Remember when.......

[Asquith Production]

7 hours ago, CharlieH said:

First one up in the morning had to light the fire ! Stinky parrafin white blocks " firelighters", sticks/newspaper and coal.

You then had to hold a newspaper page over the fireplace opening to get it to cause a draw on the fire.

[Surelynot]

Just now, Asquith Production said:

You then had to hold a newspaper page over the fireplace opening to get it to cause a draw on the fire.

Emptying the hot cinder tray from underneath the fireplace....walking outside and getting a face full that stung like hell........

[Asquith Production]

2 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Catapult  huh I had  BSA Scorpion Air  Pistol ( with silencer) most powerful handgun in the world......well thats what it seemed  like, had to hide it from my parents  though, later  used in Strangely  enough, The  Man with the Golden Gun filmed of course in Thailand!!  Must be  getting old it was  Octopussy.

The first one I bought was a .177 Gat. It actually shot the barrel out that projected the pellet

[xylophone]

14 hours ago, lodstewart said:

older kids had Orange concentrate and Cod liver Oil, and a spoonful of malt.

Remember this well as my Mum never diluted the orange "juice" and I didn't like it one bit, come to that neither of the other two either!

 

Oh and my Dad had an allotment and grew swedes, and I hated the bloody things, along with turnips!

[xylophone]

4 minutes ago, Asquith Production said:

You then had to hold a newspaper page over the fireplace opening to get it to cause a draw on the fire.

Until the paper caught fire and all hell let loose!

[sipi]

My brother hated green vegetables and I loved them. Spinach, brussel sprouts, cabbage...

We had a deal going for years. He took them off his plate and passed them onto me under the table and I put them on my plate and ate them.

Years later we told Mum and Dad about our little agreement, and they both replied "how bloody stupid do you thing we are? Of course we knew what was going on"

Edited June 9, 2021 by sipi

[KarenBravo]

46 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Many a Saturday I got thrown around the room by my brother thanks to this lot !

 

Mick McMannus .....

 

https://youtu.be/3_PFJMRn72I

 

Jacky Palo

The Royal Brothers

Ricky Starr

Kendo Nagasaki

Adrian Street (blond haired baddy always attacked by grandmas).

Giant Haystack

[sipi]

https://youtu.be/7Lb-2VaJYPw

[lagavulin1]

Excellent. Ham & Bacon came from the Coop wrapped in white paper not plastic. 

Love the "teacosy" ????. 

[CharlieH]

12 minutes ago, lagavulin1 said:

Excellent. Ham & Bacon came from the Coop wrapped in white paper not plastic. 

Love the "teacosy" ????. 

Used to be able to get Milk, Orange juice and Eggs delivered daily by the Milkman. He called every Friday night to get paid.

[Excel]

4 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Used to be able to get Milk, Orange juice and Eggs delivered daily by the Milkman. He called every Friday night to get paid.

Is that what your Mum told your Dad he was doing in the house ? ????????   . On a serious note remember the milk machines that dispensed cartoons of cold milk ?

[Tropicalevo]

8 hours ago, CharlieH said:

First one up in the morning had to light the fire ! Stinky parrafin white blocks " firelighters", sticks/newspaper and coal.

Ay lad. Paraffin blocks? You were lucky.

Go to the grocers and get some old wooden crates.

Every week chop up a pile for the firewood. Screw up the old Daily Sketch, put on the firewood and coal then light the paper.

When there was hot red ash, carry some upstairs in a metal dustpan for gran's fire in her bedroom.

'elf and safety - not a chance.

Great memories.

 

[Rampant Rabbit]

7 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Through some odd quirk of fate I'm drinking the same band of Tea as my parents were drinking 60 years back.

(and the same brown sauce)

Drinking brown sauce.............got some spunk there????

[CharlieH]

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.

Anyone else do that and then enjoy a cup of hot Oxo when you got out ?

[Rampant Rabbit]

1 hour ago, colinneil said:

I remember only crisps were Smiths plain with the little blue bag, then hey new flavour.... Cheese and onion, wow !!

Only tv was BBC, watch with mother... Bill/ Ben and the flower pot men, then the interlude.

Gawd, i am bloody old.????

Get back to Pogles  Wood  ya  geriatric.

[Tropicalevo]

4 hours ago, faraday said:

Then there was unsalted crisps with the little blue bag of salt in 'em.

 

Not the recent (?) revival, but the original from around 1962.

That was when we invented salt and vinegar before the crisp companies.

Open the blue paper and pour the salt over the crisps, then add vinegar. Eat them quickly or they got very soggy.

Followed by the next invention when money was tight. Crisp sarnies.

[Rampant Rabbit]

9 minutes ago, Excel said:

Is that what your Mum told your Dad he was doing in the house ? ????????   . On a serious note remember the milk machines that dispensed cartoons of cold milk ?

In A  triangular carton that would explode  all  over you as you tried to  open them!

How about vending machines for Cadburys  Dairy  Milk

[CharlieH]

What about things/games you played ? (Damn site more healthy than face stuck in a mobile these days)

 

Conkers

Kick the can

Clipping playing cards to the spokes on your bicycle wheels

Germans ! (Dodging car headlights)

Knock up Ginger

 

 

[Rampant Rabbit]

2 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Knock up Ginger

Hmm this  sounds dubious,  how  about two tin cans and a  bit  of string, Scalextric, Haunted  House board  game and those  spinning tops on a board  game...........then the  fad of "clackers" Go karts with pram wheels, make it  yourself,  I was posh  Dad bought me a Mamod Steam engine though suspect it was more for him! Black and white  TV

[Excel]

8 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

In A  triangular carton that would explode  all  over you as you tried to  open them!

How about vending machines for Cadburys  Dairy  Milk

Now they only worked half the time

[Tropicalevo]

Thanks for all of the wonderful memories people.

Great idea for a thread thank you CharlieH

 

[Rampant Rabbit]

6 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Conkers

Banned ,  too dangerous poncy  kids  need their arsess wiped now.

[billythehat]

5 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

What about things/games you played ? (Damn site more healthy than face stuck in a mobile these days)

 

Conkers

Kick the can

Clipping playing cards to the spokes on your bicycle wheels

Germans ! (Dodging car headlights)

Knock up Ginger

 

 

….and, (circa late 60’s early 70’s when I were a wee lad), 
Jumpers for goal posts,
 
Having a Saturday-job and daily paper delivery round, 

 

Making skate boards from me sisters roller skates, 

 

Addiction to comics, 

 

Bazooka Joe bubble gum with the cartoon insert,

 

Pa introducing us to his style of Welsh Rarebit, and my life-long love of curry,

 

Always a roast dinner on Sunday with everybody around the table, 

 

Radio shows,

 

The old black and white telly that needed a new valve etc. at least once a month,

 

Proper cold and snowy winters, 

 

Mum was always cooking cakes and the scrap that would ensue with my brothers to spoon out the sugary mix from the mixing bowl, 

 

My disgust for school dinners and the ex-gestapo dinner ladies who would try to make you eat the muck served up, I still cannot stomach mashed swede, parsnips (roasted are okay), turnips or cauliflower, 

 

Beer Shandy that claimed to have alcohol content, 

 

The Corona pop delivery man on Saturday, 

 

The local chippy that had a pinball machine and a back room with old sofa’s where you could have a crafty ciggy (the local newsagent would sell you a few broken from packs), 

 

Slow and unreliable old banger cars,

 

Power-cuts in the early 70’s,
Finding Pa’s porn stash,

 

People owning proper size dogs,

 

Saturday morning TV,
    
Endless freedom and no health and safety,

 

Discovering coffee that didn’t taste like something a witch would brew,

 

Tinned beans were king and tinned spaghetti was awful,

 

Bread was either white or brown.

 

One of my uncle’s smoked a pipe that smelt like and old bonfire,

 

The smell of a real Christmas tree and parents loading up on bottles of booze for Christmas, Babycham, dry and sweet Sherry, Rum, Party 7 tinned beer etc.

 

And so much more….I blinked and it was all gone.

 

A sense of community (youth clubs), and looking back now, how much kinder people were to each other and how hard parents worked for their families. We all knew our neighbours and folk looked out for each other – not now though, big fences and most wouldn’t know their next-door neighbour from Adam.
 

[Rampant Rabbit]

Just now, Tropicalevo said:

Thanks for all of the wonderful memories people.

Great idea for a thread thank you CharlieH

 

Its  more of a TV generation game, 60's  70'sm.....Brut spash it  all  over worse  still Hai Karate  aftershave, sure my Dad really  appreciated Christmas

[BritManToo]

16 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Anyone else do that and then enjoy a cup of hot Oxo when you got out ?

I had many cups of OXO.

[adammike]

8 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

What about things/games you played ? (Damn site more healthy than face stuck in a mobile these days)

 

Conkers

Kick the can

Clipping playing cards to the spokes on your bicycle wheels

Germans ! (Dodging car headlights)

Knock up Ginger

 

 

It was knock down Ginger where I was born,Medway area of Kent.

[khunPer]

However little depending from where you originated, but in general absolutely correct...????

[adammike]

1 hour ago, Asquith Production said:

You then had to hold a newspaper page over the fireplace opening to get it to cause a draw on the fire.

And hopping on the freezing lino untill it warmed up 

[Excel]

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

I had many cups of OXO.

We were so poor we didn't have cups

[CharlieH]

2 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Hmm this  sounds dubious,  how  about two tin cans and a  bit  of string, Scalextric, Haunted  House board  game and those  spinning tops on a board  game...........then the  fad of "clackers" Go karts with pram wheels, make it  yourself,  I was posh  Dad bought me a Mamod Steam engine though suspect it was more for him! Black and white  TV

My Dad (yes I did know who he was......for awhile) worked for a company called "Rentaset" (tv rental company), he borrowed one of the first COLOUR tv's for us to watch the 1966 world cup !