dnc

OMG, I still get milk delivered. What does that say?

Also used to nick it on the paper round

Boro

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Them was the days. When you could take back the glass lemonade bottles to the chippy or take in old newspapers and get a free bag of chips

fatherpierre

Ah the good old days of stealing bottles of Tizer from the pop man's van and getting the empies from behind the corner shop and taking them back in to get the 5p on each bottle.

zs_phil

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yes the lemonade man who used to come around in a van selling all the flavours in the world in glass bottles then you gave the bottles back .
thats the true taste of dandilion and burdock

stevebt

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funny memories

dnc

Yep, but you had to let the 'stolen' empties warm up a bit before taking them back

Removed.

Black & white telly that wasn't 24/7. £. s. d. ' & " Lbs, oz's and drams, Gill's, fl oz, pint's, quart's, gallon's. Going to the corner shop to buy a pint of vinegar, with your own bottle, and sneaking a swig on the way back. Policemen wearing capes, and belting you round the ear when you were "cheeky". Watching Neil Armstrong. Morris Minor's with semaphore indicators (the light up one's, I'm not THAT old)

If you need a translation, your a young whipper snapper

zip106

Going out to take the car for a 'run' (possibly the silver MK2 Cortina we had) with my dad on Sunday morning.
No traffic, the only shops open were the newsagent and even that shut at midday.

Ahhhh.....those were the days of 5pence a litre 2 and 4 star leaded fuel and no green lobbyists telling us about global warming

Grandad waking up in the early hours to hear a car engine running outside only to realise it was his car but was so pissed he couldn't remember driving it home.....and he was a copper.

Grandma calling black people 'Darkies'......

Those were the days.

thesyn

You old boys don't get too complacent. You are very unlucky if nothing physical offs you before the age of 45y. However after that on a sliding scale, medically speaking all bets are off. Live for the day and enjoy your memories. If you wake up and you are still breathing, by definition it's a good day. IMO, Incidently I was born ibn 1961 and I know exactly what you are talking about.

r32

Thats very good and very true, what the kids of today miss out on .....

sarasquares

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make sure you rake the milk in before you go out after making that statement

lozgti

And no one was allergic to peanuts

When did all that rubbish start?

RobJenks

washable tie on condoms or johnnys that once used were washed dried and french chalked and rolled up into a tobacco tin ,ready for the next ****.

Surviving V1 and V2 attacks from the Krauts.

Smog -ugh

Dried banana and powdered egg.

Having a plastic magnifier hanging over the telly - changed your 12 inch into an 18 inch.

My dad holding up an indoor aerial trying to get a picture

Seeing the first black man in Tooting Broadway - Now its spot the white man in Tooting Broadway.

All those brilliant war movies in the 50's

Getting your hands on your first copy of health and efficiency

Eating bread and dripping with salt and pepper on it - brilliant.

Robertsons Jams - with the golliwog inside

Woollen swimming trunks

Seeing your first pair of ****

Feeling your first pair of ****

Izal toilet paper

The Billy Cotton Band Show - The Dambusters brilliant !

Removed.

My mum used to knit all ours herself to save money, usually using up all the odds and ends of wool she had, leading to serious colour clashes. The dreedful feeling of wet wool heading south, as they went massively baggy and ended up around your ankles as you walked up the beach

Getting your first set of shop bought "bathers", mine were bright yellow Speedo's, you had to have them for school swimming lessons. Known to our antipodean convict cousins as budgie smugglers

Varboy

Can anyone remember free scrumps from the chippy or is that just a Welsh thang?

Scrumps - bits of batter and broken fried chips and if you're lucky bits of fish (ie the crap that falls off the food as it fries and has to be cleared from the frier)

Used to love the greasy fried crusty pap.

zs_phil

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anyone mentioned the wrestling that was on tv not like todays crap i mean big daddy

fatherpierre

They were called scraps in Leeds.

Sonic'

They were called fish bits here

Or was that at the local night club

magepaster

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Ah yes, Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Mick McManus and the like. The best part of Saturday afternoon.

Bags of batter bits from the chippy.

Scrumping. I spent many a day with my best friend Michael Powell ( may he rest in peace ) removing all traces of fruit from Apple, Pear and plum trees before handing bags full to the neighbours who later rewarded us with pie after pie bursting with the fruits of our labour.

corradoboy

My son will be getting THIS for a birthday very soon.

I was born in the 60's, well, 65 days before the 70's started and can only see bad in most of todays ideas of parenting, education and nurturing. A kid needs to hurt themselves, needs to experience disappointment, rejection and humiliation, needs to learn some harsh lessons but hopefully in not too harsh a way. They also need to embrace childhood and enjoy it for the brief time it lasts, and we must do all we can as parents to try and ensure they do and make it last as long as is sensible. I can't wait for the first bo11ocking I get for my lad being filthy, cut, bruised, late, missing, or in trouble with neighbours, police (not seriously though) or the school, and it to be at least partly my fault

The Zohan

we managed to survive without

Community support officers
CCTV
ID cards (OK yet to come in)
Macdonalds, infact most fast food except fish and chips

DYK

you know this thread is a few weeks old,but i was just thinking to myself the other day.I am one the ones that is the last Generation of the old school classic days.I was just thinking it because the amount of young kids you see now with hand held games and i pod's and etc..Yep,i actually miss them day's of climbing trees,brook jumping,garden hoping,playing on tarzan ropes,see who could swing the furthest over the river.building den's and bivawac's,playing marbles.staying out allday and coming back home all muddy and dirty,and sometimes clothes wet through and soggy trainers,and wet feet,if it had been raining that day..Great all the computer games and mp3's could never beat them day's..

oldsplice

Jumpers for goalposts?

DYK

we used milk crates,or brezze blocks also .

magepaster

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We still have the pop man here. In fact he came this morning with my weekly order which included D & B My last link to the glory days

oldsplice

I love Dandelion and Burdock........have you tried the Fentimans one?

DYK

DO you remember that R-Whites lemonade commercial,and the kia.ora...ILL BE YOUR DOG...Black widow catapults,Peg guns,pea shooter's,Ghetto Blaster,Top Deck pop,and Space Invaders crisps,Pickled Onion flavor..Benny hill,the lucky Bugger having all them girls chasing him,and the secret diary's of Adrian Mole...Connect four,Operation,TWISTER one cool game..

Scoobychick

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Wow, you must be young, I remember *Larry The Lamb

*(Ancient black and white programme for kids back in the very old days)

oldsplice

Rag, Tag and Bobtail.........Tales from the riverbank......

Scoobychick

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Andy Pandy, Bill & Ben