General Chat

Oh blimey i remmber the ole liberty bodices And when i was teenager stitching big long tapes to it and loops to the tops of stockings so as to anchor them,wasnt very comfy cos the stocking would cut in on the thigh if you were a bit chubby

Wartime Red swede..........or was it ground up carrot?
yorkshire pudding made in a great square tray and cut into small squares, Custard that was in chunks...
the smell of cooking cabbage(GREENS)

dry porridge oats and a spoonful of sugar in a paper cone,(Lick yer finger and dip it in!!!)
Bob

powdered ink mixed with water,
ink monitors
Milk put round the coke burning stove to warm,
milk monitors
ice slides in the playground
slates to write on with chalk in the infants
milk bottle tops with a hole in the middle wound with raffia
the 'cycle of popular playground games :- marbles, skipping, collecting beads (for girls), five stone (dibs), hop skotch

Ann
Glos

liberty bodices what were they about, rubber buttons down both sides of the front

Dinners cost 1shilling when I was at school, they arrived in insulated boxes & were dished out by the teachers & eldest pupils.

Navy blue knickers.....a rope swing hanging from a tree was fun at playtime......dinner ladies cooking and serving the meals........the smelly outside toilets........the big metal wood-burning fire in the infants classroom.

Health and Safety weren't around then! lol

xx

Slipper bags, gymslips, berets & caps with school badge on. Navy knickers - with pocket for hanky and liberty bodices.

Linda

Wooden pens with detatchable nibs to dip in the ink well, mine always seemed to had a crossed point, so my writting looked as if a spider had crawled across the page. lol

Dinner money being 2 shillllngs 2/- (10p)
Dick and Dora with Fluff the cat and Nip the dog
Gaynor :-)

SueM Forgot about the elastic for your socks, that you mother always made too tight. Cats cradle. Inkwells were holes bored into the desks. Messy stuff

Round coke burning stoves with a high fire guard round then, high windows that you could only see the sky from.
Outside toilets that had doors that did not reach the ground & had 3 circular holes near the top.
The walk to & from school with my big sisters.

Sitting on the HUGE Victorian radiators and warming hands under the hot tap in winter.

Using our dipping fountain pens as darts!

Elastic to hold socks up!

Cats cradle

Sue x

Nit nurse, 'bumps' leather strap, hard seats with desks attached, teachers pointer, and separate playgrounds for boys and girls. Outside toilets, and big high walls. Felt like a prison. Oh! happy days lol

xx

Ousside loos, milk in winter with the top of from being frozen, dinner ladies telling you to eat your dinner cold water in winter and warm in summer. girls playground and boys had thiers Oh so many thinks.

I remember if you rubbed your bum with orange peel the sting didnt hurt so much, although I was in the last year the girls got the cane.

After that is was a white slipper plimsole being lobbed at you or the chalk board rubber.

Casio..... they had just come up with digital watches and calculaters when I was at school.

Well!! as a London evacuee to Kent I remember the Elson bin loos.What a stink they were!!

French knitting with old cotton reels and three nails around them . the round knit went down the middle,what we were meant to do with it I.m not sure!!!

Warm milk

Top and Whip, hopscotch, outside toilets freezing in winter!!!!

Linda x

recorder lessons and they were always dipped in Dettol.yuk