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If we wanted to carry music about with us, it generally meant taping the charts on a Sunday and trying to hit pause at the right time so you cut out the voice overs.  |
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over a year ago
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"Bobby crosspocket jeans...  "
Oop's my bad I got my memories muddled…….
I seem to remember it was actually Johnny Crosspocket and Bobby Washable jeans....sheeeeeesh my memory ...  |
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"Children playing in the streets "
We had an end of summer street party. There are only 65 houses on our street. I was shocked at the amount of kids, young people there, I'd never seen any of them in the ten years I've lived here because kids don't play out: sad. |
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"the chipper bicycle and its bigger brother the chopper bicycle,i had a yellow chipper when i was about 6 and a purple choper when i was about 11."
I had a Tomahawk, I thought that was the smaller version of the Chopper?
Pacers I miss
Bitz chocolate
TCR car racing game
Pocketeers
Decent arcades
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"the chipper bicycle and its bigger brother the chopper bicycle,i had a yellow chipper when i was about 6 and a purple choper when i was about 11.
I had a Tomahawk, I thought that was the smaller version of the Chopper?
Pacers I miss
Bitz chocolate
TCR car racing game
Pocketeers
Decent arcades
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chipper and chopper,both made by raleigh i think,tomahawk,completely different make,though very similar in design to the chopper
i remember a soft drink called FRESCA,was promoted om tv with a polar bear with the slogan,"its frothy man"
cremola foam,both orange and raspberry flavours.when made corrwctly it gave a beer like head,so you could drink like daddy |
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"TV was switched of during meals and When visitors or family arrived.
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Still is in this house, no phones allowed at the dinner table either. And dinner is always taken at the table, never on the couch. |
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"Golden wonder crisps
Xl beefy crisps "
Go to Home Bargains for Golden Wonder who seem to be suffering under the iron grip of Walkers atm.
The Wonder will rise again! |
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"Golden wonder crisps
Xl beefy crisps
Go to Home Bargains for Golden Wonder who seem to be suffering under the iron grip of Walkers atm.
The Wonder will rise again! "
Ok thank you. Hate walkers they are very greasy. |
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Spanish Gold sweetie tobacco(coconut slivers covered in dark sugar)
Sweetie ciggies with the red end
Choccie ciggies where you could eat the paper (I did anyway!)
Treetop squash
Funny Feet and Happy Face ice-cream lollies
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Playing rounders in the park . Tennis courts being drawn on the roads when there were few cars around .. playing elastics at school , playing balls (tennis ones) Kirby .. new year parties with ALL the family and my grannies porridge and home made soup  |
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Drawing hop scotch on the pavements
Elastics
Skipping ,where two hold the rope and one skips or if there wasn't three of you you would tie to the lamp posts
Two balls
Piggy back fights |
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Oops just seen your post Shelly I've mention some of the same 
Sad to think that kids don't play like we did
A colleague and myself had a 70s themed day with some teenagers they hadn't heard of half the games we used to play ,they couldnt grasp how play two balls against the wall ,struggle to jump in and skip ( if you know what I mean )
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"Oops just seen your post Shelly I've mention some of the same
Sad to think that kids don't play like we did
A colleague and myself had a 70s themed day with some teenagers they hadn't heard of half the games we used to play ,they couldnt grasp how play two balls against the wall ,struggle to jump in and skip ( if you know what I mean )
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Lol I know what you mean. Forgotten about hopscotch (beds we called it )  |
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"Oh back in the day.. Pink panther choccy bars.... Coal bunkers and rag n bone men! Eeeks! Am i really that old! Lol oh and toffee apple van on a sunday .... "
We have pink panther wafers here is that what you mean, also we still have coal bunkers and the rag and bone man still comes around |
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"Oh back in the day.. Pink panther choccy bars.... Coal bunkers and rag n bone men! Eeeks! Am i really that old! Lol oh and toffee apple van on a sunday ....
We have pink panther wafers here is that what you mean, also we still have coal bunkers and the rag and bone man still comes around "
still with a horse and cart? |
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"Spanish Gold sweetie tobacco(coconut slivers covered in dark sugar)
Sweetie ciggies with the red end
Choccie ciggies where you could eat the paper (I did anyway!)
Treetop squash
Funny Feet and Happy Face ice-cream lollies
*sigh*"
haha think we all ate the papers off the choccy ciggies! Oh just remembered sherbert too.. Wet your finger n dip it!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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gaslights,
tin bath,
spanish wood.
no yellow lines.
rag and bone man.
100 mph was a magic number.
decent sized mars bars and wagon wheels.
mangle.
copper boiler.
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Wham bars,
Texan Bars, when a man's gotta chew...
Space Dust
Mobile Action Command figures (MAC for short)
The original Grange Hill titles and music.
My innocense
My parents, may they rest in peace. |
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"Spanish Gold sweetie tobacco(coconut slivers covered in dark sugar)
Sweetie ciggies with the red end
Choccie ciggies where you could eat the paper (I did anyway!)
Treetop squash
Funny Feet and Happy Face ice-cream lollies
*sigh*"
God I loved that Tobacco, you can get it now from some specialist sweet shops - that will finish off my remaning teeth. |
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The test card waiting for kids tv to come on at tea time
No shops being open on a Sunday except paper shops
Standing at the hatch of a pub to get a carry out of crisps n pop
Shops closing properly for Xmas
January sales actually in January |
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"Spangles
Scratch and Sniff T shirts that smell of fruit
Texan Bars
Black and White TVs
Calypso fizzy drink
The Corona lorry
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Texan bars loved them.
My Granddad invented them along with many other sweets!!
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Dreams
Golden wonder pot noodles
Full salt (tastes better pot noodles)
10p mix tray
10p mix with 10 different sweets in
90 from St. Helens to Kirbky
34x from Liverpool to Leigh
Big tins of roses and quality streets, not these piss arse excuses of Tins nowadays
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"Spanish Gold sweetie tobacco(coconut slivers covered in dark sugar)
Sweetie ciggies with the red end
Choccie ciggies where you could eat the paper (I did anyway!)
Treetop squash
Funny Feet and Happy Face ice-cream lollies
*sigh*"
Sweetie tabacoo is available on ebay |
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"Reading all these memories has made me smile - and makes me glad I'm not a kid now. I think our lives were richer and more fun back then."
I can't help but agree. Growing up through the 80's was so much better than it is now. Kids can't do half of what we were almost encouraged to do back then for fear of ending up with an ASBO. |
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Going to the corner shop with Dad on a Saturday morning to get a 10p mix.
Monday evenings being the evening where the tv was brought from the living room to the kitchen for us to watch Blue Peter.
Sitting on the roof of the shed talking to the boy next door on a summer's evening!
Innocence |
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Aztec bars
Potato puffs
Proper white mice
Golden cup chocolate bar
Haunted house game
Spyring
Potters wheel
Banana splits
Johnny seven...... With grenade launcher!
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I went to my local corner shop the other day and they have Bubbly gum. They were 5p each, I can remember them being 1/2 a penny!
I had to have a few though... |
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"Aztec bars
Potato puffs
Proper white mice
Golden cup chocolate bar
Haunted house game
Spyring
Potters wheel
Banana splits
Johnny seven...... With grenade launcher!
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If that was The Haunted House game with the one where you dropped the marble down the chimmney, I had that. Was awesome fun. |
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Playing out in the summer holidays, days seemed endless and lazy, endless blue skys...the sun was so hot, you picked at the melted tar with sticks... I can still smell it too.... |
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By *em4ejacWoman
over a year ago
Cougarville |
Daisy sandals
Nature treks
Paddington coat
Shell suit
Clackers
Jumping jacks
Long skipping rope games
Hop scotch with cherry shoe polish tin
Stilts made out of marvel tins and string
Toasting bread on a long fork during power cuts
Re-sprayed bicycle with new stickers
Reflective armbands while walking to and from school
Making pom poms |
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Single screen cinemas with a circle and stalls, double features and the halftime usherette with tubs of vanilla icecream and little wooden spoons and plastic tasting Kiora orange drink that made you more thirsty. All that and change from a fiver including tickets to film. |
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