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I was only a nipper in the 60s but remember that" smog" around teatime from the factorys and peoples chimneys................. thick as fook , anyone remember the "toffee apple man used to have a basket on the front of his bike full of the sticky fookers , saturday morning pictures ,red bus rovers ,money back on empty beer bottles and lemonade bottles , sarsaparilla, ice cream with a wafer on top and bottom, knickerbokka glorys from rossis ice cream parlour ,home made bread and butter pudding ,rice pudding with a thick skin on top ,christmass pudding in school and if you were lucky you found a sixpence in it , me old granddad studying form with his head in the sporting life ,a tuppence each way acca usually written on the back of a cigarette packet , not a lot of money about then but we got by !
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must have lived up north
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no Deptford in se London mcarthy ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Mum used to play bingo down the footy club . . We used to crawl about on hands a knees to get under the smoke
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no smog cause up north we have clean air
 remember most of the others though. |
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Skidding on ice at school
 Health and saftey dont let them now. |
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what about when the gas man came to empty the meter ,you got returns sometimes if the was enough in the box
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Remember going from epping to Leytonstone on green line bus
with my nan to see father christmas at Bearmans store Thick fog seen nothing like it since Happy days  |
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instead of wafers on top and bottom of our ice cream we had chocolate nougats with bream inside, called them black men, doubt you can call them that now.
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cream
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playing conkers ,drink on a stick, slabs of palm toffee, the Robinsons golly on the jam ,wheres he gone
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soda syphons you also got money back on,gas at the dentist stuart hall on its a knockout jimmy saville on top of the pops, pot black in black and white,semalina pudding ,wrestling on itv.
at least the footballers were honest back then. |
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Used to hit the telephone box wiv a hammer to nick the 2ps
 Watched scum frightened the life out of me (the greenhouse rodgering  ) (The pool balls in the sock) Changed my ways overnight , that film changed my life.WHOS THE FOOKING DADDY  |
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used to make a go kart or soap box cart 4 old pram wheels from the local dump, a few planks of wood some nails a longish nut and bolt and lump of rope and voilla ,away you go !
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anyone remember those air raid sirens going off ? think they had them at police stations the war had long finished !what was that about ?
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The siren on top of police station went off to alert the
part time firemen they were needed to attend a fire |
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Ever make one off those canes with a split in the end then pull a cord through it??
Like a super javlin?? Hit a rabbit once thought i was robin hood then realised it had mixey  Ive hated the knut who invented that ever since . . Cruel bastard |
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politically correct or what ,at secondary school at beaktimes you could shoot over to the newsagents and buy a theepenny f ag and the shopowner used to give you a light !
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Remember all the girls wearing thick blue knickers in pe
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cap bombs ,like a rocket shaped toy that you put exploding caps in and threw it up in the air as high as you could them made a bang when it hit the ground ,used to pack as many caps in it as it would take for a might bang !
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batman lowering the tone ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Knock down ginger
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Remember the school giving everyone a can of cod liver oil to bring home
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Couldn't wait for granddad to get the coal fire started in winter. 5p went a long way on sweets, like 1p huge Whopper Bars, Texans my favourite with Old Jamaican Bars. Up at 4am to help dad deliver the milk. Thunderbirds, Daleks and Swop Shop. Flaires, penny round collars and platforms. K-knockers on twine and a tube you whizzed round our head to make a humming noise
Re-school, dinner lady gave you a pice of tracing paper to wipe your bum on and witchhazel if you ut yourself falling over on the concrete. Girls used to play marbles and hop-scotch |
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playing those war games with toy guns and when you had been shot you layed down for a minuet or so and waited for another kid to "release you"
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z cars and dixon of dock green on tv
EVENING ALL |
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...and double dutch or something with skipping ropes
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WHO HAD THE BEST "DIE" AFTER BEING SHOT.
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woodmanchester about 10 years ago there was a stall selling sweets and biscuits and she wwas seling those Texan bars at something like 30p each ,I bought a box of 144 off her with a good discount for bulk buy ,got fed up with em aftern a while but the kids lapped em up !
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the z cars theme tune classic !
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Yeah Foyles, loved 'em bit like chocolate nougat bars
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Tuck shops
. . .and there was always that teacher you fancied Mine was Miss Hammond xxxxxxxxxx |
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stewed apple and custard ..............my mum used to bake a big cookin apple and serve it with sugar and custard sour and sweet ! feck I could eat one now !
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Remember the advert? A Desperate Dan like character goes in front of the firing squad and his last request is to eat a Texan Bar. "All you gotta do is chew" After waiting so long for him to finish the gun-men fell asleep and Texan man just strolled off! lol
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60s? If you remember it.......................
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yeah i do and the cadburys smash men"Then then smash them all to pieces!!!" |
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Green shield stamps
My mum saved thousands of them |
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on the back page of those old comics we got as kids you could buy x ray specks ..............on the advert was picture of a guy with the specs on a he is looking at a couple of bits of crumpet and he could see em bollack naked through their clothes
sent off for a pair and was bitterly disappointed ! |
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#yeah, you only needed 100,000,000 to get a speedboat! lol
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