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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 10:29 pm
by seanandruby
giles, yolo so enjoy it, chill out. We were same on scaff' board lll. Also used to be hanging on in back of lorry when was tarmacing, used to sit on the top of the tail board. How daft were we then ??? No hard boots and just a donkey jacket with some sort of black strip on the shoulders to try keep warm.
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 7:17 am
by lutonlagerlout
what was that plastic strip all about?
if you got a donkey jacket from luton council,the strip was orange?
havent seen those jackets for years now
LLL 
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 8:56 am
by henpecked
If you were a proper brickie. you had a long donkey jacket tied with string at the waist and no buttons from there down 
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 9:55 am
by Tony McC
The old joke about the wife wanting an animal skin coat so I got her a donkey jacket springs to mind!
Donkey jackets disappeared at the same time as we all had to start wearing hi-viz. In northern England, most donkey jackets had an orange back-shoulder panel with the letters NCB emblazoned boldly across. There seemed to be a lucrative market for the miners to pass on their state-issued garments in exchange for beer vouchers and many of these ended up on the building sites of Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 5:21 pm
by lutonlagerlout
henpecked wrote:If you were a proper brickie. you had a long donkey jacket tied with string at the waist and no buttons from there down
the old fella used to tie his with the wire from a bundle of wall ties
LLL