Compo 10,328 Posted March 16, 2012 Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 NOSTALGIA _ Do You Remember?................ All the girls had ugly gym slips It took five minutes for the TV to warm up Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school Nobody owned a thoroughbred dog When 3d was a decent allowance You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny Your Mother wore nylons that came in two pieces All your male teachers wore ties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 They threatened to keep children back a year if they failed. . . and they did it! When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car... and people went steady No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... ' Playing cricket with no adults to help the children with the rules of the game Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 Bottles came from the corner shop without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger And with all our progress, don't you wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today. When being sent to the head's study was nothingcompared to the fate that awaited the student at home Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. As well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket, Hula Hoops, skate hockey and visits to the pool, and eating lemonade powder or liquorice sticks. Can you stillremember Mr Pastry, 6.5 Special, The Army Game , Sunday Night at the London Palladium, Emergency Ward 10, the Lone Ranger, Hancock's Half hour, Trigger and Sgt Bilko How Many Of These Do You Remember? Sweet cigarettes Coca Cola in bottles. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 You're never alone with a Strand . Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes. Blackjacks and bubblegums. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops. Newsreels before the film. Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Mayfair 3489). Party lines. Peashooters..... Andy Pandy. Real Hi-Fi's , vinyl records & 78's Green Shield Stamps. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 Adding Machines. Scalextric. Do You Remembera Time When.. Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'? 'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?Catching tiddlers could happily occupy an entire day? It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'? The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was'chickenpox'? Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a catapault? Saturday morning television wasn't 30-minute commercials for action figures? Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team? War was a card game? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin? Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted March 16, 2012 Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 Can't add anything to that 'lot' Compo,I reckon you covered the childhood memories of most members. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted March 16, 2012 Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 How did we fit it all in? Life always seemed busy, with load's to do....the seasons rolled one into another, punctuated only by school holidays. We had our own seasons; Conker season, whip & top season, fishing season, cricket season, football season etc Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted March 16, 2012 Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 As a little kid we use to wear 'wellies',or canvas 'baseball boots'.We would have a pair of the latter bought at the start of the 6 week summer holidays,at the end they were in shreds and holes worn into the soles. We would take off for the day,packed sandwiches and 4d to buy a frozen 'jubbly',arriving home filthy,muddy,wet,or a combination of all three,sporting a jam jar with tadpoles,newts,or sticklebacks. All the kids (boys) on the block would be on these expeditions,and they were a daily event, broken by going to Highfields to rent a 'double skuller' rowboat. Four of the gang would go to rent the boat and 6-8 of us would wait on the steps at the middle gates,and then pile in when the boat came.The boat we kept out well over the hour rental,when we saw the guy bearing down on us in the 'Maid Marion,we beached our ship and ran like the clappers,a good afternoon for a 'tanner' each. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 I think you must have come from the same stable as me and my gang! We only went to Highfields on rare occasions (usually with our catapults aka Galleys) but the remainder of your narrative describes my youth perfectly. !cheers! Link broken again. Try this one: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted March 16, 2012 Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 Oh! and how many of your gang wore a WW2 tin helmet,pity on the kid who only managed to own the black helmet with the white W painted on it(air raid warden) The rest of the gang would have real 'tin hats',from every nation involved in the conflict. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 You've got me there Mudgie - the best I could manage was a WWII gas mask. it used to go with me in war game season, when the "Deep weeds" (Rosebay Willow Herb) were at their tallest and we'd make pathways through the "Jungle" to fight the Japs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted March 16, 2012 Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 The great thing our generation had was imagination,coming out of the pictures, we took on the role of the hero. What about the 'dens',spending hours perfecting them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 !cheers! Link broken again. Try this one: Fixed 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 Ah dens! I spent ages with my kids trying to teach them the art of den building but by the 1970s the kids were beginning to drift towards TV advertised games instead of home-made ones. On the bright side, I had an email from my lad who now has kids of his own, asking for den building instructions and saying how he misses den building and wishes he had made more when he was young. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 There was a tree at the end of our road that had a thick, low branch with a couple of bits sticking out at shoulder height when sitting on the branch. This tree became the "Cannonball Express" and we were Casey Jones and the crew. The sticking-out bits were the regulator reverser levers for the driver. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Just Me 46 Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 Because there were hardly any cars, icy slides down the middle of the road,( no rubber soled shoes allowed ) to be replaced by long skipping ropes in the warmer months 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OrphanAnnie 296 Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 I remember the long skipping ropes across the road - usually a washing line, and mums joined in. We also used to play a game which involved crossing the road, one acting as farmer one side and the rest of us asking permission to cross. The 'farmer' told us in turn, such things as two bunny hops or a 'lamp post' ( this was lying down full length and moving over to where your head would be) the first to reach the opposite side was the winner and became 'farmer' for the next go. As you say there was very little traffic to interrupt the game we played for hours. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Just Me 46 Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 One, two, I know a yank His name is Frank He drives a tank Along a bank He lives in USA Remember that one Annie Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveN 1,118 Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 If you want taking back have a look at my poem on the page below http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11329&page=8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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