Off Topic Feel your age -

Last ones made the year I was born. Too late for silver threepenny bits!

 

I had to read those last three words three times

 

Thats the one. Think the bloke mentions City winning the cup somewhere in it.

 

Three pints on a lunch time and then back to work in the bank

 

I read The Victor - Alf Tupper the tough of the track

 

Playing three-card brag with your mates in the local recca after dark - using a torch to see the cards and the pot of pennies.

 

Super balls. Gosh they could bounce a long way. And Slinkys.

 

Isn't predictive texting wonderful when you press post without checking?

 

There were some excellent editions of Play For .Today. A few ropey ones but outnumbered by the good ones.

 

East Yorkshire bus conductor’s where the ticket started out as an oblong then a chunk was taken off by the machine leaving the value you had paid showing.

 

Tearing around the undulating small hills on your bike in Little Switz on Hessle foreshore. Swinging on the ropes hanging from sturdy branches on the large trees around there.

 

I worked there!

 

My dad scoring the first 700 ten pin bowling series down Beverley Road. Pete Farrah getting the first 300 game.

 

That smell from the fish docks when the wind was in the ‘right’ direction.

 

Jumpers for goalposts

 

Or the smell of mints from needlers when it's blowing the right way.

 

Going to watch City Juniors in the Northern Intermediate League at Springhead.

 

You lucky bastard, I had three older sisters so I had to read their copies of Bunty, The Four Mary's was a particular favourite

 

I used to get Look and Learn as well. And Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly.

 

Mmmmmmmm Cocoa Mills, I now work on Stoneferry and the only smell that fills me nostrils is from the tannery