Who Remembers Thread

[ray21]

I am just watching the Repair Shop Christmas Special and two sisters had their family radiogram restored - they remembered their mum and dad dancing to records played on it and broke down in tears at the big reveal.

Then I remembered ours when I was a kid......2 Way Family Favourites and Sing Something Simple on the radio ,,, scratchy Beatles and Frankie Vaughan records - it took me right back and I welled up too. Great great memories of simpler times.

I remember this well, sandwiches for tea, fruit salad and carnation cream, then a bath and the nit comb all ready for school in the morning.

 

[Beswick Prize Bands Big Drum]

I remember when we had dead thick fogs (you couldn't see across the road) they used to put oil lamps, like Aladdin's lamp, on the traffic islands.

You would go to Maine Road and stand in the Kippax, and they would still play matches when you could not see one of the goals for the fog. So the crowd would only know from cheers (or groans) at the far end if someone scored.

The mind boggles, looking back, but it was accepted as normal. As was walking back all the way to Gorton if the buses stopped running, which they sometimes did.

I remember riding to work on my motorbike, from Blackley to Upper Brook Street with a scarf round my mouth and nose in the 60s, when I took the scarf off it had all black smog on it.

 

[bluebc]

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[denislawsbackheel]

I remember this well, sandwiches for tea, fruit salad and carnation cream, then a bath and the nit comb all ready for school in the morning.

Ears cleaned with a hair clip?

 

[mexico1970]

 

[ray21]

I remember walking the streets with eyes peeled to the floor collecting the coupons out these cigarettes,when you go a certain amount some shops would buy them of you.

 

[mexico1970]

I remember walking the streets with eyes peeled to the floor collecting the coupons out these cigarettes,when you go a certain amount some shops would buy them of you.

Bundled together with an elastic band ;)

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Green shield stamps anyone?

 

[Barcon]

In those fogs, the sweet smell of coal burning. Some kids wore a white mask, home made with lint and elastoplast. When you took it off, there was a black ring which surrounded a bright yellow patch of sulfur. And we lived to tell the tale, but many did not; lung disease did for so many in industrial areas.

My Dad used to bring these home from work for me to wear to school.
We would play hide and seek in the wide open playground.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Green shield stamps anyone?

Mum would go mad if we returned from doing an erand in going to the Co-op and forgetting the stamps