Comments on: The Central Lever

By: sal

sal — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:52:42 +0000

These days we have push-buttons and touch screens. They seem so wan and insubstantial.

They lack a certain tactile quality which was the mark of a better, bygone age. I too hanker for an age in which clunking levers on hinges travel through well-oiled slats.

By: Outa_Spaceman

Outa_Spaceman — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:49:24 +0000

This story has filled me with a wistful melancholy….

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:37:34 +0000

Also, did you know that the traditional levers of Canada (located on the Rideau Canal) were made of birch bark and covered in luxurious beaver fur? Nothing was too good for our levers.

Of course, those days are gone; and now levers are strictly ornamental and made of plastic.

By: Frank Key

Frank Key — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:20:15 +0000

Did she indeed? Thank you for that, Simon. It’s a very long time since I saw A Taste Of Honey, so I don’t recall if the street urchin comes to a sticky end.

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:10:26 +0000

Interesting fact from Wikipedia:

As a child, Blears played a street urchin as an extra in the critically acclaimed film A Taste of Honey (film), one of the seminal portraits of working class northern life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Blears