Time capsule - Found in my home town

[ken]

i have just seen this in the news and its in my home town
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8594823.stm

More than once I have left time capsules under the really large/intricate driveways I have laid. We would just write my company name and the date the drive was laid and leave the note in a plastic bottle with the lid tightly screwed on under the base of drive. We only started doing if for a laugh, and joked about if any one would ever actually find them one day. Just go’s to show, builders sense of humor has not changed over the last 100 years
has any one else ever done this? or is it just me?



Edited By ken on 1269978681

[mickg]

nice one Ken

personally I have never done it as I normally leave my company detail with the owner of the house I am working on so they can recommend me and they don't have to dig their driveway up to find my phone number

[lutonlagerlout]

i found one under a concrete path in a tobacco tin,the lad that put it there seemed to think it would be found in the event of a nuclear war with russia, I know the family so i gave it to them,think it had been there 30 years
also when i was a kid i was selected (youngest and oldest kid in year ===> and i was july25th) to bury a time capsule with the mayor under a rowan tree at school.
think we put the number 1 record at the time,newspaper,luton town programme and some other bric a brac in. this was about 1974
i went past the oldschool last year and the tree is gone and there is an extension there,so its well buried now
finally my daughter recently buried a time capsule at her new school extension in the topping out ceremony,
we do occasionally sign off our work but its mainly names and dates in haunching,its human nature i reckon
LLL

[lutonlagerlout]

bump
in a chimney breast i was knocking out,i found an empty packet of 5 players cigarettes

the house was 1930's ,so if the brickie was alive he would be at least 90
anyway it made me think?
they must have sold fags in packs of 5 in those days
and brickies must have been on rubbish money
on the job we are on now we found a cutting list written on a roof rafter
the handwriting was immaculate compared to mine but the striking thing was the measurements .all 10' 11 5/8 " etc etc
we were walking round like the time team all goggled eyed :O
cheers LLL

[seanandruby]

we could buy 5 fags, or even single ones a few years back. You could buy a 1/4 of'a pint ( stick it was called ). I used to go to the shop and get one gillette blade for my auld fella. Money was tight back then and the old corner shop needed your custom. Anyone remember a tomato deep of bread for a penny, or a portion of bits of the batter from the chip shop? god it wasa luxury to have a bag of chips to myself. Dripping on bread for tea. :laugh:

[irishpaving]

Your really showing your age now

[mickg]

whats a "tomato deep of bread" Sean ?

[irishpaving]

When they cut loads of tomatoes and all the seeds etc are left on the table, wipe it up with some bread and sell it to some hungry folk

[mickg]

never heard of that one before, must of been before my time eh

[irishpaving]

:p No i'm just jesting.... aint got a clue either

[mickg]

haha :p

[lutonlagerlout]

we used to get a portion of "scraps" from the chipie for 5p
basically just crispy fat
LLL

[cookiewales]

we used to get a portion of "scraps" from the chipie for 5p
basically just crispy fat
LLL i

we have planted some daffodil's on some of our drives on the posh houses down sarf allways gives me a chuckle :laugh: ps normally get a phone call cookie did you leave your calling card always gets a laugh :laugh:

[seanandruby]

no mystery, it's just a slice of bread dipped in tomato, soggy but nice. Our scraps from the chippie were a penny in old money but they mostly gave them to us.

[mickg]

its only in the last 20 years that chippies round our way started to charge for scraps, every Friday you would see a massive queue out of the door to the good chip shops with some people holding a round bowl for a large portion of scraps and pea wet with plenty of salt and vinegar, basically a free tea to some people