Compo 10,328 Posted February 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 \snip\ The smell of newly laid tar and picking at it with a stick - for want of something better to do! I used to play with the melting tar during the hot summer months. A finger print neatly pressed into the stuff was always a pleasure. If it was really hot one could poke at it and roll it onto the end of a stick and with a stolen match set fire to it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Memories, memories of 'bad lads' Compo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted February 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 We weren't all that bad. We would never do anything that would put others or their property at risk. We had boundaries and limits in those days. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 As I remember there was only one boy in my infant's class who caused mischief and I suppose looking back he only wanted attention - his father was in prison. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 No current photo's should be allowed,I have a picture in my minds eye of jackson,an 18 year old 'mod gal twitching'to Dobie Grey's, 'Im In with in the crowd'.lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Or even better, this one Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Nice Mick ,can't remember when I last heard that one . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 MESSAGE FOR MUDGIE: Don't worry Mudgie I'll put a photo on soon; you'll have to put one on too. I hope you look like a film star because I do: an ageing one!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,877 Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 I can't put my pic on cos i look like a film star. Pity it's Lassie. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Jackson Of course our Compo looks like a star! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 I'm glad I remember Bill Owen when he sat on the panel of 'What's My Line'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted February 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 An accurate picture of me Mick! I first gained the name at Plessey, Beeston in 1974 when the 'Last of the Summer Wine' was in its second series. Compo (Bill Owen) was known as Compo Simmonite (note my surname) and was scruffy. I used to ride my motorbike to work dressed in an old parka (see Nostalgic age photos thread) and wellies. At lunch time I donned my off-white woolly hat and walked for miles around Attenborough Gravels and up the Trent. I was never comfortable in a suit and to this day the only way I will dispose of my old clothes is when SWMBO throws them out. Compo I was and Compo I still is. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Mornin'all, jackson, I am getting so good looking with age,it should be illegal. Can't go any place crowded,being mobbed is not much fun. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 I can just imagine mudgie: anything like a mature gentleman - a la mode George Hamilton - with a superb tan? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Sanford is small town America always reminds me of the town in Back to the Future. I see him in a checked shirt and stetson. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Jackson, 'luv ya' sweetie',the apple in my pie,the marmalade on my toast, the sugar in my tea. Checked Stetson and. incontinent shorts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,194 Posted March 29, 2014 Report Share Posted March 29, 2014 Think we learned the value of money in our youth and that it had to be earned because our parents didn't have a lot. 1£ for a mornings potato picking or 1£/10s for a days beet banging, mind you could do a lot more with it back then. This is very true. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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