General Chat

Anybody in Yorkshire remember the halfpenny sticks of spanish with kaylie, and mixing sugar with cocoa....your finger was brown for a month!!!!!

OMG Skipping songs can anyone remember any??? 'all in together girls, never mind the weather girls, when it's your birthday please jump in! january, feburary.......... Bev

you have made me smile,at school doing hand stands up the wall,spending my dinner money and having to walk home,holding a bag of flying saucers with sherbet inside at hospital while they stuck a needle in my bum i was only small but i remember.collecting lady birds in a match box,going swimming getting bag of chips and crackling after.taking a neighbours grandson [baby] in the pram round the block on a sunday.Going on holiday to south shields with mum and dad going to the beach in my costume it was all elasticated like bobbles,pretending i was swimming when my hands were on the ground,ice cream man riding a bike with a big box on the front and running after him for some,what lovely memories.I often sit and think of the past what happy memories they were if only i could just go back for a while and do it all again

Hi Everyone, You all sound so young, bus to school? Never ever! The opposite sex? They were the enemy! 6d was a fortune, it bought me, my brother and my sister, a bag of chips to share - and can we have a scoop of batters (the bits that fell off the fish) please? Television had one channel, two came later and it didn't come on till after tea, then all the neighbours came in to watch! Holidays and days outings, what were they? All the things you mentioned were my children's favourites. Thanks for bringing back some memories though - John (at this moment feeling very ancient).

For all of you hankering after the sweets you sucked as kids...you can still get some of them here: http://www.aquarterof.*co.uk/ (remove the *) Dee x

What a laugh! I don't ususally feel old, but this has suceeded in it. What about Saturday morning pictures? we had a shilling, with that we managed to get the bus there and back(4d) get in (6d) and buy an ice pole (2d) The weekend just wouldn't feel right without going. The rich kids sat in the balcony that was 9d. Suex

skipping songs.....'in n out the dusty blue bells'..... another was......'eevy ivy OVER!' Remember 5 jacks? Two balls..... one a penny two a penny three a penny......drop one!.... Marbles!!!! who had a doubler?....lol I asked my old Mum about playground games not so long ago.....She was almost 90 and most of the time diddnt know her name or where she was...but she remembered the games....wish I had the forthought of writing then down. ah! well! we live n learn. I was champion hula hooper. wish I could do it now lol Plate ona stick? remember that? Remember making stilts from Lyons syrup treacle cans?..two holes to thread the string through? Hoola hoop petticoats. I rememebr making my own with wire coat hangers....lol Gerri aged 12 and 3/4s lol

OMG I remember those elasticated 'bubble' swimming costumes...when you took them off you had a pattern all over you left by the elastic!! Those were the days when you had to wear swimming caps to got to the baths. I had really long, thick wavy hair and by the time I had tucked it all in I had a 'coney' head! The good old days when the nit nurse would come round and check everyone's hair at school and the dental nurse would hand out pink disclosing tablets to check who'd brushed their teeth. Did anyone ever have 'Scots Emulsion'? It was some kind of cod liver oil camouflaged in white emulsion. There was also 'cod liver oil and malt' or 'toffee' as I was duped into believing.

Remember spangles? can you still get them?

High, low, medium, slow, dolly, rocker, pepper....... remember skipping to that and, not last night but the night before, 24 robbers came knocking at my door, as I went out to let them in......... another skipping song. Samantha...I'd forgotten about Spangles - I don't know if they are still around. I loved tootie fruities and jelly tots, which I still buy every once in a while. I was a member of the Famous Five Club!! I read those Enid Blyton books a dozen times over. In the street we played tig where if you stood on a grate you were 'safe', in the dark we would play spotlight hide and seek with a torch and chinese skipping (or so we called it) where elastic bands were tied together to form a large hoop and one person would stand at either end with the elastic around their ankles forming a rectangle....all kinds of tricks were performed, almost like 'cats cradle' with your feet until the elastic would get stuck in the buckle of your T bar shoes!!!

You also forgot Jack and Jill my fav comic

Saturday morning pictures - 6d and 9d. Sweets (when you get them on ration) 4p per quarter. School dinners 1/8 per week ( and they were good, meat and two vegs) Ice on the inside of the windows. 9' TV screens, uncle Mac and Larry the Lamb, and 'Good Night children everywhere' and then off to bed at 6pm. (and you didnt argue) There was firm disciplin in those days, but it was fair. Indoors by 9pm, even as a teenager). Playing football in the road between the cracks in the road surface. Street parties and a bonfire of Tojo the japenese admiral, men coming home from POW camps. What memories we do have and how times have changed - for the better ????? brenda

All meeting in the local cafe being welomed, and not being thought of a YOB! Deanna

Is the phantom nudger still about?? Why are there lots of old threads coming up again. Another one from last year about 'telling the sex of baby'. What twat needs to get a life!

OH YES!! Raiding the cupboards to give rag man for a goldfish!!!even included dads best trousers!!!!!!!!! Sherbert Lemon,Powder which turned your fingers yellow, First taste of Walls Choc Ice,wonderful,mmmmm, Penny Packet of Smiths Broken Crisps,and sharing them for crisp sandwiches,, Barley Twist Stick that went on for ever,slurppppp, 3d worth of mixed from the bottom of sweet jars,bit of everything,, Going off for hours NO FEARS then and devouring the waiting dinner all the way home;; Elastic round top of socks to stop them keep falling down; Money back on bleach bottle so to go swimming, And yes the all to familiar 'BUBBLE SWIMMING COSTUME' great if all the elastic was in good order if not you got out of the pool with it down on your waist!!!!;GOD,>>>> K,

ANOTHER JUST CAME TO MIND: FRYS CHOCOLATE BARS;ONE WITH FRUIT CENTERS AND ONE WITH FONDANT CREAM AND DARK CHOCOLATE; 2 PENNY PACKET OF KP SALTED PEANUTS;; RICH .GOD NO.!! BOUGHT WITH MONEY BACK BOTTLES; AND DADS CHAIR;;>>>>>>>. kay.

Some lovely memories on here. Weren't we young and innocent then? lol. Was anyone else an Ovaltiney? Remember the song: We are the Ovaltinies, happy girls and boys etc and the password, Chuckle. Comics: Tiny Tots, Knockout, Robin, Film Fun. The teenage magazines: Romeo, Valentine and Mirabelle and of course School Friend and Girl's Crystal. Corona pop. Orange Maid lolly ices (the drink on a stick). The small bottles of milk put around the fire in school to defrost them. The frozen milk was usually pushed above the top of the bottle dislodging the foil top. Going to the river with a jam jar trying to catch tiddlers. First pair of nylon stockings and very low heeled shoes, AGE 14. What a nightmare trying to keep the seams straight. We thought we were really 'IT'. Isn't it amazing how much we can remember from all those years ago and yet have difficulty remembering what happened last week. (Well some of us anyway!! lol) A great trip down memory lane and a really interesting thread. Joan

Lots of happy memories on this thread. And Oh Joan I am glad it just is`nt me having a Senior Moment when I can remember 30/40 years ago but forget what I went into the kitchen for. Love and Peace Marianne.

My childhood in Wimbledon. When all the days were sunny and it only rained at night. When we had white Christmases. When Nan would give me a bag of sandwiches and a bottle of Orange squash and tell me to be back by teatime. When I had the whole of South London to wander at will. When the Museums were free and Cartoon Cinemas cost a shilling. When on the District Line you could stand at the open door of the Train and watch the world flash by. When you got a clip around the ear from 'Authority' if caught misbehaving. Those were the days.

Marianne I think the next thing will be for me to have my name on a badge around my neck, just in case I forget that as well!! lol It is said that old age doesn't come alone. Joan