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Wrestling on a Satruday afternoon with Kent Walton!!

And Shirley Crabtree taking the p1ss out of the other competitors.

[Lesley Silvester]

My earliest memory is of when I was three years old.  I had just scalded my arm in almost boiling water and my granddad was rubbing it and saying "Never mind, duck."  My mum was standing in the doorway looking shocked then she disappeared.  She had actually gone to get a clean nappy to wrap my arm in and it took ages to heal.  Don't think Granddad helped as the flesh was peeling but he did his best.

I have lots of memories of living in what is now Greater London but was  the suburbs then and we moved when I was not quite six.  We played Hide and Seek in the alley (the access road behind the houses) and covered our eyes by an old tree stump which was also 'home'.  I took a boy called Peter Easter to the end of the alley and said, "Don't tell anyone but I'm going to marry you when I grow up."  He promptly ran down the alley shouting, "Lesley's going to marry me when she grows up."  Our garden wall was ten feet tall and I had to stand on tiptoe to see over it.  funnily enough, when I went back to see the area when I was fourteen, the wall had shrunk to about four foot.

I loved the Wooden Tops.  We also listened to Children's Hour on the wireless.  My mum listened to the Archers. she doesn't now but I do.  When we walked to school I always walked along a small wall past a factory and the wireless was playing, "Workers' play time".

When I was almost six, we moved to Hastings.  We had a Morris Traveller car -  the sort with wooden frameword and we had an armchair in the back.  I suppose it didn't fit in the van.  We were stopped by the police as the car was swaying from side to side.

[Pedwardine]

My Dad used to love watching wrestling. Remember Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks? They wouldn't get away with names like that now-be laughed out of the ring 
Playing in the street 'til 9 at night. Falling off the highest bar of the climbing frame in the park on the Common. I was hanging upside down. It hurt! No bouncy surfaces in those days, just good solid concrete.
First day at school and snotting and crying all over my brother (3years older) who was so mortified in front of his mates. Tee hee 

[Fowgill Farm]

In my day it was the clangers, magic roundabout, the herb garden, Hector's house, wacky races, catch the pigeon, marine boy, crystal tips and Alastair, interminable black and white minstrel show, Peyton Place ( the au pairs used to be glued to that)

Ditto Suzie, must be similar ages all of the above plus Magpie,Blue Peter (Val Singleton John Noakes& Peter Purvis days laterely lesley Judd) Was to scared to watch Dr Who, loved the wrestling too always tea at grannys to watch it after saturday shopping in Ripon or Thirsk!
Mandy 

[NormandyMary]

MGM, my dad had a Morris Minor 1000, (green in colour, registration 997 HPJ). I have 2 much older brothers, and the five of us used to go down to a farm in Cornwall (Polzeath) for our holiday every year. We took loads of food and all our bedding with us, the car was filled to the roof as well as suitcases on the top! Being the youngest,I had the dubious pleasure of sitting in the middle of the back seat, perched on piles of sheets and blankets. We used to travel down from Essex on a Friday night, stopping off just outside Basingstoke for a rest and a snack, then again later on for Dad to have a little snooze. By that time though, having slept during the journey, I regularly kept everyone awake by fidgeting. Oooh happy days!!

[Lesley Silvester]

Mary, I remember those days.  My two brothers and I used to play corners.  Everyone leaned into the corner - horrible when you were on the inside but you got your own back when the road went the other way and you were on top (no seat belts then).  Horrible for my baby brother who was always in the middle and got squashed whichever way the road went.

[tizaala]

My parents ran a small grocery shop in Aldersley Road, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton 1947 - 1950 , and I can remember the whole family standing round to watch dad open a long orange coloured wooden crate of the first bananas in the area since 1937, I was given a bite of my brother's.
I can remember sweet rationing ending , and clothes rationing.
For pear growers, Tettenhall is the home of the very rare Tettenhall Dick pear tree.
 

[Sylvia]

I can remember sugar coming in dark blue paper bags (still sugar rationing ) but one abiding memory and it still makes me smile is my Dad shouting up the stairs "Come along, it's half past six and the sun's cracking the walls! Who's going to help me this morning?" It was always me and my elder brother " That's better, come on now, it's Monday morning, day after tomorrow is Wednesday, that's half the week gone and nothing done yet!!!"

[NormandyMary]

Another vivid scene from childhood was the whole family sitting around the dinner table for one of Mums delicious roasts. I always sat opposite my Dad with my back to the window. My elder brother said to me "Ooh Mary look at that plane in the sky". I turned my back to look out of the window for this damned plane, nothing. I turned back to my plate and noticed that my darling big brother had nicked my roast potato!! Ive never let him forget that I can tell you.