I Dare Ya (not boaty)

[Geoffs]

Re: And going to the pictures..........

and...and sherbert fountains, pontefract cakes (they gave you a run for yer money!)

My thirteen year old daughter found a shop that sells all the old sweets, takes 'em to school and sells 'em 100% markup, makes a fortune. Hoping she's going to buy me a Sunseeker Camargue 44 next year.

 

[Geoffs]

Re: And going to the pictures..........

And I got my first electric shock off the mains, cause TV used to go off air in the afternoons until children's TV at 5:30pm. I thought if I wound the clock on, TV would start sooner. Trouble was clock was plugged into mains and had bare wires. I fried.

 

[hlb]

Re: And going to the pictures..........

All the sweets in the shop were either one for a penny, two for a penny or four for a penny.
Proper wood liqurish sticks.

Haydn

 

[syd]

BRYLCREAM ! nm

nm

 

[Geoffs]

YUK!.... NM

<G>

 

[Gerry]

sugar mice with string tails, the avengers,emma peel rode my pony once(!),two day drive to get to Cornwall for the summer holidays, the car being searched in the mist as you drove over Dartmoor when one of the convicts had escaped.
Swimsuits that went all baggy as soon as you got in the sea, Mr Pastry, Rowan and Martins Laughin, Crackerjack, I dropped the cabbage!
Think this is all a bit mixed up.....

 

[BarryH]

Well i must be getting old, I can remember HR puff n Stuff with jack wild before he was in Oliver, and I had a Raliegh Chopper when they first come about. Oh and colour telly was a new thing!!

 

[hlb]

Foul. Barry. My sons had Choppers!!

Haydn

 

[BarryH]

With respect, your probably old enuff to be my dad (ouch) <G>

 

[JohnR]

Re: And going to the pictures..........

Pop music was The Six Five Special

 

[JohnR]

Re: And going to the pictures..........

and remember when cats weren't safe because of the fasion for Davey Crocket hats?

 

[hlb]

Re: And going to the pictures..........

OH! yes I remember that. Ours was ok Cos it was ginger and nobody wanted that.

Haydn

 

[paulineb]

\'opping

I remember packing all our belongings onto a open back lorry and then the whole street and family going off to Kent in September for the hop-picking.

Corona man coming round with fizzy drinks on a Saturday and the cockles and whelks man coming round on Sunday mornings.

Jacko roller skates, banging beer bottle tops on the front of your scooter, which you made yourself with ball bearings in the wheels.

Pxx

 

[boatone]

And I bet you wore..........

...............Felt flared skirts with applique bits, white ankle sox and ...crimplene...!!!!!!

TonyR
boatone@boatsontheweb.com
www.boatsonthethames.co.uk

 

[jfm]

Re buying petrol

When buying petrol you would stay sittimg in the car, they would fill it for you, and add it to your account. Or they'd take your Barclaycard and bring the counterfoil to you to sign while you still sat in the car

 

[hlb]

Re: Barclay cards!!!

They wernt invented till last week sometime!!
Yes you sat in the car and man would come and turn the handle on the pump to fill it up. Then send a bill every week or month and you payed it on the nail. not three months later or all the folk in town stopped speaking.


Haydn

 

[hlb]

Re: Hot Pants.

Tutt's wore hot pants when she was 18. And tennis skirts for going to the pub in.
Stockings and suspender belts. With mini skirts.
Every dad had a flat cap.
500cc Matchles with single cylinder. Back fires that broke your leg off.
Coal mines round every corner.
Steam trains were normal.
No one ever locked a door.
Treacle Mines!

Haydn

 

[boatone]

And fish cakes....

.were two slices of a large spud with a piece of real fish inbetween and the whole lot battered and fried.....! eeh.I remember Morecambe and Ribble buses..........!

TonyR
boatone@boatsontheweb.com
www.boatsonthethames.co.uk

 

[syd]

Re: \'opping

Church bells on a Sunday morning accompanying the lawn mowers

 

[paulineb]

Re: \'opping

Didn't have a lawn mower; didn't have a lawn - had a back yard with an outside toilet and a zinc bath hanging on the wall.

Did go to church every Sunday thought, I was in the choir and as I got older I used to teach Sunday School - no comments please!!!

Pxx