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Missismiggins · 25-10-2009, 05:31 PM

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

Sdigit · 25-10-2009, 05:40 PM

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

Missismiggins · 25-10-2009, 05:50 PM

Quote:

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.

oldgit · 26-10-2009, 02:36 AM

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.

Sdigit · 26-10-2009, 03:05 AM

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

Loombucket · 26-10-2009, 03:33 AM

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.........

Jet Gorgon · 26-10-2009, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Happyman

Wagon wheels

Quote:

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...

nedwalk · 26-10-2009, 09:50 AM

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

davearn · 26-10-2009, 05:11 PM

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

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

davearn · 26-10-2009, 05:18 PM

Coin operated petrol pumps. ( The old man always had a tin in the glove box full of 2 bob coins...wouldn't notice a couple gone...)
Sunday opening hours at the pub.
Corner stores doing good business as supermarkets weren't open on weekends.
Aussie copper coins and real paper notes.
The smell of the metho duplicator from school with the purple print.
Families doing well and paying the bills on only one wage.

Loy Toy · 26-10-2009, 05:53 PM

Red Skins

Free milk for the kids at school

Astroboy and Gigantor

Bread and dripping

Top Hats on a Sunday

Cracker night

Porphory Pearl and girls that don't shave their pubes!

Loy Toy · 26-10-2009, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davearn

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

Actually Ned is as old as the rest of us Dave but can't remember anything because they had nothing and where he come from!

davearn · 26-10-2009, 06:00 PM

Cane snow - For the fellow north Queensland natives, although may have been the case around the world for all I know.

Used to rain with black soot when they burnt off the sugar cane before harvest.

slackula · 26-10-2009, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Missismiggins

Trumpton

Hew, Pew, Barley, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb!

Man, it's been eons since I thought about that.

Sdigit · 26-10-2009, 07:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nedwalk

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

Dad going senile

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Loombucket Cacoethes scribendi Last Online: Today 09:49 PM Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Southern England and Korat Posts: 3,002	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.........

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davearn Thailand Expat Last Online: Today 08:48 PM Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 1,836	Cane snow - For the fellow north Queensland natives, although may have been the case around the world for all I know. Used to rain with black soot when they burnt off the sugar cane before harvest.

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