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

Is there anything you can think of that you wish from your childhood that were still like it today or still around

Mine would be the innocence where you seemed to be able to trust your neighbours and play out in the street till silly o’clock and everyone would look out for everyone else’s kids without being asked or without a worry

Also smarties how the used to be with the tubes and plastic tops so you had the sweets and were able to fire the top at someone :D

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here

Penny sweets in a paper bag.

No mobile phones, was so much simpler.

Just turning up to houses to see if your friends were coming out to play

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By *oseredWoman
over a year ago

Dublin

Roller disco's. Lol

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By *evil_u_knowMan
over a year ago

city

The smell of building sites

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


"Penny sweets in a paper bag.

No mobile phones, was so much simpler.

Just turning up to houses to see if your friends were coming out to play"

Oh good call there on all those

And always having 10p incase I needed to use a phone box in an emergency

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By *3xyCoupleCouple
over a year ago

swingers town


"Penny sweets in a paper bag.

No mobile phones, was so much simpler.

Just turning up to houses to see if your friends were coming out to play"

Wow that brings back good memories.

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT


"Penny sweets in a paper bag.

No mobile phones, was so much simpler.

Just turning up to houses to see if your friends were coming out to play"

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

Pirate radio stations

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

All the above. Playing too hard which lead to wripped jeans. And a chocolate called SnowFlake Mmmmmmmm

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

The smell of Brylcreem

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

Something I did as a child I don't suppose happens now ....

."Bob a job week".. for the cub scouts.

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

Barrs pineappleade

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By *moothdickMan
over a year ago

stoke

Putting shed sex lesson by my uncle Dave

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By *il FiskMan
over a year ago

sefton

Evel knevel bike! God I loved that toy!!

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By *ily Con CarneTV/TS
over a year ago

Cornwall


"Penny sweets in a paper bag.

No mobile phones, was so much simpler.

Just turning up to houses to see if your friends were coming out to play"

I welled up reading that... really I did

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

I was around when blue tits and sparrows around the country learned how to peck the silver tops off milk bottles ,then milkmen put a stone on the top of milk bottles on the doorsteps.

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By *osie xWoman
over a year ago

wolverhampton

Your mum telling you half hour before bedtime to go turn the electric blankets on.

How did we not die

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here


"Penny sweets in a paper bag.

No mobile phones, was so much simpler.

Just turning up to houses to see if your friends were coming out to play

I welled up reading that... really I did"

Such a sweet memory

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

Korky the cat in the Beano or was it the Dandy and Desperate Dan with his cow pies..

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

1/2 penny sweets, 20 sweets for a whole 10p, bargain!

Twix's before they started making them shit.

Monster Munch when you got more than crisps in a bag

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

And waiting at Christmas to get the Beano Annual

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

No cell phone, We had code to call out for play, clap in certain way so they know. Fighting for gum berries

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By *il FiskMan
over a year ago

sefton

Playing in derelict houses. Or bombdies as we used to call them. Health and safety and security didn't happen in the 70s!!

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

White dog shit and cuckoo spit. I'd love to see that again and reminis

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

Having to go to bed when you weren't even tired ..

.then waking you up the next day just to go to school

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By *ayHamboMan
over a year ago

Enfield

Adventure playgrounds during summer holidays, it was like an exclusive club for little people with trips included!

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


"White dog shit and cuckoo spit. I'd love to see that again and reminis "

I've seen cuckoo spit recently in my garden. Would love to see white dog shit back on the streets again

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

glue ear

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


"White dog shit and cuckoo spit. I'd love to see that again and reminis

I've seen cuckoo spit recently in my garden. Would love to see white dog shit back on the streets again"

we dont give dogs bones anymore.. (probably elf and safety )!

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


"White dog shit and cuckoo spit. I'd love to see that again and reminis

I've seen cuckoo spit recently in my garden. Would love to see white dog shit back on the streets again

we dont give dogs bones anymore.. (probably elf and safety )! "

Dogs nowadays don't know they're born

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

Test card and music at night on tv.( the lass with the chalk)

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By *ack-FMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Playing kiss, tickle and torture ....(and dirty things)..... such sweet innocence

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By *xperimentalistMan
over a year ago

East Yorkshire

I think I am on here too much, I thought it said thighs from your childhood and I was going to say Sam Fox and Linda Lusardi

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By *wingfellowMan
over a year ago

my own little sanctuary

When I was playing out the ice cream man used to come find me as my parents had given him money for our ice-creams as he passed the house so he would circle the estate until he found me.

Blackjack and bubblegum ice creams with a decent amount on them

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

The only other form of communication other than a house phone was a CB used to going on it still remember my Handel name Bubbley gum kid

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


"The only other form of communication other than a house phone was a CB used to going on it still remember my Handel name Bubbley gum kid "
oh god ye 'wots your 20'

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


"The only other form of communication other than a house phone was a CB used to going on it still remember my Handel name Bubbley gum kid oh god ye 'wots your 20' "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The only other form of communication other than a house phone was a CB used to going on it still remember my Handel name Bubbley gum kid oh god ye 'wots your 20' ?"
I think that was whereabouts are you as I recall

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


"The only other form of communication other than a house phone was a CB used to going on it still remember my Handel name Bubbley gum kid oh god ye 'wots your 20' ? I think that was whereabouts are you as I recall "
yeah I get u know sorry I’m a bit slow then ha

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

Coming in when the street lights went on. Being grounded was the worst punishment ever

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

Vision on

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

The huge games of football we used to have 20 v 20 usually.

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

Standing on the platform on the back of a bus..

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


"Is there anything you can think of that you wish from your childhood that were still like it today or still around

Mine would be the innocence where you seemed to be able to trust your neighbours and play out in the street till silly o’clock and everyone would look out for everyone else’s kids without being asked or without a worry

Also smarties how the used to be with the tubes and plastic tops so you had the sweets and were able to fire the top at someone :D "
I remember my penny farthing and going down Road with a bucket to pump some water those were the days my friend I thought they'd never end

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By *carlettxWoman
over a year ago

Essex

Mine would be for kids today to be how kids my age used to be

We could be adventurous and learn from our own mistakes , even our parents giving us more freedom we all knew who were dodgy people but still had enough freedom to actually converse with neighbours etc without blanking

And we respected not only our parents but other grown ups too. Gone are the days where you could get told off by your neighbours with the fear of your parents bollocking you because they had ... Now kids either mouth off or said parents have a go at the neighbours for actually telling them off for bad behaviour !! Same in schools too !!

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


"Mine would be for kids today to be how kids my age used to be

We could be adventurous and learn from our own mistakes , even our parents giving us more freedom we all knew who were dodgy people but still had enough freedom to actually converse with neighbours etc without blanking

And we respected not only our parents but other grown ups too. Gone are the days where you could get told off by your neighbours with the fear of your parents bollocking you because they had ... Now kids either mouth off or said parents have a go at the neighbours for actually telling them off for bad behaviour !! Same in schools too !!

"
yes the disrespect of youth knows no bounds

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


"Mine would be for kids today to be how kids my age used to be

We could be adventurous and learn from our own mistakes , even our parents giving us more freedom we all knew who were dodgy people but still had enough freedom to actually converse with neighbours etc without blanking

And we respected not only our parents but other grown ups too. Gone are the days where you could get told off by your neighbours with the fear of your parents bollocking you because they had ... Now kids either mouth off or said parents have a go at the neighbours for actually telling them off for bad behaviour !! Same in schools too !!

"
also the local bobby could clip you round the ear

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


"Mine would be for kids today to be how kids my age used to be

We could be adventurous and learn from our own mistakes , even our parents giving us more freedom we all knew who were dodgy people but still had enough freedom to actually converse with neighbours etc without blanking

And we respected not only our parents but other grown ups too. Gone are the days where you could get told off by your neighbours with the fear of your parents bollocking you because they had ... Now kids either mouth off or said parents have a go at the neighbours for actually telling them off for bad behaviour !! Same in schools too !!

"
guess i dont remember those days i happily told folks who had issue to fuck right off estate life for ya

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By *osforthMan
over a year ago

newcastle on tyne

spangles

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


"Mine would be for kids today to be how kids my age used to be

We could be adventurous and learn from our own mistakes , even our parents giving us more freedom we all knew who were dodgy people but still had enough freedom to actually converse with neighbours etc without blanking

And we respected not only our parents but other grown ups too. Gone are the days where you could get told off by your neighbours with the fear of your parents bollocking you because they had ... Now kids either mouth off or said parents have a go at the neighbours for actually telling them off for bad behaviour !! Same in schools too !!

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

Swan vestas matches.

Firelighters.

Coal going down a chute into celler

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By *omaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Kids with baggy shorts with braces and snot running down the top lip

As per my dad's old childhood.

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By *omaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Homemade catapults . .

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

An unbroken home would be nice.

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By *hy_bangor_bi-girlWoman
over a year ago

Bangor

Rugrats

And casstte story books

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

The rag and bone man ..on a horse and cart

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

Clackers !! Lethal things they were

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"

And always having 10p incase I needed to use a phone box in an emergency "

I remember a phone call being 2p !

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"Clackers !! Lethal things they were "

I used to wrap my hand in a tea towel first !

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By *aven RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

Bike rides. Manhunt till it went dark. Skipping with all the kids, mums turning the rope/washing line. Water fights with washing up bottles x

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


"Homemade catapults . . "

Made from bed springs out of beds folk used to dump in the back greens

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By *aven RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

Go karts made with pram wheels x

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

Penny sweets that cost 1p

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By *heEpicureanMan
over a year ago

Stamford

Knowing where your mates were as there was a mountain of bikes outside a house

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


"Go karts made with pram wheels x"

Or if you found a Silver Cross pram chassis, they made fantastic go karts

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

Having a favourite teacher. My fav was a Mr Trott,from primary school 50+ years ago.

Good teachers never forgotten

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.


"Is there anything you can think of that you wish from your childhood that were still like it today or still around

Mine would be the innocence where you seemed to be able to trust your neighbours and play out in the street till silly o’clock and everyone would look out for everyone else’s kids without being asked or without a worry

Also smarties how the used to be with the tubes and plastic tops so you had the sweets and were able to fire the top at someone :D "

Thin

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

Playing cricket on our street with all the children on our street.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Jumpers for goal posts, shirts and skins.

Playing pirates, conker's, Rolf Harris pre well you know when Rolf was Rolf.

Tonka toy's, cow horn handlebars on a bike, jamboree bag's and spam.

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

Playing knock-a-door run !

(the American version is called Knock Down Ginger I believe... Yuk.)

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Proper old school fingering.

Not this fingerblasting nonsense.

Titing someone up then hand up skirt for a sensual fingering whilst snogging each others face's off.

Usually in a booth or dark corner at Ritz's nightclub or local boozer in back alley.

Oooohhhhh classy

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By *aven RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool


"Go karts made with pram wheels x

Or if you found a Silver Cross pram chassis, they made fantastic go karts "

The holy grail for go karts x

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

Being able to go on building sites with my stepdad! He was an asphalter. I remember Being hoisted up in a crane bucket with him to the top of a building to do the work!

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By *uck-RogersMan
over a year ago

Tarka trail

I tell you what. I don't miss them bloody itchy ex army blankets.

You younger peeps won't remember sitting on the side of the road for hours, waiting for a car bus or lorry to drive by, to take down it's registration.

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

Hard toilet paper

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By *lanwoodMan
over a year ago

Alton


"Hard toilet paper "

We had to use ripped up newspaper sheets. Daily Mirror!

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By *entleman55Man
over a year ago

S’th West Mc/r


"Hard toilet paper "

Izal medicated !!!

Fuck that was awful

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I'd like a chopper

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By *entleman55Man
over a year ago

S’th West Mc/r


"I'd like a chopper "

Wouldn’t we all....they are collectors items

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

Listening to Radio Moscow on my stereo when it wasn’t even on Radio mode !!

Oh and watching things like Stig of the Dump or Huckleberry Finn

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By *entleman55Man
over a year ago

S’th West Mc/r

Radio Luxembourg !!!

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By *abrielle247Couple (FF)
over a year ago

PDI Gran Canaria

Jamboree bags, pea shooters, spud guns and conkers soaked in vinegar to make them harder.

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

The house phone having its own table and seat in the hall , and the copies of the phone book & yellow pages , listening to the radio ,on medium wave , the station drifting in and out with static !

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

Hair and hope

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

No crap tv or people over indulging in computer games etc - it really saps the life out of people watching box sets - at least we had a steady diet and commited an hour a week to watch something...

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

Wish my kids could of lived in times like I did. Such as, out the door to play all day and come home when the street lights switched on.

Riding in the back of my uncle's open back truck.

Curly Wurly chocolate bars being huge as most choc bars were back then!

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By *omaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Wonderloaf bread

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By *omaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Is that the stuff that was like tracing paper?

Just smeared all over your cheeks . . Yuk

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


"Radio Luxembourg !!!"
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208...listen to the latest release...it faded in and out .twas good .

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


"No crap tv or people over indulging in computer games etc - it really saps the life out of people watching box sets - at least we had a steady diet and commited an hour a week to watch something..."

Life can be easily without all of that ... it's only life choices!

I'd like Sunday's to have the internet switched off for all! Have to go back to how it was!

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

School assembly

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By *abrielle247Couple (FF)
over a year ago

PDI Gran Canaria

The smell of carbolic soap in the toilets and the a_oma of freshly waxed floors in the halls. It funny how smells bring back memories.

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

Pretending to be ill to miss School

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

I can do it sadly my family cant lol - hope your quest goes well Deb!

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By *ickseyMan
over a year ago

cambridgeshire


"Penny sweets in a paper bag.

No mobile phones, was so much simpler.

Just turning up to houses to see if your friends were coming out to play"

That’s the best reply on here

Add to it :

Respect for elders and the police!

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


"Roller disco's. Lol"

We have a soft play/ roller rink place in Huddersfield that does roller disco for adults only every month I think

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

Walking to my local shop with a pound in my pocket and not a care in the world, feeling like a millionaire.

All them penny sweets and 10p chomp bars

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

I can't think of a single thing that isn't better now.

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

I have my knitted baby booties

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

My he man collection! Would be worth a bit too if I kept it all boxed

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

My scalextrix I have cars and track everything but imagine it wouldn't work now

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

Snow. We had some fabulous winters.

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


"I can't think of a single thing that isn't better now."
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wagon wheels

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

Riding in the side car of my brother's motorbike.

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


"Riding in the side car of my brother's motorbike."
nothing better than a good ride first thing in the morning

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By *ature-maleMan
over a year ago

wirral

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

Rickets

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


"I can do it sadly my family cant lol - hope your quest goes well Deb!"

Lol @ quest! I brought my kids up with no tv's computer games etc now 27 & 18 and they still can't stand it! Lucky both are healthy well adjusted social beings with awesome hobbies ... think any grandkids won't have tv's either

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By *ature-maleMan
over a year ago

wirral


"Go karts made with pram wheels x"

Oh yes what memories.

Rope tied to the front wheel axle assembly for you to steer with.

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By *udistnorthantsMan
over a year ago

Desborough


"Go karts made with pram wheels x

Oh yes what memories.

Rope tied to the front wheel axle assembly for you to steer with. "

Did you bother with a piece of wood as a brake...or live dangerously?

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