Remember when...

dorcas

REMEMBER WHEN

All the girls had ugly gym slips

It took five minutes for the TV to warm up

Nearly everyone's Mum was home when the kids got home from school

Nobody owned a purebred dog

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny

Your Mother wore nylons that came in two pieces

All male teachers wore ties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels

You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked and petrol served, without asking, all for free, every time..

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents

They threatened to keep children back a year if they failed the school year. . . And they did!

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

Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles?

Playing cricket with no adults to help the children with the rules of the game

Bottles came from the corner shop without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger

When being sent to the headmasters office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you 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, skateing and visits to the pool, eating lemonade powder or liquorice sticks.

How Many Of These Do You Remember?

Coca Cola in bottles.

Blackjacks and bubblegums.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops

Hi-If's & 45 RPM records.

78 RPM records!

Adding Machines.

Do You Remember a Time When..

Decisions were made by going 'Eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest? Catching tadpoles 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 sling shot.

Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!

Iris xx

snowball

That took me back, happy times

Julie xx

barbara12

OMG that took me back, I remember all of those (showing my age)....playing in the street because there where hardly any cars...and phone boxes...they are becoming a thing of the past...I used to use the mirror that was in them to put my makup on, then my mother wouldnt see it :roll:
Thanks for that... good old days
Barbara xx

mummyb

Ahh happy days, thanks for the memories. Does anyone remember old english spangles, they were my very favourite sweets. I loved my visits to my grandma's on Sundays wherewe had proper afternoon tea with the best cina and table set, reading the blackbrd stoy in the My Weekly and listening to Sing something simple on her radio ahhhhh!! OMG am really showing my age now but life did seem so much simpler back then or wasthat just because I was a child ?????????? Happy days, Brenda

dorcas

mummyb wrote:

Ahh happy days, thanks for the memories. Does anyone remember old english spangles,:

Yes Brenda I do...you could get fruit flavoured and was it caramel ones too?

What about 'Fry's Five Boys'...the chocolate squares had an embossed face of a boy with a different expressions on each square?

banana carmels? ha'penny chews? milkmaid bars? lucky potatoes? (covered in cinammon with a little toy inside)

talk about memory lane!

Iris x

snowball

I remember me and my friends cutting the legs off our mums tights and putting a tennis ball in them and whaking it against a brick wall.

Julie x

oneday

remember the phone boxes where you could manage to get a couple of words in e.g. pick me up at the station before you got pips to put money in and thereby get a free call!!

dorcas

oneday wrote:

remember the phone boxes where you could manage to get a couple of words in e.g. pick me up at the station before you got pips to put money in and thereby get a free call!!

...and the 'press button A and Press button B' on the phone pay box...now I am showing my age!

Iris x

oneday

dorcas wrote:

oneday wrote:

remember the phone boxes where you could manage to get a couple of words in e.g. pick me up at the station before you got pips to put money in and thereby get a free call!!

...and the 'press button A and Press button B' on the phone pay box...now I am showing my age!

Iris x

dont think i can remember that...i do remember though that eventually they took away the opportunity to get some talking in before the money went in though.
also remember waiting for someone to finish who took ages and people queuing in busy town centre to use the phone....

angel1

Going out shopping with mum, who would say "Leave the front door on the latch, the clubman comes today, and I`ve left his money behind the clock".

And some people would have us believe that nothing has changed. Ha!!

ironic

Mud pies....Whip and top....Marbles or Dobbers....Hop scotch.

"Door step sized butties "(before the sliced loaf appeared) Permed hair scrapped back hair. Still remember stiff brush. ekk
Detention without getting permission from parent first. Or was that netball practice :oops: £ shillings and pence. Proper money. 3 whole pennies for the return of glass bottles.
Thanks Iris, think I'd better go now. Exit stage left!!

angel1

Going out shopping with mum, who would say "Leave the front door on the latch, the insurance man comes today, and I`ve left his money behind the clock".

And some people would have us believe that nothing has changed. Ha!!

angel1

pixyandfaries wrote:

ange your repeating yourself hun !! :shock:

Bloody ell, I think I hiccuped!!

dorcas

what about old tv programmes?

remember 'watch with mother', rag tag and bobtail, champion the wonder horse, the cisco kid!...the lone ranger, last of the moheecans (can't spell that)


what about old ads?

Esso blue, jellimalo, vim?

my gawd I can't stop....help! I've fallen down a rabbit hole....


Iris x

dreamdaisy

Those filling-busting Texan bars. DD

tkachev

We have a similar thread before. Remember Twinkle and Bunty.
My treat from my nan every Wednesday.

Angel Delight, tinned fruit and evaporated milk were my staple diet.Sunday Roasts and big fat kippers for breakfast. Yet i was as skinny as a rake.I dont think we were allowed to snack and help ourselves like my kids do.

And books!

Elizabeth

wendgro

I remember when washday was Monday dolly tub and mangle ,Tuesday was ironing Wednesday we went to town Thursday was cleaning day Friday was another shopping day Saturday was visiting and Sunday was resting Sunday lunch afternoon sleep Sunday tea with jelly and custard that was my mum and dads life. OMG thats what I do now only wash more often in the automatic washer modern synthetics don't need ironing. I certainly am my parents daughter just wish they were here to see it

ninakang

Times have changed, haven't they? I can't believe the amount of stuff aimed at kids in the shops - we had hardly nothing then! My first bra was from M&S and was CREAM with a lacy flowery design - my eldest daughter has crop tops and knickers in matching designs and chooses from all the colours of the rainbow from our local supermarket!

I remember when supermarkets only sold food and you had to buy your "personal hygiene" products from the local chemist. I loved telling my dad I had to go to the chemist, he would hand over £5 without any further questions *LOL*.

I also remember having respect for the adults we came across, we wouldn't DARE give them any cheek. At our local swimming pool the other week, I told off a girl who I had SEEN push my daughter and an argument broke out! She kept screaming at me "Get your facts right! Get your facts right!" In the end I lost my temper (to my shame) and shouted right back at her "If you don't shut your gob or do that again, I'll show you a real push, do you hear?!" And she swam away scared then! She was about 8 years old, in a bikini, with her friends and no adult to supervise them.

I've started now, I know, but I would like to finish. My eldest daughter and her friend were spoken to also in the pool by a man and I swam over when he'd gone to see what was the matter. They said the man had told them they couldn't swim in the deep end, it was for adults only. I told them, and also checked with a lifeguard, that they were OK to swim there and it was - they were swimming and not disturbing anyone and the lifeguards were the only ones who could tell people what to do. I told the girls to take no further notice of the man and even though the lifeguard asked me who he was, I didn't say - he'd obviously had issues with kids messing about and interrupting his swim before. The point I'm making is, when the man spoken to my daughter and her friend, they didn't immediately jump on the defensive and start an argument, because he was an adult, they meekly said OK and asked me about it.

And breathe!

Nx

dorcas

Oh Nina,

That was just so funny sorry I know you were making a serious point but all I could think of was you bearing down on that girl and the lifeguard in the swimming pool...and the music to 'jaws' playing in my head.

'formidable'

Iris x I'm off to hide now!




ps. hope you're not offended? it's the meds messing with my brain.x

cthornley

Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles? - what do you mean remember? ....me and my 2yr old spent a good chunk of the afternoon doing this today