Nostalgia : Trolleys / Bogies
 

If you was to ask a child today what a trolley was, how many would come back with the answer : you push your food around in it at the supermarket.

How many remembers the good old days, looking for a pair of silver cross pram wheels, some planks of wood and some nails and building your own trolley. They was the "in thing" when i was a kid and gave hours of pleasure. OK they was a bit dangerous when you are clocking up speeds of approx 30mph + going down Fielding Lane and the cars are coming at you from the junction of Fielding Lane Catlow Hall Street :D , but they was the good old days !

And if you didnt have a trolley, the local lads took you around the block for 2p a time.

:D

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Oh yeah, I remember the trolleys we had, my mate Geoff and I had a two man trolley where we used to sit back to back and the person on the back used to supply the propulsion and as I was heaviest of the two it invariably was me on the back. We finished with trolleys about 1964 when our legs were long enough to ride a bike, it was then when the quest for tractive power took off, five years later I passed my driving test. Thinking back, if it wasn't for those long summer days on Sandy lane and Adelaide Street on the trolley I may have had more money in the bank now by not having spent it on so many different cars/motor bikes etc...

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I suppose anyone around my age remembers "trollies". Most of the boys I knew made them.

Come to that, my husband had 2 false teeth in the front of his mouth. Why? Because at the age of 12 he raced down a hill (in Bradford, where he lived, the hills are steep there) on his trolley, couldn't stop at the bottom as his home-made brakes failed and smashed his gob on a stone wall. :D

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This has made me chuckle.........Uncle Jim made us a trolley one year but my brother seemed to think it was solely his. Little brat used to promise that if I pushed him up Holland Street he would let me ride down.........I can't believe that I was so stupid

It was good that not many cars passed through Lower Antley Street in those days or we wouldn't be here today. Good fun though!

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