Born in the 30s,40s,50s, and 60s?

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 15:48

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's,40's, 50's and 60's !



First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nandos. Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death! We shared one soft drin

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 15:49

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because....WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY, no video/dvd films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 15:50

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no Lawsuits from these accidents. Only girls had pierced ears! We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet! RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bullies always ruled the playground at school.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 15:50

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla' We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

smithy


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 15:58

No1Doyen

What a wonderful piece and so true, thankyou so much for making us aware of what we had and was grateful for, although not always at that time

Smithy

Littlenige



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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 16:01

and we enjoyed every moment of it,

britvic



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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 16:33

And we could play with conckers and clackers.

jock1



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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 16:42

We where to poor to afford a childhood............

wynyardman



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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 16:46

No1Doyen,



Excellent posting. Takes me back.



What we did before bulletin boards. Pike fishing?



Enjoy the memories.



wyn

Lilli



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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 16:55

hi no1 doyeed makes you dispair for the young today, cant make conversation cant spell(mind i have that problem) they can only txt and use swear words as conversation thanks to being glued to play station etc. takes you back though thank you for the memory lilli

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 17:21

We were poor in those days. I recall that we were so poor my mother used to buy our clothes from the Army & Navy surplus stores. One day I went to school dressed as a Japanese Admiral.

wynyardman



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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 17:23

No1,



We were so poor, in the winter my father would suck a Polo mint, and we would all sit around his tongue to keep warm.



wyn

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 17:33

Wyn, we were so poor no body wanted our 'hand-me-downs'

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 17:36

We were so poor, when someone pressed the doorbell I used to have to shout out "Ding-Dong"

jock1



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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 17:37

Hand me down's LUXUARY !!!!!!

jock1



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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 17:42

MSG. 9 Should have read were so poor, just in case anybody jumps on the band wagon.

gemma


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 17:42

Many thanks Bill. Seemed like only yesterday.



Summer holidays were never long enough. We used to "camp out" under an upturned cloths horse with a blanket over it, a bag of Smiths crisps and a bottle of pop [ home made ]



Our bestest game was tormenting the life out of the Park Keeper on the Golf Course behind us.



NO ONE ever said 1 week into the hols---IM BORED !!!

jock1



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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 17:46

luxury.... god im sober

brandy sour


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 18:07

Clackers God they bring back memories.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 18:12

The Good Old Days. Remember Knock Down Ginger? You try doing that now! You would not even be able to call it Knock Down Ginger for fear of reprisals from the Politically Correct brigade. I suppose you'd have to call it Knock Down RedHead, although does'nt seem to have the same ring about does it?

ROBnJO


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 18:20

Eeh!



They were the days!



My mate got Rickets! He were cr*p at penalties but great in goal! You never knew which way he would fall!



My cousin had his own calipers!... I were so jealous!... real Calipers!!



My uncle coughed 'imself to death, sommat he'd caught down't mine.



Smog were great weren't it! You could cough yer 'eart out and get a day off skool!

Trouble was you then 'ad to ave gallons of fishy Cod Liver Oil and that funny orange juice, stay in yer jim-jams all day and not see yer mates!



Skool were fun,... apart from the warm milk from the crates in't playground. Sometimes so warm it were full of cheesy lumps and made you gag. If you did you got caned! But if you gagged at the right time, you got off having to eat the watery grissly mince & cabbage at dinner break!



Best was when me dad gave me a magnifying glass fer me birthday! On sunny days I tried it on't cat, but the smell of burning fur were terrible and t'bl**dy thing scratched me!

ROBnJO


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 18:24

So I stuck to using it on ants & spiders!



Best of all were finding me grandads bullets in cellar!



Found some old lead tube, & if you licked it enough the bullets fitted! Clamped it between some old Asbestos in me dads vice in garden shed,.. opened door,.. & hit the bullet with a hammer! Brilliant!!



Till we broke the windsceen of Mr Johnsons Morris Minor across the road.



Eeh! they were the days!





rob

Mellie


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 18:36

Thanks No1 Doyen



This post brought a smile to my face, I can relate to it all..........

How life has changed so much for the children today. I remember saying to my step children about 5 years ago for them to go outside to play and they looked at me as if i was crazy



I was still sitting on my dads lap at 13 or 14, the children grow up to quickly these days.

cruggs


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 19:37

i can remember when ,my mates sister, got a new bike for her birthday, and she let us all have a ride........funny present for a girl of eighteen but i enjoyed it. we were so poor even my cloggs had woodworm.has anybody ever made candles out of ear wax, thats how poor we were,now we can buy real ones. a treat for me on friday nights was to go with my dad down to the fish and chip shop where he would buy some fish and chips, and then let me smell the

empty wrapper............yes those were were the days a fond memory still.

debdebs


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 19:52

I remember the long days in the summer holidays, we always went off for the day over the fields, a big crowd of us and my mum would say "they'll be back when there hungry" and sure enough we was always on time for tea and that was without a watch! Have lots of good chilhood memories, dont know where the years have gone.

rsalih


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 20:00

And also our chips were wrapped in newspaper...............message 1.

wynyardman



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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 20:03

No1,



Poor! You didnt know what poor was.



At Christmas we were given a boiled egg, and told it was Easter.



It was cheaper than an apple, an orange and a threepennybit!



wyn

scampy



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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 20:10

Even though I was born in 69 I still remember all that

And it was good

Kids today don't know thier born

Susie x

Quarmby


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 21:01

Yes, those were the days. Pity that those who enjoyed those times seem to forget that those generations are the instigators of the type of society you are all now complaining about.

Scampy msg28, my dear old mum was saying the same to me in the early fifties.

The-Wicks


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 21:12

Quarmby - yes, so did my old mum in the early 50's. What about coming home from school, moaning that you'd been in trouble and got a smack from the teacher and then getting another clip round the ear for getting into trouble! Happy, carefree days, all the same and I wouldn't want to swap my childhood in the 50's, when we had bu..er all for kids' childhoods today, with all their gadgets, etc.

J

MUSIN M


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 21:42

memories

i used to walk 2 miles to the grocery shop to buy coal because it was cheaper then the coal man delivering .

we used to use paraffin upstairs,blue not pink .and coal downstairs .

at school we drank tizer or cream soda.

and then our rich neighbour got a coloured tele,the first film i saw was the poor millionairess with sophia loren ,i remember thinking wow green water.

memories

musin

Aga Buyers A G


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 21:51

This song sums it up



http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3AlrFOBmdVI



Different World by Bucky Covington

The-Wicks


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 21:53

Bloody Hell Musin - Cream Soda at school! I used to get a bottle of Cream Soda when my Dad came back from the pub on a Sunday lunchtime - it had to last a week. Our family favoured Pink Paraffin - I used to have to go to the garage and fill our can on a regular basis. We too had a coal fire in the 'front room'; there was a fight for who could get nearest to the fire in the winter. We also had metal (Crittal Style) windows which iced up on the inside. Who remembers getting into bed in the winter with every available blanket piled up, so you couldn't move your legs but at least your feet were warm? I could go on and on, but were they really the "Good Old Days"?

Regards J

mitsi


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 21:56

Yeah, we're all made of stern stuff and well able to take the rough with the smooth BUT spare a thought for the younger ones who are faced with other pressures that we Didn't have.

1. H.I.V. and A.I.D.S

2. Many types of illegal drugs and easy access to them

3. Fierce competition for Jobs and no security should they be lucky enough to get one.

4. Lack of housing and Ridiculous prices of property. ( much easier for us then)

5. Very few role models with integrity, respect and dignity.

6. Born into a world of greed where you are respected for how much money you have and revered for spending it on trivia and bling!!!

no1doyen


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 22:17

Thanks to all that posted- some great memories eh?

lovelife


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 22:32

In winter used to get dressed in the kitchen as mum had the gas cooker burners on as the coal fire in the front room was only lit in the evenings.



Did anyone have that disgusting tasting cod liver oil, thick white stuff in a bottle that mum made me have a teaspoon everyday, because 'it was good for me'.



LL

no1doyen


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 22:43

lovelife - and what about the disguting Malt they used to give you!

MUSIN M


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 22:51

how about the tin bath in the kitchen,now thats poor.

we used to boil 4 kettles on the gas stove and it was ready.

ahhhhh memories.



musin

lovelife


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Message Posted:
17/11/2008 23:10

no1doyen



Do not know about that all I remember is me holding my nose as mum used to spoon it in as the taste used to make me heave.





LL

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
18/11/2008 09:36

Musin - we had the tin bath as well. Twice a week in the kitchen. That was poor!

Littlenige



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Message Posted:
18/11/2008 09:58

And that liberty bodic thingy what was that all about ??

chick


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Message Posted:
18/11/2008 11:26

Nige.



Kept your chest warm.



Musin.



You was posh having 4 kettles, we had to go to the wood yard and get the off cuts to light the copper.

Lilli



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Message Posted:
18/11/2008 11:35

hi ll i loved the cod liver oil and malt wierd taste i had but at least we all have had a good time remembering the bad old days, i wouldnt swop those days with the new geneations days at least we respected family values and didnt know what a dysfunctional family was then. oh havent times changed. i was poor and im still poor but im alive lol lilli

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
18/11/2008 12:08

Lilli - well said. I think it's hard for this generation though. In some ways I do feel sorry for them (well most of them). We had to save to get something we wanted - nowadays they want it straight away and get in debt to get it.

Skogsy


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Message Posted:
18/11/2008 12:18

Tin Baths eh?

With a brick under one end so's there was a deep end.

And think of the luxury of having bubbles back then. Although I do remember getting smacked for fa*ting in the bath.

Out in the back yard as well !!

Skogsy

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
18/11/2008 15:16

You must have been poor skogsy - a bath in the back yard. I bet it was cold in the winter!

britvic



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Message Posted:
18/11/2008 15:27

I used to have an itchy, army blanket-type dress with elastic around the waist and cuffs bloody hated it, then my cousin grew out of her's and I had hers too!

At least the elastic on the cuffs would hide all the bruising from the clackers.

teatime


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Message Posted:
18/11/2008 16:47

All fond memories, yes I had the tin bath as well, water was usually cold by the time it got to my turn. Also the outside loo that the cystern froze up in the winter so it wouldn't flush. Good days, I don't think so....

Also, only very rich people went abroad on holidays, let alone having a holiday home in the sun.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
18/11/2008 16:51

Abroad! We went hop picking - thats how poor we were.

The-Wicks


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Message Posted:
18/11/2008 18:52

No1Doyen - hop picking, blimey, that brings back memories. We didn't go, but my aunt and loads of cousins did. I envied them 'cos I thought it sounded exciting. I mean, hop picking beat a couple of days in Leysdown didn't it?

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
18/11/2008 18:53

Do you remember the fat old chap who had the fish stall at Leysdown?

The-Wicks


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Message Posted:
18/11/2008 19:02

Well, we eventually progressed from a couple of Awaydays to a whole week in Leysdown staying in a caravan. The main thing I seem to remember was the amount of bingo halls - not the type you get now of course, but the ones where you played for prizes - I remember my Mum winning a plastic laundry basket once. I think I do vaguely remember the man with the fish stall. For a laugh, many, many years later, when my son was about 12, we took him there for a day out. He was gobsmacked that people actually spent their holidays there. I pointed out to him that we hadn't all been carted off abroad since we were toddlers and in fact were lucky to have had a holiday at all! Probably the worse thing was that Leysdown hadn't really changed very much at all from when I was a kid!