You had to have lived in England in the early 60s when we were still recovering from WW2. I remember the rag and bone man coming round, and giving us pumice stones to whiten the front step of the house. The milkman, and the fruitier all came around and delivered stuff, and they all had horses and carts. Very few people had cars. I used to have a barrow and collect the horse muck after they had gone, and put it on our garden, where we grew all sorts of vegetables.
@@raven_ous2585 Steptoes scrapyard on 26a Oildrum Lane, Shepherds Bush is actually Adela Street off Kensal Road in London W10. There is a canal at the end of Adela Street between the yard and the row of three storey buildings which are on Harrow Road and have since been demolished.
My grandad passed away monday 13th November gone and he loved this programe of steptoe and son. And i remember watching the one where they get a waterbed and i think its albert who bursts it. 😂 Been trying to track it up
If someone put me in a strait jacket the way Albert was in the last episode I'd have gone berserk. I can't stand to be in confined places. It would be my equivalent of going into Room 101 in 1984. Or a 'scold' being placed over your head or being put in the stocks with your hands and head locked in. I'm sure I'd quickly have a fatal heart attack from sheer panic.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
