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Reminiscing about childhood japes,I thought of thing that never happen today...things like inflating a brown paper bag and then bursting close to someone's ear...or conkers (currently outlawed in schools)... Or reading the beano or Victor for boys....oh how I miss those days!!:(


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Reading your post reminded me that on holiday a few weeks back we dropped into an English version of a French brocante and they had an old gramophone playing an lp and the warm tones from such an old player was a reminder of my childhood........and to then find some copies of The Eagle for sale.

Ah, those were the days reading the Eagle with my third of a pint of orange juice (delivered with the milk) and a Tunnocks caramel bar, ahhhh! a lovely Saturday morning treat.
 
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Making go-carts out of old bits of wood with no brakes and using just your feet to stop them down some seriously steep hills with trees and rivers down the bottom of the hill. Oh and making dens in the middle of hay barn ! - happy days.
 
No go carts for us......but a Beano annual placed on a single skate to make a seat. Hairy ride but oh such fun! Compared to the sheltered lives of kids now 'we' had more knocks and bumps than you shake a stick at but what a time :)
 
Proper sweet shops after school. Now they are a novelty so you have to pay through the nose for a bag.
 
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A Raleigh chopper with the proper seat that would carry a few of your mates to the local wreck! Or the Raleigh grifter and a back pedal brake for the ultimate skid. Then BMX came out, oh and the film ET
 
rjbell said:
Proper sweet shops after school. Now they are a novelty so you have to pay through the nose for a bag.
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I'm very fortunate living in York we still have a few of them left. Sweet jars in the window, humbugs weighed out on scales and put in a paper bag. Reasonable prices too which is a bonus ! !
 
Leaving our council housing scheme with a bunch of your mates to go raiding the apple trees and various fruits in the posh houses gardens without getting caught and booted up the backside. Playing knock door run and chicky melie. Guddling in the local burn.
 
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Building and playing with the Marklin model railway up on the attic room. Making mountains out of chicken wire and papier mache, running the tracks through them.

Spending all day outside on my bicycle, mainly going to building sides and making Calcium Carbide bombs in empty paint tins :) Or cycle a long way away to the Rhine and the locks and see the huge freight ships go through...

And later on hacking telephone exchanges, parsing I/O ports on all sorts of devices, and earning my first paycheck performing ethical hacking when I was a minor....

Then when a bit old, playing baseball and hockey all day, hanging out at the club house getting stoned or drunk. Oh those were the days of the lazy weekends....
 
rjbell said:
Proper sweet shops after school. Now they are a novelty so you have to pay through the nose for a bag.
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Two Blackjacks & two Fruit salads all for a penny.........or less if you had only a halfpenny or farthing. Felt like a princes ransom to be able to buy so much!
 
Bangers (the firework type) lit, then pushed into a fresh cowpat - the braver you were, the closer you stood.
H and E magazine - you'll know what I mean if you ever saw it......
Going to the local petrol station, asking for something we knew was 'out the back' so we could fill our pockets with sweets from the counter. A year or so later the place closed down, and I felt so guilty.
Discovering what it was that made girls different from boys while out in a field at the back of our house, then my parents asking me what I had been doing with that girl at the dinner table as they had been watching.

I thing there will be a lot of memories filling my head today !

Great idea for a thread
 
stevewestern said:
Bangers (the firework type) lit, then pushed into a fresh cowpat - the braver you were, the closer you stood.
H and E magazine - you'll know what I mean if you ever saw it......
Going to the local petrol station, asking for something we knew was 'out the back' so we could fill our pockets with sweets from the counter. A year or so later the place closed down, and I felt so guilty.
Discovering what it was that made girls different from boys while out in a field at the back of our house, then my parents asking me what I had been doing with that girl at the dinner table as they had been watching.

I thing there will be a lot of memories filling my head today !

Great idea for a thread
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Damn your parents are filthy voyeurs :P :)
 
Smith's crisps with the blue paper twist of salt to 'season' to taste - another treat.

Chemist sets and making fireworks.... I found a great book in the reference library dating from the 1920's with marvellous formulations :)

Dabbling with DX TV and getting an article published in I think it was Practical TV about receiving French TV channels. Oh not forgetting studying up about slow scan TV but not having the money to build the kit.

This thread is a trip down memory lane :LOL:

Edit - the R Whites truck doing door step deliveries of lemonade and other drinks, playing on the old (bombed?) houses and catapult battles with rival groups of lads and still got the scar to show for that "game".
 
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Box Brownie said:
Edit - the R Whites truck doing door step deliveries of lemonade and other drinks
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Corona. Going round the back of the pub, nicking a few empties, then walking round to the 'Offie' - the little hatch in the passage that led into the bar and getting the penny per bottle for returns...
 
stevewestern said:
Corona. Going round the back of the pub, nicking a few empties, then walking round to the 'Offie' - the little hatch in the passage that led into the bar and getting the penny per bottle for returns...
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I had forgotten the Corona branding...... Yes the 1p deposit return.
 
Bangers (the firework type) lit, then pushed into a fresh cowpat - the braver you were, the closer you stood.
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Dog crap where I lived, not many cows in the east end :)

Ten fags and book of matches for two bob, jumping on and off buses without paying or even better going all over London with a red rover ticket (always finished with a ride on the free Woolwich ferry)
 
Building dams in the local beck.
 
watch out, watch out, there's a humphrey about
 
plloydie said:
A question .. does anyone remember a sweet from the 70's in the form of a pouch of rolling tobacco?
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Wasn't that dark green and called seaweed?

And another question, what was that bubble gum that tasted like Germoline, and had water "tattoo's" in the packet?
 
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plloydie said:
A question .. does anyone remember a sweet from the 70's in the form of a pouch of rolling tobacco?
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Sweet tobacco...there's a sweetshop in Whitstable that still sells it.
 
Cobra said:
They are around these parts certainly, and have been for some years
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On top of that our kids are not allowed to take nuts or chocolate in to school!
 
norters said:
Pretty sure conkers aren't outlawed in schools.
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Indeed they are, along with any other item that may cause damage, harm or serious injury.each school has a duty of care to its pupils, staff and other members of the public.
 
fabs said:
So that'll be pens, pencils, protractors............
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Plus, I hear one can cop a fairly heavy whack around the head from an I Pad.
 
Hmmmm.....it seems no UK education authority has banned conkers.
Some individual schools have over the years (around one in six), but some of those have been reversed.

Has anyone else noticed the HUGE amount of conkers on the trees waiting to fall this year? :eek:
 
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