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Let's go back in time part 2
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over a year ago
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"if you threw your Flares onto the pitch back in the day, you would be going home in just ya pants  ha ha true."
And if you fell off the platforms, you wouldn't be in front of a train!  |
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"if you threw your Flares onto the pitch back in the day, you would be going home in just ya pants ha ha true.
And if you fell off the platforms, you wouldn't be in front of a train! "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Iodine, apologies if that's not spelt properly but you know what I mean that red stuff that felt like the nurse had just poured sulphuric acid onto your skin |
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One of my work colleagues was telling me how his first school allowed them to watch a football match in class back in 2002, felt so depressed, I was 23 at the time and whilst we were in a sports shop (name not mentioned) to buy an England shirt I had to explain to him who wore them in 82/90/96 so that he could picture them in his head from archived footage he had seen.   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fruit and veg that tasted fresh and tasty...and if you had a neighbour who grew anything, they dropped bits off on your doorstep or on the kitchen table whilst you were out.... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"When there was no menu for dinner. You ate what was put in front of you and God help you if you tried to put any of it in the bin "
Thats very true,if you didnt eat it there wasn't anything else lol .
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When there was no menu for dinner. You ate what was put in front of you and God help you if you tried to put any of it in the bin Thats very true,if you didnt eat it there wasn't anything else lol ."
if you were still hungry always bread and butter on the table |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Loved your reference to "carry cots". I inherited my older brother's. It was pale yellow ( because that was ok for girls AND boys)and when I outgrew it, mum let me have it to put my dolls in. I can see it now. Haven't thought about that for well over forty years!  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I wonder why it was so different those days,why has the world changed so much and what changed it.They were happy days,did we think different because we were children ,was it because our parents were strict,when you look at today and yesterday the change is dramatic. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Loved your reference to "carry cots". I inherited my older brother's. It was pale yellow ( because that was ok for girls AND boys)and when I outgrew it, mum let me have it to put my dolls in. I can see it now. Haven't thought about that for well over forty years! "
Ours was pale yellow to lol wonder if that was the only colour they did them in  |
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"The old double decker buses with conductors on
Jumping off the open back of the buses while it was still moving "
used to do that in town when the clippy was distracted, someone i can't remember who got his timing wrong when the ante was upped to see who could get closest to ant lamp posts near the stop..
ended up in Alder Hey with concussion and a broken nose..
happy days |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Everything seemed to go at a slower pace,six week holidays seemed to go on forever,and school days seemed so long,and always looked forward to Xmas and birthdays ,now there's not enough hours in a day. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The old double decker buses with conductors on
Jumping off the open back of the buses while it was still moving
used to do that in town when the clippy was distracted, someone i can't remember who got his timing wrong when the ante was upped to see who could get closest to ant lamp posts near the stop..
ended up in Alder Hey with concussion and a broken nose..
happy days"
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By *exysuzi and Mr.SCouple
over a year ago
CONISTON .Stoke Suburbia. Staffs. BARMOUTH. The Lakes (Monthly) |
Watching champion the wonder horse and white horses. Then run down to the fields, saddle up my pony and disappear across the common for hours. And playing out till it went dark in the summer, not a care in the world.
Xxxxxx Suzi |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Watching champion the wonder horse and white horses. Then run down to the fields, saddle up my pony and disappear across the common for hours. And playing out till it went dark in the summer, not a care in the world.
Xxxxxx Suzi"
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Going to KwikSave where the checkout staff had to memorise the prices of every product in the supermarket to ring up on the till as you unloaded the shopping trolley."
Kwiksave that's a blast from the past to |
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By *exysuzi and Mr.SCouple
over a year ago
CONISTON .Stoke Suburbia. Staffs. BARMOUTH. The Lakes (Monthly) |
Space hoppers, pogo sticks, roller skates that you strapped to your trainers/pumps. Knotting lots of elastic bands together and doing that jumping game. Kurbie without having to keep stopping for cars. Omg so many innocent memories xxxxx |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Space hoppers, pogo sticks, roller skates that you strapped to your trainers/pumps. Knotting lots of elastic bands together and doing that jumping game. Kurbie without having to keep stopping for cars. Omg so many innocent memories xxxxx"
I remember the elastic bands that was great |
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By *exysuzi and Mr.SCouple
over a year ago
CONISTON .Stoke Suburbia. Staffs. BARMOUTH. The Lakes (Monthly) |
"Space hoppers, pogo sticks, roller skates that you strapped to your trainers/pumps. Knotting lots of elastic bands together and doing that jumping game. Kurbie without having to keep stopping for cars. Omg so many innocent memories xxxxx I remember the elastic bands that was great "
Such a simple game, and so many hours of fun and the heights we used to raise them too, health n safety would have nightmares now lol xxxxx Suzi |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Watching champion the wonder horse and white horses. Then run down to the fields, saddle up my pony and disappear across the common for hours. And playing out till it went dark in the summer, not a care in the world.
Xxxxxx Suzi"
On white horses let me ride away
To my world of dreams so far away
Let me run
To the sun
To a world my heart can understand
It's a gentle warm and wonderland
Far away
Stars away
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Any body said clackers yet? Them hard balls girls used to clack together...or am i d*unk"
I said it on Part 1. They were called Clackers. Bleedin' dangerous. Teachers used to have cupboards full of confiscated clackers |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Any body said clackers yet? Them hard balls girls used to clack together...or am i d*unk
I said it on Part 1. They were called Clackers. Bleedin' dangerous. Teachers used to have cupboards full of confiscated clackers "
Ahhh sorry iv just finished work and seen this thread...they were lethal!! |
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"Any body said clackers yet? Them hard balls girls used to clack together...or am i d*unk
I said it on Part 1. They were called Clackers. Bleedin' dangerous. Teachers used to have cupboards full of confiscated clackers "
The last set we had ended up wrapped around an electric cable which crossed above our back garden. It was there for years and years before the rope eventually rotted away.  |
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"Watching champion the wonder horse and white horses. Then run down to the fields, saddle up my pony and disappear across the common for hours. And playing out till it went dark in the summer, not a care in the world.
Xxxxxx Suzi
On white horses let me ride away
To my world of dreams so far away
Let me run
To the sun
To a world my heart can understand
It's a gentle warm and wonderland
Far away
Stars away
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Thank you Tony Hatch |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Miss Christmases has a child. All the excitement and the build up. To much stress now as an adult. Miss the old milkman carts and having the crates of pop and milkshake off him. Or the old chip vans that used to come around. £1 used to seem like a lot of money back then which used to make me feel rich xx |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Gentlemen of sport.Bjorg ,Conners,Nastasie,Mackenroe,Lendle,Bobby Moore,George Best,Botham,Bobby and Jack Charlton,Lester Piggot. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Lots have memories of years gone by,i can just smell that brute aftershave Henry Cooper with his ..Splash it all over.. "
Some really pungent perfume from the 80's which loads of girls wore back then. It's pretty rare now but when I do catch a whiff of it it transports me back and I get a bit of a twinge I can't remember what it is, poison possibly??? I doubt the lasses miss the lads reeking of kouros |
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By *athnBobCouple
over a year ago
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you rented TVs rather than buying one.
Only 1 person on the street had a telephone and everybody else gave it as an emergency contact number.
The post office delivered everything.
Buses didnt run until 11am on a sunday
Buses stopped running at 11.30pm every night except sunday when the last bus was 10.30pm
Pubs in Birmingham closed at 10.30pm every night and were shut between 2.30pm and 6pm (7pm on a sunday)
If you asked for a coffee in a pub you would probably be thrown out.
Pizza delivered to your door????? WTF is a Pizza???? ( I was 22 before I even saw a pizza) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I remember when me and my brothers used to stay at our grandparents house who lived in the new forest. The 3 of us could go out in that forest all day (grandma would pack us a picnic for lunch) we never worried that something terrible would happen to us. And as long as we were back for dinner time they didn't worry either. I couldn't imagine letting my son do that now, to many horror stories.
I miss the days when you could actually sit and have a conversation and nobody was distracted by their phone. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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I remember mum and her neighbours use to sit in the park ,which was at the end of the road ,they all sat in deck chairs in a big circle,and knitted jumpers and cardigans for the kids for winter time |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I remember when me and my brothers used to stay at our grandparents house who lived in the new forest. The 3 of us could go out in that forest all day (grandma would pack us a picnic for lunch) we never worried that something terrible would happen to us. And as long as we were back for dinner time they didn't worry either. I couldn't imagine letting my son do that now, to many horror stories.
I miss the days when you could actually sit and have a conversation and nobody was distracted by their phone. "
Very true |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Sliced spam "
I've re-discovered spam. Fried, on toast with Colmans Mustard. Have you seen the price of it for a small tin??? It used to be the poor man's ham |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Corned beef and plasters. Neither have disappeared, but back in the day, they went hand in hand, when trying to open the tin with the fiddly little key ended up with a cut and bloody finger. "
bandaged |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Mum and dad and us lot ,all sat round the table for Sunday lunch,we had to ask if we could leave the table,if dad said no we had to stay there until he was ready lol ,you didnt ask again.No meant No |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Putting crayon all down the slide in the play park, because other kids told us it would make you go faster. It didn't. "
We used candles and 'polished' it up with our sleeves.....we'd fly off the end |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Saturday evenings waiting for the sports round up to finish and watching Dr who from behind the chair
Bed at 9oc but before I would be sent off my dad would toast a bit of crusty bread on the end of a carving fork to the open fire ...
Happy carefree days  |
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