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Respect for the parents/older people in your street..... never back chatted them... just did what they asked....
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We played “King of the Hill” on piles of gravel left on vacant building
> sites and when we got hurt, mum pulled out the 2/6p bottle of iodine iodine  |
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im 47
 Being out in the school holidays with your pals from 8 in the morning to 9 a night every day playing kerbie, maybe a scottish thing? playing football in the local park, 20 a side, jumpers for goalposts, never see kids playing football in the local park nowadays. eating angel delight and sugary custard out of a packet - in about 9 different flavours. - lovely. playing board games with your parents. going to the football with your mates from about 9 years old and finding ingenious ways to sneak in without paying. watching Mr Benn, Mary, Mungo and Midge and Fingerbobs on tv and loving every minute of it. being able to add up and and undestanf fractions without the need for a calculator. |
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*understand
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playing a game called , Walk the plank, Join the crew, quite a violent game if im being honest. |
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sorry , another
everyone having a mother and father, and everyone's parents working to support their families. i hardly saw my old boy as he worked 7 days a week to try and give me and my brother everything that he never had growing up. he and my mother always said that all they got for Christmas was a tangerine. poor phuckers. |
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British Bulldog, they kicked the beejaysus out of you if you were last man standing.
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anyone else get washed in the sink?
kick the can in the dark cremola foam everyone one played tennis during wimbledon, golf when the open was on, camping in the garden |
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their are tennis courts at our local hospital
during Wimbledon we would sneak on and have tournaments for the whole day pretending we were McEnroe and Borg. re golf, we would have putting competitions in the grass areas, outside our home. We would dig 18 holes out from the grass and play until it was pitch dark. |
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phuck sake
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School dinners used to be brilliant back in late 60s / early seventies - can still remember them now - didn't like sweet when it was tapioca (frog spawn) - camping in the local wood & eating several different kinds of soup all in the one pot - never had bereavement counselling if a family member died - you got on with life - a bygone age
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halcyon days 13 Jan 14 20:22 Joined: 29 Jun 05 | Topic/replies: 13,607 | Blogger: halcyon days's blog Going to Villa Park as a ten year old and being absolutely spell bound by the drama and excitement of the crowd.... Spellbound by the crowd hc? were the team cr'p then as well?  |
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Johnny Mcloud, Tony Hately, Charlie Aitken, Slogger, Alan Deakin, Lew Chatterly...
for a ten year old mate... Gods ! Plus got to see Greavsie, George Best, Bryan Douglas, Ian St John et al.... |
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I jest of course. I'm a Chelsea supporter and recall Tony Hately so well!
Yes I saw most of those. It was better wasn't it - a big team was "in town" and being there was th ONLY way of seeing them. |
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The great passion of my youth ??
Trainspotting Hours spent at the Great London Termini And the ultimate Shedding Wandering around Nine Elms ,Stewarts Lane ( carefully stepping over the live third rail ), Old Oak Common , Willsden , Camden , Kings Cross Top Shed et al notebook in hand. No safety helmet or Hi-viz vest , I cannot ever remember being challenged ,cannot happen today. |
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i"am 56 and this tread has taken me back to the best days of my life -the alpine pop man on friday night -saturday morning i would run round the paper shop to get my shoot magazine-billys boots was my fav happy happy days
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Shoot, Goal, Jimmy Hills Football Weekly, Charles Buchans Football Monthly, football programmes not matchday magazines.Cheap sweets 4 for a penny - blackjacks,fruit salad,flying saucers,fireman's hoses sherbet. Happy days!
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I'm 44 but 45 next week
Playing War Anybody in the way gets a big kick Listening to Radio2 for 2nd half commentary and the occassional horserace Shoot league ladders Swap Shop Friday night French Film on BBC2 Taping the Charts |
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Just thinking back to the early 70s when you took a ''gel'' out.... they'd all drink soft drinks, no alcohol !
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chrisg.... all of those mate... my first programme circa '64 was 4d !
Todays advertising mag; £3.50 ! |
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kpf , I recently bought loads of old photos and negatives from the 1940s-50s and 60s of old steam locos and old long closed stations ,brinklow ,shilton on the lmsw and lmsr plus loads of old southern railway photos and negatives, really interesting stuff.
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i used to have to go to my grans to watch the old grey whistle test because our telly didnt get bbc2
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steamship.... shoot league ladders, classic
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ABC minors saturday mornings.... just as the most dramatic scene was about to start... '' can the dynamic duo survive''... come back next week....
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we had the deluxe cinema HD
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^ where was that then ?...
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used to have ( still got it in the loft somewhere )an old Hornby clockwork train set it just used to go round and round but with a little imagination and loads of those old toy soldiers and dinky cars used to put the soldiers in the goods wagons and the dinky cars on the track and make spectacular train crashes !
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small town called Denny in Central Scotland
it ended up a bingo hall  |
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Deptford odeon cinema Saturday morning pics ,tuppence there tuppence back to and from rotherhite by bus ,tanner to get in shilling for a hot-dog ,or most times in for free by the fire exit ,the curtain rises the organ plays and the kids cheer half a dozen cracking short films ,blinding!
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Good stuff Foylsey .
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Foyle
Those negatives could be quite valuable , basically because they hold the copyright. Depending on the subject / quality / etc can fetch up to £100 each |
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oxford bags-penny collar shirts-platform shoes........god what did i look like
happy happy days |
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remember listening to the racing result at about 6.45 on radio two weekday nights with my dad
peter bromley on saturdays / big weekday meeting usually did a couple of races and always made it sound exciting radio luxembourg under the bed covers, bob stewart etc happy days paraffin heaters would never be allowed now surely |
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Used to have to go round the shops and get some paraffin, only a kid, but no problem getting served.
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kpf I have about 3or 4 hundred of them ! also negatives of railside signals ,signal boxes as well ,this copyright thing how does it work ? I bought the negatives from a woman at a car boot sale and she said they were her uncle who had died and she was clearing his effects ! how would I get copyright ?
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At eight years of age I was regularly sent by my Gran to collect her "Gunpowder" (Wilsons Snuff) and two quarts of Guinness on my scooter.
There was always a towel in the bag to stop clinking and giving the game away! |
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Bob A Job. Knocking on a strangers door as an eight year old asking if they had any jobs you could do for them.
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Also,walking to and from Barking with my Father to watch West Ham and eating Cod and Chips from newspaper on the way home if we won.
Happy days. |
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Spiked railings on the school gate for the kids to impale themselves on.
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