If anyone's interested, I'm selling an old Izal toilet roll on ebay !

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  1. Mr Badger

    Mr Badger Well-Known Member

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    Unused and unopened, date maybe 1970s.
    Remember, the smelly smooth paper stuff made in Chapeltown.
     
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    Now wash your hands. Prophetic eh?

    In the early 70s Bristol Polytechnic produced a student newspaper called "Izal".
     
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    Coronation Street was originally called Florizel (or izal) Street but someone objected saying the name sounded like a disinfectant. Hey ho!
     
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    In the early 80's I dumped 1000's of those, not long before they pulled that bit of the factory down and built houses on it.
     
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    Izal Mcleod.
     
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    Hope there's a "buy it now", I'm desperate....
     
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    Or because it was *****
     
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    The Izal factory employed hundreds of young women between 16 and 30. The Christmas Eve's in the Commercial across the road were a sight to behold. Had some great memories from that time.
     
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    What happened to them at 30? Was it like Logan's Run?
     
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    ha ha love it, Logan's Runs
     
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    It used to make excellent tracing paper.
     
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    And helped you get a good tune when used playing a comb and paper
     
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    Nice one. They also employed women over 30 but as a virile young man of 21 I wasnt interested in anyone over 30 at that time. Anyone between 16 and 60 wouldn't look at me twice nowadays but I'm happy with my memories of that time.
     
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    plus they could give it a quick wipe with the old izal if you pulled
     
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    It was the same at Bassetts they got up to allsorts:)
     
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    ha ha :)
     
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    When we caught the 70 bus from ? to Sheffield it used to go past the Izal factory, having gone down that steep hill into Chapeltown.
    It was a white building if I remember right.
     
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    270 from Upton (later Hemsworth) to Sheffield?
     
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    Remember the 270, usually white/cream coloured bus.
     
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