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 ...Are surviving city centre phone booths still plastered in ads for 'adult services'?
If you have a fair bit of money down the back of the sofa you can buy a "new" oneI was going to say Ford Escorts but then I saw one of the convertibles in good nick at the lights the other day.
Wow that is amazing, i think i like that even more than the Singer 911 lolIf you have a fair bit of money down the back of the sofa you can buy a "new" one
MST Cars
MST Cars – Home of the all new MST Mk1 & Mk2 | Brand New Mk1 & Mk2 Road, Track or Rally A true classic with a modern twist View the Range MST Mk2 PURPOSE BUILT RALLY CAR GROUP-4RALLY CAR Brand new factory built, Group-4 spec rally car. Built from the ground up as a purpose built competition car...mst-cars.com
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!Yellow sodium lamps with a sort of ‘box’ for the electrics at the bottom.
There's one guy that turns up in the Square in Hebden Bridge from time to time.Busking one man bands.
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.Phone booths themselves.
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...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...
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.Saw a live flat bed coal truck with open sacks on the back, driving through Horden, Co. Durham in November.
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.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.
Several hundred have been converted to defibrillators, over 800 by one organisation alone. Over 6000 have been adopted for one use or another.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.
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.Those extra roadside telephone boxes provided by the AA and RAC.
Sadly my expired tax disc is still stuck on my window screen. I just haven't got around, just no time to remove it.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!
Heh i'm the same.Sadly my expired tax disc is still stuck on my window screen. I just haven't got around, just no time to remove it.
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.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.
View attachment 108089
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.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.
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.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?
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.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!