Popular Post The Cobra Posted April 9 Popular Post Share Posted April 9 I find as I am getting older that I often reflect back on how things have changed from when I was a kid. What do you remember ? Here are some of the things that come to mind, Dad starting the car with a handle. Mother fighting with a clothes wringer Lighting a fire in the living room. Carrying coal Lighting it with paraffin block firelighters. Keeping pigeons as pets Sunday night bathtime Test card on TV Only 2 channels 45, 33 and 78 records Radiograms Fruit salad, black-jacks, bronco busters Coppers had capes that walked the street. Milk delivered in glass bottles Phonecall from a box in the street. Party lines Pathe News before the A and B movie Saturday cinema Saturday job in a Butchers Sunday was a day of rest and everything was closed. Playing "kick the can" What do you remember ? Not what you were told about but actually remember from when you were a kid ? 5 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CharlieH Posted April 10 Popular Post Share Posted April 10 Rag n Bone Man, Watching color TV for the first time. Building my own bike from scrap pieces. Building huge bonfires for a month before bonfire night Delivering two heavy bags of Sunday papers 3 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bday Prang Posted April 10 Popular Post Share Posted April 10 Council vehicles flushing out the street gullies Bob a Job week and the accompanying "job done" stickers 1/2 day closing on wednesdays 8 track cassettes Radios and Tv's requiring "warming up" Colour "trade test transmissions" on TV Watch with mother & Jackanory Thunderbirds , Captain Scarlet, Stingray etc The Double Deckers and The Banana Splits show Setting fire to other peoples bonfires just before bonfire night Building dens Clackers Spud guns Shoes with animal footprint soles Snake belts String undies Grandads all in one underwear with "bomb hatch" Granny's clothes maiden that was hoisted up to the ceiling by a rope Steel "segs" in shoes 5 button waistbands Building "go karts" from old prams Father sweeping the chimney Dampers in fireplaces Father bricking up the fireplaces Mothers monday "washing" day Airing cupboards "The front room" Pantry's Instant mashed potato "Vesta " Chinese meals "Tea Cosies" Sickly kids with leg irons Cod liver oil , Castor oil & liquid paraffin "Kaolin and Morphine" medicine "Izal" Toilet paper Lucky Bags Sweet Cigarettes Action transfers Imitation tattoos Canned Shandy (not more than 2% proof) Tobacconists Snuff Pipe Cleaners Table Lighters Cigarette coupons and the related catalogue Golliwogs Collecting and playing "Conkers" The "corona" fizzy drink deliveries Kays catalogue "Pear and Dean" advertisements at the movies The National anthem every night on TV and at the movies Public information films The distinctive smell when walking past pubs I could go on for ever! 3 1 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmerslife Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Road sweeps with their cart and brushes The smell of coal when the coal man delivered Pea soupers Embassy cigarettes Parade magazine Scarlet fever The winter of 63 Tangerines at Christmas time. England winning the World Cup The bomb craters on Belmont downs The spittoon in the public bar of the local and the sound of a direct hit. Paraffin heaters Kent having a good cricket team. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieH Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 10 minutes ago, Farmerslife said: Road sweeps with their cart and brushes The smell of coal when the coal man delivered Pea soupers Embassy cigarettes Parade magazine Scarlet fever The winter of 63 Tangerines at Christmas time. England winning the World Cup The bomb craters on Belmont downs The spittoon in the public bar of the local and the sound of a direct hit. Paraffin heaters Kent having a good cricket team. I remember sitting and counting those Embassy coupons and putting elastic bands around the bundles Had scarlet fever too ! 😀 Catalogues were Freemans and Grattan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rampant Rabbit Posted April 10 Popular Post Share Posted April 10 4 minutes ago, CharlieH said: I remember sitting and counting those Embassy coupons and putting elastic bands around the bundles Had scarlet fever too ! 😀 Catalogues were Freemans and Grattan I confess looking at the ladies underwear section......................admit it 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OneMoreFarang Posted April 10 Popular Post Share Posted April 10 The Sunday walk with my parents and sister. I hated it. We had the only telephone in the street. Sometimes neighbors came to use it for important calls like calling a doctor, who would make a house visit. Later, when we visited my grandmother about 70km away and we returned home again, we agreed to call her and let her phone ring 3 times to let her know we arrived back home. No point wasting money on an actual long-distance call. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofarnorth Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 I have to agree with many of the above. Mine ? Parrafin heater in the bathroom. Chapped legs in the winter from wearing shorts. Before Corona the fizzy drinks man brought Neptune . Gran and Grandad arriving on Boxing day. Train spotting . Cod liver oil and malt , loved it. The misery of trying to make snowballs when wearing woolen mittens. Eating sandwiches while watch a real steam roller at work. Not being allowed out to play on a Sunday . Bonfire night when I was about 13 and kissing Jennifer Parsons who lived next door. YES ! that awful radiogram. Playing 78s with a needle in the pickup arm. Guess my age from the above . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacessit Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Fossicking for scrap brass, copper, aluminium and lead at the local garbage dump. I bought my first bicycle with the proceeds. Caddying for rich and influential people. Golf exposed the true character of most. Sad when I had to stop when I turned 18. My first win in competition. Going to a college on a scholarship. Being called a freak by sons of rich people because I had an eidetic memory. My first sex. I still wonder what she would look like now. My mother's roast lamb, coconut ice, and lemon meringue pie. The deaths of Stalin and Churchill. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgegeorgia Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 I remember the milkman arriving every morning clanging the glass bottles and leaving the milk Do they still have them in any countries nowadays? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post brianthainess Posted April 10 Popular Post Share Posted April 10 1 hour ago, Bday Prang said: Council vehicles flushing out the street gullies Bob a Job week and the accompanying "job done" stickers 1/2 day closing on wednesdays 8 track cassettes Radios and Tv's requiring "warming up" Colour "trade test transmissions" on TV Watch with mother & Jackanory Thunderbirds , Captain Scarlet, Stingray et 1 hour ago, Bday Prang said: Building dens Clackers Spud guns 1 hour ago, Bday Prang said: Building "go karts" from old prams 1 hour ago, Bday Prang said: Airing cupboards All of the above, climbing the tallest tree we could find, mum & dad sunning themselves in the back garden on a Sunday, after the roast dinner, train set, Scalextric, Meccano, 2 weeks seaside holiday every year, no car ever train or coach, dads push bike, being told to take my shoes off in doors to stop wearing out the carpet, Red Rover all day bus pass when my friend and I would travel to the furthest points we could, wondering around the back alleyways/streets in London, with no fear or knowledge of stranger danger. No religion in our house, freedom to go and do whatever we wanted, told to go play outside................................................................... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofarnorth Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 8 minutes ago, Lacessit said: Fossicking for scrap brass, copper, aluminium and lead at the local garbage dump. I bought my first bicycle with the proceeds. Caddying for rich and influential people. Golf exposed the true character of most. Sad when I had to stop when I turned 18. My first win in competition. Going to a college on a scholarship. Being called a freak by sons of rich people because I had an eidetic memory. My first sex. I still wonder what she would look like now. My mother's roast lamb, coconut ice, and lemon meringue pie. The deaths of Stalin and Churchill. You reminded me ; Lemon meringue pie , oh how I loved that. Roast beef oh a Sunday , I loved the burnt bit on the end. As for first sex. It was only with me but I soon got the hang of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoreFarang Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 9 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said: I remember the milkman arriving every morning clanging the glass bottles and leaving the milk Do they still have them in any countries nowadays? I remember that sound from primary school. The janitor heated some crates before the break. We could opt between plain milk and chocolate milk. Obviously, I preferred chocolate milk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n00dle Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 eating cherries while sitting in the branches of the cherry tree. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgegeorgia Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Just now, OneMoreFarang said: I remember that sound from primary school. The janitor heated some crates before the break. We could opt between plain milk and chocolate milk. Obviously, I preferred chocolate milk. Yes Wonder what happened to the milkmen? They used arrive at like 530am Running from truck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthainess Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 2 hours ago, Bday Prang said: Council vehicles flushing out the street gullies Bob a Job week and the accompanying "job done" stickers 1/2 day closing on wednesdays 8 track cassettes Radios and Tv's requiring "warming up" Colour "trade test transmissions" on TV Watch with mother & Jackanory Thunderbirds , Captain Scarlet, Stingray et 2 hours ago, Bday Prang said: Building dens Clackers Spud guns 2 hours ago, Bday Prang said: Building "go karts" from old prams 2 hours ago, Bday Prang said: Airing cupboards All of the above, climbing the tallest tree we could find, mum & dad sunning themselves in the back garden on a Sunday, after the roast dinner, train set, Scalextric, Meccano, 2 weeks seaside holiday every year, no car ever train or coach, dads push bike, being told to take my shoes off in doors to stop wearing out the carpet, Red Rover all day bus pass when my friend and I would travel to the furthest points we could, wondering around the back alleyways/streets in London, with no fear or knowledge of stranger danger. No religion in our house, freedom to go and do whatever we wanted, told to go play outside................................................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthainess Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Helping the milkman at weekends, delivering newspapers to 6 shops in the evening and then standing selling them from those tin boxes. Recording the top 10 from the old radio on a Sunday afternoon. Dad calling the TV a trash box, he would sit in the kitchen listening to radio 4 every night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proton Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 (edited) Snobs marbles hoola hoops 65 special juke box jury black jacks sweets chips at 4 old pence brylcreame watching England win the world cup! jumpers for goal posts gas man emptying meter and giving money back Edited April 10 by proton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proton Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said: The Sunday walk with my parents and sister. I hated it. We had the only telephone in the street. Sometimes neighbors came to use it for important calls like calling a doctor, who would make a house visit. Later, when we visited my grandmother about 70km away and we returned home again, we agreed to call her and let her phone ring 3 times to let her know we arrived back home. No point wasting money on an actual long-distance call. we were only one of two in the street, party line with local butcher. Sometimes you would pick up and hear somebody ordering chops or liver. Still can remember the number 61740, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthainess Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 12 minutes ago, n00dle said: eating cherries while sitting in the branches of the cherry tree. Scrumping apples (and plumbs). Penny for the guy, buying fireworks as a kid. Catching tidlers out of 'the ditch', catching newts out of a farmers pond and getting chased by him, finding slow worms under bits of tin on waste ground................thin pancakes once a year just sugar and lemon...... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthainess Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Growing up in the the 50s and 60s was the best time for me I was lucky to have a good mum and dad, and a house to live in. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bday Prang Posted April 10 Popular Post Share Posted April 10 (edited) Green shield stamps Double Diamond Party 7's Watneys red barrelCannon Cans of " LongLife" beer Pony (the little drink with the big kick) Gold label ( adverts with David Attenborough) Campari Adverts with Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins Hi Karate Dad's Home brew (Served from a Bar in "the front room ") Penny Towers in Pubs The Guys from "william press" coming round to convert us to natural gas Those large rising and falling storage tanks for the old town gas French Cricket on the beach Battenberg cake Salmon or Beef paste sandwiches Collecting "money back" pop bottles Players No.6 bought with proceeds from the above Pot Black The reading of the football scores and the "teleprinter" Frank Bough and Dickie Davies Spot the ball American cops Cannon , Ironside, Kojak The Outer limits Its a knockout Lift off (with aisha) Friday its 5 to 5 and its Cracker Jack, Lesley Crowther , Michael Aspel ? Peter Glase (Doh!) Michael Bentine's Potty Time Subbuteo football Etch a sketch Mousetrap Rain soaked family holidays stuck in the caravan in north wales playing Monopoly Jesus I'm getting emotional I'm filling up Edited April 10 by Bday Prang 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bday Prang Posted April 10 Popular Post Share Posted April 10 6 minutes ago, brianthainess said: Scrumping apples (and plumbs). Penny for the guy, buying fireworks as a kid. Catching tidlers out of 'the ditch', catching newts out of a farmers pond and getting chased by him, finding slow worms under bits of tin on waste ground................thin pancakes once a year just sugar and lemon...... Sticklebacks and water boatmen, (probably extinct now) 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bday Prang Posted April 10 Popular Post Share Posted April 10 8 minutes ago, brianthainess said: Growing up in the the 50s and 60s was the best time for me I was lucky to have a good mum and dad, and a house to live in. If I remember correctly 99.99% of kids my age were blessed with both parents, Everybody's dad had a job Some mums worked too mine was a Shorthand Typist , worked for "littlewoods" in the "typing pool" 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlover Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Nearly drowning in the Lancaster canal. All us kids in the street being squeezed into an old ladies parlour to watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on a tiny black and white TV. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthainess Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 8 minutes ago, Bday Prang said: If I remember correctly 99.99% of kids my age were blessed with both parents, Everybody's dad had a job Some mums worked too mine was a Shorthand Typist , worked for "littlewoods" in the "typing pool" Some parents were nasty to their kids though, mine never hit me ever, but I was pretty much 'well behaved' and didn't break 'the unwritten rules'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Do you remember Chalk hearts melting on a playground wall? Do you remember Dawn escapes from moon washed college halls? Do you remember The cherry blossom in the market square? Do you remember I thought it was confetti in our hair? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sammieuk1 Posted April 10 Popular Post Share Posted April 10 Schoolgirls when I was a schoolboy 🤔 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rimmer Posted April 10 Popular Post Share Posted April 10 Playing little Richard records at full volume Drainpipe trousers with lime green socks Walking 2 miles to school School dinners Building Dinkey Toy race tracks in the farmers ploughed field Digging up leaf mold from the woods and selling it off my home built go cart Buying a penny worth of broken biscuits from the bakery shop A V1 coming over and mum putting me under the table... Christmas tree smell once a year in the 'front room' Tin bath in front of the fire once a week Running outside to see the sweeps brush come out of the chimney Sledging on the frozen roads (slopes) near the house Doctor doing house calls with his little medicine bag 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bday Prang Posted April 10 Popular Post Share Posted April 10 (edited) Morecombe and Wise, (Sharing a double bed with no "implications" whatsoever) Carry on films , Sid James, Kenneth Williams,and all the rest of the team Eric Sykes Rich man Poor man with a young Danny Trejo Bouquet of barbed wire Sunday night at the palladium and the Royal variety show Radio Luxembourg, and Caroline Twice daily postal deliveries 2,3,4 and 5 star petrol Esso blue Blue invalid carriages (spaz Chariots) Drip dry "bri nylon" shirts Ben Shermans Doc Martins Those really were the golden years, when did the rot set in, why did it all go so wrong? Who or what is to blame? Edited April 10 by Bday Prang 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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