Thread: Does Anyone Remember?

We got an extra farthing for our Gran, they said she would make a lot of candles

Wagon wheels

there's a blast from the past

checkout with bagers and brown paper bags .

David Greigs.

Hot peanuts and cashews in Woolworths.

A decent pint of dark mild.

6d Lyons fruit pies, petrol 1/9 a gall and the kids still pinched it for their motor bikes, park anywhere in town free

Originally Posted by patsycat

The Clangers

Ah!
The Soup Dragon and the Iron Chicken

Where are they now ??

Originally Posted by Mid

Wagon wheels

They still sell 'em but they're smaller now, aren't they?

Sherbert lemons
Charlie George
Topper (Beano and Dandy were gay)
Cycling fast to grammar school on me chopper on Saturdau mornings, fending off punks taking the piss out me schoolcap and shorts when everone else was watching Happy Days.
Tiswas
Banana Splits
The Big Match on Sunday afternoons wasted,with Brain Moore.
Jumpers for goalposts and rush goalies.

Originally Posted by TizMe

Originally Posted by Lantern

Jublees (pyramid shaped block of ice in a wax carton)

Razz & Sunnyboys

I used to get 20 cents to buy my school lunch. 10 cents for a battered fish with 5 cents worth of chips and a Razz for 5 cents. (approx 1970)

You and I must be around the same age mate!

I remember when they brought out Glugs which were similar to Sunnyboys but cola flavoured and red skins (fook I might be called a racist) and one of my favourite times of the year Cracker Night and you buy Penny Bungers, thunders and tom thumbs that you would scare the shit out of the girls at school with.

Plus the sky rockets were mega!

Fook we had a special youth when compared to what the kids of today can enjoy.

Originally Posted by Happyman

Ah! The Soup Dragon and the Iron Chicken Where are they now ??

Here they are !!!

Popeye, watching wrestling on a Saturday afternoon (Mick Macmanus was Evil)
Real coal fires, having to clean out fireplace, being allowed to 'Poke' fire
Polishing brasses,
We were happy...........

I remember Postman Pat used to just have a cat and his van, now the [at][at][at][at] has got a mobile phone, van, motorbike and a bastard helicopter!!! surely the cat will peg it soon!! he is still going!

The Eagle comic.

Look and Learn.

Watney's Red Barrel (ugh!).

Russian Stout.

The Queen of The Channel and the Daffodil.

Part of The Reserve Fleet in 'mothballs' on the River Medway.

Fremlins (Maidstone) delivering beer by dray horses.

Bill and Ben, the flowerpot men!!

On the radio:

The Navy Lark

The Clitheroe Kid

The Goons

Any Questions

Any Answers

Dick Barton

Cinnaman sticks ! We used to smoke them tasted awful

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Glugs

Ah yes, I'd forgotten the name for them.

10 cents worth of mixed lollies if I was rich, 5 cents if it was a tight week.

Licorice blocks, sherbies and fizzers were my favourites.

The Woodentops
Herb Garden
Trumpton
Chipmunk Crisps
Stink bombs
Tudor Crisps
Spam Roll with sage and onion stuffing.
Walter Wilsons
Laws Stores
Newcastle "Pale Ale" - opposed to Brown Dog.
Love Hearts
Billy Stampers

Black Jacks
Conkers
Marbles
Girls at School all wearing the same issue knickers
Roasted hot chestnuts
Dutch arrows
Camps made from bomb holes and tin
Red Admirals, only seen one in the last ten or so years
The local Bobby whacking you round the back of your head
Boxing booths at the fair

Originally Posted by Shitdigit

Black Jacks
Conkers
Marbles
Girls at School all wearing the same issue knickers
Roasted hot chestnuts
Dutch arrows
Camps made from bomb holes and tin
Red Admirals, only seen one in the last ten or so years
The local Bobby whacking you round the back of your head
Boxing booths at the fair

Red Admirals...have they disappeared from the UK? (I take it that is where you are talking about)

Bonfire night with baked potatos in the ashes.
Pearl and Dean at the Odeon.
Richard Baker
It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
The Two Ronnies.
Marty Feldman
Leonard Rossitter - Rising Damp - Richard Bekinsale.

Then we had the good fortune to buy up some real quality from our Austrailian brothers-

Prisoner Cell Block H
Skippy
Neighbours
Home and Away
The Sullivans

Yes, we probably deserved it, revenge of the penal colonies!

Anyone remember an Hungarian/or eastern european series - "White Horses" - I loved the theme tune when I was a kid.

Man dressed as a Robinson golliwog on stilts dropping the little paper golliwogs that they stuck on the jam jars down his trouser leg for us kids to pick up, Victory V cigarettes that the Eighth Army were given and threw in the dustbins because they hated them, us kids would find and smoke them. Doodle bugs, mines being washed ashore and exploding putting out masses of windows on the sea front houses, half an inch thick Huntly and palmer cheese biscuits.

wagon wheels
big ted
little ted
jackanory
six of the best on each hand and one across the calf's as you turn to leave teary eyed
dad nicking real steak off the ships Mmmm what a treat
catweazle
the daleks
chocolate niggers, cakes for kids before PC
chicklings
Debbie Burton my bit of common on the common

The cabin in the clearing
Rubovia
Torchy, the battery boy.
Twizzle
Crackerjack
Space Patrol
Photographing kids in the street
Saturday morning kids matinee at the pictures
swings and roundabouts without little fences round them
Third of a pint of milk for all school kids
Real dinners at school
Boy and Girls who wanted to be your friend, with no strings, and are still there thirty/fourty years later.
People crowding around accidents, all trying to help
Builders and craftsmen who were more worried about their reputation than making a bit of extra profit.
Austin sevens with the starting handle out front
When the words "I love you" was a really big deal, and meant the whole world.........

Originally Posted by Happyman

Wagon wheels

Originally Posted by Mid

Wagon wheels

Ya, they were a nickel apiece.
nigger baby jujubes (oops!)
45 records --- The Beatles and the Sukiyaki Song
when it was worthwhile saving every penny
puffed wheat
hot water bottles in bed, flannel sheets and jammies
mustard plasts on your chest when you had a bad cold
root cellars with carrots in sand and shelves packed with myriad jams, jellies, pickles...

gees i,m glad i,m not old like you bunch o grey haired bastards...

Now, now there Ned. That's not nice.

Actually, it isn't even true....