Yes,thanks for that Buzzer !! 
seriously though,I am glad I was a 21 year old in 1969 instead of today, I had the time of my life.
Regards John.
old 67:
Yes,thanks for that Buzzer !!
Regards John.
Yep I will definitely go with you on all you say.(was 21 in 1967) we really knew how to have a good time. best wishes ardennes
HiyaâŚho my god the bike rider has no crash helmet, good job the law has stopped him, he may have been killed
before many more yards what can we doâŚlolâŚyes iâam from the same era, wasnât it good. if you was not sure
where a place was you nipped into the paper shop(they knew everyone)and spoke English, no yellow linesâŚno mobiles
so prats couldnât snitch on you for doing some small act they donât like. good old days or what.
John
Remenber a bobby on traffic control where the A35 and the A36 joined at the end of the Totton by-pass on the approach to Southampton before the flyover was built, must have been in the early sixties when I had just started driving although they must have been there before that, they were only on duty at morning and evening rush hours but it still took a while to âget throughâ.
Hi John, Blaster Bates 
now there is a blast from the past. Heâs just had me chuckling for the last hour, so thanks for reminding me about another one of Sandbachâs favourites.
Blaster Bates brings back some memories! I was a teenager in the early 70s when my parents bought me a cassette tape recorder for Christmas. A few weeks later, I was allowed to buy one pre-recorded tape from WH Smiths, and I chose âLaughter With A Bangâ by Mr Bates. I played that tape repeatedly until it was â â â â near worn out!
I donât know about bobbies on point, but I can certainly remember one character in the early to mid 80âs who used to âcontrolâ traffic in Norwich.
I was a 12/13 year old lad going on holiday to the Norfolk Broads. We would be travelling along the A1074 Deerham Road where it would meet the A140 junction. There, in the middle of the raised roundabout was black guy who was donned in a high-viz coat and white gloves and frantically âdirectingâ all the approaching traffic.
We went this way on holiday 2 or 3 times a year, and every single time, come rain or shine, same time, about early afternoon an a SaturdayâŚHe was there. It obviously meant a great deal to the guy, and I dare say made his day, bless him. He affectionately became known to our family as âTic- Tacâ and almost became part of the holiday experience as we would cheerily wave to him as we went by.
Does anyone else recall seeing this fella?
I remember seeing a picture of a point duty policeman with a blue flashing light on the top of his helmet, I donât think it was used for very long, Regards Larry.
old 67:
Did any other cities do this every day,or just when needed?
Regards John.
Remember also that junctions controlled by traffic lights were nowhere near as common as nowadays, so there would have been any number of junctions that needed traffic control at certain times, especially outside big factories at chuck-out or turn-in.
gingerfold:
The thing to remember is that when point duty bobbies controlled the traffic there was not the volume of vehicles on the roads as there is today.
There would not have been as much âbackgroundâ traffic, but in rush hours and especially around the big factories at chuck-out time Iâd bet the traffic would have been pretty hectic. My old man was a copper and did point duty outside the Navy dockyard in Pompey (back in the days when it was a dockyard, not yet another bl0ddy museum) and at knock-off time there were thousands of bikes, motorbikes, cars and pedestrians. Same would have gone for any of the shipyards, steel works and big factories.