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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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was it kent walton with sat afternoon wrestling
sneaky jump on the back of the milkfloat for a ride around the corner 
Voyage to the bottom of the sea, lost in space, 2p back off of a corona bottle. 
Where's your mother gone.......... mouldy old dough. 
My mum used to have to slice the bread so thin there was only one side to it
That cola ad lipsmacking...................................................................
hey lads if you like 60s music ,on you tube tap in the best Vietnam war music on playlist on youtube ............cracking tunes ! will take ya back !
bri nylon shirts ........also favoured by dodgy car dealers to ease the crunching in a gearbox on a second hand mota !
Mission impossible, the saint, ufo and randal and hopkirk (deceased)
Watch with mother. Are you sitting comfy
Wooden tops . .
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Skippy and flipper
Wooden tops . .
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Skippy and flipper
shops closing at 5.30. early closing day. nothing open on a sunday
Bless this house, love thy neighbour and the black and white minstrel show. Monkey boots and bell bottoms.
Thanks for the memories Foyles, that's me out. As they say, those really were the good old days. Oh! The good old days.
feck me look at all these posts ........nostalgia rocks!
"camp"coffee in a bottle with a scots soldier and an indian charwallah on the label !
Still drink it foyles and on that note.. . . .
Its ovaltine and bed with the electric blanket on.
Great read good fun, goodnight.
Its ovaltine and bed with the electric blanket on.
Great read good fun, goodnight.
good night ghost ! my last words, snake belts , homemade pudding basin haircuts, those grey socks with coloured bands at the top , and balaclavas ! and tins of condensed milk ,plus that powdered "milk " marvel desperate stuff !
those grey socks with coloured bands at the top
and last but not least ! every school had one ! the kid with national health glasses with a plaster over one lens ! goodbye and good punting all and any luck you have be good luck ,tommoz !
yeah that bogroll was like tracing paper,wtf was that all about
those little iron filings faces with a magnet to make a beard 
Getting up early to do a paper/milk round
Engrained in me very rarely am i in bed after 5.30
Kids today could lay there till the other 5.30
Engrained in me very rarely am i in bed after 5.30
Kids today could lay there till the other 5.30
Why did every class just have one fat lad in it? They seemed to be divided equally at the start of term so that each class had a goalie at play time.
Prostitutes hanging around on the corner of Bedford Hill, S. London.
the 60`s were the beginning of the modern age-few had a TV before then,and bog roll!we had to use old newspaper in the out
side bog
side bog
GREEN SHIELD STAMPS! For 1500 full books you could have a brand new car.
My old mum got a posh tea caddy off green shield stamps
Push button job fixed to wall
Push button job fixed to wall
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