Bring back any memories?

biggirafe

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Please add some more in and see where we get,
p.s. use a big font for those that are very old ;)



Fast food was slow
[FONT=&quot]Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10.It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 pm, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.[/FONT]
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers
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[FONT=&quot]Head lights dimmer switches on the floor of the car.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]Sweet cigarettes[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Coffee shops with juke[/FONT][FONT=&quot] boxes[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Home milk delivery in glass bottles [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Newsreels before the movie[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (There were only 2 channels[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [if you were fortunate][/FONT][FONT=&quot])[/FONT]
Peashooters
[FONT=&quot]33 rpm records[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]45 RPM records[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Hi-fi's the size of sideboards
Metal ice trays with levers
[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Blue flashbulb[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Cork[/FONT][FONT=&quot] popguns [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Wash tub wringers [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Turning the TV on and being able to go and turn the kettle on before the TV had warmed up
Cars with chokes
waterproof clothes that wern't really waterproof

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biggirafe said:
Please add some more in and see where we get,
p.s. use a big font for those that are very old ;)



Fast food was slow
[FONT=&quot]Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10.It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 pm, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.[/FONT]
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Head lights dimmer switches on the floor of the car.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]Sweet cigarettes[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Coffee shops with juke[/FONT][FONT=&quot] boxes[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Home milk delivery in glass bottles [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Newsreels before the movie[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (There were only 2 channels[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [if you were fortunate][/FONT][FONT=&quot])[/FONT]
Peashooters
[FONT=&quot]33 rpm records[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]45 RPM records[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Hi-fi's the size of sideboards
Metal ice trays with levers
[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Blue flashbulb[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Cork[/FONT][FONT=&quot] popguns [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Wash tub wringers [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Turning the TV on and being able to go and turn the kettle on before the TV had warmed up
Cars with chokes
waterproof clothes that wern't really waterproof

[/FONT]
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I never had a doorkey when i lived in Ireland it was always open:D:D
 
you could speed with almost impunity,,,,,,remember packs of dogs on the street??? its a fekin marathon not a snickers,,,,,you could beat annoying children lol
 
Childhood in post-war London: thick green fogs so you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, holidays limited to the odd week in a B&B in Margate, no playgrounds - only bomb sites, horribly itchy school uniforms (and freezing cold legs because we wore short trousers even in winter) and hideous school dinners involving gravy you could knock someone out with and pink custard that I'm sure must have been carcenogenic. I'd rather live now than go back to then, thanks.
 
Kids that called you Mister, Cops that actually arrested people instead of driving round in cars, bread that went hard before it went green, Opal Fruits not flippin Starburst or whatever, eggs you could eat raw, playing footie in the street cos there was only one bloke with a car, motorbike and sidecars, Park Drive and Woodbines sold in ones, penny toffee that filled your mouth for twenty minutes and....................frozen jubbly's!!

as a PS, I had to address the blokes I worked with as Mister right up untill I was 18!
 
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Putting my Grandad`s First World War Greatcoat on the bed in the Winter, for extra warmth in bed.

My feet were still cold if I had them near the bullet holes.:p

Going with my Dad to watch them bring the Pit ponies out of the pit for the 2 weeks holiday in the Summer. They used to go daft as soon as their feet touched grass.

Listening to Dan Dare on the wireless. Now called a radio.

Nicking empty bottles from behind the shop and taking back in the front way for the 3d deposit.
 
Remember (I think :rolleyes:) Radio Luxembourg 208.8 used to struggle to tune the wireless set in to hear it (links to audio files don't seem to work on this site though :mad:) OR better still listening to EDUCATING ARCHIE Peter Brough was fantastic, never saw his lips move at all that is until he came onto TV then we realised the puppet was better than him at ventriloquism :D

Walking miles to somebodys house to watch their big screen TV ( a 9" screen with a big magnifying lens in front of it) you had to close the curtains to be able to see the grainy grey image. and these were supposed to be the good old days I think I'll stick with my 42" plasma :cool:
 
Hi, Also had Grandads greatcoat on the bed & shared a bed with him for the first 5 years. Dick Barton special agent on Saturday morning radio. Kids at school with limbs showing the results of having suffered childhood polio. Nit lady with the thick green stuff on a metal comb, ( or was that just me ? !!! ) Out along the Thames for several hours each day with nobody worrying about it. Sitting on the
pavement playing fives - aggies or jacks. Sweets going off ration in time for the Coronation.

Dezi
 
Going off to play in the woods with our friends, we were only 8 years old but no-one worried, and we were ok - as long as we were home in time for tea.

Playing ludo, snakes & ladders etc, round the table with the family, after tea.

Going to Sunday school, and the yearly outing to the seaside, and getting great lumps of fruit cake in our picnics.

The truancy officer - dragging the usual miscreants back to school.

School milk - icy in the winter, yukky in the summer.

keeping frogspawn in the water butt at the back of the house.
 
maingate said:
Putting my Grandad`s First World War Greatcoat on the bed in the Winter, for extra warmth in bed.

My feet were still cold if I had them near the bullet holes.:p

Going with my Dad to watch them bring the Pit ponies out of the pit for the 2 weeks holiday in the Summer. They used to go daft as soon as their feet touched grass.

Listening to Dan Dare on the wireless. Now called a radio.

Nicking empty bottles from behind the shop and taking back in the front way for the 3d deposit.
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Aye we had one of those old great coats on the cistern of our outside bog to stop it freezin up in the back to backs of South Shields, good old days:)
 
i remember when bananas and oranges came to the country, my first taste of chocolate off a g.i. who happened to be my 'uncle' cuz mam sed so!! he'd popped round wiv sum 'nylons' and some silk parachute material for me undies :D

good days......mam turned to religion too cuz i erd er shout 'oh god' loads wen 'uncle' wasa bout
 
sleeping on a mattress filled with straw, the matress was really grain bags sewn together.
we had a wash on sat nights in a tin bath in front of the fire & polished our shoes for mass on sunday morning.
we walked 2 miles to the church winter & summer regardless of the weather.
we used to put our clothes between the blankets at night so they would not be damp in the morning putting them on.
the windows frosted over inside + outside in the mornings.
we had no electricity or running water , had a dry toilet outside in an outhouse.
having to break the ice in the water bucket which used be inside on the porch window, for breakfast.
we had only 1 open fire which was gone out so we had no heat in the mornings. we boiled the porridge + kettle on the primus.
every sunday morning i used have to clean out the pig house or the fowl house.
tony
 
Oh yes, Ice on the inside and the outside i remember that one well :)
 
biggirafe said:
Oh yes, Ice on the inside and the outside i remember that one well :)
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i'm 47 and remember that well!!! lol , me and me 3 bros wud fight to get outta bed and down stairs to get best spot by open fire!! that was till mum and dad got a paraffin heater on top of stairs!!! then it was just a fight halfway :D

do remember tho' wen i 1st started school we had real bad winter and we walked on the canal to school !!!! thats summat else.....no schools give ya a day off thru' weather!!! not like today!!!

conker fighing without faceshield, gloves, steelies, arm /knee pads,and cricketeers box! and an h&s risk assessment
 
we had no central heating in school just an open fire at the top of the class.
the master used stand there most of the day with his back to the fire blocking the heat from getting out into the room.
for our lunch we had bread & butter or jam. we did'nt have both , that was all we had.
tony
 
I'll never forget that first day at t'pit. Me an' mi father worked a seventy two hour shift, an' then we walked home forty three mile through t'snow in us bare feet, huddled inside us clothes med out o' old sacks.

Eventually we trudged over t'hill until wi could see t'street light twinklin' in our village. Mi father smiled down at mi through t'icicles hangin' off his nose. "Nearly home now lad", he said.

We stumbled into t'house and stood there freezin' cold and tired out, shiverin' and miserable, in front o' t' meagre fire. Any road, mi mam says "Cheer up, lads. I've got you some nice brown bread and butter for yer tea."

Ee, mi father went crackers. He reached out and gently pulled mi mam towards 'im by t'throat. "You big fat, idle ugly wart", he said. "You gret useless spawny-eyed parrot-faced wazzock." ('E had a way wi words, mi father. He'd bin to college, y'know). "You've been out playin' bingo all afternoon instead o' gettin' some proper snap ready for me an' this lad", he explained to mi poor, little, purple-faced mam.

Then turnin' to me he said "Arthur", (He could never remember mi name), "here's half a crown. Nip down to t'chip 'oyl an' get us a nice piece o' 'addock for us tea. Man cannot live by bread alone." He were a reyt tater, mi father. He said as 'ow workin' folk should have some dignity an' pride an' self respect, an' as 'ow they should come home to summat warm an' cheerful.

An' then he threw mi mam on t'fire.

We didn't 'ave no tellies or shoes or bedclothes. We med us own fun in them days. Do you know, when I were a lad you could get a tram down into t'town, buy three new suits an' an ovvercoat, four pair o' good boots, go an' see George Formby at t'Palace Theatre, get blind drunk, 'ave some steak an' chips, bunch o' bananas an' three stone o' monkey nuts an' still 'ave change out of a farthing.

We'd lots o' things in them days they 'aven't got today - rickets, diptheria, Hitler and my, we did look well goin' to school wi' no backside in us trousers an' all us little 'eads painted purple because we 'ad ringworm.

They don't know they're born today!!!

I could not resist it, sorry Dezi
 
It brings back a lot of happy memories for me.
No hot water unless the fire was lit.
Scarves outside your coat.
Chillblains!
Workmen wearing ex-army battledress.
No family car. Sunday treat was a bus ride out into the country 10 - 15 miles then walk home and a soft drink in the beer garden of our local.
Bank holiday it was a tour bus to a resort.
Bikes with rod brakes and three speed gears.
New clothes at whitsuntide.
Police officers that gave you a clip around the ear then more trouble from dad for getting into trouble in the first place.
Rented radio (no tv) and Ovaltinies.
"Go out to play" straight after meals.
I knew the names of all the neighbours and they were all friendly.
I must be very old? At 62 I don't think so.
 
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hows bout dammin' brooks ,buildin' a swing over top and playin' doubles'n' trebles, prayin' rope wunt break!!lol

hedge-hoppin'

door knockin'

brook jumpin'

canal-lock jumpin'

swimmin' in da cut

buildin' camps and playin army lol
 
margarine

lend us 50p for gas

raidin' the gas meter

kicked out to play only allowed in for no2's or 't'

can ya boro' us a cup of sugar?

actually spendin' time together as a family unit and yakkin'/ playin' games!!!!
 
can you go next door and telll them they are wanted on our phone!! cheeky sods giving our number to strangers!!!:D:D:D!
 
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