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Things you can remember from your childhood that don't get mentioned now.
Things you can remember from your childhood that don't get mentioned now.
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Your dad plugging electrical devices into the light socket.
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Changing XMas Tree lights. Having to go through them 1 by 1 checking to see if that bulb had blown, you were snookered if 2 or more bulbs blew at the same time but light's were expensive back then and not a throwaway commodity.
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bazooka joe bubble gum
jamboree bags sterilised milk homework classes after school getting caned at school knock down ginger runouts hop picking in Kent red rover bus passes |
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Manchester Evening News Pink Final sports paper after the footy games on a Saturday.
The caddies at the Augusta Golf Course for The Masters The sixth day ....my senior school had this bizarre concept , it replaced the lessons of Monday on week 1 , Tuesday on week 2 etc .....ludicrous |
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i remember food issues ...'the sugar shortage ' when people grabbed bags of the stuff from supermarkets even though just one would last you months . and vesta packet meals . needed about 20 pans to boil the various sachets up and end up with dry tasteless rubbish. and angel delight .
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Vesta meals are delicious
You can still buy them in Poundland ect. I wouldn't like to eat them as a healthy diet  |
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Is it boiled doggy doos??
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the London Transport Bus Route map...classic
World of Sport Police 5 High interest rates (for savers!) |
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Knocking down of the Berlin wall
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Eurotrash.
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Half Time results marked out on wooden signs around the football ground and the A match, B match, C match etc. corresponded with the list of games in the match programme. This was also when all Premiership / 1st Division (as it was then) games were played on the saturday at 3pm.
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Gobstoppers
run-outs conker fights penny for the guy predator boots disco's CD's and Cassette's hand held camera VHS Calculator watches Sony walkman Gameboy's Pagers dial up modems Floppy disks Board games pen pals Pound strecher Woolworths Pogs Puffa Jackets Tamagotchi's Hubba bubba chewing gum Pokemon Parker pens Push pops (Don't push me, push a push pop  )Laser pens Casio watches Slinky Yo-yo's Panini stickers marbles mystic meg where's wally nike air trainers with lights point horror books goosebump books taping songs off the radio Lynx deodorant inflatable chairs happy meals bum bags egg and spoon races THE MILLENIUM BUG ffs  sticker albums roller blades the snake game on all mobiles monster |
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OBJECTION lodged
CD's - still buy them VHS - still in use Parker pens - got one last xmas Pound strecher - loads of them still about Lynx deodorant - got some here where's wally Wally was pursued by Liam Neeson . http://i58.tinypic.com/izvqdf.jpg and he got caught  . http://i59.tinypic.com/2ex5344.jpg |
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was going to say postal orders until Clydebank did. Used to enter comps, send in letters and cartoons to comics as a kid. The prize was nearly always a postal order, which for me really took the edge off the glory.
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That reminds me...Rolf's Cartoon Club
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I seem to remember a lot of smog from coal fires and a brown shellac coating (sticky) on all the post war furniture made of balsa wood. Very grim up north. I think the shellac film was a mixture of cigarette smoke and chip fat.
Cardboard Suitcases too. Everyone had them. pvc raincoats - women got see through ones. old bakelite radios that used double d batteries. transistor radios. sweat trap Kagool coats. these are a few of my favourite things.... kipper ties. |
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Boys Brigade marching on a Sunday Morning.
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spam fritters.
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Mateus wine
Cigarette sweets Collecting cards in tea bags/cigarettes Playing pong Fingerbobs |
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4-45pm on a Saturday in the high street, just outside Dixons becomes crowded as people try to see the teletext scores on the televisions on display.
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The clunking sounds when a train pulled into a station as people opened the doors and got off.
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Brylcreem dispensers at the swimming baths.
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liberty bodices.
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Sica Dan • November 10, 2014 1:26 PM GMT
Boys Brigade marching on a Sunday Morning. I did that, only so I could play for the footy team the following Saturday. No church attendance and no marching meant you were ruled out. Hated it. |
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Cremola foam,though I think that you can still buy Angel Delight.
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" open the back gate for the coalman "
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" open the back gate for the coalman
Rich kid ^^^ We never had a back gate. |
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Vision On
Michael Bentine's Potty Time Fingerbobs Captain Pugwash "Something for the weekend Sir?" |
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Mary, Mungo and Midge.
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call me a taxi 11 Nov 14 19:11
" open the back gate for the coalman Rich kid ^^^ We never had a back gate. Parents Bought a Semi in Clayhall in 1956, mum still lives there. |
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Rag and bone man - collecting junk on a horse and cart
Indoor League (with Fred Truman playing cards "Al si thee") Colt 45 |
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Radiators running on coke fuel
Fish and chips being the only take away in town Listening to live sport on the radio Watching darts and snooker at midnight and not knowing the score Shops closed on sundays Cigarettes being cheap |
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Fred smoked a pipe as he signed off
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Stamps on approval
The weekly Corona delivery Bus conductors Cubicles in record shops so you could listen to a track Button A Button B |
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Nurses in cotton uniforms..
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carbolic soap at school
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Izal bog paper
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PE in underpants when I forgot kit (hopefully not just me).
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Made great kazoos though...
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