17-12-2020, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Harbal
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I don't think I had any notion of where it went. I just knew it came back with the change; I just sort of accepted it without wondering how or why.
17-12-2020, 03:23 PM
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Re: Does anyone remember?
Originally Posted by Tiffany
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They had a tub of broken biscuits by the counter too & Mum would sometimes buy them. Certainly not hygienic now.
17-12-2020, 04:31 PM
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I remember that in a men’s clothes shop in my home town in the 50s and 60s. Because the shop was on a corner and had a reflective window it was also a favourite place for people to do the Harry Worth splits (if you remember that from the intro to his show). I had a couple of accidental slaps from kids trying it without checking if there was somebody behind them...
17-12-2020, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Longdogs
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I'm sure our Tesco's still used those up until a few years ago (SE). I thought it was an excellent way of moving money out of the till and therefore reducing any chance of theft. Of course, accidents did happen occasionally. I remember one day, as the tube was moving up the pipe, the screws came loose and the pod went flying across the store, hitting an elderly man in the cobblers. He was ok though, just having a new heel put on his shoe.
17-12-2020, 06:24 PM
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I remember the cash railways back in the 60s in Gloucester's top department store, Bon Mache (no relation to a recent chain with the same name).This is the system they used: http://www.cashrailway.co.uk/sturtevant.htm
It says so here: http://www.cashrailway.co.uk/locations/eng-glos.htm
17-12-2020, 06:46 PM
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My last (and best) job of the day as a Millets "boy" was to provide an escort for the very pretty cashier's assistant who carried one of these:
stuffed full of the day's takings from the pneumatic tubes and "disguised" in a paper bag to put in one of these:
It was a bit scary going but we'd share a "fag" on the way back .....
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