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When things were black & white, halcyon days...
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Levi Staypress and doc Matrens... A can still smell the leather. schools Out For Summer...
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don"t forget your cheesecloth shirt
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what about those loon pants, tight as fook and squeezing your Jacobs !
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I bought a mohair suit
Beautiful , the real Biz Went to a party the first time I wore it One of those at the time trendy parties , no lights just candles in wine bottles. Went to get a drink , leaned across the table Sleeve MELTED |
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Burgundy loafers, Prince of Wales check trews, Ben Sherman, Crombie with a silk hankie tie tacked, .... and red sox
 ....thing was unbelievably the ''gels'' loved it !  |
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I had a moustache
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In reply to kpf, I've been racking my brains and even asked a mate about that but neither of us knew who owned that schooling track. It wasn't anywhere I've been to. Sorry about that.
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halcyon
we used to read the books, skinhead, smoothie and suede head. Joe Hawkins was the fictional guy in the book and he was a west ham fan. |
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Slippy
Far at the back of my mind is Bonsor Connected with the Hambros ( Ascot Newmarket Stewards back then ) It was not open to the public but run privately according to Vernon |
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after shave of choice was brut splash it all over knocked the birds bandy,! and the brut soap on a rope !
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Due to the lack of alternative entertainment I would often read a book
Famous Five , Secret Seven , Biggles in progression Until in the early sixties I tried to read "Catch 22" Started at the front , could not understand it. Someone who had read it told me to start in the middle. ??? WOW Read it to the end and then went back and read it beginning to middle BRILLIANT BOOK |
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Going ''mob'' handed to night clubs & asking gels in pairs to pretend to be your girl friends !
Open necked shirts & no ties.. so socks off to pretend.... bouncers seeing the funny side & letting you in ! |
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Once went to Jollyes in Stoke six handed... three off us had got leather jackets on ( a no no) ... never mind says P K I know the car park attendant ! Italian feller in a shed with an array of jackets & ties a tramp wouldn't of been seen dead in...... as above !
First thing in the club pay a nicker to the cloak room attendant.... |
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Back in the day you had to have a tie to get in a nightclub, i turned up no tie so i went to the car and rapped a pair of jump leads round my neck to form a tie
Got in the que . . .The bouncer stopped me and said "Are they jump leads round your next ghostie?" . . .I blushed and said "yeah" he said "Right il let you in . . .BUT DONT START ANYTHING!!!" |
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postmannick
15 Jan 14 11:58 Joined: 01 Jan 06 | Topic/replies: 2,810 | Blogger: postmannick's blog after reading this tread yesterday i decided to take a drive back to where i grew up small heath in birmingham sat there in the car for 30 mins and it all came flooding back sad i know but they really were the best times of my life ..thanks to everyone who posted on here Great post fella  |
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cheers ghost-i just had to do it after reading this it really was worth it happy happy days
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Im going to do it this weekend go for a walk through the orchard where i ran free.
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ghost- enjoy it mate and let all the good times come flooding back
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Will do . . . . . . I wonder is avril has still got her hot pants
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KPF and Slippy Blue, the answer to your question is Sir Thomas Houston- Boswell
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Cheers hove
Any further details you can supply Is it still there |
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Terry O'Sullivan used to run the schooling track, Sir Tom was an owner at Crayford. A few rumours about him ended his ownership. A terrible accident ended with a child drowning in the middle of the track , so I believe. Used to have many many greyhounds but now wouldnt cross the road to go, to what was once a great game. Actually attended 3 tracks in 1 night in the past watching my own dogs run, Maidstone, southend and Romford !
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there are some amazing posts on here, when i have time - like an hour - going to sit down and enjoy the whole thread.
has anyone mentioned pints of mild, trebor mints, black jacks and fruit salads, curly wurlies, love they neighbour and on the buses? |
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My first pint of Mild cost 1 shilling and seven pence,HV (only ladies or woollies drank lager then).
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games of conkers ! baking them in the oven putting them in vinegar etc think ing it would make em tougher , and those wayfinder boots for kids that had animal tracks on the sole and a compass !
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snake belts if you were lucky you got the more expensive on e with a little wallet attached !
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monkey boots, if you trod in dogs shat it was bugger to get shot of it !
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Free Gifts in Cereals -submarines that you had to put baking soda in,the Whizzer jet with Shredded Wheat and countless more.
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lucky bags- i got one every time the old man dragged me down the barbers
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in the 70s a whole group of us were out of work and devised games to relive the boredom in the afternoons feck all on the telly in those days save for " indoor league " with fred trueman " ill se thee" was his catchphrase , what little money we had was invested wisely on drink and happy weed ,we all sat around a table and played a game called chase the ace "with a twist " it was the ultimate bluff game and if you copped an ace it the pressure was unbearable you had to hope someone had a low card and swapped it with you , the twist was " there was a mousetrap set up on the table and person who copped the ace or low card had to stick his fingers in it , it was like that film the deerhunter when he played Russian roulette ,all the others who had avoided the ace or low card were baying and screaming and laughing till it was there turn ! some cracking poker players must have come out of that experience !
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This really is a cracking thread thanks guys.
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and did you play british bulldog in the school playground ? happy happy days
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my secondry school was rough it was in Deptford and most of the kids familys were potless and kids being kids there were plenty of bullys ready and waiting to pick up on anyone different ,one day one of the kids came in full school uniform and football boots with the studs in ,his family couldn't afford shoes feck sake he had a miserable day !
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It could have been worse,Foyles.
Do you remember the Army & Navy Shops? It could not have been much fun turning up in a Japanese War Admirals Kit! |
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be me too it star
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Did anyone have those football boots that i think it was Alan Ball promoted they had a swivel in the studs so that you could turn quicker . . White in colour they was i believe . . . I was like bambi on ice
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i always wanted the georgie best boots with the laces on the side ....he had a slot on the telly showing us how to improve
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p.e and playing football in the winter with one of those old leather balls that you laced up in the rain they weighed a fookin ton ,if you took one in the Jacobs you were on the deck for 5 mins !
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I broke my arm
 trying to perfect Charlie Georges flying header in a cup final. . Was it Arsenal v Leeds?? 1971/2 ish |
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those old case balls- fick me they hurt if you headed one you had a headache for a week
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