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Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-12-2014, 17:33

Replies: 34 Home made carts! Views: 35 Posted By kestrelx Re: Home made carts! OK well there is 15 years difference - so maybe it wasn't available then - we used to get big blocks of styrofoam from some factory, - made a hell of a mess though when people broke them into bits.

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-12-2014, 17:31

Replies: 34 Home made carts! Views: 35 Posted By kestrelx Re: Home made carts! We used to go in Cubitts (building site) for our DIY needs, after dark of course.:rolleyes:

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 01-12-2014, 15:38

Replies: 34 Home made carts! Views: 35 Posted By kestrelx Re: Home made carts! I don't remember sacks - but I recall using good sheets of cardboard for sliding down the slopes of the coppice, which was good - I once bust a lads arm (gary davies) by accident. Also the stryofoam...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 01-12-2014, 15:36

Replies: 34 Home made carts! Views: 35 Posted By kestrelx Re: Home made carts! But hand drills were cheap and in use - so we could have used them? I think we used the hot poker for the holes that the rope was thread through.

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 29-11-2014, 15:54

Replies: 34 Home made carts! Views: 35 Posted By kestrelx Re: Home made carts! Yeh I remember using a hot poker to make holes in the wood but don't know why we didn't use a drill!?

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 29-11-2014, 12:32

Replies: 34 Home made carts! Views: 35 Posted By kestrelx Re: Home made carts! Yeh probably I don't recall the exact name of the place - I just remember it was quite a climb to get in and out, over some fences. They were off old wheel chairs and had been taken off and I think...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 29-11-2014, 12:27

Replies: 34 Home made carts! Views: 35 Posted By kestrelx Re: Home made carts! But what about the cardboard and styrofoam? :confused:;)

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 27-11-2014, 17:16

Replies: 34 Home made carts! Views: 35 Posted By kestrelx Home made carts! Anyone remember making carts back in the 70's - though perhaps older folk did it in the 60's. Some used cheap pram wheels and axis and others went to this place in Oswaldtwistle where there were...

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