GHT
I'll Lock Up
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In the 1940's we would have been dodging all that Hitler could throw at us, wartime aside though, the first thing that I would notice is the trolley buses. Electric buses, powered by an overhead cable. Cars built on a chassis, Steam trains, the fact that the world and his dog smoked. What else?Smog, Slums and Manufacturing, the glorious trifecta of a late Industrial UK inner city.
Men had a sense of attire etiquette, as of course, did the ladies. Telephones were retricted to landlines, you also had to dial the operator for long distance calls. All small boys wore short trousers, whatever the weather. Despite being smoke filled and despite all the bomb dodging, buses ran on time, trains ran on time, people were polite and we all moaned about the weather.
Hang on, we still moan about the weather. Is this the 1940's?