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When things were black & white, halcyon days...
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He then paid for my dinner, a plate of chips with 2 beard and butter, and left me train spotting for the day. I was 8. Happy days.
Hairy days!  |
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Being sent to shop for Beecham's Powder or Aspros for the oul' lad.
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khyber kim,
good morning. Your post reminds me of when I was about six or seven.... we had ten bags of coal delivered, and the coal man had to make ten journeys down the entry and into our back garden to the coal shed. Mom knew I was quick witted like her and asked me to count them in so we had ten delivered. Needless to say the chap delivered nine and I can still here my mother say '' my son wouldn't lie to me and you can either fetch another bag or I'll pay you for nine !''   |
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yeah those bullworkers I had one I was influenced by the ad in the back of those batman/hulk type comics ,it showed a guy who was built like a brick shyte house kicking sand in a little wimpy blocks face on the beach and the crumpet looked impressed, that malt stuff feck knows what it was it came in a brown glass jar 1
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^^^^^^^^^^^^little wimpy bloke ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Charles atlas it was, a bodybuilder " don't be the guy who has sand kicked in his face ,use the bullworker and you can have a body like mine " was the advert
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who remembers those ads in the back of magazines and comics for x rays specs ,it showed a geezer with em on and a couple of birds walking past and on the ad it assumed you would see the women bollack naked with the specs on
come on own up who bought a pair ! |
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Foylsey... still have my Bullworker..... great bit of kit..... even better if you'd think about using the thing occasionally !
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I bought a Bullworker to build up my strength but couldn't open the box.
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I used mine as a doorstop
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In the mid sixties I used to get 2 bob pocket money & every saturday off to the newspaper shop to get as many comics as I could - The Victor, Hotspur etc - cannot remember the name but there was a small pocket like book with all war stories - brilliant
You had to be tough to go to the outside khazi in the middle of winter as well Hot water bottle in bed (and I mean a pop bottle) - I'll never know how it didn't explode |
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I sent for a Charles Atlas Course to improve my body.
Regretably,I could not open the envelope! Seriously,I trained like a rabid bulldog for months and never put an ounce on. By the way,Charles did not get paid. |
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For Halcyon
Never arrived in bags just dumped by the coal Board Lorry. If you didn't get in in quick the 'Pop' man or rag and bone man or the bleach wagon scattered it and crushed it. Another errand I hated was to go to the local butcher for my Gran, usually about Thursday. She used to 'Tick up' until my Grandad got paid on Friday. Always a pound of best steak and 6 links of pork sausage and I had to go back with the money Saturday morning. |
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geordie1956
geordie1956 20 Jan 14 21:24 Joined: 28 Dec 11 | Topic/replies: 664 | Blogger: geordie1956's blog In the mid sixties I used to get 2 bob pocket money & every saturday off to the newspaper shop to get as many comics as I could - The Victor, Hotspur etc - cannot remember the name but there was a small pocket like book with all war stories - brilliant We just called them 64 pagers. |
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Geordie the small mags would be battle or combat !
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Or Health & Efficiency !
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Butchers shop
Blood soaked sawdust all over the floor. And the smell there from. Don't get that today |
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Barbarellas, Rebeccas, The Cedar Club, Top Rank, The Locarno ( grab a granny night
), Dolce Vita, Snobs, Brum nightlife, fights yeah, but six stabbed at The Belfry new years day.. one critically injured !You might on a bad night get a bloody nose, but you'd never go out fearing you might be stabbed and end up in hospital.... fighting for your life !  People were less affluent but seemed far  |
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unfortunately all too true these days hal
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Tyneside clubland, Walkers, Manhattans, Julies, The Boat, Tux 2, also expecting a black eye but nothing more.
A spud gun. Plane to Spain, smog filled smoking area, girls doing in a duty free litre on flight, men trying to bend hostesses over the aisle - and they loved it. Respecting your elders and certainly anyone who knew your family. Locarno (Powerhouse) after Cobblers games. Superb thread. |
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anyone remember that fookin awfull marvel powdered milk ,only used it when ya ran out of the real milk ..........rank !
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5m_J5wogMQ
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< < < < < Chit Chat
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Don't live on chit chat, live here... the amount of positive response's suggests that only you have an issue, hth !
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You tell him hal
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Good afternoon Grimmy, we have a new outdoor vendor getting ideas above their station !
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Decent golfer tho apparently . . .But dunno why that gives him the right to think he can dictate to us is beyond me.
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I remember the old days when if you pinched an idea off someone you'd at least admit it
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Just pointing out there is a different forum for day to day banalities called Chit Chat, this Forum called Horse Racing I believe?
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Fair point, but we're all lazy & like the h r community for our daily dose of banter/politics/chit chat/pomposity
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Get an opinion up then biggy???
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On what particular subject TGODB?
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errrrrrrrrrr horse racing
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Touche |
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