Recent content by Harry Basset

Is it a negotiaing tactic for you to give him a treat? Bribes usually work with my hound.

Don't tell them Robbie!

They're selling postcards of the hanging.

It is claimed that nitrogen leaks less than air as the molecules are larger and so can't get through the rubber as quickly. Nitrogen is used in aircraft tyres where much higher pressures are used.

Their display model looks to have been seriously overstressed and lost its dihedral (Bit like me really)

My VW Up! has a reminder which chimes when the car reaches the speed I set it for.

Sorry for your loss, happened to us 5 months ago.

Tell them you were bringing a sample.

Dye penetration and ultra sonic testing these days.

Telegram boys either on bicycles or BSA Bantams. For balance we do have scrap men with Transit lorries and van drivers who happen to have surplus mattresses for sale at discounted prices.

Somebody played you for a sucker.

Thank you for putting that up, brought back some memories of my younger days. I always liked the Bass pubs with the green tiled fronts. I nwonder if there is. or will be similar for Thornaby and Stockton old pubs?

Route 11 shared between Stockton and Middlesbrough buses. I can't remember the route but believe it was from the E£xchange, Acklam , Thornaby to somewhere in Stockton. Sorry my memory is fading.

So Hull is not freezing over yet?

There was a Scalextric track in a building close to the Purple Onion in the 1960s. The model railway layouts in Romer Parrish and Leslie Browns were coin operated and not very big, oo gauge, about 6ft x 4 ft. One of them, I think it is the one from Browns was saved and set up in the Shed Shop at...