bringbackrattles
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What do you miss from your childhood ? I miss climbing trees,playing marbles and conkers,playing football over the fields with mates,and going on adventures. Any others ?
those school tellys in the 70's with the pull out side screen bits ..and then watching" you and me " or bod..and rainbow of courseThat feeling of walking into class & seeing either a substitute teacher or the TV! (Either way knowing no work will be done)
Not having to work for a living. Not having any responsibilities. Having a Mum and Dad to take care of me (both are long gone). I didn't have to clean or cook. Life was full of possibilities and a whole future lay ahead of me. Most of the things I did then I could still do now, if I had the time and energy. Do they still make balsa wood gliders?What do you miss from your childhood ? I miss climbing trees,playing marbles and conkers,playing football over the fields with mates,and going on adventures. Any others ?
Us kids used to be down the sweet shop every night on Woodway Lane, it was full of stuff. Jars lined up on shelves, and of course we nicked the odd chocolate bar. Funnily enough the lady who ran it Norah ended up being one of my window cleaning customers,as she lived behind the shop right up to three years ago,as she passed away aged 92. I used to have a cuppa with her and she said she knew we nicked bars, but as we spent so much in there as well as our parents she let it go ! Great memories.Going to the sweet shop with only a couple of pennies and having a whole selection of things to choose from.
My personal favourite were the liquorice pipes with the red sprinkles on the 'lit' end.
I loved the old sweet shops where all the sweets were in big glass jars on a shelf and they had to unscrew the top to get them out.
Did you go to the flicks on Saturday mornings ? Think it was called the tanner rush ? The Gaumont ? Crap films !Off licences. Many memories of going to a pub and being served pop and crisps (shake the salt sachet ones) from the outdoor hatch.
Outdoor, free public paddling pools.
Hop on, hop off buses.
Going round mates' houses and knocking on doors to see if they would come out to play (and they pretty much always would).
None of this living in a virtual world nonsense! The two main things I use my phone for, phoning and texting, are the two things my daughter never uses her phone for.
Double headers at the cinema (two full length movies on together).
Standing on the terraces to watch the City.
Classic, top sitcoms and REAL must watch TV like Morecambe and Wise and Fawlty Towers and Monty Python and Porridge.
Yep!! Saturday morning movies!! Used to love them!Did you go to the flicks on Saturday mornings ? Think it was called the tanner rush ? The Gaumont ? Crap films !
A load of us used to go most Saturdays and it was westerns and funny sci fi stuff. My sister used to go to the Locarno too, and they had it open for kids on Saturdays. In the Gaumont they would blast out My Boy Lollipop by Millie which was popular then. Cheap but some would still creep in without paying.Yep!! Saturday morning movies!! Used to love them!
Did you go to the flicks on Saturday mornings ? Think it was called the tanner rush ? The Gaumont ? Crap films !
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