Olde Worlde - Ring Dem Bells

imme

I was in easons the other day.
The counter assistant couldn't deal with or help the customer in front of me
They needed a manager

So the counter assistant rang a hand bell that was on the counter to call for the manager

In a way it was something from another era, Dickensian almost!

Have you encountered any olde Worlde things lately

At the receptionist counter at a hotel I once stayed in (it was a bit Fawlty Towers) there was a bell and a note:
Ring once for service!
Ring twice for poor service!
Ring three times for no service at all!

Poor receptionists had about four jobs.


PS the bills were written on a typewriter.

Peatys

Bought a record yesterday for the first time in about 20 years.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

A draper's shop here still wraps purchases in brown paper and ties then with string.

imme

Deleted User wrote: »

At the receptionist counter at a hotel I once stayed in (it was a bit Fawlty Towers) there was a bell and a note:
Ring once for service!
Ring twice for poor service!
Ring three times for no service at all!

Poor receptionists had about four jobs.


PS the bills were written on a typewriter.

Was there any sign of basil lol

I'd love a typewriter
Sometimes the modern world is just too instant

Jett Flat Matchbox

Jett Flat Matchbox wrote: »

A draper's shop here still wraps purchases in brown paper and ties then with string.

A brown paper package tied up with string? That's one of my favourite things!


I was in what I think was a government building in ND with my mother as a small child. It had an old-style elevator with wrought-iron doors and an operator who's sole job was to open and close those doors and stop the elevator at, or at least close to, floor level. It had a plush velvet banquette that had seen better days to sit on, and the gentleman operator wore a braided uniform. It was like an elevator to another era. Never lost the vividness of that memory.

osarusan

Had my coffee served in a jam jar with a straw through the lid, just like the olde days.

seenitall

Candie wrote: »

A brown paper package tied up with string? That's one of my favourite things!

Wonderful! I bet near 100% of AHers will get this, although they may pretend not to!

Btw, ND is North Dublin? Or New Delhi?

New Delhi.

I love musicals. Love, love, love them! Musicals with Julie Andrews in them are the best.

Peatys

Candie wrote: »

I was in what I think was a government building in ND with my mother as a small child. It had an old-style elevator with wrought-iron doors /quote]

Michael Guineys on Talbot St. had/has one. Haven't been in that shop in a long time.

seenitall

Candie wrote: »

New Delhi.

I love musicals. Love, love, love them! Musicals with Julie Andrews in them are the best.

Me too My daughter is at the moment practicing some of the SoM songs in school, for a play - lucky lil one!

seenitall

seenitall wrote: »

Me too My daughter is at the moment practicing some of the SoM songs in school, for a play - lucky lil one!

I was in a production of SoM in my own schooldays! I had a ball and I hope she is too!

imme

imme wrote: »

Was there any sign of basil lol

I'd love a typewriter
Sometimes the modern world is just too instant

No Basil, but definitely a Sybil!

Noveight

An elderly bachelor farmer, friend of the family, has a side of bacon hanging from his kitchen ceiling.

Adyx

Jett Flat Matchbox wrote: »

A draper's shop here still wraps purchases in brown paper and ties then with string.

That does sound fantastic. Plastic has become so pervading for even the simplest things. Brown paper wrapping is so much more personal.