The FOC thread.

[HypnoticBlue]

Since it is the FOC thread anyone remember going to the corner shop with a note from your mam. It would have ciggies on it and some boiled ham using the same slicer they just took the raw bacon off. I could even go to the off licence with a note and get the Friday night sherry and beer my mam and gran would demolish whilst the old fella was at the pub, Also as I am sure plod are too interested in tweets to solve old crimes, my mates mum worked at the chippy on Northmoor Rd Longsight and for a few pennies I could get a large back of chip shop goodies till the owner spotted her one day. Please don't anyone like this post as I am a rambling old b*******d and you will only encourage me.

We used to get the batter scrapings for free at our chippy.
We also went to the off licence with a note from my mates mum, cider, stera milk and 20 silk cut, we got the money back from the bottles we took back to get sweets.

 

[Lavinda Past]

We used to get the batter scrapings for free at our chippy.
We also went to the off licence with a note from my mates mum, cider, stera milk and 20 silk cut, we got the money back from the bottles we took back to get sweets.

Six of chips and some scrape... Getting a lump of fish in your free scrape was the equivalent of a lottery win when I was a nipper.

 

[HorlocksWalk]

We used to get the batter scrapings for free at our chippy.
We also went to the off licence with a note from my mates mum, cider, stera milk and 20 silk cut, we got the money back from the bottles we took back to get sweets.

We would go to Blackpool for the day and take a couple of bottles of Alpine pop with us on the train. Being the youngest I got lumbered with carrying the empties back to get the deposit.

 

[johnny crossan]

We used to get the batter scrapings for free at our chippy......

they tasted sweet I remember - a real treat!

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Let's sort the old 'uns from the kids...

The 11+ exam.

Being at prinary school in Levenshulme, we were told that we had to take our 11+ at Spurley Hey Seconday Modern (aka Spogger Hey)... Not an experience for the faint hearted.

1. It was in Gorton (bandit territory) and
2. The Spoggers were given the day off because of our visit to their school for the exam.

Picture a group of about thirty 10/11 year olds walking unaccompanied towards a welcoming committee of around 40 feral teenagers lined up just outside the school entrance.

"I'll kill you when you come here next year" and "You're all dead next year" were just a couple of the nicer comments.

When we left, they were all gone.

There were kids who passed that day who had barely been able to read before. It's amazing what fear can do for you.

That's why I was a Grammar School boy.

Have you seen the,Shawshank Redemption recently? Are you sure you are not getting the 2 events mixed up?:-)

 

[Lavinda Past]

Have you seen the,Shawshank Redemption recently? Are you sure you are not getting the 2 events mixed up?:-)

I'd rather have done 20 years in Shawshank than gone to Spogger Hey for four or five years. Bloody Gorton ferals.

 

[KS55]

Let's sort the old 'uns from the kids...

The 11+ exam.

Being at prinary school in Levenshulme, we were told that we had to take our 11+ at Spurley Hey Seconday Modern (aka Spogger Hey)... Not an experience for the faint hearted.

1. It was in Gorton (bandit territory) and
2. The Spoggers were given the day off because of our visit to their school for the exam.

Picture a group of about thirty 10/11 year olds walking unaccompanied towards a welcoming committee of around 40 feral teenagers lined up just outside the school entrance.

"I'll kill you when you come here next year" and "You're all dead next year" were just a couple of the nicer comments.

When we left, they were all gone.

There were kids who passed that day who had barely been able to read before. It's amazing what fear can do for you.

That's why I was a Grammar School boy.

The 11+ exam.
Question 1. Underline the appropriate word in the list to go in the blank space:
Manchester United are *********
Rags, Crap, Useless, Hilarious.
Question 2. The sick swan was********
A bird, lunch, hilarious.
Question 3.
Divide £2 13s 11d by 4d and three farthings. How many junior admissions to the Kippax can you get for that?

 

[mancboy]

The 11+ exam.
Question 1. Underline the appropriate word in the list to go in the blank space:
Manchester United are *********
Rags, Crap, Useless, Hilarious.

Thats an entirely unfair question as all are applicable.

 

[johnny crossan]

Let's sort the old 'uns from the kids...The 11+ exam.
Being at prinary school in Levenshulme, we were told that we had to take our 11+ at Spurley Hey Seconday Modern (aka Spogger Hey)... Not an experience for the faint hearted....

The 11+ exam. Question 3.Divide £2 13s 11d by 4d and three farthings. How many junior admissions to the Kippax can you get for that?

135? Juniors were 1s I think.
(LP as a Leve lad do you remember the Ujala on Stockport Rd, one of the first curry restaurants and run by a blonde lady as I recall?)

 

[Lavinda Past]

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135? Juniors were 1s I think.
(LP as a Leve lad do you remember the Ujala on Stockport Rd, one of the first curry restaurants and run by a blonde lady as I recall?)

The Ujala...? The name doesn't ring a bell, but I do remember an Indian restaurant opening and providing competition for The Moon chinese which had been the only 'foreign' restaurant in Levenshulme for years.

That would have been late 60s / early 70s? The blonde lady would probably have been the only person in the place who could speak enough English to take an order.

As for entrance on the Kippax, I'm sure it was 3d for kids in the early 60s. Maybe 6d?

 

[johnny crossan]

The Ujala...? The name doesn't ring a bell, but I do remember an Indian restaurant opening and providing competition for The Moon chinese which had been the only 'foreign' restaurant in Levenshulme for years.

That would have been late 60s / early 70s? The blonde lady would probably have been the only person in the place who could speak enough English to take an order.

As for entrance on the Kippax, I'm sure it was 3d for kids in the early 60s. Maybe 6d?

Smart silver frontage, really good food too - had a google but no trace sadly. The Moon was great, John was the waiter forever - grand lad, lived in Stockport. EDIT Played a few games at East Levenshulme CC - their social club put on some hairy entertainment at night, used to get changed in the backstage dressing rooms!

 

[johnny crossan]

We used to get the batter scrapings for free at our chippy.
We also went to the off licence with a note from my mates mum, cider, stera milk and 20 silk cut, we got the money back from the bottles we took back to get sweets.

until fairly recently I could remember my mum's Co-op divi number = 314?????

 

[Rory Bluelow]

Six of chips and some scrape... Getting a lump of fish in your free scrape was the equivalent of a lottery win when I was a nipper.

Very true…don’t remember “scrape” was always scratchings in our neck of the woods !

 

[KS55]

The Ujala...? The name doesn't ring a bell, but I do remember an Indian restaurant opening and providing competition for The Moon chinese which had been the only 'foreign' restaurant in Levenshulme for years.

That would have been late 60s / early 70s? The blonde lady would probably have been the only person in the place who could speak enough English to take an order.

As for entrance on the Kippax, I'm sure it was 3d for kids in the early 60s. Maybe 6d?

It was a shilling I think.

 

[Lavinda Past]

It was a shilling I think.

I'm probably remembering the entrance fee for reserve matches then.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Let's sort the old 'uns from the kids...

The 11+ exam.

Being at prinary school in Levenshulme, we were told that we had to take our 11+ at Spurley Hey Seconday Modern (aka Spogger Hey)... Not an experience for the faint hearted.

1. It was in Gorton (bandit territory) and
2. The Spoggers were given the day off because of our visit to their school for the exam.

Picture a group of about thirty 10/11 year olds walking unaccompanied towards a welcoming committee of around 40 feral teenagers lined up just outside the school entrance.

"I'll kill you when you come here next year" and "You're all dead next year" were just a couple of the nicer comments.

When we left, they were all gone.

There were kids who passed that day who had barely been able to read before. It's amazing what fear can do for you.

That's why I was a Grammar School boy.

With that spelling?
Prinary
Seconday...

 

[KS55]

I'm probably remembering the entrance fee for reserve matches then.

The old central league, a place for villains and ne’er do wells.
Junior Kippax went up to 1/6d about 1965. Scoreboard end was 1/- then.

 

[Lavinda Past]

With that spelling?
Prinary
Seconday...

Just be glad I can still see the keyboard. O know all the letters but just hit them in the wrong order.


:-)

 

[noseve]

Very true…don’t remember “scrape” was always scratchings in our neck of the woods !

Down South, 'scraps' were the little crispy lumps of batter that fell off fish, sausages, beefburgers whilst being served.
Most shops would ask you whether you wanted any scraps over your chips, or if you didn't have any money would just shovel them into a chip bag and let you have them for nothing.
Bloody lovely - cholesterol in a bag...

 

[noseve]

Just be glad I can still see the keyboard. O know all the letters but just hit them in the wrong order.


:-)

I'm the same - sme diys I cna hrdaly gte passt th fukknig spelchekcer !