My Childhood

[KS55]

Radio Luxembourg: Teen and Twenty disc club (TTDC) with one J.Saville, not sure why the twenty somethings were included;
Stayblonde and Brunatex, Bidex because…., Pete Murray with DECCA.
The programs were recorded in London but broadcast from the Principality. Radio Caroline killed it with Tony Blackburn, Emperor Rosko, Ed Stewart et al. You could hear it!

 

[TinFoilHat]

Playing Blow Gabriel's trumpet with Father O'Malley during break time at school.

 

[Marklr]

I was given a an old pair of Doc Martins. We couldn’t afford to get them resoled so I used to wrap plastic bags around my feet before putting them on. How sads that. My two lads did not believe me until their Gran told them it was true.

It was standard working class back then. Ketchup butties.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Playing in empty houses as they got a new facade. Dodgy vodka in boxes in carboots sold for a tenner a pop. Ronnie who sold the estate out by closing his shop so Tesco could build a store room there, he wore mascara and played crooners in the shop. Noddy and Teabag the paedo pair. Mr Barnes (to this day dunno who he was, but there was a telegraph pole with the words "if you touch this you have shagged Mr Barnes" written on it.

WWF Smackdown Saturday morning. Sega Mega Drive when all the other kids had PS1.

 

[Barcon]

Anyone from Newton Heath remember the word, "GOYA" painted on the side of Briscoe lane school?
If so, please tell me what it means.

 

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I'm a secret lemonade drinker. Spangles. Being in charge of the coal bunker and the fireplace. Ice on the inside of the windows. Hot water bottles. Toast Toppers. Cinzano Bianco. Charley says. Wearing nothing but hand-me-downs. Kick-the-can. Oven-bottomed muffins with a single slice of bacon for a treat. Sugar butties. Bob-a-job.

 

[Grassland Blue]

Boxing matches on the radio. Muhammad Ali and 'enery Cooper.

Wrestling on the telly.
Les Kellet, Mick McManus, Kendo Nagasaki, Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Very nostalgic this thread, and bringing back many memories.

What resonates with me mostly though is the privilege it was to grow up in that era where technology was nothing like what it is today. Kids today have no way of escaping things.

I’m glad I was born when I was.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Horace Batchelor of Keynsham, spelt K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M, sold a system for winning the pools called “The Infra Draw Method”.
It was just a perm.

Yeah, thanks, it's been pointed out above. Meant absolutely nothing to my nine-year-old self, but something about the sound of his voice made it sound like a real scam to me. That I did pick up. Also, that west country burr he had (am I misremembering that?) — I didn't quite trust it.
Above all, I couldn't make out what it was doing sandwiched between Tammy Terrell, Mary Wells and Martha and the Vandellas! It just seemed to have nothing to do with the sounds that were being wafted to me over the airwaves.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Radio Luxembourg: Teen and Twenty disc club (TTDC) with one J.Saville, not sure why the twenty somethings were included;
Stayblonde and Brunatex, Bidex because…., Pete Murray with DECCA.
The programs were recorded in London but broadcast from the Principality. Radio Caroline killed it with Tony Blackburn, Emperor Rosko, Ed Stewart et al. You could hear it!

Radio Caroline was the best!

Was it Radio Luxembourg that had the ad for Ovaltine with kids singing "we are the Ovalteenies, happy girls and boys"?