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not Norfolk Bill, but we had the Corona man in London, Hall and Co.delivered our coal by horse and cart as was the bread and milk.We had gas lighting and had to change the mantles sometimes.We also had trams.
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Don't know Hall & Co hope they didn't deliver the milk and the coal on the same cart  Yes and of course the brewer's drays. Plus grandfather rushing out with a bucket and spade to collect the droppings for the roses 
'You may only be going from Loddon to Reedham Ferry but I still don't think that the power lead you have connected will be long enough' Bill...
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Good Lord Bill, thanks for making me feel my age this morning, I remember those kinda things also..
We had fruit and veg delivered by horse & cart, and yes the roses did bloom well in those days. The rag & bone man with his goldfish & sticks of rock. I was only a kid but, happy memories. Run down to the butchers with a bowl to collect hot foggots with gravy.
Life seemed much simpler in those days...
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Thing is, Paul...there are those south of Watford who think things are still like that round here now! Lol!
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hi john ,
we think things are still like that around your parts now !!! what was this you was telling me your day job was the other day ? something about horse and cart ? and having to go out at the begining of the evening to light the gas street lamps ? 
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steve and vicky
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I can just remember my parents phone number being 26 and that we had a manually operated exchange, that the honey cart visited us well into the late fifties, that coal was delivered from behind a hoss, that Dan Dare & Horace Batchellor were on Radio Luxemburg and Dick Barton on the Light Programme, that cod & chips was 2/3p and a pint was 1/2p, that we had crystel sets and the bogs at the Waveney Inn were just that, and you had a post to hold onto so you didn't fall in!!
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I had a short stint working for the council on the honey cart, in North Norfolk, and that was the mid eighties!!!
We had to creep about in the middle of the night trying not to spill TOO much.
Andy and Di
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The end of rationing, ha! I remember when grapefruits came off ration. My father had a grocery shop and brought us all one home. After six or more years without my family were all savouring their grapefruits, but I had never had one. In I went, it must have been awful, I remember their shock at my response to that awful, sharp taste of that grapefruit.
I'm sure we can all remember our early years. I can well remember going to the Jenny Lind and anesthetics was still ether dripped onto a gauze mask over the patients face.
Then there was a trip to the shoe shop, and they had an X-Ray machine to show how well the shoes fitted, that was fascinating to us kids.
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So long as you didn't take your work home with you Andy!
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Didn't ge t to know Norfolk at all until the late 60's, but even then the pace of change had not accelerated so much. Memories include Trolley Buses, horse drawn deliveries and my Mum getting a washer with an electric mangle. She still used a gas powered copper boiler for the whites well into the 60's
The other day doing a couple of jobs at home I found an old Gas Payment card dating from the 50's. The Ripon City Gas Co!
One thing that is becoming significant, is that people are a lot more mobile. Local history will no longer be passed on from generation to generation. Now's the time to get those anecdotes recorded!
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When would have been JM I'm trying to get a fix on the historical dates for these things in Norfolk having been exiled at a young age  Were you At Waveney all the TIme? Was there not a man with a wooden leg there then?
'You may only be going from Loddon to Reedham Ferry but I still don't think that the power lead you have connected will be long enough' Bill...
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