Nostalgia

[Bluechipblue]

Bogies.
Starting a fire in the morning (coal, wood, newspaper and shovel).
Rabbits hung up outside butchers shop.
Parade (jazz mag).
Drinking tea from a jam jar.
Penny for the guy.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

TV that went off air at teatime.
5 Park Drive
PK chewing gum
Tom Thumb cigars
Consulate menthol ciggies

 

[J.G.Blue.]

Mind yer car mister,
Have correct money!,
The end of the world is nigh!,
Tra la la la Sumerbee!,
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeellllll drink a drink a drink to colin the king the king the king...................
SIT DOWN! (platt lane grumps),
Half time scores, racing results!

Happy days watching the football at Maine road.

 

[nellyonthewing]

I grew up in Baguley and as a kid Hall Lane Shops at Xmas was a magical place with the smell of fir trees , geese and turkeys hanging in the butchers windows . A Season of plenty , frost on the flagstones and crisp cold air. I count myself so fortunate to have grown up in that time when we had nowt but had everything we needed.

 

[Bill Walker]

Kids walking 3 miles to school
Rip Raps
Stray dogs
Quarter lights on cars
Park Drive tipped (Blue packet)
No 6
Wages in cash

 

[J.G.Blue.]

I grew up in Baguley and as a kid Hall Lane Shops at Xmas was a magical place with the smell of fir trees , geese and turkeys hanging in the butchers windows . A Season of plenty , frost on the flagstones and crisp cold air. I count myself so fortunate to have grown up in that time when we had nowt but had everything we needed.

Great post but why was the Hovis music playing in my head when i read it? :-)

 

[Bill Walker]

TOTPs in the 60's. Beatles, Stones, Kinks, The Who, Small Faces, Hendrix

 

[AKA 55 year old teenager]

Instant whip
Catalogues
Kiwi shoe polish
Smogs
TB jab scars
Iron lungs
Rickets
NHS orange juice

What are smogs?

 

[crublue1]

Kids walking 3 miles to school
Rip Raps
Stray dogs
Quarter lights on cars
Park Drive tipped (Blue packet)
No 6
Wages in cash

"Wages in cash"
Carefully tearing a half inch corner off the envelope in a vain attempt to count the notes before you opened the envelope.
Funnily enough, it was never wrong, because whoever put the cash in took pride in the job.
Unlike now, where "computer errors" are more common than they should be, and always seem to favour the banks, with the odd, overreported, joyous exception.

 

[AKA 55 year old teenager]

Can you imagine life without the remote control

We had 2 remote controls in our house, me and my brother.