The FOC thread.

[Penfold the Duke]

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Got a few pictures of me pushing one of those around, too young to remember it though.

 

[mancityvstoke]

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any lad at the zoo b doo disco Belle Vue

 

[bladdered]

 

[Blue Since 76]

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Syd James with Peggy, Grant and Phil Mitchell

 

[noseve]

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Every now and again on this thread there's a post that really hits home - I'd completely forgotten Cor!! I had this Christmas annual.

Remember the smell of those pages? Or even just the sound of the binding when opening an annual for the first time? Intoxicating.

 

[chris63]

 

[normskih]

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Sunday night after my once a week bath. It was alright for my brothers, they had crew cuts, my sister and I had longish hair. It didn’t half hurt;-(

 

[normskih]

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I used to get the Dandy and my sister the Beano.

 

[noseve]

I used to get the Dandy and my sister the Beano.

My brother (7 years my elder) used to get those before I was old enough to read.

Unbeknown to him, they were still being delivered after both he left home, and then after I left home!

Dad just kept forgetting to cancel them, I suppose...

 

[levets]

I always have a chuckle at the complaint that it’s heat or eat. In the 50s, we never had heating. Most families had one fire in the front room which was never lit before tea time. We all remember frost on the inside of bedrooms.
I was 20 years of age the first time I went into a house with central heating.

I still experienced ice (on the inside) on my bedroom window in 1983. I’d left a comfortable home to live in a flat above a hairdressers with my girlfriend at the time… one of my biggest mistakes was to marry her :-(

 

[levets]

For all the FOC’s… A male and a female perspective

 

[Rory Bluelow]

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Corrr ! What a pair.

 

[bladdered]

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Pint of mild and a cherry B for the bird.
Then on to the Kingsway for prawn cocktail, steak and chips followed by Black Forest gateau and maybe a cheeky glass of Mateus Rose.

La Dolce Vita.

They were the days…!

 

[denislawsbackheel]

For all the FOC’s… A male and a female perspective

Both sadly long gone…

 

[johnny crossan]

remember buying these to keep your mits warm at the London games? - my thumbs do :-)

 

[bladdered]

 

[mexico1970]

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Had one of these last night with jam on.

 

[JRockBlues]

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Put some cheese on it and you're sorted.

 

[DiscoSteve]

Bought my first house in 1988 - no central heating - just one of those standard Gas Fires everyone had in the living room and a pair of crappy gas fired heaters in the two main bedrooms - even had a paraffin heater at the bottom of the stairs which would warm up the staircase to the landing - I would literally turn all the rings on on the gas cooker and leave the door open between the kitchen and the living room to warm downstairs up!