1 minute ago, ChipButty said:

I think this depends where you are from in the UK, Hey my wife got this right, Breakfast, Dinner and Tea, some nights we used to get a supper,  

Spot on 

On 11/16/2025 at 7:09 PM, ChipButty said:

When was the last time you had one of these, 

When they were still in pounds, shillings and pence, so that would have been before 1971.

 

I got it through my POSB.

 

I also used to buy National Savings Stamps when I was a little boy.

On 11/22/2025 at 8:57 AM, ChipButty said:

My old man used to smoke them Senior Service or Players, no wonder he died young, them other one Capstan full strength, they should have been charged with murder, they must have been lethal.  

My mate used to smoke Capstan Full Strength.

 

He went to see the doctor about his hacking cough and was offered the choice to quit smoking or die whilst a young man.

 

He decided to quit smoking and I think he died recently in his 80s.

Just watched at tv show about the history of London. They showed the Anderson shelters that people had in their backyards during WW2?

I remember playing in them as a kid in the late 1950's when I was very young.

1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

Just watched at tv show about the history of London. They showed the Anderson shelters that people had in their backyards during WW2?

I remember playing in them as a kid in the late 1950's when I was very young.

I lived on a street that was 5 doors from a playing field, the bomb shelters were still there, that was in the 50's into the 60's we moved, AVRO's was not to far away, were they built part of the Vulcan bomber, 

On 10/24/2025 at 10:38 AM, billd766 said:

But nobody cares what YOU think anyway.

 

Actually for the most of us, they WERE the good old days,

 

There was even a BBC TV program that ran for 30 years ca;;ed

 

The Good Old Days was a BBC television light entertainment programme produced by Barney Colehan which ran for 30 years from 20 July 1953 to 31 December 1983.

 

It was performed at the Leeds City Varieties and recreated an authentic atmosphere of the Victorian–Edwardian music hall with songs and sketches of the era performed in the style of the original artistes.[2]

 

The audience dressed in period costume and joined in the singing, especially "Down at the Old Bull and Bush" which closed the show each week.[2] The show was compered throughout its whole run (except for the first two shows) by Leonard Sachs, who introduced the acts from a desk situated at the side of the stage.[3] In the course of its run it featured about 2,000 performers. Each show was up to an hour long.

Yes, I remember that - a first rate excuse for going drinking on a Saturday night!

1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

Just watched at tv show about the history of London. They showed the Anderson shelters that people had in their backyards during WW2?

I remember playing in them as a kid in the late 1950's when I was very young.

Please watch the Seinfeld show on "close talkers" , 

7 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Please watch the Seinfeld show on "close talkers" , 

Why, what has that got to do with this topic.

The last Seinfeld show was in 1998....a generation ago.

1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

Why, what has that got to do with this topic.

The last Seinfeld show was in 1998....a generation ago.

Is close talking similar to pushing your nose against the screen door of expats in Flybird condominium.

Did your old man wear one of these Donkey jackets? 

Just now, ChipButty said:

Did your old man wear one of these Donkey jackets? 

My dad had one a very long time ago.

13 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I lived on a street that was 5 doors from a playing field, the bomb shelters were still there, that was in the 50's into the 60's we moved, AVRO's was not to far away, were they built part of the Vulcan bomber, 

Didn't they build Lancaster bombers there during WW2?

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

Had a FHW in my town, Congleton  

3 hours ago, roo860 said:

Didn't they build Lancaster bombers there during WW2?

There was two factories one was really nearby, any stray bombs but it seems they didnt drop any on us, 

3 hours ago, roo860 said:

Had a FHW in my town, Congleton  

I think eventually they had one in every town, it was the low end and another company Curtess, they were all owned eventually by British shoe corporation, 

3 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I think eventually they had one in every town, it was the low end and another company Curtess, they were all owned eventually by British shoe corporation, 

You remember Ravel shoe shop in Manchester? More expensive than the average shop, but a cut above the rest!

Ps, this isn't the Manchester one.

33 minutes ago, roo860 said:

You remember Ravel shoe shop in Manchester? More expensive than the average shop, but a cut above the rest!

Ps, this isn't the Manchester one.

I remember them, I think the shop was in St Ann's square, lot more trendy shoes, 

Who remember getting a pork chop with the kidney with it? 

Who remembers having one of these in their Kitchen ??

10 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Who remembers having one of these in their Kitchen ??

Yup, seemed a strange place to put it, would often go to school smelling of chips !!

Was Donkey stoning just a Lancashire thing ?? Who remembers their Mum doing this 

 

Anyone remember these?

2 hours ago, emptypockets said:

 

Anyone remember these?

I think we had one at some stage, I remember they were lethal, could have killed humans never mind bugs, 

The steel wheels on these old roller skates sounded loud and gritty on the cement. Sometimes we removed the wheels and nailed them to a piece of wood to make our own skateboards.

 

1 hour ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

The steel wheels on these old roller skates sounded loud and gritty on the cement. Sometimes we removed the wheels and nailed them to a piece of wood to make our own skateboards.

 

They look like death traps they do, 

I think every home had one of these...........

I made a couple of these as a kid, just a hammer and nails, we called them a Dandy where I come from.....☺️

 

 

 

On 10/25/2025 at 6:37 PM, roo860 said:

Helen Shapiro was 14yrs old when she made Walking back to Happiness, saw her at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool when she was 16. Saw the Beatles there as well. 

Yes, in 1961 at 14 years of age I was so in love with her. But singing about one way love affairs, and you don't know how much I love you, let's talk about love, were quite inappropriate for the schoolie.