Sundays Fifty Years Ago

you didn't have as many as 10 vegetables in the UK in 1959

Maybe it just seemed like it ;)

can relate to many of those.

Wheres the banana butties for tea ?

Didn't have time for tea, too much telly and radio.

leazes67
Is that the leazes67 as in Pop Robson, Bobby Moncur and John Tudor ?

hitch hiked to edinburgh (from newcastle)on back of a SnN BEER WAGON.13 yrs old

it sure is paulbu.

oh yes we have no bananas!

leazes67
I'm not a Newcastle fan but I was at St James the day that they secured promotion to top flight in April 1965. They beat Bolton that day with Jim Iley as captain. The 'mighty' Wyn Davies was playing for Bolton.

my dad telt me(lived rough) that all he got for tea was 2 dried bits of toast and a boiled egg

leazes67
I'm not a Newcastle fan but I was at St James the day that they secured promotion to top flight in April 1965. They beat Bolton that day with Jim Iley as captain. The 'mighty' Wyn Davies was playing for Bolton.

i was there that day and the only way we could stop wyn davies was for our centre half(john mcnamee)to virtualy cripple him.big wyn went off injured and we went on to win 2.0.wyn was a newcastle player the following season.

1959 I was 8

No bike :(
No dansette :(
No homework :)

Big crowd that day, 55,000, I was on the Gallowgate smack behind the goal. Wyn Davies hit the bar at that end with a header, but then he was never much cop on the deck.

Dad worked shifts - nicking a fag and a couple of matches from his pocket when he was in bed could be added to the list above.

'Ice Blue' Jeans

Condoms in the Barbers

'Coffee Bars' frothy coffee in a glass cup, juke box and pin table.

Folk Clubs

Jelly for tea whilst the golden shot was on, sunday night at the London palladium with bruce forsyth.

Pub opening times 12:00 - 2:00 p.m............. 7:00 - 10:30p.m.

I used to like High Tea .

Don't know if this was 50 years ago, but my fond Sunday memories consisted of Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves followed by The Big Match, and excellent Sunday Roast.  Evening tea was sitting round the kitchen table eating sandwiches listening to the Top 20 countdown on the radio..

Can never remember being without a TV but do remember getting our first colour set around 1974. We rented it out of Radio Rentals.
I also remember keeping our milk in a bucket of water as we had no fridge.
School holidays I was out at 9am and didn't come home unless it was tea time or 9pm.
Lunch consisted of a bowl of custard with a dollop of jam.
If you didn't like dinner your simply didn't eat.
Your pet roamed the streets and sht where it wanted, no picking up poop back then. Only snobs kept their dogs on leashes.
Stood outside my local football ground asking to be lifted in, we had crowds of 20,000 back then.
Staying out to protect your Bonfire and raiding other bonfires if they didn't stay out (I'm from NI)
Renting a boat out of the local park without a safety vest was a treat.
As was swimming in an outdoor pool.
Your life was dictated by how you done in the 11+, those who failed (me) had to get a trade, those who passed went to Uni and got an office job.
The internet consisted of the Sun newspaper.
Cooperman, we had weird opening times in NI, we used to go to the Bowling Club or a Catholic Club on a Sunday as they were the only places with alcohol at certain times (I was born a prod.)
Despite the bombs, it didn't stop you going into the City Centre if you needed something.
Getting searched by army and police happened occasionally (poor Catholics had it constant)
10p mix ups.
Steiger lager was my first drink, 21p a tin which TBF has increased that much compared to inflation.
Rich people had a telephone and a car.

I'm 48 btw.

In early years Sunday School, visiting my grandparents, Sunday dinner, weekly bath, bed.

When I had some say in it.  Watching village football team on Sunday morning.  Playing football on the playing field with mates.  Watching Star Soccer with Hugh Johns.  Forest Rangers or Skippy at teatime.  Sunday dinner, weekly bath, bed.

A bit later, playing for village football team aged about 15, down the pub after, Star Soccer with Hugh Johns, Official Chart Show on Radio 1 while in the weekly bath, bed.

Out Of Town was great Alladin. Recuerdos De La Alhambra at one end and dear old Max at the other. They don't make shows like that anymore.

Sunday.. Bath night. School in the morning. Worst feeling in the world.

weekend world and farming outlook. but that was 45? years ago. nationwide was my nemesis. hated it. orange and purple was the fashionable colours for bedding and brown and mustard for the kitchens. All that tagine ware and croc pot nonsense. cardboard suitcases for holidays.

A lot of things used to be closed on Sundays 50 years ago...Sundays are better now

No Horse or Greyhound racing to bet on 50 years ago

Cinemas were open.

Very little Sunday trading....the paper shop I remember

Fish and Chip shops were closed

No football on Sundays