Diamond Geezer
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..........whats happening here. Picture taken in 1947 but that's not really relevant .
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Colin Phillips
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Checking football pools coupons?
swedish chef
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V.A.T.Registration forms
dvds2000
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i would say but I cheated so won't 
montyracing2
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If it is the checking of pools coupons. It reminded me of a story my Grandad told me.
He did his '8 from 10' every week and listened to the results on the radio.
One Saturday, he got his eight score draws and rushed down to the central post office in Barnsley to make his claim.
To put in context he had brought up his family living from 'hand to mouth' and so an unexpected windfall would done so much for him.
Unfortunately, there was a total of 28 scoredraws that week so he arrived at the post office to find a queue hundreds of yards long.
If I remember correctly his '8 from 10' cost 45 lines at 1/8d, he always made his stake upto 6d (sixpence) and he recieved 2/6 (two and six, half a crown back).
Story of his fortune really!
A good man - MR2
He did his '8 from 10' every week and listened to the results on the radio.
One Saturday, he got his eight score draws and rushed down to the central post office in Barnsley to make his claim.
To put in context he had brought up his family living from 'hand to mouth' and so an unexpected windfall would done so much for him.
Unfortunately, there was a total of 28 scoredraws that week so he arrived at the post office to find a queue hundreds of yards long.
If I remember correctly his '8 from 10' cost 45 lines at 1/8d, he always made his stake upto 6d (sixpence) and he recieved 2/6 (two and six, half a crown back).
Story of his fortune really!
A good man - MR2
montyracing2
At the Start
Thats, reminded me of another story he told.
My Grandad was a travelling salesman from 1945 onwards and very quickly saw an opportunity to set up a 'Footballs pool' type business.
He set up a small concern but got a take-over offer from a growing competitior - Littlewoods. The offer was not big but made him think and gave him an additional Friday income of a pools round.
He took the offer, but probably regretted doing so. Pools agents were easy targets and so he concealed a 'truncheon' about his person and admitted to having used it on several occasions.
MR2
My Grandad was a travelling salesman from 1945 onwards and very quickly saw an opportunity to set up a 'Footballs pool' type business.
He set up a small concern but got a take-over offer from a growing competitior - Littlewoods. The offer was not big but made him think and gave him an additional Friday income of a pools round.
He took the offer, but probably regretted doing so. Pools agents were easy targets and so he concealed a 'truncheon' about his person and admitted to having used it on several occasions.
MR2
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The picture is of the girls at Littlewoods checking the weekly pools coupons, well done Gareth, Colin and Col
simmo
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I was hitherto unaware of the "search for this picture on google" function prior to the starting of this thread, so thanks for expanding my knowledge.
Diamond Geezer
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Nor me until now 
Was going to do some others too.
Was going to do some others too.Desperate Dan
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My wife used to that job but not in 1947, I hasten to add
Colin Phillips
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My sister did it for years with Sherman's in Cardiff, early 50s, she is 10 years older than I.
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Nice stories, Monty - thanks for sharing.
It brings back memories of my own Grandad, who I used to sit beside as he watched the ITV7 on a Saturday afternoon. I think he used to do shilling multiples, and I remember he must have nailed it one time when I was maybe 11 or 12. I don't think his stakes were much more than £2 all-in - thereabouts anyway - but the voice in my head tells me he won £1200....though the true figure is rather lost in the mists of time. Certainly, he and my Gran buggered-off to the States for a holiday a few weeks later, and there was always a goodly amount of Refreshers and Black Jacks round their place for a while thereafter.
It is a source of a little bit of regret, that my own interest in racing did not emerge until after he had died. I woukd have loved nothing more than to have jawed with him about the game.
Another good man, and I still miss him.
It brings back memories of my own Grandad, who I used to sit beside as he watched the ITV7 on a Saturday afternoon. I think he used to do shilling multiples, and I remember he must have nailed it one time when I was maybe 11 or 12. I don't think his stakes were much more than £2 all-in - thereabouts anyway - but the voice in my head tells me he won £1200....though the true figure is rather lost in the mists of time. Certainly, he and my Gran buggered-off to the States for a holiday a few weeks later, and there was always a goodly amount of Refreshers and Black Jacks round their place for a while thereafter.
It is a source of a little bit of regret, that my own interest in racing did not emerge until after he had died. I woukd have loved nothing more than to have jawed with him about the game.
Another good man, and I still miss him.
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dvds2000
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I was hitherto unaware of the "search for this picture on google" function prior to the starting of this thread, so thanks for expanding my knowledge.
or in this case even easier, look at the filenames
Pools_zpsea540133.jpg
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tiggers1972
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Nice stories, Monty - thanks for sharing.
It brings back memories of my own Grandad, who I used to sit beside as he watched the ITV7 on a Saturday afternoon. I think he used to do shilling multiples, and I remember he must have nailed it one time when I was maybe 11 or 12. I don't think his stakes were much more than £2 all-in - thereabouts anyway - but the voice in my head tells me he won £1200....though the true figure is rather lost in the mists of time. Certainly, he and my Gran buggered-off to the States for a holiday a few weeks later, and there was always a goodly amount of Refreshers and Black Jacks round their place for a while thereafter.
It is a source of a little bit of regret, that my own interest in racing did not emerge until after he had died. I woukd have loved nothing more than to have jawed with him about the game.
Another good man, and I still miss him.
That's pretty much how I got into racing, every week my Grandad would have a go on the ITV7 and I used to sit on the arm of the chair pretending to ride the winners home.
Sadly he passed away when i was 10 and like you I still miss him. Top man
montyracing2
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Education, or lack of, seems to be the topic of the moment and when I hear those spouting about how education should be, I remember stories told by my older folks .....
My Grandad was born in 1915 and school was mandatory from the age of 5, I believe. Bill (my Grandad) was never one for doing what he was supposed to, and so, when 5 years old he was taken to school by my Great-Grandma. She probably knew that he would never make it himself.
After a couple of weeks, he was left to fend for himself and many weeks later, by chance, his mother was talking about how he seemed to have settled. She was talking to his presumed teacher ......
It turned out that Bill was attending a different school every day of the week depending on what lunch was being served and if he liked the teachers.
A rebellious path he chose throughout his life.
MR2
My Grandad was born in 1915 and school was mandatory from the age of 5, I believe. Bill (my Grandad) was never one for doing what he was supposed to, and so, when 5 years old he was taken to school by my Great-Grandma. She probably knew that he would never make it himself.
After a couple of weeks, he was left to fend for himself and many weeks later, by chance, his mother was talking about how he seemed to have settled. She was talking to his presumed teacher ......
It turned out that Bill was attending a different school every day of the week depending on what lunch was being served and if he liked the teachers.
A rebellious path he chose throughout his life.
MR2
