1 hour ago, lodstewart said:

Brown & Mild yes , a lovely Pint I think it was about 1/10 just under 2 bob. often saw older women  drink stout

Well it is good for you ...

2 hours ago, lodstewart said:

Brown & Mild yes , a lovely Pint I think it was about 1/10 just under 2 bob. often saw older women  drink stout

Just remembered Makinson ( not sure of the spelling) draft at our gliding club, a brilliant drink 

10 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

Just remembered Makinson ( not sure of the spelling) draft at our gliding club, a brilliant drink 

My Dad always drank it.

 

 

 

2 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

My Dad always drank it.

 

 

That's the one, a very nice stout.  Do they still produce it? If so, I wonder if you can order it here? If I recall, we used to mix it 50/ 50 with cider, wasn't that a Black Velvet? Goodness, my mouth is watering. 

My first drink in a Pub........

 

 

6 hours ago, Pilotman said:

That's the one, a very nice stout.  Do they still produce it? If so, I wonder if you can order it here? If I recall, we used to mix it 50/ 50 with cider, wasn't that a Black Velvet? Goodness, my mouth is watering. 

mate of ours drank Maccy stout  or guiness with a glass of red ruby port tipped in, lovely.

yes Black Velvet with Cider I think, Black &Tan with Mild. same colour as the pub ceiling with all the years of nicotine stain   55

and what happened to the public and saloon bars ,  where did they go and why ?

my first car was a 1938 Standard flying nine, side valve engine , 6volt battery crank handle of course as they all did.

the cylinder head was just a slab nothing was in it at all except the spark plugs , as all sidevalve engines were in those days.

then later came the OHV but still had the camshaft in the block, valves operated by push rods up to the rocker shaft ,

then came the Overhead cam , which was the obvious progression for all production cars. many variations of this were tried ,

the Jowett Javelin was one,  a flat 4,  I remember,

anyone else remember those old engines and models of  long ago

On 6/9/2021 at 4:36 PM, CharlieH said:

The swimming pool in town was the "Turkish Baths" so referred to locally as "going to the baths" . Spent many an hour or two after school or on Saturday.

There used to be public baths two blocks down our street. I preferred going there than having a bath at home. The baths were knocked down to make way for an outdoor netball court. Never once did I see anyone using it. But then netball (basketball) was only for sissies back in those days.

On 6/9/2021 at 4:52 PM, billythehat said:

A sense of community (youth clubs),

 

I was a cub scout for a while. Only got a few merit badges but can't remember what for. I remember bob-a-job and something about placing a sticker in a front room window. Maybe it had something to do with my brother being in the scouts.

I also forget the mantra or pledge "Dib dib dib, dob dob dob..............etc"

 

Oh..and having shoes with a compass inside one of them at the heel.

On 6/9/2021 at 5:57 PM, Rampant Rabbit said:

I used to go  out in winter with a shovel clearing peoples  drives for 50p in Winter when we often got  snow, couldnt wait for it to snow, initiative what we  had then.

 

My dad asked me and my younger sister if we would like to build a snowman one winter. So we did, using only "high-quality driveway" snow as recommended by dad. Apparently the snow from elsewhere just wasn't good enough.

23 minutes ago, bobandyson said:

Oh..and having shoes with a compass inside one of them at the heel.

Wayfinders. I had a pair. As well as a compass in the heel they had animal prints on the soles, so that you could distinguish between sheep, badgers, foxes, etc.

 

Anyone remember plastic sandals?

 

Cheap footwear for the kids summer holidays and, later, fantastic for sliding on the ice when the soles  were worn smooth.

 

 

14 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Didn't you watch the old cowboy movies in the fifties? Randolph Scott and Audie Murphy always wore them.

 

I was born in 1959 so my time was the sixties. I remember seeing movies on tv of Audie Murphy, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, David Niven, Frank Sinatra, Alistair Syms, Will Hay, Alan Ladd, St Trinians, Authur Askey, George Formby, Tommy Steele, Cliff Richards, Norman Wisdom and many more. Especially b/w British movies that seems to be completely forgotten about nowadays.

 

Sorry, I still can't recall why I wanted a cravat. Don't know why I wanted slade socks either. Socks that were lime green or orange with black loops. what an absolute horrible fashion statement they were.  

11 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Can recall Dutton&Foreshaw......pint of bitter 11p.........beer was nice and weak......you could drink a few pints without falling over or starting a fight.......beers and larger are too strong nowadays I feel........there is a niche market developing in the UK now for weaker beers.

 

There was a Dutton&Foreshaw showroom only two blocks away from our house. But it was a car showroom with a repair garage at the rear. Above the showroom there was a snooker hall. Nothing like the halls of today that are carpeted and have good air ventilation and lighting. No, this snooker hall was so smoke-filled it resembled low lying clouds and the smell of tobacco smoke and spilled beer was horrible to me as a kid.

 

And yet quite often at tea-time, my mum would send me to go look for my dad who would pop-in there occasionally from work on his way home. So, mum would give me 3d to go and see if he's there and my dad would give me 6d to tell mum that he wasn't there.

 

I had a nice little earner for a while. That is, until one time I said to my mum 'Dad said he wasn't there.' ????

22 hours ago, faraday said:

So much to comment on...

 

I lived in Portsmouth until I was about 4, & can remember the trolley buses, & the scary electric flash ⚡ that happened at the point of connection overhead.

 

Brussel sprouts, saw them in Villa - allegedly fresh, but they felt very soft. There were some frozen ones from Iceland - the shop ????, in the freezer cabinets.

 

Jersey Royals... last had some about 8 years ago, they were awesome. ????

 

The internet..young people & some of the trolls or whatever they are on here, use it to get 'knowledge' or an 'opinion'. Then spout off as if they are educated in a particular matter. 

 

I wish the 'net had been available when I was at school, instead of having to look at crummy old books that you had to trawl through to find an answer to a simple question.

 

This thread has been one of the most thought provoking & enjoyable ever. When I read through it, I think of my old school friends....where are they now, I wonder.

 

Used to have a good friend called Simon, when I was around 13/14/15. We'd play on the waste ground, try & smoke players no.6, & work out what girls were.

 

Now, so many are 'sparking up a blunt', getting the wrong ideas from GTA, & experimenting with other things that most probably they are too young to assimilate, & lead them into harmful things.

 

Phew...time for a cuppa.

 

Absolutely pishing down here. ☔

 

so much truth in what you say there, yes I remember the Trolly buses too, they had a long wooden pole on the side, that was to change over the line for the return turnround the conductor done that job. that was in the Uxbridge area that I saw that.

in the days when all police cars were wolsley 4/44's with a siver chrome bell just above the front bumper

3 hours ago, bobandyson said:

 

There was a Dutton&Foreshaw showroom only two blocks away from our house. But it was a car showroom with a repair garage at the rear. Above the showroom there was a snooker hall. Nothing like the halls of today that are carpeted and have good air ventilation and lighting. No, this snooker hall was so smoke-filled it resembled low lying clouds and the smell of tobacco smoke and spilled beer was horrible to me as a kid.

 

And yet quite often at tea-time, my mum would send me to go look for my dad who would pop-in there occasionally from work on his way home. So, mum would give me 3d to go and see if he's there and my dad would give me 6d to tell mum that he wasn't there.

 

I had a nice little earner for a while. That is, until one time I said to my mum 'Dad said he wasn't there.' ????

in London all Burtons tailors had a billiard hall above, Joe Davis was the name I remember, but it was always Billiards

no snooker, I think snooker originated in colonial India

petrol ration cards 1973, i worked in a petrol station at that time we were only allowed to sell xxx amount of gallons per day, then had to close, queues were round the block, ration cards were issued but as far as i remember never used.

On 6/9/2021 at 5:47 PM, lodstewart said:

just for kids in London, can't remember how much , but I think sixpence (in real money)

ours was the ABC cinema in Catford and we were known as the ABC minors  ha

 

mile end east london for me i think it was an Odeon, had yo yo competitions

21 hours ago, bobandyson said:

 

I used to hate saturday afternoons because there was always sport on all 3 channels. If the weather was nice I would jump onto any bus with my mate and go exploring because we didn't have to pay any fares.

My mate and I, used to buy a "Red Rover" you could go anywhere on a red bus all day there slogan was 'all over red rover', we lived a fare way out of London our local bus only ran every hour, we'd go to London exploring back lanes, bridges, the arches, alleyways, muddy banks of the Thames, no instilled fear of what could happen and nothing bad ever did. Armed with a bus map, we would go the furthest distance in all directions, got to get 'yer moneys worth 'ain't 'yer ????

First job maybe around 12yr old wage was Half a Crown same as my pocket money, helping the milkman I can still remember his name Les Underwood, Friday he'd be running late collecting money, so after school,; Sat meet him around 6am after walking about a mile. We'd stop for breakfast he'd buy me a sausage sandwich in the cafe, now if memory serves me, delivered Sundays milk also, so he had a day off. Cream, eggs, bread, butter, micky drink, and orange juice. 

2 hours ago, lodstewart said:

in London all Burtons tailors had a billiard hall above, Joe Davis was the name I remember, but it was always Billiards

no snooker, I think snooker originated in colonial India

Wow I never realized that is why the local teddy boy/then rockers hung out above ours in my town was a cafe with pin ball machines.

16 hours ago, CharlieH said:

My Dad always drank it.

 

 

 

 “Looks good, tastes good and, by golly, it does you good” was one of the catchphrases used in the Mackeson adverts. Very nice mixed with half a pint of Newcastle Exhibition to make a "macky tan"

16 hours ago, CharlieH said:

My first drink in a Pub........

 

 

You have impeccable taste sir!

On 6/9/2021 at 6:09 PM, Tanoshi said:

What about clothes.

Hipsters.

Flares.

Levi stay press trousers. ben sherman shirts with a pleat on the back and a hanging tab, sabre jumpers and crombie overcoat or a harrington jacket, dr martin boots, would have been late 60's early 70's

1 hour ago, steve187 said:

Levi stay press trousers. ben sherman shirts with a pleat on the back and a hanging tab, sabre jumpers and crombie overcoat or a harrington jacket, dr martin boots, would have been late 60's early 70's

Looked a lot smarter than all those hippies, unwashed dreamers.

 

Loved my DM's, Cherry Red & I was constantly polishing them. For which I had the pish taken out of me!????????

7 minutes ago, faraday said:

Looked a lot smarter than all those hippies, unwashed dreamers.

 

Loved my DM's, Cherry Red & I was constantly polishing them. For which I had the pish taken out of me!????????

So you didnt have a "Parka" then ? ????

10 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

So you didnt have a "Parka" then ? ????

No way José..! 555!

 

I remember my sister's boyfriend did though. He used to come round & pick her up on his scooter.

 

One time he had a flower in his hair.....????????

 

*In the name of public decency I will not comment*

I can't remember breakfast.

36 minutes ago, faraday said:

Looked a lot smarter than all those hippies, unwashed dreamers.

 

Loved my DM's, Cherry Red & I was constantly polishing them. For which I had the pish taken out of me!????????

Hey Faraday........gotcha !

 

 

 

Who's gonna own up .......to having either of these.......

 

Tank Top.........or Starsky Cardy .?