FabSwingers.com forum: For the old uns

By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

Remember when:

we had no central heating

we had no double glazing

we had black and white tellies (and only one per household if you were lucky)

streets were played out in because there were very few cars

we didn't have wall to wall carpeting (just a large rug covering the lino)

we had no freezer - and sometimes no fridge

we kept food cool in pantries

we polished our shoes every night

we never went to A & E for every little bump and scrape - only if a limb was hanging off

we had no mobiles - in fact, most people didn't even have landlines

Anything else we managed to live without?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Internet???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A bit of moms spit on a hanky could cure anything

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Thousands of toys - we had a few and a board game.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

yes remember all of that, frost inside the bedroom windows, one pair of shoes and two dresses one for weekdays and one for Sundays and blankets and sheets on the bed

Times move on

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"A bit of moms spit on a hanky could cure anything

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Vick or goose grease on your chest at night

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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

No 24 hour telly and only two channels

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember as a kid waking up and my bedside drink was frozen solid. dressing under the duvet (we where trend setters back then) cos it was too cold to do otherwise.

hell until i was 7 we had an outside toilet, built into the house, but accessed only from outside.

My bedroom was the bay window with a curtain between me and my parents until i was 5. I tell younger people this and they never believe me.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"A bit of moms spit on a hanky could cure anything

Vick or goose grease on your chest at night

lol.

When my grandmother died we found half an onion under her bed, put there to ward off colds, she was in her late nineties so something worked

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dads overcoat on the bed instead of an eiderdown, or duvet to you younguns

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By *himanMan
over a year ago

chichester

I remember when ppl had more respect for each other

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A pint of mild was 11p, bitter was 13p and that new fangled foreign lager was 14p

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I remember when ppl had more respect for each other "

or if a policeman called you over you sh*t yourself. these days kids tell olders to feck off.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tin Bath hanging on the dorr of the outside bog, Sunday night was bath night n i always had to go last after three sisters in case i in the water

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

and yoghurt types were hazelnut mandarin and strawberry -

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Tin Bath hanging on the dorr of the outside bog, Sunday night was bath night n i always had to go last after three sisters in case i in the water

lol. I was in teh tin bath in teh kitchen once and one of my dad's friends knocked on the door....I was mortified

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"A bit of moms spit on a hanky could cure anything

Vick or goose grease on your chest at night

lol.

When my grandmother died we found half an onion under her bed, put there to ward off colds, she was in her late nineties so something worked

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my grandma did the same. They grew onions and kept the box with them in under the bed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Walking to school in the pouring rain, soaked through and then sitting in the classroom steaming.

How the hell we all did not die of hypothermia or pneumonia....lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I remember when ppl had more respect for each other "

this is the biggest change over time and totallys pees me off - dont get me started

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Tin Bath hanging on the dorr of the outside bog, Sunday night was bath night n i always had to go last after three sisters in case i in the water

lol. I was in teh tin bath in teh kitchen once and one of my dad's friends knocked on the door....I was mortified

I remember, you was cute even then lol

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Majority of our clothes where hand made

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes

I remember it all x

Feeling bloody ancient now

Thanks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We used to put lino or cardboard inside our shoes if we had a hole in the sole.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Majority of our clothes where hand made

or hand me downs. I used to get given my next door neighbours old jeans. would not have been a problem, but she was a girl. this is the days when the jeans zipped from the other side.

Can you imagine how much stick i got for that at school or out and about.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Who admits to having a piss pot or a bucket in the bedroom?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Who admits to having a piss pot or a bucket in the bedroom?

yup, and a stone hot water bottle. if it fell out of bed during the night it would wake the whole house up, lol.

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By *ibbyhunterCouple
over a year ago

keighley

free school milk and the 11 plus exam.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Tin Bath hanging on the dorr of the outside bog, Sunday night was bath night n i always had to go last after three sisters in case i in the water

lol. I was in teh tin bath in teh kitchen once and one of my dad's friends knocked on the door....I was mortified

I remember, you was cute even then lol

ha ha lol,

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"Who admits to having a piss pot or a bucket in the bedroom?

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excuse me, they where chamber pots, we only had them at my grandmas as she had an outside toilet. Proper porcelain ones ours where

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Im the youngest in my family. Always got the 'hand me downs' but looked forward to wearing big sis's maxi dress

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Im the youngest in my family. Always got the 'hand me downs' but looked forward to wearing big sis's maxi dress

I am the eldest, lol. my mum hated me as i had narrow feet (c fitting) so only clarks shoes fitted. soooo expensive, and i used to wear them out in less than 3 months.

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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

"Majority of our clothes where hand made

I never had a shop bought cardi, scarf, hat or gloves when I was a kid. No one did! My mum used to make all our knitwear, hand-me-downs were the norm (I was the youngest so very rarely got new clothes). We always carried a hanky up our sleeves too.

Toilet paper was newspaper cut into squares and threaded on wire for the outside loo. Mum used to have to boil a kettle of water to pour down it in the winter as it froze over in the night.

If we needed the loo in the night we had to use the gazunder (because it goes under the bed).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is it strange that i can relate to this?

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

You've brought back the horror of my one pair of shoes that refused to die and I had stopped growing. I had them from 10 to 14 when I started to earn my own money and could buy a new pair myself. They were so brown and ugly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wow, you guys survived all that AND didn't get eaten by dinosaurs? Amazing.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Big wash was done at the launderette.

The public wash house next door to my school only closed in 1979. You used to see the women queuing in the mornings for their turn. Men would go in the evenings.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What about the girls wooly gym knickers?

Nearly broke my wrist trying to get past the tight elasticated leg holes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Wow, you guys survived all that AND didn't get eaten by dinosaurs? Amazing.

do not get me started on the bloody dinosaurs, running away from a t rex was a game when i was a kid, lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What about the girls wooly gym knickers?

Nearly broke my wrist trying to get past the tight elasticated leg holes

you got that far, lol. i never even kissed a girl while i was at school, lol.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Is it strange that i can relate to this?

My guess is that is because of your East End upbringing and family situation. It can be easy to forget that some of this is still true for some families.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"free school milk and the 11 plus exam."

still get that here - 11 plus that is and i think nursery get free milk

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

No outside toilet but equally no central heating which meant no hot water except when the kitchen fire was on - winter only. When I was about 10 we got an Ascot geyser over the kitchen sink.

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"A bit of moms spit on a hanky could cure anything

Vick or goose grease on your chest at night

And a tight foof

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Remember when:

we had no central heating

we had no double glazing

we had black and white tellies (and only one per household if you were lucky)

streets were played out in because there were very few cars

we didn't have wall to wall carpeting (just a large rug covering the lino)

we had no freezer - and sometimes no fridge

we kept food cool in pantries

we polished our shoes every night

we never went to A & E for every little bump and scrape - only if a limb was hanging off

we had no mobiles - in fact, most people didn't even have landlines

Anything else we managed to live without?"

I remember all of that.

I also remember we didn't get tons of junk mail everyday,

I remember people visiting our house always closed our gate ......and bin-men collected our bin from wherever it was stored and returned it to that place once empty.....

I remember a time when the elder generation frowned upon the idea of people walking around eating in the street.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

of course there was a plus side to all that.

Being able to get out and spend all day away from home, no worries about traffic, after all horse and carts did not travel fast. no panic about pedo's, i mean they must have been there, but everyone watched out for everyone else's kids.

days spent damming the local streams, building bonfires and burning down the local woods.

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

But we had pop delivered and not by Ocado

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

did anyone else havd elastic round the top of their long white socks to stop them fallin. down

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What about the girls wooly gym knickers?

Nearly broke my wrist trying to get past the tight elasticated leg holes

Ahh bitter sweet memories,Kept it warm but when i struck lucky i had cramp in me fingers for days

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By *egasus NobMan
over a year ago

Merton

imagine what the future will be like in 50 years people will be like imagine flying cars, internet, laptop etc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We had conductors on buses and sometimes inspectors got on to check your ticket

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"did anyone else havd elastic round the top of their long white socks to stop them fallin. down"

haha,,,,back in the day, I so wanted to wear long white socks, but where I lived convention dictated boys were expected to wear grey......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

lucky bags from the shop after school

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What about the pint of milk that used to be delivered?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i remember going over to new pennies - a packet of crisps used to be an old sixpence ie 2.5 new pence - very quickly they went to 5p - why cant i remember more important things

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember a time before pizza and kebabs and when spaghetti and macaroni were the only types of pasta....

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

ice on the inside of the windows . wearing shorts to school .. big navy knickers for the girls . satchels

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By *win PeaksCouple
over a year ago

Northamptonshire

The fight between me & my sister to be the first to open that new pint of milk for the cream on top

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"lucky bags from the shop after school

True story,,,,, I once got a pair of welders goggles in a lucky bag ……

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By *oudnproudWoman
over a year ago

penrith

I remember the soda stream man coming round on a friday and then saturday mornings was the vhs van where you could hire a video for the week!

I also remember going to the shop with a letter from my dad to get his cigarettes.

When we first had internet it would block your landline lol.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

The rent man and insurance man coming to the door to collect.

Friday nights sticking the Green Shield Stamps into the book.

The rag and bone man.

A 99 or cider lolly being a big treat.

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

"Remember when:

we never went to A & E for every little bump and scrape - only if a limb was hanging off

we had no mobiles - in fact, most people didn't even have landlines

But we did have a family GP who was part of the community and was on call 24 hrs a day all year round.

And there was an unvandalized public telephone at the bottom of the road and a local manned PO exchange who knew where your GP was and would put you through if the surgery was closed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I remember the soda stream man coming round on a friday and then saturday mornings was the vhs van where you could hire a video for the week!

I also remember going to the shop with a letter from my dad to get his cigarettes.

When we first had internet it would block your landline lol.

Ah the good old days of AOL

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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

People used to stop and remove hats when a funeral went past.

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

"....

But we did have a family GP who was part of the community and was on call 24 hrs a day all year round.

......."

We had a GP you had to see before the pubs opened.

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

"People used to stop and remove hats when a funeral went past. "

I still do, though I don't often wear a hat.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The rent man and insurance man coming to the door to collect.

Friday nights sticking the Green Shield Stamps into the book.

The rag and bone man.

A 99 or cider lolly being a big treat."

all of these

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"People used to stop and remove hats when a funeral went past. "

anybody close the curtains on the day of funeral still ==

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

kiss chase in the playground

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember back in the day there was always a boy in every class who wore broken penny spectacles held together with a bit of grubby elastoplast

and during winter there was always someone in your class with an alarmingly green snot bubble permanently billowing from one nostril....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When Billy Whizz was the fastest kid on the planet, and when Roy of the Rovers was always Footballer Of The Year

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When Billy Whizz was the fastest kid on the planet, and when Roy of the Rovers was always Footballer Of The Year

nah 2000 AD ruled.

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

"What about the pint of milk that used to be delivered?

Still have a village milkman, in fact wheni lived in Fulham in the 1990s the people who owned a shop in Greyhound Street? Still did milk rounds

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By *hyllyphyllyMan
over a year ago

Bradford

I remember when I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

"I remember when I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

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You had cups? We just had the acid poured into our outstretched palms

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

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when i was a lad, used to huddle round candle, when it got cold used to light candle.

lol.

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By *hyllyphyllyMan
over a year ago

Bradford

You had cups? We just had the acid poured into our outstretched palms "

We called them cups, the were hollowed out dead rats.

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By *ice rideMan
over a year ago

solihull

Getting the slipper , pump , ruler or the cane when you were naughty ..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

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when i was a lad, used to huddle round candle, when it got cold used to light candle.

lol."

Luxury,,,,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ok this is now getting a bit to monty python.....

I'mmmmmmmmmmmm a lumberjack and i'm ok.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Getting the slipper , pump , ruler or the cane when you were naughty .. "

never - i was a good girl

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Majority of our clothes where hand made

Toilet paper was newspaper cut into squares and threaded on wire for the outside loo. Mum used to have to boil a kettle of water to pour down it in the winter as it froze over in the night.

If we needed the loo in the night we had to use the gazunder (because it goes under the bed)."

Yes indeed. All familiar. My favourite was the bath house next to the wash house. Mum did the laundry. We kids would pay threepence for a fluffy towel, a bar of pink soap and as much hot water as you could ever want. Bliss.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The gas man coming to empty the gas meter.

The rental TV man coming to empty the meter on the back of the telly.

When you had a bad bruise mum putting on a poultice.

The penny tray (old pennys) at the sweet shop

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"ok this is now getting a bit to monty python.....

I'mmmmmmmmmmmm a lumberjack and i'm ok."

Ah,,,,, so you put on women's clothing

and hang around in bars too.... nice-one, any luck?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember when it cost a penny to spend a penny

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By *hynottsCouple
over a year ago

nottingham

Used to get 2pennys for takeing an empty pop bottel back to the shop and get 16 black jacks only get one noe for 1P

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By *ibbyhunterCouple
over a year ago

keighley

girls only schools and boys only schools.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"ok this is now getting a bit to monty python.....

I'mmmmmmmmmmmm a lumberjack and i'm ok.

Ah,,,,, so you put on women's clothing

and hang around in bars too.... nice-one, any luck?

me nah, look silly in a dress...and i cannot afford hang around in bars at the moment.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

never heard of the penny tray in the sweet shop

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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

I remember being caught short as a very young child and my mum holding me over a grid. It was a mixed feeling of relief and embarrassment.

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

"girls only schools and boys only schools."

Still happens in the next town to us

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember when a 'holiday' was a day out family picnic or you went n stayed a couple of nights at an aunt's way across town.

Brawn was a Saturday tea treat.

A policeman could give you a clip round the ear if you were cheeky without fearing he would end up before a parliamentary select committee.

You could pass a telephone box almost every quarter mile.

Izal loo paper served a double purpose cos you could also use it as tracing paper

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London

"and yoghurt types were hazelnut mandarin and strawberry -

That's taken me back. Every Friday our treat was a Ski hazelnut yoghurt: oh happy days!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"girls only schools and boys only schools.

Still happens in the next town to us"

lots of them here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember when Christmas was in December,,,,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

when sunday and bank holiday were family time -

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember much of what's mentioned.. no heating for one... Streets coming together for things like bonfire night... No halloween parties..

Walking everywhere within reason

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By *hynottsCouple
over a year ago

nottingham

Sunday pub only open 12-2 lunch time night time was 7-10.30 and no telly in the pub bliss

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When a bj was considered as kinky sex

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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

"Big wash was done at the launderette.

The public wash house next door to my school only closed in 1979. You used to see the women queuing in the mornings for their turn. Men would go in the evenings."

We did our laundry at the wash house!! Huge sinks and scrubbing boards. But there were also roller irons and a Hoffman press which cut down ironing at home. I used to do the fulk family wash on my own when my mum was ill with her first cancer. Dad and brother wouldn't do it - it was women's work.

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Sunday pub only open 12-2 lunch time night time was 7-10.30 and no telly in the pub bliss "

...... and no puggies.

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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

*bulk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A bit of moms spit on a hanky could cure anything

Did this only this morning wiping one of mines arse at the cinema. Does it count as I'm not a mum?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wasn't going to cluck on this cos don't consider myself an old un. Shite!! That was my childhood! Hangs old head in shame

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I guess these post-war situations lasted longer here than on the Continent. But I do remember the butcher's lad delivering orders on his bike, and the baker's cart and the milkfloat, and the knife grinder with all the kids milling around with dull knives and scissors and sparks flying from the big wheel, and the whole school went to the health centres for the annual inoculations and there were NO exceptions (for religious or whatever reasons), we had kids wearing polio leg braces in our class so nobody even wanted to skip those jabs (but the boys tended to faint

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Elastic bands to hold up your socks when the elastic went in them and the marks they left after a long day at school.

Socks doubling up as gloves and carrier bags over the top so we could play in the snow.

Warming up each item of clothing on the 2 bar electric heater before getting them on quick so we didn't freeze.

Corona cherryade.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

eggs in a brown paper bag from the grocers at the bottom of the tenements..

milk crates on the corner of the street all left alone..usually

finding out some 'posh kid' had a johny 7 in our street!

and never leg it from the copper, cos he would only see your Dad on Sat night in the snug..

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

A start of a music career meant hours and hours playing guitars whose action was so high you could cut a round of cheddar with ease.

Nowadays you get a start in music by being laughed at on Sat night TV

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Elastic bands to hold up your socks when the elastic went in them and the marks they left after a long day at school.

Socks doubling up as gloves and carrier bags over the top so we could play in the snow.

Warming up each item of clothing on the 2 bar electric heater before getting them on quick so we didn't freeze.

Corona cherryade.

Oh and my nans mangle, no washing machine with fast spin in the 70's

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just wanna say.......wot a fantastic thread....

Loads of really great contributions

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By *annGentMan
over a year ago

With a cracking view

"A bit of moms spit on a hanky could cure anything

Vick or goose grease on your chest at night

Having to gargle with TCP if you had a sore throat !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Elastic bands to hold up your socks when the elastic went in them and the marks they left after a long day at school.

Socks doubling up as gloves and carrier bags over the top so we could play in the snow.

Warming up each item of clothing on the 2 bar electric heater before getting them on quick so we didn't freeze.

Corona cherryade.

Oh and my nans mangle, no washing machine with fast spin in the 70's"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

spoonful of malt ? every morning in the winter

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By *exxifun5Couple
over a year ago

NORWICH

I remember when we were kids..... we had summer and winter clothes (yes there was a diffefence in seasons then ) and the excitement as the mum would get the next seasons clothes out of the loft and all trying on amd see who would get what that year !!!

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

Older relatives who smelt of Imperial Leather soap.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"But we had pop delivered and not by Ocado"

we had alpine pop delivered

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"Just wanna say.......wot a fantastic thread....

Loads of really great contributions

agreed..

remember the look of 'really' on our eldest lads face when I said at your age, 8 I had to go down and light the coal fire in the winter and cold was ice on the inside of the windows..

when yt had knocked the timer off on the central heating and 'it was cold'..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"spoonful of malt ? every morning in the winter "

Oo'er yeah,,,, I used to love that,,,,

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"A bit of moms spit on a hanky could cure anything

Vick or goose grease on your chest at night

Having to gargle with TCP if you had a sore throat !

used to call it tom cats piss..

disgusting..

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By *wingerdelightCouple
over a year ago

eastliegh

Milkmen delivering bread and fizzy pop. And if you were posh a soda stream so you could make youre own

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By *lanwoodMan
over a year ago

Alton

"I remember as a kid waking up and my bedside drink was frozen solid. dressing under the duvet (we where trend setters back then) cos it was too cold to do otherwise.

hell until i was 7 we had an outside toilet, built into the house, but accessed only from outside.

My bedroom was the bay window with a curtain between me and my parents until i was 5. I tell younger people this and they never believe me."

We had an outside toilet until I moved out at 21. I slept in a room that also doubled up as living room and dining room. The front room was kept nice and tidy in case the vicar called round. And this was before anyone near us had a TV! Those were the days. Couldn't get any sex then either.

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

Porn was the Kay's Catalogue or a dirty copy of Razzle found in the woods

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By *rivate auditionsMan
over a year ago

West Midlands

at christmas time it was a game,a book and colouring crayons,orange,banana and some nuts.

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By *ibbyhunterCouple
over a year ago

keighley

spring bank holiday was whitsuntide.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Porn was the Kay's Catalogue or a dirty copy of Razzle found in the woods"

Used to sneak a peep at Parade uder a street light when I used to deliver it once a week on my morning paper round. I even remember it was Thursday morning

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By *ordonBennettMan
over a year ago

dover

"Porn was the Kay's Catalogue or a dirty copy of Razzle found in the woods"

or "Health and Efficiency"!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Porn was the Kay's Catalogue or a dirty copy of Razzle found in the woods"

Oo'er what were you doing rummaging around in the woods ?...and where are these woods ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"spring bank holiday was whitsuntide."

Bring it back. There used to a council tenants trip on this day in the village I live in. Which I fond memories of.

And digressing slichtly and coming up to date tell the PC gone brigade to stop calling Christmas winterfest!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having a bag of marbles..a few fruit salads n still having a good day..nette

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I remember as a kid waking up and my bedside drink was frozen solid. dressing under the duvet (we where trend setters back then) cos it was too cold to do otherwise.

hell until i was 7 we had an outside toilet, built into the house, but accessed only from outside.

My bedroom was the bay window with a curtain between me and my parents until i was 5. I tell younger people this and they never believe me.

we where lucky, had a kids TV, black and white only. where allowed 2 hours telly a day, more if educational. where kicked out at 9 on the weekends and not allowed back in the house until 5 or so in the evening.

ahhh the good old days, lol

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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

"spring bank holiday was whitsuntide.

Bring it back. There used to a council tenants trip on this day in the village I live in. Which I fond memories of.

And digressing slichtly and coming up to date tell the PC gone brigade to stop calling Christmas winterfest!! "

Ok let's give it its original name - Saturnalia.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"spring bank holiday was whitsuntide.

Bring it back. There used to a council tenants trip on this day in the village I live in. Which I fond memories of.

And digressing slichtly and coming up to date tell the PC gone brigade to stop calling Christmas winterfest!!

Ok let's give it its original name - Saturnalia.

hell even i am not that old, lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When Converse all-stars were about 5 shilling a pair and snake-belts held your pants up...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

More disease, more deaths during childbirth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I only grew up in the 80's, but remember most things like no central heating, ice on the inside of windows, horrible grey itchy blankets on the bed (that looked like or could possibly have been from the army). Bath night on a Sunday, Izal bog roll, to name but a few!

50p in the leccy meter! When it ran out, you could gaurantee we had no 50p's in the house.

Going to the shop at 7 and buying my mum 20 embassey number 1.

Meat slicers in the corner shop!

Buying a 1/4 of winter nips!

Clothes from the jumble sale.

4 kids in one bedroom!

Playing out all day til night fall.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"spring bank holiday was whitsuntide.

Bring it back. There used to a council tenants trip on this day in the village I live in. Which I fond memories of.

And digressing slichtly and coming up to date tell the PC gone brigade to stop calling Christmas winterfest!!

Ok let's give it its original name - Saturnalia.

I'm wring this post coz I see Christmas as an integral part of my childhood (what this thread is about) and thus an integral part of my cultural identity.

How old are you!!!!

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By *lanwoodMan
over a year ago

Alton

"spring bank holiday was whitsuntide.

Bring it back. There used to a council tenants trip on this day in the village I live in. Which I fond memories of.

And digressing slichtly and coming up to date tell the PC gone brigade to stop calling Christmas winterfest!!

Ok let's give it its original name - Saturnalia.

Isn't that a thermal spa in Italy?

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

"When Converse all-stars were about 5 shilling a pair and snake-belts held your pants up...

Snake belts Blimey.. Haven't heard of those for a while

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the 'nit nurse' at school. All had to line up to see her.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember when I had luxurious locks of wavy hair

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By *hyllyphyllyMan
over a year ago

Bradford

" kicked out at 9 on the weekends and not allowed back in the house until 5 or so in the evening"

Aye, if you came in twice dad used to send us to bed for going in and out

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Getting the slipper , pump , ruler or the cane when you were naughty .. "
i took the cane and slipper didnt do me any harm..maybe they should bring it back at times..nette

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"the 'nit nurse' at school. All had to line up to see her."

They have brought them back in our primary school x

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

We where the first year at school to be taught in "new" money. Warm bottles of orange squash on picnics

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

reading ladybird books on a sunday, listening to the pop charts taping the songs and trying to miss the DJ talking,at the start and end,and sunday tea time with sandwiches and mr kipling

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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

"the 'nit nurse' at school. All had to line up to see her."

My mum used to be a nit nurse!

Nitty Nora. The bug explorer.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember my Chopper....the bike that is

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"reading ladybird books on a sunday, listening to the pop charts taping the songs and trying to miss the DJ talking,at the start and end,and sunday tea time with sandwiches and mr kipling

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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

'French skipping' using elastic bands. Playing jacks and two-a-ball with daft rhymes I can no longer remember.

Turning mum's wooden maiden into a train or den on rainy days.

When curry was an exotic treat and pasta was only in cans.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"reading ladybird books on a sunday, listening to the pop charts taping the songs and trying to miss the DJ talking,at the start and end,and sunday tea time with sandwiches and mr kipling

yeah so you could fit it all on a D90 tape lol. I had a waterproof walkman, such luxury....lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I remember my Chopper....the bike that is

nearly castrated myself on a chopper once (the bike that is). they where fecking lethal lol.

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By *igSuki81Man
over a year ago

Retirement Village

I'm only 32 and i remember most of what's been posted here.

Good times and memories, wonder if improvement of technology actually improved lives or we lost some uniqueness to ourselves

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've contributed a number of posts to this thread and on reflection, if you think they were the "Good Old Days" you can fookin' have 'em.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I've contributed a number of posts to this thread and on reflection, if you think they were the "Good Old Days" you can fookin' have 'em.

typical british, think the terrible things we suffered trough as kids are better than todays offerings.

Still at least we had childhoods, not like the poor kids today.

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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

"I've contributed a number of posts to this thread and on reflection, if you think they were the "Good Old Days" you can fookin' have 'em.

I certainly didn't mention them being the 'good old days'. Just remembering. That's all. No harm in it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Me and my two brothers shared the same double bed till my older brother was about twelve. I was ten. (Mr. P)

I remember getting our first colour TV. My dad got it from an advert in the paper. We was all so excited that all if us went to collect it. It was horrendous though as this women was selling it as her husband had died and she all of a sudden had four excited children in her house.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Dads overcoat on the bed instead of an eiderdown, or duvet to you younguns

"
happy memories, my dad used to do that on a cold night ,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember when the first mcdonalds opened in Walthamstow. My dad dressed us all up on pay day and treated us. After that we were only allowed to go on our Birthdays.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I remember when the first mcdonalds opened in Walthamstow. My dad dressed us all up on pay day and treated us. After that we were only allowed to go on our Birthdays. "

used to be a big treat for us. although only allowed half a big mac and fries.

god we where poor back then, lol.

before that it was a wimpy.

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By *ibbyhunterCouple
over a year ago

keighley

can anyone remember when supermarkets came to this country, i seem to remember my local town did'nt have one till the late 60's.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember waitrose in slough, and my dad buying expensive danish chocolate biscuits.

"are you shopping with me or against me" from my mum had us all in stitches for ages.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Vesta Beef Curry

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Vesta Beef Curry

yuck...nuff said

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By *enithWoman
over a year ago

closer than you think

Remember a spoonful of syrup of figs every Sunday evening just after Songs of Praise

My nan baby-sitting on a Saturday night and being able to stay up late to watch Val Doonican and the Black and White Minstrels

Happy Days

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By *enithWoman
over a year ago

closer than you think

"Vesta Beef Curry

Vesta Chow Mein

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Who admits to having a piss pot or a bucket in the bedroom?

yup, and a stone hot water bottle. if it fell out of bed during the night it would wake the whole house up, lol.

still do, im not opening a window to pee out this time of year!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

5 of us in one bed, head to tail, first in got the shallow side !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sinclair Spectrum Computer

It was amazing at the time lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Sinclair Spectrum Computer

It was amazing at the time lol"

i had the zx81 - soooo old school.

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By *ire_bladeMan
over a year ago

Manchester

Cracking thread db9 but fuck me do I feel old after reading it all I can't belive how much id forgot. I was the youngest of our family an remember thinking it was so unfair being the only the only lad and having 3 sisters always picking on me. i had to go to bed 1st so id stomp up the stairs then run like fuck because my dad come out the front room unbucking his belt to hit me with how things have changed. iv just realised if my eldest sister was still with us she would have been nearly 60 now so guess thank fuck I was the youngest guess im not so sorry about it now.

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By *teveanddebsCouple
over a year ago

Norwich

"Vesta Beef Curry

Vesta Chow Mein

With crispy noodles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kaolin poultice slapped red hot on sore knees. OUCH!!!

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By *uby0000Woman
over a year ago

hertfordshire

"Wow, you guys survived all that AND didn't get eaten by dinosaurs? Amazing.

you remember dinosaurs? I don't

what we did have was loving parents that made up for it all

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Firey Jack, rubbed on to keep you warm!

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts

national health glasses and some kids used to have a big sticking plaster eyepatch over one eye

and the purple stuff your mum used to paint on your skin for whatever reason

metal leg calipers and one shoe with a really high sole & heel

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

having a landing phone but it was a " party line " so had to wait for other users had finished their call to make a call .....and yes you could hear their conversations

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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

"Kaolin poultice slapped red hot on sore knees. OUCH!!!"

And on boils!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I remember my Chopper....the bike that is

I can remember my Tomohawk, it was a small version of the Chopper with no gears, I think the even smaller one was a Budgie...

How about when all your fruit n veg came in paper bags from a green grocer.

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