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11th August 2023, 07:47 AM
#41
Re: Oppenhiemer
Originally Posted by
Mike Hewitt
One of the pranks that we got up to as kids in the 40s/50s was 'Devil Up The Drainpipe'. Newspaper stuffed up a cast iron drainpipe and then lit made one hell of a noise bringing the resident running to the front door to see what was happening. I have done quite a few bits of artwork associated with kids antics after the war years. My DUTD rendering is attached.
Attachment 36355
ha ha we used to call them "buzzers and used discarded papers from out the local chippy, they used to burn really well. We lit one in the 4" drainpipe up the the church tower and frightened ourselves, not only with the noise it made but also thought we might burn it down when the bitumen coating started to melt and run down.
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