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Memories
Just a few wee items that evoked
memories of things past.
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I'm not really old enough to have ever used one of these ancient cash registers, in spite of my mother having been a shopkeeper since before the middle of the last century. What really caught my eye was the little woodbines tin with the cutters on top. These I have used. You put a ball of string inside, thread it through the hole in the top and use the cutters to cut the string when you are parcelling up customers' purchases.
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These licences are actually still required (certainly up to 2002). It seems medieval to me that pubs are required to have an entertainment licence if one of the patrons wanted to get up and do a turn, or start a sing-song. Some relic of an ancient order of PC, no doubt. Mind you, it was a very convenient excuse for certain publicans to prohibit singing and blame it on the lack of a licence. The above plaque is on the wall of Jury's Inn.
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Crubeens or Pig's Trotters
I never ate them, nor do I remember seeing them in the butchers when I was young. But they were a famous dish and I did see this handsome trio in Galway.
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Two old trades side by side. Signpainting and goldleaf are giving way to plastic stickons and, who knows, it won't be long before were are into disposable instruments. Mouthorgans were disposable of necessity and some rock groups introduced the idea of disposable guitars. What next?
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