The Good Old Days

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 13:41

Do you remember the good old days when we had,

Sweet Cigarettes

Pogo Sticks

Marbles

45 rpm records

Home milk delivery in glass bottles

Four digit telephone numbers – Press button A then B

Hi-Fi’s

Spud Guns

Meccano Sets

Reel to Reel Tape recorders

Ford Capris

IZAL Toilet paper

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 13:41

Bazooka Joe Pink Bubble Gum

Mojos

Black Jacks

Frozen Jubbly’s (I feel a Negative Nick response to this one!)

Fruit Salad’s

When you put a playing card in your cycle spokes to transform your bike to a motorcycle

Newsreels before the Movie

Hula Hoops

Nitty Nora.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 13:42

Laurel & Hardy

The Famous Five

The Secret Seven

Biggles

The Lone Ranger

Roy Rogers & Trigger

And taking drugs was the Polio injection at school.

wackyjim



Joined: 04/06/2007
Posts: 760

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 13:47

Erections

Stewart


Joined: 19/07/2008
Posts: 1107

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 13:51

I remember when history was still waiting to be made!..inc the first tv set! and.. in-t-er-nets was something you did after the dance on a sat night!

Dusterbruce


Joined: 03/08/2007
Posts: 1125

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 14:01

Muffin the Mule was not a sexual perversion.

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 14:28

I licked muffin the mule....

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 14:34

Curly Wurly's



Captain Pugwash!! That was banned for its sexual innuendos!



We used to go out and play not sit in front of computers for as long as possible only stopping to eat!

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 14:39

Liked............

boysie2670


Joined: 28/01/2008
Posts: 65

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 14:39

Saw one of my grandkids reading a book the other day,will have to get his mother to monitor this unusual behaviour ! !

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 14:45

Jock I am not sure i can respond to your message, it may cause offense to some people.

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 14:49

Pinky & Perky, Topo Gigio,Tuffty Fluffy Tail, Bill & Ben, Tales of the Riverbank.

Christopher Trace & Leila Williams. Bill I had a packet of Hula Hoops at lunch time!

Yes I know the other type of hula hoop.

Paul

ROBnJO


Joined: 30/06/2008
Posts: 1289

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 14:54

Smog

Rickets

Blackouts

Warm milk

Bedtime

Cod Liver Oil

Gristly watery mince

Boiled cabbage

NHS glasses

Calipers

Caning

The Test Card

The Black & White Minstrel Show

Golliwog Badges

Only 'Health & Efficiency' on the top shelf

The Labour Exchange

Bruce Forsyth

Girls who wouldn't

Harold MacMillan 'You've never had it so good'







Do you know,... I think he was right!



Rob

Amber


Joined: 26/09/2008
Posts: 561

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 15:08

Spangles and Pacer Mints............

spangles


Joined: 22/10/2008
Posts: 411

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 15:12

Amber - how kind of you!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 15:13

Knock down Ginger!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 15:16

The Generation game.

Amber


Joined: 26/09/2008
Posts: 561

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 15:25

Spangles - message 15



No problem!! I did used to love those sweets as well though!!

britvic



Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 15:30

Clackers, Pelham puppets and Golliwogs.

Cabbie


Joined: 30/01/2009
Posts: 95

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 15:42

omo was a washing powder



cruising was taking a sail on a boat



A puff was something you took on a cigarette



swinging was what you did on a swing



a/c d/c was something to do with electrics



and a dyke was something that kept water at bay.

britvic



Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 15:44

Isn't swinging something that you still do on a swing?

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 15:49

excellent cabbie!

Dusterbruce


Joined: 03/08/2007
Posts: 1125

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 15:50

If swinging is something you do on a swing, what is dogging?

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 16:29

woof woof.

puppylover



Joined: 05/05/2008
Posts: 1427

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 17:02

sherbet dips

liquorish bootlaces

Flying saucers

Cabbie


Joined: 30/01/2009
Posts: 95

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 17:07

not sure about dogging why cottaging ?

gooligan


Joined: 30/01/2007
Posts: 1591

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 17:08

http://www.thepinksweetshop.co.uk/

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 17:21

The Bobby on the beat.

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 17:23

1001 cleans a big big carpet for less than half a crown....

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 17:27

A Tanner !

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 17:29

Ten Bob Notes

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 17:29

White Fivers

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 17:33

Groat's...........

Cabbie


Joined: 30/01/2009
Posts: 95

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 17:33

No1Doyen straight one or bent ones ?

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 17:45

Good one Cabbie. I bet you've seen a few in your line of work eh?

JimmyG


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 900

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 17:54

Amos & Andy, Crackerjack......CRACKERJACK

Cabbie


Joined: 30/01/2009
Posts: 95

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 18:01

White fivers were the best none of this BLACK market money.



In the words of Hrh the queen mother " this common market will never work with fogs spiks and degos "

batterboy58



Joined: 20/04/2008
Posts: 442

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 18:07

Golliwogs.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 18:07

Teddy Boys.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 18:08

Murray Mints.

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 18:14

Thrupenny bit or the plural !

joandjelly


Joined: 24/02/2008
Posts: 2953

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 18:16

Opal Fruits made to make your mouth water!

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 18:26

Don't forget;

Saturday morning Cinema ---- Zorro

Flipper

" Talking Horse " ?



B/W tv --------------- Quatermass

Bootsie & Snudge

Bronco Layne

Juke Box Jury



Those were the days

lovelife


Joined: 07/07/2007
Posts: 231

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 19:17

Lucky bags

School milk, frozen in winter, curdling in summer.

Going to school irrespective of the weather.

Watch with mother

Catweazel

Paraffin heaters

Getting a sixpence from the tooth fairy.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 19:23

cod liver oil with malt ration books. in ireland w didnt see banannas i was 15 before i saw one and didnt know i had to peel it. thank god life has changed or we have xxxx

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 19:35

Liberty bodices

Aertex vests

Doing PE in your knickers (physical eduction before some smart Alec comments!!!)

Robin Hood with Richard Greene on a Saturday late afternoon

The Buccaneers with Robert Shaw

William Tell

The Golden Shot

Juke Box Jury

Double your Money

The one with Michael Miles and Bob Danvers-Walker

Ready Steady Go (the weekend starts here)



Spending hours in the junior library (it was free) - there are those books again - what were our mothers thinking?

Jacko skates

The Billy Cotton Band Show (on the wireless)

The Clitheroe Kid (wireless)

Sing Something Simple (me Mum's favourite)

The Black & White Minstrel show (has someone already mentioned this?)



I could go on - oops, sorry I have?

All this nostalgia ain't what it used to be.



J

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 19:52

the beano and the dandy on a saturday morning went for them on my space hopper

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 19:54

rowlo - Jackie and Bunty on a Saturday morning for me.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 20:03

hi jean and paul and rowlo oh my god have you brought the memories back. bunty we we so innocent better tan ok or hello. misse you xxxx

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 20:11

enjoy the memories lilli its what makes us what weve become // good post no1

chick


Joined: 02/07/2008
Posts: 323

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 20:22

Reminds of the song "Childhood days when we were just a couple kids"

Does anyone know the song right through.

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 20:34

Farthing's, Florins...

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 20:36

I'd forgot about Farthings. Well done Jock

SteveAustin



Joined: 10/03/2008
Posts: 202

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 20:38

Having to cycle three miles every day for the Hovis.



When a pansy was a flower,



Mike.

fatboy



Joined: 05/11/2008
Posts: 244

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 20:40

Indian Brandy for bellyache

rsalih


Joined: 01/11/2008
Posts: 306

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 20:58

playing outside with friends and only going home when we were hungry or time for bed..

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 21:02

arent you the lucky one rasime you actually got fed and had a bed lol

cooper


Joined: 23/10/2007
Posts: 3386

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 21:13

Hedge hopping



Action man



Chopper bike's



Oxford Bag's



The cane



Magic roundabout



Bending all me-mam's spoons repairing punctures on me bike



Conkers



Plimsols with holes in

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 21:29

plastic sandles from woolies when your feet grew you cut the ends of and had flip flops

harita


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 1343

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 21:30

chick ... Goes something like ..

As long as I remember, how proud I used to be ..

When me dad & mother they bought new shoes for me ..

We were all dressed up stiff as starch ..

Then off to church we would march ..

But the very best time of all, was when we had no shoes at all ..



Barefoot days when we were just a couple of kids ..

Barefoot days oh boy the things we did ..

We'd go down to a shady nook , with a bent pin for a hook ..

We'd fish all day and we'd fish all night ..

But the darned all fish would refuse to bite ..

Then we'd slide & slide down some old cellar door ..

Slide & slide till our pants got torn ..

Then we'd have to go home , stay in our bed ..

Till our mother got busy with the needle & thread ..

Oh boy , what joy , we had in barefoot days ..

ROBnJO


Joined: 30/06/2008
Posts: 1289

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 21:39

Dan Dare stories in the 'Eagle'!



(did the Mekon ever die?)



Bread & Beef Dripping!



A Black & White 10" telly!



Me Nan's Stew & Dumplings!



Shovelling the Milkmans horse poo for Dad's Roses!



Petting the Rag&Bone mans horse (ditto as above)



Getting fingers stuck in washing mangle

Harlequin


Joined: 02/10/2008
Posts: 346

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 21:44

Dick Barton

dalartokat


Joined: 14/04/2008
Posts: 734

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 21:58

5 o'clock club

Harlequin


Joined: 02/10/2008
Posts: 346

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 22:00

Double seats in the back row at the cinema.

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 22:00

Mrs MILLS on the piano. She was GREAT!!

chick


Joined: 02/07/2008
Posts: 323

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 22:04

Harita that was lovely, though you was a bit out of tune !!!

harita


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 1343

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 22:20

Never could sing ... Kicked out of the choir ...

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 22:49

Liberace...

Anthony


Joined: 26/01/2009
Posts: 87

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 22:50

Perry Como

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 22:55

White dog shit.

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 22:59

getting up at 4 in morning to deliver coal to keep all you old ones warm lol

Mindy



Joined: 27/10/2008
Posts: 1210

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 23:07

Uncle Joes mint balls

A balloon or a brown stone for the door step from rag and Bone man in exchange for old clothes

Bogey carts (made from old prams, wheels etc)

gas mantles

bed bugs

public baths

picnics, consisting of a bottle of water and dry bed and jam(yummy)

Dandelion and Burdock

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 23:12

Mindy,

Rag and bone men are back with a vengeance.What about cowpoke jeans and snake belts,

Paul.

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 23:14

The days when the; Grocer, the Baker, the Butcher, the fishmonger came to your Estate in a nice old grey A5 and you put the Bill "on the slate"

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 23:18

Long hot summers.

Mindy



Joined: 27/10/2008
Posts: 1210

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 23:28

Paul cant remember cow poke jeans, refresh my memory, see your just over the bridge from sunny scunny

Mindy



Joined: 27/10/2008
Posts: 1210

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 23:31

white dog poo, that made me chuckle, where exactly has it gone too.

Mindy



Joined: 27/10/2008
Posts: 1210

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 23:39

putting my pleated skirt(school uniform) under matress to keep it pressed.

Coats on the bed in winter to keep warm

Pee pots ugh!

outside loo's

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 23:45

Hiding behind me Aunt Kath's settee when the "Tally Man" came knocking on the door.

Helping me Mum mangle the sheets in the back yard, losing concentration and letting the sheets go into the greasy bit and then getting a clip round the ear!!

Boxing day lunchtime - all the family down the pub and then all back to my Mum and Dad's for more drinks (shorts) and singing and dancing to Max Bygraves' record. Anyone remember "Heart of my Heart" and "Only a Shanty" ? I was brought up on these and other like it and still remember every word!

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 23:52

Mindy,

Cowpoke jeans where the poor persons wrangler they where really poor quality,made worse when they were held up with a snake belt.



Watching your dad p****** in the wardrobe when he was drunk.

Hector


Joined: 26/08/2008
Posts: 2352

Message Posted:
05/02/2009 23:57

Torchy, Torchy..the battery boy...

Twizzle

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 00:01

Kiss catch,doctors and nurses and stink finger.

Mindy



Joined: 27/10/2008
Posts: 1210

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 00:05

Bellbottoms, hot pants, midi hair style, platform shoes ,maxi coats ,thigh boots, cherry B , Pony's, Barley wine.

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 00:17

Here comes Hoppity - dear old Hoppity!!

Mindy - now you're talking! Putting my head around the front room door "I'm off" Mum - "Get in here". Me (sheepish) "What". Mum - "If you thinki you're going out like that young lady, you've got another think coming".

Explanation - me, in hot pants with knee high pink suede boots.

Also had Afghan coat - could never get the smell out.

Tripped over extra wide bellbottoms down stairs and broke by elbow.

Cherry B - sooooo sophisticated!

Barley wine - me mother again - never let a bloke buy you barley wine, you'll get drunk and he'll take advantage - God, if only she knew.

I loved the midi hair style - thought I was the bees knees with that!



J

Lemtich



Joined: 15/02/2007
Posts: 1487

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 00:21

Mr Pastry!



http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/other/mrpastry.htm



Have a look at the Lancers clip, very funny!



Lem

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 00:23

7 pint Brew XI Cans

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 00:29

Lem - Mr Pastry aka Dicki Hearne (spelling correct?)



J

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 00:30

My first drink in my local, Brown and Mild.

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 00:34

Dave - my first "grown up" drink was Vodka and Lime. It didn't half sting when it came back up again.



My dad always drank Mild and Bitter and my mum gin and orange (squash) Yeuk!!!

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 00:39

I remember overdosing on Emva Cream sherry behind the NAAFI store.

Never touched Sherry again.

eager


Joined: 23/02/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 00:53

Alf Tupper

Captain Hurricane

Lord Snooty

Coalmen

5 park drive / weights

No 6s

No 10s....................................................and

















Those were the days.............Mary Hopkins









Those were the days...Mary Hopkins

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 00:56

The-Wicks

Unfortunately I moved on to Gaymers Old English Cider after my exploits with brown and mild and it put me off of drink for life (well for a few years anyway).

Rum and Black used to be a favourite drink of many of my friends. Watneys Red Barrel (disgusting) was the only 'draught' beer you could buy in my local.

Spit and sawdust in the public bar and I won't comment about the people that frequented the saloon bar.

AJ

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 01:01

"Black Cat "Ciggies Highest TAR content ever. After effects just hitting me now.



Mars Bars that were thicker and longer. Or maybe my hands were smaller.

NUX bars All nutty.

Anybody remember the Cabana Bar . Bounty thingy with glace cherry pieces inside. Fancy one now actually.

eager


Joined: 23/02/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 01:34

Think i've got one of those down the back of the sofa.

Bladerunner


Joined: 10/01/2009
Posts: 204

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 09:00

Trncoldboy mess86 party 7 never could open them only with hammer and screwdriver then it was a party 5 all over the ceiling beer stains everywhere

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 09:16

Players Weights.

denizkisi


Joined: 18/09/2008
Posts: 196

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 09:34

Kunzle cakes - expensive and only for a very special treat..........

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 09:36

I Love Lucy



Dragnet



The Twilight Zone

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 09:40

GOD Didnt we all have a great time.My first ever grown up drink was a babycham given me a taste for champange ever since. Also xmas time I was allowed a snowball. Imagine this thread in a few years time asking the kids of this generation what they remember. Ipods MP3s gang warfare etc. Nice one Bill at least we all have the same memories. xxxx

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 09:42

You are right Lilli. What about the 'snowball' drinks the ladies used to have?

cruggs


Joined: 06/04/2008
Posts: 498

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 09:57

pear drops,sweets

broken biscuits

eagle,boys comic

carbolic,soap

5 dominos, cigarette's

blue boy,bag wash

smiths crisps with the blue salt packet

camp, coffee

home made food,pigs trotters,brawn,ox tail,tripe and onions.

scots porridge oats,

sugar sandwiches,dripping sandwiches.

marmite,

etc.etc.

Quarmby


Joined: 15/09/2008
Posts: 975

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 10:12

Remember having to take the accumulator to the electrical shop to be charged for the radio. Having the milk delivered in churns by the local farmer.

Amber


Joined: 26/09/2008
Posts: 561

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 10:15

Fruit Salads and Black Jacks, Space Hoppers, Pans People on Top of the Pops!!

bankadan


Joined: 14/12/2007
Posts: 979

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 10:40

tales of the unexpected...with the pans people type dancers !

Amber


Joined: 26/09/2008
Posts: 561

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 10:45

Charlies Angels, Starsky and Hutch

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 10:58

Uncle Mac childrens favourities:-

Tubby the tuba.

Nelly the elephant

The runaway train

Pink toothbrush, blue toothbrush

(One for cooper) Don't jump off the roof dad

P

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 11:03

Two or three way family favourites Cliff Michelmore & Jean Metcalf

japal


Joined: 12/08/2008
Posts: 89

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 11:24

Trolley buses

Jiffy the Broomstick man

Supercar

No 6 cigarettes

No 10 cigarettes

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 11:27

The Big Bang..................

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 11:29

Thats a bit too far back Jock

Bladerunner


Joined: 10/01/2009
Posts: 204

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 11:39

Acid drops aniceed balls sherbert lemons .civil war cards with that flat square of chewing gum if you could chew it .flying saucers taste less paper with sherbert in them liqurish wood liqurish imps cola cubes rhubarb and custard the corona man walls ice cream man on his bike. zubes cough sweets only sweets you could eat in school tell teacher you had a cough .bazoka joe bubble gum .Z cars wally whiteton pussy cat willum fred barker sooty and sue muffin the mule not a thing i recamend lol bert weadon. could go on forever but it will probley bore you.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 12:53

The Rag & Bone Man

kaiserphil


Joined: 14/12/2008
Posts: 1096

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 13:01

My word, you are all so old! I thought it was just me!



How about the Rover, Wizard, Hotspur, Adventure and Champion?



I remember getting the first Eagle comic!



And what's happened to that crispy bacon?



Just remembered bread and condensed milk! Fantastic!

Stewart


Joined: 19/07/2008
Posts: 1107

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 13:16

How about....an outside toilet,

coal bunker

doing the washing via a mangle,

silver threepenny piece,

a crown,

jamboree bag,

school where you knew everyone,

getting the slipper from the teacher

cars were all one colour..black...and needed a crank!

JimmyG


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 900

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 15:20

Uncle Mac, Winifred Attwell, Sing Something Simple, McDonald Hobley, I love Lucy & the first English soap on TV - The Groves.

Elvis Costello's dad - Alan Breeze, singer with the Billy Cotton Band. Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnston

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 15:21

Billy Cotton - WAKEY WAKEEEEY!

Stewart


Joined: 19/07/2008
Posts: 1107

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 15:39

pgtips with cards



radio with tubes ( no transistor )



the steam engine on the railways.. the Great western, the Flying Scotsman



when the post arrived daily in the morning



GR on the post box



no jet engine



no central heating



bathing in a tub in front of the coal fire

Bladerunner


Joined: 10/01/2009
Posts: 204

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 15:59

. tug boat annie .wagon train .raw hide. rowdy yates and wishbone. skippy the bush kangaroo. where is he skipp fetch a rope. no hiding place chief inspector lockhart. emergency ward 10. dr kildare. take your pick. dixon of dock green.- evening all.



did anyone think they were a pop star and record their own single in one of them recording booths.

Mindy



Joined: 27/10/2008
Posts: 1210

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 16:22

J

Me too about the midi hair style, nearly broke my neck coming down the stairs of a double decker bus wearing my maxi coat, soooo dangerous, but hey that was the fashion. nick name for barley wines was 'Leg openers'

Hector


Joined: 26/08/2008
Posts: 2352

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 16:27

Bread and beef dripping...

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 16:48

What was the name of that show where they had Box 13?

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 16:51

Was it Take Your Pick ?

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 17:08

" Cookie " in 77 sunset strip. Handsome little fella, but he didn't arf "take the Biscuit"!!!

harita


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 1343

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 17:32

Being allowed to stay up later on a Wednesday to listen to Wilfred Pickles & give 'em the money Barney on "Have a Go"

Bladerunner


Joined: 10/01/2009
Posts: 204

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 17:39

Life boy soap. the white tornado. having a bath in the buttler sink. sugar sandwich. steralised milk kept cool in a bucket of water. rin tin tin.

ROBnJO


Joined: 30/06/2008
Posts: 1289

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 17:55

No 'Use By' or 'Best Before' dates!



We just ate it until it was green or smelly!



Then it went on the compost heap, or the dogs bowl.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 17:55

The Army Game.

ROBnJO


Joined: 30/06/2008
Posts: 1289

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 18:08

Confession time,.. but don't tell the wife,...



I used to REALLY fancy the woman on the 'Shake-n-Vac' advert!



She could come round anytime and 'Do' for me!





So who did you fancy from the Brylcreem years? Was it Mullets or DA's for you girls?, or perms for us chaps?





Go on 'fess up!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 18:09

Katie the OXO girl for me........

ROBnJO


Joined: 30/06/2008
Posts: 1289

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 18:20

Bill



Do you mean the original one before Linda Bellingham?



If so, I'm with you on that!,.....

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 18:21

Yes ROB, the original one..

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 18:30

message 123 - I used to think he was wonderful!



Did you know he was in the film "Grease" as the compere of the High School Dance competition?



J

mia100max


Joined: 19/03/2008
Posts: 404

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 18:50

Triangular, frozen Jublee's in the summer (we used to have a summer every year then)!

Running to the neighbour's to see if she could loan a shilling to put in the gas meter.

The Twinkle annual every Christmas (Favourite: Nurse Nancy).

Randle & Hopkirk (Deceased).

The Black & White Minstrel Show.

The batter scrapings from the fish cabinet for 1d

Sitting staring into a REAL coal fire.

Having to make that real coal fire.

Dad putting shovel over fireplace & covering with newspaper to "draw" it.

Lino on the floors (why was it always orange & brown)?

Wash day.

Bath night.

The fair that used to park up once a year on a local field.

Praying that the tall, greasy haired guy would spin you on the waltzers more than the other girls.

Klackers (still have scars on my knuckles).

The Zylaphone (Still remember how to play Doe a Deer).

1 cig in a paper bag & sharing it with all you're friends.

Cherry B mixed with cider (lethal)!



Crikey... It seems like yesterday!

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 21:57

Message 132 How very interesting, I never understood how he vanished from the box after that one programme.



Peyton Place , Well before JR



Jimmy Edwards with his Trumpet ?

Lance Percival with his Trombone ?



Dixon of Dock Green Classic!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 22:27

Winkle Pickers

kernowboy


Joined: 30/07/2008
Posts: 11

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 22:22

1001 cleans a big big carpet for less than half a crown.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 22:33

Skol Lager

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 22:38

The days when we used to use the toilet outside and eat inside, now we use the toilet inside and eat outside!

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 22:52

William Tell

The Third Man

Tales from the Crypt Still scary now

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 23:03

Shirley Abicair and her zither?

Anita Harris?

Tinger & Tucker, Willy Wombat & Auntie Jean?

Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop?

Wogans fight the flab ( He's still doing that) except he's given up?

Come Dancing ( The formation team Frank & Peggy Spencer) all sequins sown on by hand!

P&J

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 23:16

I've been trying to think of the programme UK versus Europe, where Eddy Waring's commentary was absolutely hilarious. Copied, but never bettered.

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 23:23

Eddy Waring commentating on the Rugby League - up and under his favourite saying.

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 23:28

Message 142 Yeah, I remember that also. I think the programme I'am on about , he did shortly after his Rugby stint.

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 23:36

Mesg.143. It's a Knockout?

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 23:39

Message 144----- Thats the one , also with Stuart Hall, It was so funny, despite being a competition.

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
06/02/2009 23:46

Jeux Sans Frontières or It's a Knockout.

P

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
07/02/2009 00:05

We are survivors: Born before 1940.

We were born before TV, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, contact lenses, videos and the pill. Credit cards, ballpoint pens, dish-washers, tumble driers, electric blankets, drip dry clothes and before man walked on the moon.

We got married first then lived together(how quaint was that) Big Mac was an oversized raincoat and crumpet we had for tea. Sheltered accommodation was where you waited for a bus.

Time sharing was togetherness, a chip was a piece of wood or fried potato. hardware was nuts & bolts and software wasn't a word.

Stud was something that fastened a collar to a shirt and going all the way meant staying on the bus to the terminus. Cigarette smoking was fashionable grass was mown and coke was kept in the coalhouse, a joint was a piece of meat you ate on Sunday and pot was something you cooked it in. A gay person was the life and soul of a party while aids meant beauty treatment or help for someone in trouble.

Bladerunner


Joined: 10/01/2009
Posts: 204

Message Posted:
07/02/2009 07:17

Ah bisto. five boys chocolate.

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
07/02/2009 08:04

Message 147 Wonderful

Bladerunner


Joined: 10/01/2009
Posts: 204

Message Posted:
07/02/2009 10:18

Powdered milk and that concentrated orange juice in little bottles from the clinic.

chick


Joined: 02/07/2008
Posts: 323

Message Posted:
07/02/2009 11:59

woodspekie Msg 147



The truest post of all how true.



Bladerunner. Msg150.



it was called National Dried, babies thrived on it, half a crown a tin with milk token.

Windycorner


Joined: 27/12/2008
Posts: 77

Message Posted:
07/02/2009 12:13

78 record GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY

Bladerunner


Joined: 10/01/2009
Posts: 204

Message Posted:
07/02/2009 12:25

Scraping the ice off the inside of the window so you could see out side .crisp white starched sheets if you were brave you put your feet down bottom of bed straight away or lucky to have a hot water bottle.my mum used to light oven i would sit on chair with my feet in it to keep warm.the good old days just a coal fire.

spangles


Joined: 22/10/2008
Posts: 411

Message Posted:
07/02/2009 13:06

Yeah having to warm your clothes by the fire before you put them on

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
07/02/2009 15:55

Clearing the ashes from the grate.

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
07/02/2009 16:44

Your Mum bringing in the washing from the line in the winter and the sheets being frozen and your Dad's shirts being able to stand up on their own. The tops on the milk bottles popping off because the top of the milk had frozen whilst it was on the step. Crittall windows which froze up on the inside (also had big gaps in them and so always let a draught in). Like lots of others, my Mum putting on the oven and opening the door to try and heat up the kitchen while your school uniform was on the oven door till it was warm enough to put on. Good old days? In some ways, definitely, but not necessarily in all ways!!

Mindy



Joined: 27/10/2008
Posts: 1210

Message Posted:
07/02/2009 20:22

I loved watching the shopkeeper slicing the bacon or ham on the slicing machine, and going an errand for my mum for 2oz's of sliced corn beef and I would nibble a bit off the end on the way home, she never knew. Naughty me!!

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
07/02/2009 20:32

Mindy - that was when bacon tasted like bacon!



I used to go out for 2ozs spam and nick a slice on the way home. She noticed!!



J

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
07/02/2009 23:36

The Best Memory of all; Mid Morning break at school, and if you were Quick,

you got the Glass bottle of CHOCOLATE Milk instead of the white stuff.

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
08/02/2009 00:54

Message 159 - trncoldboy - chocolate milk! Blimey, where did you go to school? I see from your profile that you and I are the same age, but all we got was frozen milk in the winter or curdled milk in the summer! Admittedly, the milk was in glass bottles, but ....



Would be interested to know what you got for school dinners!



Regards



J

Bladerunner


Joined: 10/01/2009
Posts: 204

Message Posted:
08/02/2009 08:19

Micky the chocolate drink out of one of them 6d machine you had to kick to get your drink or your money back but if empty you got nothing .gutted. also beech nut chewing gum machine.

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
08/02/2009 21:02

Message 160 Dad was in the RAF so moved about a bit. 1st School Bridlington. Remember " Frog Spawn " Tapioca pudding, semolina, spotted dick and my favourite, Roly Poly with thick custard.

Somehow the Lamb Hotpot and Braised steak meals linger on. Eat your heart out Jamie Oliver!!

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
08/02/2009 23:19

The tin bath in the scullery and having to go outside to go to the toilet.

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
09/02/2009 00:24

Going to smoky "posh" Pub and ogling the girls in HOTPANTS dancing in a makeshift Cage for all their worth. --- Or was I dreaming!

dalartokat


Joined: 14/04/2008
Posts: 734

Message Posted:
09/02/2009 00:32

and how many of you remember being told these things by your mum or how many of you are saying these things to your children now



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESe-AysF9mw

Ailletoo


Joined: 24/01/2009
Posts: 1003

Message Posted:
09/02/2009 00:32

They say, "if you remember it, you weren't there" I remember nutting!!!!

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
09/02/2009 00:54

Oldie Films;

Room at the Top

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Kes

Alfie

Bladerunner


Joined: 10/01/2009
Posts: 204

Message Posted:
09/02/2009 08:24

Films con mess 167.Bridge over the river kwi. Fist full of dollars. Guns of navarone. and who rembers 16.

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
10/02/2009 00:27

Listening to Radio Caroline under the bedclothes in case your parents heard you being up late. That old Fossil Tony Blackburn is still going strong.

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
10/02/2009 00:40

Message 269 - HER NAME WAS CAROLINE, CAROLINE EYE EY EYE..............

Many happy memories of me and my transistor radio under the bedclothes. Do you remember when your batteries went and you had to keep re-tuning and turning your radio round until you got some sort of reception?



And what about WONDERFUL RADIO LONDON?



J

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
10/02/2009 00:46

We were really "hip" listening to this wonderful music after we had sat with parents watching; Fanny Craddock and her wimpy "Johnny" with his silly monacle. Clash of 2 cultures would you say J ?

Bladerunner


Joined: 10/01/2009
Posts: 204

Message Posted:
10/02/2009 07:10

Radio 1 tony blackburn flowers in the rain .the move

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
10/02/2009 10:17

Who had one of the old 'Crystal Set Radio's'

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
10/02/2009 12:19

Newlad,

You sure you didn't live down our terrace?

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
10/02/2009 12:27

Had enough trouble with the indoor TV ariel which did nothing whilst on top of the TV, but provided picture when secured at an angle by a cup on the window ledge.

eager


Joined: 23/02/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
10/02/2009 21:50

Msg 173...re- crystal radio sets...was that the one that had a little crocodile clip to attatch to a radiator to get a reception,? remember having one of these as a kid.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
10/02/2009 22:20

Yes that's the one Eager.