needed was to make sure if he broke down it was near one.
 

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Again, we have a couple in Hebden Bridge. They're connected to electronic river level measuring devices and sound to give warning of imminent flooding. IIRC, they're tested once a month on a Wednesday afternoon at 14 00.

Ah yes, they would have been that sort of thing ! The one at the end of the road where I grew up has gone though
 

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In one or two semi-rural places, they seem to have been mostly converted into locations for AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) and/or informal community libraries.
Several hundred have been converted to defibrillators, over 800 by one organisation alone. Over 6000 have been adopted for one use or another.

Those extra roadside telephone boxes provided by the AA and RAC.
A small number of listed wooden boxes (around twenty, I believe) are still in place. There were 862 in use in 1962, according to the AA. The later pole-top telephones were withdrawn in 2002, with some converted to standard roadside SOS boxes instead.
 

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Tax discs in (usually) the bottom of the nearside windscreen, though some older cars still have the last one issued still in place when the owner hasn't bothered to remove it!
Sadly my expired tax disc is still stuck on my window screen. I just haven't got around, just no time :lol: :lol: to remove it.
 

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A small thing that has probably gone unnoticed: yellow "No waiting at any time" signs have all been removed since 2002 following a change in regulations.

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That piqued my interest. As far as I can tell, that specific sign should never have been used on a public highway. The official Diagram 637 did not include the text 'No waiting', just 'At any time'. Also, while use of 'At any time' signs was discontinued, there was no requirement to remove existing signs, so there may still be some about.
 

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That piqued my interest. As far as I can tell, that specific sign should never have been used on a public highway. The official Diagram 637 did not include the text 'No waiting', just 'At any time'. Also, while use of 'At any time' signs was discontinued, there was no requirement to remove existing signs, so there may still be some about.
You are quite right: I misremembered the text on the sign and that it was only ever (\) At any time. While no date was fixed for removal, there was advice given as 'good practice' that the signs should be removed to reduce street clutter, and it has been enthusiastically embraced, presumably also to avoid problems with parking enforcement confision in areas which had the signs and those which did not.

One thing that definitely should have disappeared is dashed yellow lines to indicate that parking is permitted for limited periods.

On the subject of parking, are there any remaining coin-operated parking meters (as distinct from parking ticket machines) left or have they all gone?
 

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On the subject of parking, are there any remaining coin-operated parking meters (as distinct from parking ticket machines) left or have they all gone?
Don't know about the UK, but I've seen them still operational in France and Germany in the past few years so they're not completely dead.
 

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Tax discs in (usually) the bottom of the nearside windscreen, though some older cars still have the last one issued still in place when the owner hasn't bothered to remove it!
I removed mine on the day the law changed. Then came across police directing traffic past a breakdown on the way home. The officer spotted I had no disc and started walking towards me, then must have remembered the change, turned round, and went back to directing traffic.
 
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