Things you can remember from your childhood that don't get mentioned now.

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.

That reminds me...Rolf's Cartoon Club

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.

Boys Brigade marching on a Sunday Morning.

spam fritters.

Mateus wine
Cigarette  sweets
Collecting cards in tea bags/cigarettes
Playing pong
Fingerbobs

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.

The clunking sounds when a train pulled into a station as people opened the doors and got off.

Brylcreem dispensers at the swimming baths.

liberty bodices.

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.

Cremola foam,though I think that you can still buy Angel Delight.

" open the back gate for the coalman "

" open the back gate for the coalman

Rich kid ^^^ 

We never had a back gate.

Vision On
Michael Bentine's Potty Time
Fingerbobs
Captain Pugwash
"Something for the weekend Sir?"

Mary, Mungo and Midge.

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.

Rag and bone man - collecting junk on a horse and cart

Indoor League (with Fred Truman playing cards "Al si thee")

Colt 45

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

Fred smoked a pipe  as he signed off

Stamps on approval
The weekly Corona delivery
Bus conductors
Cubicles in record shops so you could listen to a track
Button A
Button B

Nurses in cotton uniforms..

carbolic soap at school

Izal bog paper

PE in underpants when I forgot kit (hopefully not just me).

Made great kazoos though...

PE in underpants when I forgot kit (hopefully not just me).



No just you
You must of had a perverted PE teacher to have allowed that

well it was 1982 but you're probably right Scandi

bob the builder did a vest and pants range

Dogs roaming streets and parks.
A circle of Green Shield stamps instead of a tax disc.
The paraffin man.

P.E. in vest and pants me too, he was ex Royal Navy gave a 6ft Skinhead a black eye for speaking in assembly.
Cigarette machines outside shops 10 Number 6 or 10 about 15p, or 2p each of the Ice Cream van outside the school gates.

P.E. in vest and pants me too, he was ex Royal Navy gave a 6ft Skinhead a black eye for speaking in assembly.
Cigarette machines outside shops 10 Number 6 or 10 about 15p, or 2p each of the Ice Cream van outside the school gates.

Balance of payments
As the actress/bishop said to the bishop/actress

Stamps on approval

bloody hell Dobbo that's a good one I'd forgot all about doing that

Anyone remember the violet cashew sweets sold in tobacconists by the quarter in jars to smokers to supposedly take away bad breath.

Just turning on the radio finding some obscure station with the soundwaves pulsing loud then almost disappearing then coming back loud  again etc.

"Give it some choke"

CrystaVite
Dracula Ice Lollies
Summit Bars
Look and Learn
Jag comic
Pink stamps
Titbits
Tuf shoes
Stylo football boots

ovalman ........mentioned radio comm. in betting shops..........how things have changed........now when youre horse is tailed off you can see it.........tn them days you always had hope even with an 100 yards to go

in*

Lucky bags. (a large bag of leftovers, usually pastries from memory) for a penny. (old penny in my case)

Toy soldiers made out of lead

Just turning on the radio finding some obscure station with the soundwaves pulsing loud then almost disappearing then coming back loud  again etc.

And after 8.00, that russian jamming signal thingy. Der, der, der-der, der, der, derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-der.

Especially during 2nd half commentary on Radio 2 of the european cup match.

The singing ringing tree.......

Is Radio Luxembourg still going?

Basil Brush - the proper one, not the imposter with the rounded ears.

Kim Bassinger

Bob-a-Job week
'Remote control' steerable cars on end of cable
School buses that broke down regularly.
School buses that couldn't climb steep hills.

School bus Ifor - there's posh.

Omo washing powder.

I probably mentioned this before - sweet candy cigarettes.  With a red tip.

Sophisticated.

I smoked those, bodil.

They were good.  But partly responsible for the 120 odd fillings/refillings I had by the age of 21.  I can still feel how it was to crunch through them.  Sugar rush ...

Trebor?

Champion the Wonder Horse - probably is glue now
The Lone Ranger - probably in a home

The Lone Ranger and Tonto - can still remember where I saw that for the first time.  Hi-ho indeed.

They are all long dead of course.  But not me.

8-tracks

hobnail boots

hairy clunges

The 4 effs (F plural)

Pendleton's Twicers
Five Boys
Penny Arrows
Beech Nut
Barley Sugar

Black and White Minstrel show a shocking omission

Saturday morning Pictures

.
http://application.denofgeek.com/pics/film/flash.gordon/01.jpg

the singing ringing tree............... that takes me back what about bell and sebastion

playing in the school footy team on a saterday morning

fruit salad sweets

sherbert dabs

ice pops if you couldnt afford a proper lolly

collecting money off bottles to get the refund on the bottles

trying to get the courage up to ask a girl at school out

happy days

Hanging murderers.

calling a spade .... a spade 

Ivor. The scouts/cubs had it easy with Bob-a-Job week. The guides/brownies had to knock on a stranger's door and declare that they were 'Willing-for-a-Shilling'!

.

Waiting for the racing results at 7pm on the radio.
Scrumping apples.
Polio

Hardly any queues at the Labour Exchange.

top cat  /  officer dibble

hectors house

the clangers

bagpuss

bay city rollers

joe 90

miss world on mainstream tv , watched by whole families . seems very weird now .

Radio 2 not telling you which game was live commentary until bang on 3pm.

The British Open Golf 'heading out into the country' .....thinly veiled wires not long enough to show the holes.

Radio Luxembourg

Evening Citizen

The Cold War

Nuclear War

"The Cold War"

Don't worry, it's reforming for a comeback!

Send for Callan

Solid frost on the inside of windows.  Cold lino.  No central heating.  Short trousers.

Good morning, Bodil.  I hope you are well, sir.

You were lucky

Baking potatoes in the grate under a real fire.

The electricity going off for three days at a time.

Better than I deserve Pm.

And how are you?

I'm fine and dandy, thank you.  Just returned from a very pleasant evening at the pub.

Could - and will be - worse.  Not very exciting cards tomorrow.  A few good races but which idiots decided to stage most

That's interesting - just deleted my half-formed post - then it appears.  Was going to complain about the idiocy of holding all big races on a Saturday - thus diluting/reducing fields/top jockeys.  Utterly moronic.   Talk about a sport committing suicide.

I haven't been to a pub for over 5 years.

This will surprise some of you.

And it's not that I've been banned.

I go to the pub just about every day I'm in England.  I had a few brandies tonight, but usually stick to several coffees and a few games of pool.

Ah pool!  How did it all go in the end?

It started off rather promising but suffered a sharp decline as the evening wore on.

I meant the book.

Oh, sorry.  It's finished in a sense, but I'm still tinkering about with it as I'm mental.  I can't look at it without seeing something that needs improvement.

I know deep within myself that I'll never be happy.

A happy shark would stop swimming and die.

We need to be unhappy to keep going - with lots of cheerful stuff in between, of course.  And at the very end we'll realise that ...

Beaujolais Nouveau.

Except I googled it to check the spelling and found this article from just 2 days ago saying it is making a comeback, so kindly ignore this post.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-30079340

old style politicians with character. I remember our local MP George Brown (later Lord Brown) standing with my dad in front of our lounge fire warming his @rse, and drinking a Double Diamond straight from the bottle. Yes I know he was a p1ss head but he was a p1ss head with character.

Watney's Pale Ale. My dad let me have a can of that during the 1980 Cup Final

Yes the last time a second tier side won the FA Cup

Rangers playing in Europe.

,,,,,,,,,,,,FS1E AP50 RD's GT's X7's

I lost 4 school friends who were killed riding FS1E's and a further 2 were crippled for life

Fog. So thick you would get lost walking home because the buses had stopped and couldn't see across the road. It was always very quiet as well.

after (or was it before?) the national anthem was played at the end of the day's TV, you would be reminded to switch off your TV and just to be safe unplug it at the wall too.