RE: OUR MEMORIES OF GROWING UP - 23

#331 by Slow Jo , Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:46 pm

I got some while I was there it's a living museum,old shops selling as they would have done years ago,also a working fish and chip shop, chips cooked in dripping ,not cheap but tasted good.

#332 by astoness , Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:01 pm

Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #331
I got some while I was there it's a living museum,old shops selling as they would have done years ago,also a working fish and chip shop, chips cooked in dripping ,not cheap but tasted good.

jo have you been to the black country museum..its wonderful and like blist hill their fish and chips are great..cooked in dripping and not cheap but worth every penny..

#333 by Slow Jo , Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:09 pm

Went there about 3 years ago they are similar to each other these museum's but found black country one had more on the transport side both very interesting .Takes you back to happier day's.

#334 by Voltman , Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:10 am

Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #329
Anybody remember liqourice root it was like chewing the branch of a tree,last saw it at blist's hill museum,not far from where we live.

It was good for your teeth, wasn't it?

#335 by Slow Jo , Tue Jan 21, 2014 11:20 am

Made my jaw ache but it tasted good,out of practice.

#336 by astoness , Tue Jan 21, 2014 3:54 pm

Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #335
Made my jaw ache but it tasted good,out of practice.

a lot would say i dont need to chew liqourice root to make my jaw ache..cant think why

#337 by Sheldonboy , Tue Jan 21, 2014 4:10 pm

No Lyn it's probably the same thing that makes my ears ache.

#338 by Slow Jo , Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:27 pm

Make a little bag out of a piece of cloth fill it with hot salt put it on your ear tie it on with a bandage round your head ,old cure for earache.

#339 by astoness , Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:15 pm

Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #338
Make a little bag out of a piece of cloth fill it with hot salt put it on your ear tie it on with a bandage round your head ,old cure for earache.

#340 by Sheldonboy , Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:18 pm

Quote: astoness wrote in post #339
[quote=Slow Jo|p94864]Make a little bag out of a piece of cloth fill it with hot salt put it on your ear tie it on with a bandage round your head ,old cure for earache.

Blimey I wonder what they would do for a Hernia

#341 by astoness , Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:27 pm

Quote: Sheldonboy wrote in post #340
Quote: astoness wrote in post #339
[quote=Slow Jo|p94864]Make a little bag out of a piece of cloth fill it with hot salt put it on your ear tie it on with a bandage round your head ,old cure for earache.

Blimey I wonder what they would do for a Hernia

dont even go there SB [Big Laugh]

#342 by lynne webb , Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:42 pm

Didnt they have trusses for hernias.

#343 by Sheldonboy , Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:43 pm

I thought they were for Tomatoes

#344 by lynne webb , Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:55 pm

Do tomatoes get hernias as well then.

#345 by astoness , Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:56 pm

Quote: Sheldonboy wrote in post #343
I thought they were for Tomatoes

IRIOT..

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