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Things people don’t do anymore
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My Tongue is still suffering licking all those stamps
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sell roasted chestnuts roasted in a brazier on the streets !
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They were really good
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i still got 3 books full of those green shield stamps somewhere
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i picked up a bagfull of chestnuts near my caravan/holiday home and roasted them on the gas hob ...........lovely and brought back memories .
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make real yorkshire pudding in a tray on sundays mainly .......all aunt bessies little individual ones now .
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Jump on and off buses when they had the open back.
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Order from a catalogue and expect to wait 28 days for delivery.
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for nostagia lovers theres a good looking docu on talkin pictures tv now .......its a lovely day tommorow about bethnal green during ww2 .sparrow will be all over it!
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Eat blancmange. Collect droppings from the rag-and-bone man's horse. Win a goldfish at the fair.
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i ate blancmange a few years back bought a box with 4 or 5 different flavours in ,ya can still buy it and tbf its still as good as it was back in the day.
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but agree its nowhwere near as popular as it was when i was a nipper ! ^^
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go to sunday school .
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make those soap box carts !
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Embassy coupons and Pink stamps.
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go to the coast on beanos !
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sparrow musta seen it umpteen times !
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Queue up at the Cinema to see the latest Film
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Sample the treats on the Wollies 'pick 'n' mix counter before the elderly security guard shooed you out of the door with your gob stuffed with fruit salads and blackjacks.
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Buy a Jamboree Bag and hope for a good toy and Buy a certain Breakfast Cereal for the Toy inside,I used to like the Diver you filled up with Baking Soda which made it dive and surface again.
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Not seen it before foyles but every East Ender knew about the 1943 disaster with so many killed.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afdIgiNl_as
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yeah sparrow one of many at that time!
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Go with my mate to the Co-op to buy Lux soap flakes so the district nurse could give his dad an enema.
These days the enema would come in a sterile package, and everyone would be put on a register for even mentioning downstairs body parts to young kids, and possibly fined for sending youngsters on any sort of errand unaccompanied and, even worse, ON FOOT. |
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^^^^^^ When I asked an assistant in Tesco where the blancmange was she took me to the white wine section.
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Have a bet online with a bookmaker.
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use phone boxes
Lot of them full of Shyte and Pish in Recent years , Don't remember that happening back in the day |
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Phone boxes still have their Progressive Culturally-Enrichng users in Stratford, East London
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Does PG Tips still give away 2 free collectors cards in packets of leaf tea ?
Used to collect those in primary school. "Transport Trough The Ages" "Flags and Emblems of the World" etc |
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Watch the Greyhound Derby Final on the BBC.
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Or the TV trophy
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TV Trophy on Sportsview with Peter Dimmock and maybe Harry Carpenter.
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Collecting beer mats.
Collecting soccer stars stickers and putting them in the album, but having absolutely no interest in the "international soccer stars" which came next. Collecting discarded (or your own losing) racecourse bookies' cardboard tickets. Putting apostrophes in the correct place, unless you are one of those sad ****s who still do. |
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Check out the football results in teletext
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barstool 11 May 23 15:46
Pluck and remove the innards from their chickens. Catch and gut their catch. Kill and butcher their meat. Grow their own fruit and veg. Bake their own bread. Make jam, bottle pickles and beetroot. Wear hand-me-downs and darn socks. Pay in cash. No credit card. Here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdF-64yD-8U |
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"Pluck and remove the innards from their chickens". AND make amazing gravy - and with the boiled remains - Gizzard for dad, Liver for Mum, Neck for me and Heart for my sister. Townie kids din't know what they were missin.
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Fried bread from the bacon fat with Sunday breakfast.
Get free greens stuffed into your bag by the Greengrocer. Add £'s Shillings and pence in their heads while pouring drinks behind the bar. Sunday morning papers hoping for photos of Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice Davis. Watching closely as your pint was poured to make sure the Landlord wasn't topping it up with dregs from the drip tray. Underage drinking in pubs dressed in suit and tie and behaving in an adult manner so you weren't refused service. Me and 3 mates were in the local one day when a Bobby stuck his head round the door and spotted us. He walked over to our table,didn't say a word, just looked us up and down turned around and walked out. We got the message. There was a pub in Penge not far from the Police Station that was so full of underage drinkers that the Landlord would cry 'Time boys and girls please'. At chucking out time there would often be a motorcycle cop keeping an eye on everyone. They knew how to Police in those days. Doing a paper round to pay for your first bike. Seeing who could shoot pee the highest up the school toilet wall. One hour lunches in the pub then go into Lincoln's Inn Fields to watch the girls play netball or listening to Henry the Socialist speaking on his soap box on the corner. Ah yes. To quote Dickens, 'They were the best of times,they were the worst of times'. |
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I was 15 when I finally plucked up the courage my mates who were a few years older than me into my first nightclub, coppers were on the door that night, got to the kiosk sh1tting myself that I was going to get caught out but sailed through...walking in I thought was the dogs boll0x
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