Surelynot Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 9 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.' ???? 55555 (Same guy/family I think....had their fingers in a few pies). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post faraday Posted June 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 11, 2021 I hang my head in shame, for I was once the wearer of a tank top. I wore it on a Saturday night, with a purple shirt & green flares. Bless me father, for I have sinned. 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surelynot Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 2 minutes ago, faraday said: I hang my head in shame, for I was once the wearer of a tank top. I wore it on a Saturday night, with a purple shirt & green flares. Bless me father, for I have sinned. Bet you needed a stick to beat the girls back......555 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieH Posted June 11, 2021 Author Share Posted June 11, 2021 6 minutes ago, faraday said: I hang my head in shame, for I was once the wearer of a tank top. I wore it on a Saturday night, with a purple shirt & green flares. Bless me father, for I have sinned. I had the "green flares" too ! But a Ben Sherman shirt, no tank top ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surelynot Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 20 hours ago, CharlieH said: My first drink in a Pub........ Bit of an acquired taste......preferred Exhibition.....not even sure you can get Exhibition now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surelynot Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 20 hours ago, CharlieH said: My Dad always drank it. Can remember the advert..... It looks good, it tastes good....and by golly it does you good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieH Posted June 11, 2021 Author Share Posted June 11, 2021 1 minute ago, Surelynot said: Bit of an acquired taste......preferred Exhibition.....not even sure you can get Exhibition now? I only drank it as I just copied the others ! Didnt have a clue what to do......had to be "one of the boys" but soon ditched it, never actually liked beer but you had to do it...5555 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieH Posted June 11, 2021 Author Share Posted June 11, 2021 13 minutes ago, Surelynot said: Bit of an acquired taste......preferred Exhibition.....not even sure you can get Exhibition now? By the time I was legally allowed in Pubs, it was "Skol" or "Stella" that became my drink of choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surelynot Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 6 minutes ago, CharlieH said: I only drank it as I just copied the others ! Didnt have a clue what to do......had to be "one of the boys" but soon ditched it, never actually liked beer but you had to do it...5555 Bit like smoking cigars and drinking whisky.......you really have to stick at it for sometime....555 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surelynot Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 1 minute ago, CharlieH said: By the time I was legally allowed in Pubs, it was "Skoll" or "Stella" that became my drink of choice. Oh dear! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieH Posted June 11, 2021 Author Share Posted June 11, 2021 1 minute ago, Surelynot said: Oh dear! Yep...."Lager Lout" ! ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lodstewart Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 3 hours 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!???????? me too loved a good polished pair of leather boots, still do it now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraday Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 1 hour ago, CharlieH said: Yep...."Lager Lout" ! ???? Stella Artois, what a magnificent pint that was. I bought a bottle from Makro a year or so ago, lower strength, tasted like shy**. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billd766 Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 7 hours ago, lodstewart said: 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 I used to have a Wolsley 6/90 ex Met police car in the mid 1960s. I never got any insurance or MOT for it. I used to drive it around the back roads of Norfolk for fun. I don't remember what happened to it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Surelynot Posted June 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 11, 2021 1 minute ago, billd766 said: I used to have a Wolsley 6/90 ex Met police car in the mid 1960s. I never got any insurance or MOT for it. I used to drive it around the back roads of Norfolk for fun. I don't remember what happened to it. Austin A35.......15 plates pop riveted into the floor....you could see the road through the passenger footwell. Got 10 people into it once, stopped by the police and told........... go steady. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lodstewart Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 20 minutes ago, Surelynot said: Austin A35.......15 plates pop riveted into the floor....you could see the road through the passenger footwell. Got 10 people into it once, stopped by the police and told........... go steady. there were no seatbelts then, and no breathalisers, you only had to be able to walk along a white line at the cops shop 55 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surelynot Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 33 minutes ago, lodstewart said: there were no seatbelts then, and no breathalisers, you only had to be able to walk along a white line at the cops shop 55 I think this might have saved me........... it was a country lane with no white lines........555 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bobandyson Posted June 12, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 12, 2021 (edited) Waking up on Sunday mornings and hearing the bells from nearby churches. During the 70's and 80's they would become gradually silenced. Listening to all the ship's sirens sounding from the nearby docks when the new year was brought in. Sadly, they would be heard less and less as the years passed until you were lucky if you heard just even one. Going to sleep with the bedroom aglow with a green light from the digital clock display. Waking up on any Sunday would always have an ominous feel in the air. Because you knew that you had to make the most of it because the next day was a dreaded school day. Bunking off school and going to a nearby golf course to search for golf balls in the prickly gorse bushes. Collecting them and then selling them the next day to teachers for 50p a bag. Writing my own sick notes to take multiple days off school. Just one day here two's days there every so often. The deputy head-master could do nothing to check because we didn't have a home phone number at the time. But one time, after taking a full week off, I couldn't think of an excuse to put on the note. Then one day I got called by mum or dad to come downstairs where there was a Truant Officer waiting in the living room to talk to me. So that 'Jig' was well and truly up. There's was no Lazada or Alibaba. We had it better. We had the 'Kays' catalogue with female models showing a bit'a bum in the pictures of shower units. The bra and panty pages were hard core too at the time and almost better than the naked breasts of female Amazonian pygmies in the National Geographic. Edited June 12, 2021 by bobandyson 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofarnorth Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 On 6/9/2021 at 7:54 AM, Rampant Rabbit said: How about 5 star remember that! Yes , there was one garage near us that sold it , my brothers BSA Gold Star disliked anything less. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post toofarnorth Posted June 12, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 12, 2021 Anyone remember Pez ? Hard sweets that came in a tube , flip the cap at the top and one would pop out. How do I remember these from the late '50s ? Last week in Lotus I saw Pez. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobandyson Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 3 minutes ago, toofarnorth said: Anyone remember Pez ? Hard sweets that came in a tube , flip the cap at the top and one would pop out. How do I remember these from the late '50s ? Last week in Lotus I saw Pez. Last night my 3yo grand-daughter had a pez. They're well known around the world and many people collect them as a hobby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenBravo Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 On 6/10/2021 at 10:37 AM, thaibeachlovers said: Kids having fun? Unless fun is looking at a small screen all day, I doubt it. I can remember when there was no tv, no internet, no social media, almost no crime, no pedophiles, and no kids killed themselves because they were being bullied "on line". Strange that despite kids going to school to learn stuff they don't seem to comprehend what the off button on a phone does. There were always pedophiles.........it just wasn't reported. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenBravo Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 (edited) 11 minutes ago, toofarnorth said: Anyone remember Pez ? Hard sweets that came in a tube , flip the cap at the top and one would pop out. How do I remember these from the late '50s ? Last week in Lotus I saw Pez. Yes, I had one that had Popeyes head. Refills were hard to find, though. Anyway much better cheap sweets available. Black-jacks & fruit salad. Those luminous pink shrimps. Gob-stoppers. Parma Violets. Love hearts. Opal fruits. Tunes. Edible cigarettes (banned during the anti-smoking crusade). And of course rows and rows of sweets in jars put in a paper-bag with twisted corners. Edited June 12, 2021 by KarenBravo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 10 minutes ago, KarenBravo said: Yes, I had one that had Popeyes head. Refills were hard to find, though. Anyway much better cheap sweets available. Black-jacks & fruit salad. Those luminous pink shrimps. Gob-stoppers. Parma Violets. Love hearts. Opal fruits. Tunes. Edible cigarettes (banned during the anti-smoking crusade). And of course rows and rows of sweets in jars put in a paper-bag with twisted corners. All attest to the fact I have a gob full of implants and crowns and the dentist drives a Roller .............if I was a good boy at the dentist I got a sweetie !!! ironic now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenBravo Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 7 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said: All attest to the fact I have a gob full of implants and crowns and the dentist drives a Roller .............if I was a good boy at the dentist I got a sweetie !!! ironic now The same, but with no regrets. The teeth don't have to last much longer now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post faraday Posted June 12, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 12, 2021 Don't forget the Flying Saucers... I can almost feel the rice paper dissolving in my mouth, & then the sherbet leaks out.. Delicious! Apparently, they're still made! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofarnorth Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 26 minutes ago, KarenBravo said: Yes, I had one that had Popeyes head. Refills were hard to find, though. Anyway much better cheap sweets available. Black-jacks & fruit salad. Those luminous pink shrimps. Gob-stoppers. Parma Violets. Love hearts. Opal fruits. Tunes. Edible cigarettes (banned during the anti-smoking crusade). And of course rows and rows of sweets in jars put in a paper-bag with twisted corners. Hey , I remember all those + 1 more . The sweet tobacco , came in pouches and looked like tobacco . bet that was banned many years ago. I had those pink shrimps on my hit list after swimming , loved 'em. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofarnorth Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 35 minutes ago, KarenBravo said: There were always pedophiles.........it just wasn't reported. True , I was about 10 and just before senior school. Walking home and a chap stopped me in a copse near the main road and said he saw a wasp fly up my trouser leg. We wore shorts in 1957. I had no intention of removing my shorts and went on my way home. I never mentioned to my mum as it all made no sense yet I still remember the event well. At 10 years old there was still no knowledge of things to come. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lodstewart Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 yes, all sweet shops had scales, loose sweets were sold usually 2 oz in a paper bag. and were all still on ration until the fifties I think , I remember when sweets came off ration, but I cannot remember the date. only allowed 2oz of sweets a week on ration. that would have made a lot of difference to the nations teeth , if they had stayed on. anyone remember House Of Bewley shops ? tobacco of every kind sold loose , what a lovely smell that was . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofarnorth Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 On 6/9/2021 at 5:28 PM, Rampant Rabbit said: Treacle Tart the days when Mum could cook anything, bread and butter pudding, home made marmalade boiling away for what seemed like days, steam pudding not the krap out of a tin. I still make treacle tart but can't find syrup so use honey . staye a bit soft after being in the oven for an hour but great with vanilla icer teem. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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