The Things You Remember As A Kid Thread

[Televators]

Champion The Wonder Horse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5i_pEYGe1o

I named my chopper "Champion" after him and tied string on the handlebars to use as reins.

 

[City_Shirts]

I have a chopper

 

[Televators]

I have a chopper

Really, how does it handle now it's knocking on a bit?

 

[Anonymous]

Belle Vue amusement park
Sugar butties
Four feather falls
Rollin' pitch/tar round a lolly stick
Collectin' magnets
saturday afternoon matinee
Whit sunday walks/parades
Ragbone carts
Johnsons wire works(where coms is now!)
Billy the kid advert
The avengers
The champions
Threepenny bits
Bogie carts
Spangles toffees
vinyl records
Abacus(es)
Watch with mother
Trolley buses
Tin Tin
American comics

 

[stony]

You smelly handed dirty git.

You should have seen the price of maggots! Besides all my pocket money went on cigs.

 

[City_Shirts]

I have a chopper

Really, how does it handle now it's knocking on a bit?

Doesn’t get the use it should really these days and really need to get it out more rather than just polishing it - Still in fine working order though

 

[Dogtanian]

white dog poo, and my grifter bike

 

[Televators]

I have a chopper

Really, how does it handle now it's knocking on a bit?

Doesn’t get the use it should really these days and really need to get it out more rather than just polishing it - Still in fine working order though

Brill.

Imps (the sweets)

 

[Banned Tosspot]

I have a chopper

Really, how does it handle now it's knocking on a bit?

Doesn’t get the use it should really these days and really need to get it out more rather than just polishing it - Still in fine working order though

Is it shinier than your head?

 

[denislawsbackheel]

chrome marbles
Susan Stranks
playing with mercury
4 a penny chews
packets of 5 park drive ciggys
5 boys chocolate
cigarillos
red silk lined winklepickers
true, dare, kiss, command or promise (a game)
free school milk in bottles turning into cheese in the summer with a layer of pencil shavings on top
captain pugwash

 

[gman07]

dancing in warm rain
rocket cheese
sesame street
tree houses
cowboys-indians in the wood with real arrows that couldnt hit a tree two feet from it..and gunpowder guns
black madam... kiss the part of the person you catch in the dark
Buster (sports comic magazine)
strawberry jam with milk
long summers

 

[gman07]

double post

 

[blusmiff]

city winning things.

 

[Newlunar]

American dobbers (fancy marbles)
Belle vue Aces speedway (in a proper stadium)
Spacedust (Teeth rotting crackly sweet; precursor to ampthetamine)
Golden Hamsters
2000AD Comic
Terrapins
Hammer house of horror
Stupot on radio one.
Raleigh Grifter (Never had one)
Stone fights
Sherbet flying saucers
Sledging-frogging-camping out-conkering (in that order every year without fail)

 

[simonk]

That black and white Robinson Crusoe being shown every summer school holiday

<a class="postlink" href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" target="_blank">http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M</a>

I bet that beach is now surrounded by hotels, Irish bars and burger restaraunts

Plus White Horses, The Flashing Blade and Casey Jones. Belle and Sebastian too, before they became a band.

flashing blade- used to love that
just played the theme tune and it doesnt half sound like The Last Shadow Puppets

 

[hjohn]

That black and white Robinson Crusoe being shown every summer school holiday

<a class="postlink" href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" target="_blank">http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M</a>

I bet that beach is now surrounded by hotels, Irish bars and burger restaraunts

Plus White Horses, The Flashing Blade and Casey Jones. Belle and Sebastian too, before they became a band.

flashing blade- used to love that
just played the theme tune and it doesnt half sound like The Last Shadow Puppets

What was the one about the guy thrown out of the cavalry called? They broke his sword in half on his way out.
In addition to that I remember that choppers rode at high speed downhill became very unstable. Cue one visit to the infirmary.

 

[bornblueegg]

wasn't that 'broken sword' or was that just what he carried about with him...

 

[Trig]

the day before school broke up when they made you watch video after video about not playing on the train tracks (YOU WILL LOSE YOUR LEGS AND NEVER PLAY FOOTBALL AGAIN) and also the video about the kid who had the longest fishing rod in the world walking under power cables (YOU WILL GET ELECTROCUTED AND DIE)

Oh, and wham bars.

 

[howiedeblue]

Dick and Dora Nick and Fluff in the primary school reading books
Teleprinter football scores on BBC1
Final Score music on radio de de de de da....etc
Kali....aka sherbet
Ice cream in containers that could be used as small plastic footballs from the ice cream man

 

[denislawsbackheel]

What was the one about the guy thrown out of the cavalry called? They broke his sword in half on his way out.


Branded

and here's the theme song
All but one man died,
There at Bitter Creek,
And they say he ran away ...

Branded!
Marked with a coward's shame.
What do you do when you're branded,
Will you fight for your name?

He was innocent,
Not a charge was true,
But the world will never know ...

Branded!
Scorned as the one who ran.
What do you do when you're branded,
And you know you're a man?


And wherever you go
for the rest of your life
You must prove ...
You're a man!