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Post by kustokie on Oct 13, 2019 13:53:30 GMT
They were a different breed in those days! Even though she has now had central heating for many ye9ars, the radiator in my mother's bedroom is always turned off and the top window is permanently locked open no matter how cold the weather. Her one acknowledgement to not being as young as she was is that in a really cold winter she might dig out the 7.5 tog duvet or even warm the bed first with a hot water bottle. If I say anything, she just says I am nesh and that the cold now is nothing compared to the winter of 1947! Mind you, even she dresses for a polar expedition when she goes to the match on a Saturday at the Bet365. My mum in her later years could have had a free gas boiler fitted, always refused because she was entitled to free coal from my Dad's NCB service (they halved the allowance when my Dad died, maybe they expected her to only heat half the house? ). She would have still been entitled to the coal even after the boiler was fitted. If she wanted heat she'd use a little calor gas heater until she'd got the coal fire going, when I was a kid up until I left home, if the fire wasn't lit there was no hot water or heating, end of story. I was a latch-key kid and had to start the fire mesen. I also had to break in through a window if they forgot to leave the key under the mat. To this day I still don’t know why they didn’t trust me with my own key but had no trouble leaving it under the mat. We had nothing worth nicking away. If someone had broken in, they would probably have felt sorry for us and left 10 bob.
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Post by Sven on Oct 13, 2019 15:14:38 GMT
always want the pompey win except when playing stoke of course. went down to hayling island and portsmouth the other month for a week, not been back there since i was about 11/12 years old. had a great time. I always want them to lose, comes from living amongst them at a time when we were particularly shit and they were spending Mandarics millions, that and being scared shitless that with the success they were having, and being born and having a lot of family there, my two lads would follow them and not Stoke. Fortunately for me the threat of making them sleep in the shed alone was sufficient to avert such a crisis.
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Post by stayingupfor Sexualchocolate on Oct 13, 2019 15:48:53 GMT
Berry hill born and bred, moved to Plymouth, Gibraltar and Scotland. Settled back in gods country now.
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Post by mrcoke on Oct 13, 2019 15:56:32 GMT
Kitchen? No heating upstairs? You lucky bastard! 😀... My parents’ bedroom was so cold, I nearly died of hypothermia! 😉 Seriously...nice post mate 👍 Wimps,it was so cold in my bedroom, the flames on the candles froze. We used to wake up in the morning and write our names in the frost on the inside of the window. Happy days.
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Post by aloha63 on Oct 13, 2019 16:27:27 GMT
Born in the Neck End, Lightwood Road. Remember Florence Colliery as a working pit, the old oatcake shop near Longton library and saw Freddie Jones a time or 2 in the Lord John Russell in Dresden. Now a Southern exile in North London.
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Post by bristolpotter on Oct 13, 2019 16:52:28 GMT
Born in Stoke moved at the grand old age four months to a village in -between Bristol and Weston-super-Mare called Wrington been around this area ever since and thanks to my dad taking me up to Stoke games over the years otherwise I’d probably be Liverpool, Man Utd or Bristol City or Rovers like most others around here
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Post by tcdobinghoff on Oct 13, 2019 17:24:00 GMT
It was so cold my bedroom, the condensation on the windows froze on the inside. We had central heating but it ran off the fire in the living room, which went out at night. “Good old days”, eh? Same here, don't think the metal framed windows helped much if I'm honest We had just the coal fire in the living room. On wash day when the clothes horse was in front of the fire it was absolutely freezing on the wrong side of the washing. We also had a coal fire in the “parlour” but that was only lit at Xmas. The smell of the fire being lit in the morning still stays with me.
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Post by freddie52 on Oct 13, 2019 17:44:11 GMT
Born and bred in Basford. Moved around Staffordshire and Cheshire a fair bit. Now settled in Mossley (Congleton) but Stoke (and the mighty Potters) always in my heart!
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Post by greyface on Oct 13, 2019 17:49:31 GMT
Cornwallis Street. Now living on the Wirrall
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Post by bathstoke on Oct 13, 2019 17:56:52 GMT
Fanny Deakin’s
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Post by kustokie on Oct 13, 2019 19:51:58 GMT
Same here, don't think the metal framed windows helped much if I'm honest We had just the coal fire in the living room. On wash day when the clothes horse was in front of the fire it was absolutely freezing on the wrong side of the washing. We also had a coal fire in the “parlour” but that was only lit at Xmas. The smell of the fire being lit in the morning still stays with me. We had a bloody huge cloths rack hung from the kitchen ceiling for use when it rained on washing day, which was most of the time. What didn’t fit on the rack was hung over the radiators. The house was more humid than a tropical rain forest.
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Post by TheWiseMaster on Oct 13, 2019 20:21:34 GMT
Hartshill Rd Hartshill Back in the day - after playing football Sat morning, all the men walked to the match in the afternoon Couldn't wait till I was 7 and was allowed to join the group - about 20 Only missed part of one season since I am Stoke - come rain or shine and so, thankfully are most of my family
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Post by TheWiseMaster on Oct 13, 2019 20:23:37 GMT
The club were originally from what is now Stoke upon Trent (old Stoke town)
As opposed to Stoke on Trent - the city
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Post by laneendstokie on Oct 13, 2019 20:48:27 GMT
Born in Tunstall now live in Dresden. went Vale as a kid until late 60's when I started to go to Stoke with my uncle
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Post by xchpotter on Oct 13, 2019 21:37:57 GMT
Born in the City General, raised in Meir. Moved to London in the late ‘80s before living in Dorset for the last 25 plus years.
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Post by mrcoke on Oct 13, 2019 22:18:04 GMT
We had just the coal fire in the living room. On wash day when the clothes horse was in front of the fire it was absolutely freezing on the wrong side of the washing. We also had a coal fire in the “parlour” but that was only lit at Xmas. The smell of the fire being lit in the morning still stays with me. We had a bloody huge cloths rack hung from the kitchen ceiling for use when it rained on washing day, which was most of the time. What didn’t fit on the rack was hung over the radiators. The house was more humid than a tropical rain forest. We've got one today ku, but we have moved on and upwards, ours is in the utility room.
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Post by Gary Hackett on Oct 14, 2019 0:51:42 GMT
Born in Crewe moved to Stoke 4 years ago.
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Post by terrorofturfmoor on Oct 14, 2019 2:57:02 GMT
I was born.......
End of!!! 😏
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Post by kiwistokie on Oct 14, 2019 5:06:53 GMT
born Auckland NZ father from Trent Vale, came as a 12 yr old and taken to Vic ground 1st day, came back as a 21 yr old and stayed a bit, now been back every second year. Came for the Fa final just 2 days and have been back approx 20 times. I own a house in Trent Vale to retire to
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Post by rockthecity on Oct 14, 2019 11:10:28 GMT
Edgefield rd me mate, my doctors is Merton street Is the Half way House pub still there ?. No mate shop now
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Post by Smudge_SCFC on Oct 14, 2019 11:36:38 GMT
Born in the errrm Heywood a stone's throw from vale park but the old man was Stoke so i had to be and wanted to be Also born in Heywood and my birth certificate says ‘Burslem’!!! 😮
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Post by elystokie on Oct 14, 2019 12:03:04 GMT
Born in the errrm Heywood a stone's throw from vale park but the old man was Stoke so i had to be and wanted to be Also born in Heywood and my birth certificate says ‘Burslem’!!! 😮 At least you were "made in the Royal Navy"
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Post by kickbolukanbite on Oct 14, 2019 13:15:08 GMT
Born in Luton. Never lived anywhere near Stoke. Loved the club since 1968.
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Post by westgatelakes on Oct 14, 2019 13:28:07 GMT
Born in Groundslow Hospital, lived at Cotes Heath, Eccleshall, Packmoor, Stafford and now Tittensor.
Went to Newcastle High 1972 - 1979 when Harry Bog, Ecker Stretch, Twit Brookes & Isaac Hunt were in their prime :-)
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Post by StokieSC on Oct 15, 2019 19:11:43 GMT
Lived in Knutton till I was 10 then over to Bucknall.
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Post by richardparker on Oct 15, 2019 19:14:38 GMT
North Staffs City General ... lived in Liverpool the past 32+ years.
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Post by aussiepotter1972 on Oct 15, 2019 22:00:39 GMT
Born in Melbourne, Victoria in colonial Australia.
Been a Stoke fan ever since. Does that count?
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Post by PotterLog on Oct 15, 2019 22:20:03 GMT
Born in Melbourne, Victoria in colonial Australia. Been a Stoke fan ever since. Does that count? It does but only because the state is called Victoria
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2019 19:30:56 GMT
I don't know why anyone would be even slightly interested in this but ..... I was born in Lincolnshire. My dad had flown in Lancaster bombers during the war as a radio op. After the war he took a job "attached to the Air Ministry" - which later became GCHQ. Bases were often air fields. My whole ancestry is the potteries, mostly Longton. Anyway, at age five I was shipped out to the far east where I spent the next ten years - just a two year gap 1964/65 where we lived in Meir Heath. Then I had twelve years in Somerset (Taunton). During a visit to meet family, I met a girl who was later to become my wife. I eventually moved up to Stoke (real Stoke - the town) aged about twenty three. I spent the next thirty five or so years there - SOT, not Stoke itself From real Stoke, we moved to Bentilee, then Meir, then Weston Coyney, then Smallthorne, then Northwood. I've been in Cov now for about 15 years. I still have a house in SOT - my son uses it for his habitation. My location in Coventry is? Go on have a guess!
Stoke.
My sister still lives in Taunton - guess where she lives! Stoke Road.
Weird or what?
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