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so so good

Reminisce about days gone by in the job.How it used to be what you miss and how things have changed.This is an open forum.
martin the green
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Post by martin the green »

who remembers emptying the phone box coin boxes.
what about going to the subs after the meterman had emptied the leccy boxes of all those 50pences.no, hats an dye on the money then :crazy:
Shaman Mao
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Post by Shaman Mao »

Horrible job - always felt dirty after it. Must have been handling all that filthy lucre.
arnold cheshire
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Post by arnold cheshire »

martin the green wrote:who remembers emptying the phone box coin boxes.
what about going to the subs after the meterman had emptied the leccy boxes of all those 50pences.no, hats an dye on the money then :crazy:
when was that ?
knackeredneedadayoff
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Post by knackeredneedadayoff »

i remember one had been ripped out by a tow rope and many having drill marks before the cordless ,did you have a lot of foreign coins in too.the smell of piss was another thing i remember.
martin the green
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Post by martin the green »

oh the memories of the stale piss smell when you opened the phone box door
martin the green
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Post by martin the green »

back in the 1980's