Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted February 28, 2023 Report Share Posted February 28, 2023 You haven't changed much! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David sheridan 159 Posted February 28, 2023 Report Share Posted February 28, 2023 @benjamin1945 even at tender age yer giving the thumbs up to the ladies , what a right little lothario you became !!!!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,160 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Consider mesen a lucky fella @davidsheridan..to grow up and spend most of my life with my lovely Aunts and female cousins always preferred female company because of them...Nel..Doris..Rose,,Connie...Margaret...Gwen...they were my Bulwell Aunts....all great characters,,, All now gone but never will be forgotten.....for there Laughter...singing and dancing.... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 19 minutes ago, benjamin1945 said: ...Nel..Doris..Rose,,Connie...Margaret...Gwen.. A good example of how names go in and out of fashion. Rose is fairly popular now, but I'll bet there have been very few of the others in recent years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,160 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Always found names remind you of a certain era.......all of the above were born in the 20s and 30s.....and their female children have names from the 40s and early 50s........ Brenda...Linda...Carol...Angela...Mary...Ann...June...Shirley...Joy....Helen...Christine and Donna.........and thats just the female cousins........ Edit...oh just remembered some more.....don't worry though won't list them.....to say nowt of second Cousins....lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 The list you've just posted is a perfect example of girls names when I was at Infants and Junior Schools, in the first half of the 1960s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Names at Berridge during my time were: Susan, Jane/Jayne, John, Peter, Michael, Stephen/Steven, Christopher and Colin . No boys at Manning, of course, but every other girl was called Julie or Sharon, with the occasional Elizabeth thrown in. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Late wife's name was Janet. Born mid forties, like me. second wife, Mrs Loppy, also Janet. Guess I've always liked the name. Also born in forties. Not a name you hear much today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Some of the very much older girls’ names are coming back though . I know a few young girls called Emily, Amy, Charlotte, Emma, Alice and even one called Mabel… Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,139 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 My wife is Vivienne, her sisters are Valerie and Veronica and Veronica’s daughters are Victoria, Vanessa and Verity. They all have the same middle initial ‘A’. How stupid is that! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 The family obviously has a V obsession, but if that’s what they choose, then that’s fine. is your daughter a V as well? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,139 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Jocelyn Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 I was at primary school with a Jocelyn. She's the only one I've ever met. I believe it can also serve as a boy's name. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,139 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 She doesn’t use it and answers to Jos! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MRS B 521 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 My Aunty was Audrey Jocelyn. She of the understudy to Valerie Hobson the actress. She looked very like her Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,150 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Wasn't she John Profumo's missus.? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MRS B 521 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Valerie Hobson was yes Beekay, not my Aunty LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,150 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 That's who I meant, O Devine one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David sheridan 159 Posted March 3, 2023 Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 Once new a Scottish guy called jock strapp ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,139 Posted March 3, 2023 Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 I genuinely do know a Scotsman called Matthew Haggis. We sometimes stay at one of his cottages in Argyle. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted March 3, 2023 Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 And if you want to book for Easter, you'd better get a spurtle on! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,139 Posted March 3, 2023 Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 A spurtle I have and also a skean dhu. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,150 Posted March 3, 2023 Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 I'm so glad you've said that Phil, it was one of the crossword answers and I didn't know how to spell it. You shouda been an interpreter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David sheridan 159 Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 On 2/28/2023 at 10:48 PM, benjamin1945 said: Here you are David...............the Bogs in all its majestic glory.... Old Jaqui hey !!!.........lovely gel......The Bogs still there........always wiil be....... Wow thanks Ben pretty much as I remember it , thinking of my romance there is stirring me old loins , yes they do get stirred occasionally, I used to have me snap there in my lunch break ,when I worked briefly in a stocking hosiery factory on Greasley Street, I was a shy young Un and the gals that worked there used to rip the fun out of me , enough to make me cheeks red !!!!!! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David sheridan 159 Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Spurtle on ? Never heard that , but gerra, spurt on lad , or you'd better dab in as me dear old dad used to say , me dad used to say comb yer hair you look like the wild man of Borneo , and to me brother who seldom cut his toe nails he'd say , cut those toe nails yer look like fu manchu !!!!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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