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Title: Do you remember?
Post by: Wizard on May 07, 2010, 03:49:55 pm: Girls wore knickers and stockings with suspender belts not these ere tights wi no gigglin band?
The gay chap who was the life and soul of the party not a homosexual
When you had to clean the nib to write No biros then
You were always in at 1/4 to 7pm Dick Barton Special Agent)
Deadly silence at 10 past 5 Saturday tea time ( Grimsby 1 Lincoln 2 BOGGER IT)
Go on you have a go ;D :farmer:
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Post by: WinslowPorker on May 07, 2010, 03:57:51 pm: I remember ten past five on a friday afternoon was Crack-A-Jack, all villages were void of kids

'Oooh i could crush a grape'
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Post by: Jackie on May 07, 2010, 09:39:48 pm: I remember having a bath at 7pm on Sundays so I could listen to the top 20 charts.
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Post by: Rosemary on May 08, 2010, 08:27:54 am: I remember getting my bath and hair washed in time for my Mum to watch "The Forsyte Saga".
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Post by: Daveravey on May 08, 2010, 10:27:01 am: Quote from: WinslowPorker on May 07, 2010, 03:57:51 pm
I remember ten past five on a friday afternoon was Crack-A-Jack, all villages were void of kids

'Oooh i could crush a grape'

Crack a jack was on at five to five

Tiswas ..... the best adult's kids show in history :D
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Post by: Wizard on May 08, 2010, 01:00:24 pm: ohhhh Rosemary yet another guaranteed silence bar the TV sound! ??? ::) :D :farmer:
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Post by: spitfire on May 08, 2010, 08:47:19 pm: I remember arguing with my sister about what record to put on the turntable and who hadn't put them away in their right sleeves... I remember our favourite dinner was mince with tinned carrots and peas with smash - (oh my mother is cringing as I type!), The scariest film I ever ever saw was Jaws- begged for weeks to stay up to 9 to watch it and managed the first 5 minutes! I remember us getting our first colour tv! and Teletext was the best thing since sliced bread. I also remember our first computer, a zx81 that you ran programmes from cassette tapes- it took 2 hours to load a programme that let you ping a ball across the screen at each other!
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Post by: Wizard on May 09, 2010, 09:12:04 am: Hey up Spitfire We didn't have one but next doors lad did it was a box and one removed the arial from the TV and pluged this box in and you could play tennis or ping-pong what fun Well it was then ;D :farmer:
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Post by: Hermit on May 09, 2010, 10:28:20 am: TV programmes I used to watch as a youngster were. Noggin the Nog and Captain Pugwash leading up to Magpie, How and Follifoot. I even remember Andy Pandy and Teddy going to bed in his basket at the end of the programme! Saturday tea when I was young was a buffet in front of Dr. Who then Morecome and Wise. My mum used to have a bright orange kitchen with purple accessories from the Gas Board which was very posh at the time. My dad always bought Renault 4's when the renault 6 came out we got one and it was like having a sports car! Ahhh memories.
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Post by: Wizard on May 09, 2010, 01:02:36 pm: Can you remember the Crystal Palace TV Mast with BBC going round the mast before the News :D :wave:
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Post by: Annie22 on May 09, 2010, 02:36:14 pm: Yes Wizard now they don't wear knickers :o, BTW I have suspenders healthier for a girl than pantyhose (tights). You forgot to mention when the horseless carriage first made an appearence. Oops I better run now. :D

I can remember getting colour TV and getting one of those boxes that played tennis.

The satelite coming down and wondering if it would fall on our house ::) when they walked on the moon and Mum cutting out a module from a cereal packet.
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Post by: sheila on May 09, 2010, 03:44:02 pm: The woman next door ran in and said "It says in colour, but mines still in black and white" she didn't know that you had to buy a colour t.v.!
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Post by: Wizard on May 09, 2010, 07:51:46 pm: You remember Telstar? ;D ;D :farmer:But not the Tornado's
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Post by: RUSTYME on May 09, 2010, 09:30:58 pm: I remember when I were a lad ,( the hovis music plays gently in the background ), that day afta war ...eeeee it were grand....
I remember when I were a lad ,we were so poor , I'd have go to the butcher and buy a sheep's head for stewing ....I had to tell the butcher to leave the eyes in , 'so it ud see us throu't week' ....( the sound of the hovis music still playing , interspersed with the sound of me puking !!! ) ::)....

ahhh ....those were the days ... ::) ::)
cheers

Russ
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Post by: Sandy on May 09, 2010, 10:00:40 pm: Those Knickers and suspenders were far tooo uncomfortable...I am allergic to metal and I used to have scabs on my thighs due to the metal allergy!!
NIce
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Post by: Wizard on May 09, 2010, 10:27:14 pm: Never bin poor enough to have to do wi a sheeps head Now a pigs head can make several meals including a very good soup base It's surrizing what can be made from bones I know but jump dyke I draw the line at.Sooner have beastlins ;D :farmer:
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Post by: Sandy on May 10, 2010, 09:03:39 pm: Mum used to often have pig trotters ;) I also remember all those itchy hand knitted jumpers with tight necks and socks that fell down (pants that did too when you used your elastic for French skipping) Buying stuff wrapped in newspaper or brown bags, getting Ginger Bear in Brown jugs with a wire twist top, men wore suit jackets and formal trousers and brilcream!! Oh, how things are a lot different now!!!
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Post by: Wizard on May 11, 2010, 07:54:58 am: and the smell was enough to put you off for life.Can you remember the one called Briliantine? A green solidified jelly?My pal Vic used to stick his hair down with lard. ;D :farmer:
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Post by: Sandy on May 11, 2010, 09:37:36 am: Oh yes and all that sticky greesy mess at the back of chairs YUK!!!!! Hairspray for women was like super glue too!!! At least some things are much better and easier!!
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Post by: Wizard on May 11, 2010, 02:05:35 pm: Wot about them things called Chinese cashoos Is that how you spell it? School dinners self leveling brussel sprouts like a green soup on your plate
Spoggie and a threepenny wafer.
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Post by: Annie22 on May 12, 2010, 04:05:17 am: My Dad was a "Brilcream Boy".
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Post by: Wizard on May 12, 2010, 07:35:54 am: Flight Sergeant Anne-Marie ?
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Post by: Jackie 2 on May 12, 2010, 09:34:51 am: Yes my dad was a Brylcreem Boy Annie and yes also a flight Sargent, but after the war. Clever George! ;D

Par Adua Ad Astra as the fly boys say!!

He also used to use Old Spice and I love the memories that smell evokes although not many men wear it now. :(
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Post by: Wizard on May 12, 2010, 11:35:02 am: Jackie The Astra site is just across the field on the bank side further down than Conoco-Philips There is reputed to be about a million tons of coal there just now ??? :D :D :farmer:
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Post by: Sandy on May 12, 2010, 07:40:44 pm: :( I remember when my dad was very ill, he ran out of Brilcreame and it was very hard to get as knowone really used it anymore, so I bought him a giant tub and as I paid I had a lump in my throat as I thought, that will last much longer than my dad!!! Bless him :(
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Post by: Sharondp on May 12, 2010, 08:08:30 pm: Oh Sandy - I was welling up reading that! :'(
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Post by: Rosemary on May 12, 2010, 10:45:09 pm: Quote from: Hermit on May 09, 2010, 10:28:20 am
TV programmes I used to watch as a youngster were. Noggin the Nog and Captain Pugwash leading up to Magpie, How and Follifoot.

I used to love Follyfoot - the guy who played Steve was my first crush. No second, after The Virginian. I also loved Belle and Sebastian (really wanted a Pyrenean Mountain Dog) and The White Horses (I also wanted a white horse, which I've got but their's were always sparkely white unlike mine) - took me a long time to learn about dubbing ;D
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Post by: valr on May 12, 2010, 10:55:46 pm: I have now got the White Horses theme tune running through my head!

Bet you loved Black Beauty, too, Rosemary!
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Post by: Rosemary on May 12, 2010, 10:56:52 pm: Yup. Now the Black Beauty theme is in my head. But not much else so I'm off to bed. Night all!
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Post by: Annie22 on May 13, 2010, 12:23:32 am: No my Dad wasn't a flight sergeant he was a first class airman, similar to a corporal in the army. He loved it he was stationed in West Africa only 18 and surrounded by naked African women. He joined up during WWII and was demobbed just before Korea.
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Post by: Wizard on May 13, 2010, 06:52:29 am: Wonderfull memories you lot but do you suffer from Wizard's problem ?Now what is that the tune (Theme music to)I can remember it as if it was last night but cannot for the life of me remember its connection to ****** LOL ??? :farmer:
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Post by: Annie22 on May 13, 2010, 10:51:08 am: Yes even at my young age Wizard ;). Can remember the Brady Bunch theme song off by heart though.
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Post by: Sandy on May 13, 2010, 11:05:55 am: I loved Black Beauty and so did my daughters when they grew up, can still hear that theme tune, still wonderful and makes me want to gallop off with my sweeping brush as a horse ;) another best programme was RObin Hood, I had a crush on him, shall have to look up his actors name but that smile!! I want to see the latest Robin Hood as it looks good. Another crush I had, the first as far as I remember was Liberace????? I used to love his smile too, ;D arhhhhhhhhh the day's of innocence ;)
sod it, got Black Beauty tune in my head now and only a telescopic sweeping brush that gose doen with any pressure, now what's the use of a telescopic weeping brush????
:dog: dum dum dum dum dum, naaaa na, na na na na na na naa naaaaaaaaaa na
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Post by: Wizard on May 13, 2010, 02:14:32 pm: Din't fancy im but Patricia Driscol had bumps in all the right places :D :farmer:
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Post by: Hermit on May 13, 2010, 08:03:07 pm: I fancied Oliver Tobias in Arthur.....but saying that I also fancied Scott off the Thunderbirds!
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Post by: Wizard on May 13, 2010, 09:00:27 pm: Sorry Sandy I got carried away dreamin of Pat Driscoll he was Richard Greene as I recall Thats when tele was tele and ours came from Anglia ;D
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Post by: Wizard on May 14, 2010, 05:43:44 pm: Is he the one that works for Specksavers Karen? :D :farmer:
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Post by: Hermit on May 14, 2010, 06:42:41 pm: No that was Brains, Scott flew thunderbird 1(the long pointy one)
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Post by: Wizard on May 15, 2010, 07:09:34 am: Thanks Karen I was never into Thunderbirds.Try this to stir your grey cells as Poirot says
"We now present Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair with Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjory Westbury as Steve Episode 4 Paul had arrived in Paris --- --
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Post by: Sandy on May 15, 2010, 10:56:34 pm: :love: :love: Wizard..you must still be on the purple hearts!!!! ;D >:( :D :) :o ??? ::) :P :-[ :-\ :-* :'( maybe I need to be on them :love: :love:
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Post by: Wizard on May 16, 2010, 07:42:13 am: No lass just memories Help me with one Please forgive my factiousness Long time ago when wireless was steam powered my dear old Mam used to listen to a program Which presented unknown artistes and one had to vote for the winner.Would you believe I cannot think of the name of the program No it wasn't "Give him the money Barney" Can you remember that one? :-[ :-\ :'( :D :D :D :farmer:
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Post by: Sandy on May 16, 2010, 12:16:17 pm: Opportunity Knocks with Huey Green? Lenny Henry was discovered on that and I loved watching it back then!!
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Post by: Wizard on May 16, 2010, 02:01:24 pm: That's the one Sandy and how many excellent turns were put aside because some 10yr old was voted better?I say Karen the one that promotes Spec savers is Virgil It came on last night and I watched intently.I issued an order like the one used at 10 past five on Saturday afnoons in yester year ;D ;D :farmer: :wave:
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Post by: Hermit on May 16, 2010, 06:55:37 pm: Golden Shot with Bob Monkhouse, left a bit , right a bit FIRE! Great stuff.
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Post by: Wizard on May 16, 2010, 07:08:53 pm: It was on Muthers must see list Hermit.Can you remember the Quatermass Experiment Muther wouldn't watch ;D :farmer:
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Post by: Sandy on May 16, 2010, 07:49:38 pm: That set me off, I wrote a wonderful story and my teacher wrote on the bottom (not my bottom) Never read anything so good from a student!!! I then went on to write and nearly had something published but did not pursue it!!!
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Post by: Hermit on May 16, 2010, 10:57:06 pm: Quatermass, I think so. Spaceships in the underground was it not? Like a War of the Worlds type thing.
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Post by: Sandy on May 16, 2010, 11:17:37 pm: As I remember, they found an underground site!!!! I have gone off science fictions as my brain hurts now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Jackie 2 on May 17, 2010, 05:22:12 am: Robbie the robot. Waving arms madly in the air saying "Warning, warning Will Robinson."
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Post by: Wizard on May 17, 2010, 07:46:00 am: Yes Jackie and that W***** Zachary Smith ??? I don't know about Lost in Space That bugger was a waste of space ;D :wave:
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Post by: Sandy on May 17, 2010, 11:46:30 am: Was it me or did you think Lost in space a bit purvey, I mean the old man always was creepy around the children :o I used to love ????? now let me think ??? ???the programme where they had little animals going on adventures in cars, boats etc...now what was it called, it was a charming programme but I bet those hamsters, rabbits etc were glues into the cars really!!!
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Post by: Wizard on May 17, 2010, 12:11:50 pm: Sandy Do you think its the way we are being led.Lost in Space time no one thought Oh he is a bit queer is he after Will or did they I certainly didn't ;D :farmer:
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Post by: Sandy on May 17, 2010, 01:59:57 pm: Bit of both, we all are less nieve these day's. " Tales of the RIver Bank", just came to me!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3SBnt5Ssc
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Post by: Wizard on May 17, 2010, 02:56:35 pm: Sorry Sandy I wasn't lookin what I was doing all the boys liked Ratty It was a Johnny Morris program if I'm remembering right.Don't forget my sons are from the 60's. We often went to Elsham Hall where there is a large pond Its not a real lake its only 3 foot deep but over a large area There is all sorts in it You could go out on a landing stage and feed the carp they would come and suck food from your fingers The water rats (Voles ) lived there as did all sorts of other fish. Great in them days.Its all commercialised now
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Post by: Hermit on May 17, 2010, 09:40:19 pm: Johnny Morrison, the zoo keeper type programme with a monkey as a sidekick. Forgot about that programme :D Does any one remember Gordon Honeycombe the news reader. When he finished the saturday teatime news he said "And now Tarzan"
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Post by: Sandy on May 17, 2010, 10:49:47 pm: ;D Johnny Morris fantastic narrator, then Desmond Morris (is that correct)and his monkey, then I loved and still do, David Attenborough!!!
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Post by: Wizard on May 18, 2010, 08:26:09 am: Hello you lasses Yes now is it me or is it general Modern day narrators Simon King Kate Humble Bill Oddie even Michaela Do not hold my attention like Johnny Morris or David Attenborough could.I am in no way running Simon down he is probably one of our most knowledgeable naturalists at this time.He did a program on an Isle of the coast of Scotland and quite honestly I had seen the whole program in the first 10 minutes.Take Kate and Bill in last years Spring watch I was Pee'd off with the shot sequences of the gate and the deck chair.I'm no a jealous chap at all but I often wish I had the energy of Michaela But Alas for me the programs are not as good I cannot put my finger on why!? :o ::) :D :farmer:
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Post by: Wizard on May 18, 2010, 08:30:28 am: As I recall Sandy Desmond was the Author of the Naked Ape He also did a program about human biology.If he has an ology he must be good Maureen says so! :D :o :-[ :farmer: :wave:
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Post by: Sandy on May 19, 2010, 09:37:39 am: David At tenborough has a calm and soft voice so making you fell calm while watching. We pick up on peoples energy and some people can drain you by their shear exuberance (blimey, thats a big work for me!!!). Micheal Palin is another soft, calm person....We need vibrant people on shows that want to get us excited or enthused..... :o
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Post by: Jackie 2 on May 19, 2010, 09:49:12 pm: I loved those travel Programmes Micheal Palin did. They were great in showing how the countries really are not just holiday type rubbish.
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Post by: Hermit on May 19, 2010, 10:48:07 pm: Do you remember?
hotpants, my sister and I had matching ones ::)
Ponchos, my sister and I had matching ones :D
Wizard( :wave:) sleeves on long sleeved T shirts, stole my elder sisters. ;D
Oxford bags with Spanish wastebands.Bottle green preferably ;)
Platform shoes, 1st time round
and Sugar sugar by the Archies,the first record I bought!
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Post by: Wizard on May 20, 2010, 07:47:26 am: Yeah I surely do but I dont remember any girls I knew wearing a dress like Pixie :D :farmer:
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Post by: Sandy on May 20, 2010, 08:19:27 am: Hermit! I had all of them!! I used to run a busy Bust station cafe with my mum and she "made" me wear my hotpants for work!!!!!! I also had lace up boots and tonic suit jacket that you used to have a pretend hanky in the top pocket!!!! I was lucky re shoes as my boyfriends mum used to get the seconds from the shoe factory where she worked and they were about 50p each so very cheap, I often bought shoe dye and paint them in blues, purples and pinks!!!! I also had a lovely psychodelic see through top with matching hot pants!!!! You are bringing back memories now!!!
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Post by: Wizard on May 20, 2010, 08:23:27 am: My Mind boggles at a bust station lass Elaborate please :D :D :D :wave: am orf :farmer:
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Post by: Hermit on May 20, 2010, 08:38:54 am: Oh yes the nylon see through blouses with big puffed sleeves and long cuffs. Did you have a feather cut in your hair like the Glitter Band and the singer off Sweet?
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Post by: Sandy on May 20, 2010, 01:10:18 pm: Ooooooooops :-[
BUS
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Post by: Wizard on May 20, 2010, 03:59:20 pm: And Brothel Creepers and string bow ties? :D
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Post by: Sandy on May 22, 2010, 12:07:15 am: Broothal creepers??/ remind me!!
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Post by: Helencus on May 22, 2010, 12:47:21 am: Now what about the tartan turn ups of the 70s.. Shang a Lang !
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Post by: Wizard on May 22, 2010, 08:05:07 am: D.A.Hair cuts (blue and even purple suede shoes with 1" thick crepe soles like children's sandals had.) :wave:
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Post by: Gordon M on May 22, 2010, 10:45:33 am: I had a metal pedal car to run around the garden in, a space hopper when they first appeared and then a tricycle (I was only wee at the time). Ice inside the windows during winter, red legs from sitting too close to the coal fire and blackouts from all the miners strikes. On telly was the Magic Roundabout, Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Chigley, The Clangers, Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben. Lego, Plasticine and Airfix kits were the best toys. I still have a Triang Fort in it's original box handed down to me from my elder brothers (my son has it now) and I've still got my train set (somewhere in a cupboard) and we had an orange kitchen as well. What's more,,,,,there was no GM produce!!!!! (Healthy days)
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Post by: Annie22 on May 22, 2010, 11:18:09 am: Aah Hermit I was but a wee lass when sweet were around, but I do remember Brian Connolly, David Cassidy, David Essex. I always wished I was born 10 years earlier so it wouldn't be too freaky marrying David Cassidy and being only 8 and him what 20-24. I loved the clothing you and Sandy were talking about but was too young, wait a minute I had lace up boots a poncho, but sadly I think it was out of fashion by the time I was wearing it, but being only 6 it didn't really matter and yes I had the feathered hair cut at 6 (more like Mrs Brady's cut though), Mum called it the Dolly cut.
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Post by: Hermit on May 22, 2010, 12:42:07 pm: I did the white bags with a Tartan scarf around my wasteband as well. My sister was a Roller fan more than I was, I was into the Osmonds mainly at that time. My sister also prefered Suzie Quatro rather than my Mud! And a young David Essex mmmm.! My elder sister was into Led Zepellin, Deep Purple and Manfred Mann. All on black vinyl! My bedroom wall was covered in posters from Jackie Magazine.
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Post by: Helencus on May 23, 2010, 12:27:42 am: Good old Jackie mag  there was smash hits so you could learn your favourite records words.. And Recording the top 40 on radio 1 on your tape recorder trying to miss the dj talking over the record..the long hot summer of 76'.. Elton john and blue eyes was no 1..happy days
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Post by: Wizard on May 23, 2010, 07:44:57 am: There you go Helen January 1st 1964 Jimmy Saville intoduced TOTP can you remember it was The Rolling Stones or was it? That and sushshsh as 208 faded right in the middle of your favourite record ??? :D :wave: :farmer:
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Post by: Hermit on May 23, 2010, 05:51:24 pm: I remember the miners strikes as a young girl, we used to play hide and seek in the dark when the power went off. My mum still lives in that house but it feels smaller now! I had a twin reel tape recorder that I used to tape on with a mike on a tripod you had to put up to the radio! I had a portable radio for xmas one year....it was so modern. We used to drive around the reservoirs in 76 to look at the old buildings that were showing in the drought.
I bet you were a bobby dazzler in your youth Wizard :wave:
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Post by: Wizard on May 23, 2010, 06:36:54 pm: I had me moments Lass the big one I came down Lindum Hill in Lincoln and at that time of day one could turn right into Silver St; I was tootalin along nicely and smacked this policeman in the gob and laid him out.Fortunately it was a boll kin Job Phew. ??? ;D ;D :farmer: :wave:
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Post by: juliag on May 23, 2010, 08:20:28 pm: I remember the jackie mags, (felt very grown up), I had a red chopper bike although my husband doesnt believe it and says it must have been the cheaper tomahawk version just because he is jealous and didnt have one. I remember tacking my pony up and hacking miles to village shows. (very few people had horseboxes then) with a packet of sandwiches in my pocket and enough money in my purse for one class. Not like my girls who get boxed everywhere and enter as many classes as they want! My pony lived out in the field all year round and I was privaledged because my mum bought him a canvas new zealand rug which was all they had in those days, solid and heavy when wet. Not like the amazing things they have nowadays. I remember standing holding my pony on the side of the road for the farrier, our farrier now will not shoe unless they are on a concrete hard standing and preferably in an american barn. If it is raining and he cant shoe inside he will not do it. I do not remember Farriers being so fussy as a child. And most importantly I remember going out riding in the morning with an ordanance survey map and a packet of sandwiches and a bag of crisps and would be gone for the day............. without a mobile phone..... and I suvived!!! My girls think a long ride is 2 hours round the local villages, so why could my pony go happily all day? We would stop for lunch on the edge of a field and my mum never worried at all! I would go out alone (unheard of now) and meet up with friends for races along the local common, one day there were the mounted police there (not sure why, didnt think to ask...........lol) and we pursuaded them to race us, just imagine it....... the mounted police racing a couple of kids across a common, great fun...... cant see it happening now :)
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Post by: Sandy on May 23, 2010, 10:34:01 pm: I remember being 12 and buying Diana comic and a finger of fudge on Saturday, I was very pleased with that!!!! Mum used to buy the Weekend and I loved the song of the week in it and often learned the words!!! ::)
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Post by: Wizard on May 24, 2010, 07:07:03 am: Yes Sandy I also remember being 12 It was 1948 and a special postage stamp was issued to commemerate the Olympic Games.Brother Billy had the Dandy and I had the Beano.Have you seen the price they make at the auction today Phew ought to have saved them all :D :farmer: :wave:
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Post by: valr on May 27, 2010, 10:39:23 pm: George, what can you remember about the War? I'd love to know what you were aware of, as a child the same age as my son is now.
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Post by: Wizard on May 28, 2010, 07:18:25 am: Hello Vair.Being a country lad and still am at heart I had a good war by this I mean we lived at a place called Hawton a small village just outside Newark in Nottinghamshire.We of course had the same restrictions as everyone else.Food was never a problem.Things like Tea and coffee fresh fish was in short supply.All kept a pig for killing,hence my tale in killing a pig 60 yrs ago.Most people had a large garden where chickens and ducks were kept along with the veg being grown.Any thing not eaten was given to the pigs.This is why you see I cannot understand you cannot give the pigs this and you cannot give the pigs that and you cannot give them the house waste bluddi L if its been fit for you and yours to eat why can't it go in the pig bucket.My Grandfather my Father and I until we left the farm and came to live in the village always fed the pigs the house waste Potato peels carrot parsnip celery cabbage cauli every thing chocolate cake ah ah we had so did the pigs,The only thing they got we didn't was barley meal.The war in Newark well we only saw two German air craft one attempted to bomb the Ransomes and Marles Bearing Factory on Beacon Hill Road and missed and the other was a ME 109 that had been shot up and crashed in the woods at Cotham the next village.of course all the lads from miles around went to see it.The only other scare the enemy dropped some land mines on the railway marshalling yards 5 miles away that made a noise and frightened us.Sweets were in short supply so were cigs and pipe tobacco One of the worst things I recall was clothing We never had enough coupons to get more Young boys grow like kidney beans you know We always had plenty of pullover and cardies as well as socks Mother used to knit them and for other people as well and didn't charge money she had a ball of wool Hence a pull over with different bands of colour round it.There was all ways something to do helping out for a few pence. Alot of things were done on the swap job Lots of kids saved postage stamps.I think a totally different war to the poor people who lived in the big cities with bombing every night it must have been awful.Perhaps you may deduce why I am anti EU and all such things :farmer: :wave:
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Post by: valr on June 06, 2010, 11:34:45 pm: Hey Wizard that's fascinating! Was your dad in the army during the war? Mine was... even though I am "only" 44 my dad would have been 92 if he was still alive. He was in the regular army in India well before war broke out.
My mum and oldest siblings were in a tiny Scottish village during the war and didnt have to go short on much - there were so many farms, rationing didnt affect them so badly apart from clothes etc..
By the way, my dad was English and my ancestors come from your neck of the woods...
Title: Re: Do you remember?
Post by: Wizard on June 07, 2010, 07:28:45 am: Hello Vair how nice of you to share your post with me .No Dad was in a reserve occupation with being in farming.Farmers and fishermen and coal miners didn't go to war.They did their bit at home.Much like you, Dad was born 26th Oct 1909,so he would be a 100yrs old if he was still about and Mother 99yrs old.Yes it was a different world in the country to in the towns and cities.This is probably why I like to tell you about how we did it at home and at my Uncles in the 1940's. No one ever wasted any food pigs ate what we didn't.There was no such thing as sell by dates and prepackaged this and prepackaged that.Newark at that time of day was only a small town or a big village if you like.So with all the farming every one knew some one and there was always a rabbit or a chicken some where or a few sausages or a bit of pig.I don't know if there was up your way a thing called a pig club They were much used in Newark as was allotments.See all my school pals were town lads they used to enjoy "spud pickin" fortnight nearly all had a cwt of spuds as a bonus for their Mams since most Dads were away at the war and a bag of spuds lasted a good while.Fish was a thing that was a treat in our house although I HATE FISH but the other three really enjoy it Billy still does.