Off Topic Feel your age -

Well jell

 

Football Monthly was a real treat - couldn't wait for a new edition to come out - always hoping there'd be summat about City or one of their players in it. Never seemed to happen mind.

 

Raleigh Choppers and RSW 16’s

 

Birds Eye Steaklets

 

Half Time scores being put up manually at Fer Ark

 

Guys bringing round buckets at Fer Ark, collecting coins to keep the club going.

 

Biking from Hull back to were we lived in 'Essle, waiting for a slowish lorry to arrive at Five Ways so you could use it's slip stream to get up a head of steam to make it easier to get up the gradual hill. Suppose it must have been a stupidly dangerous thing to do, but it never crossed our minds at the time.

 

The odd full page picture I recall. Once unfashionable, always unfashionable?

 

Listening to new records in a booth before buying them. Coal powered Spotify.

 

New sidewinder trawlers coming down the River Hull from Beverley.

 

Raiding Bean Street, and others, bonfires

Penny for the Guy

Bogies made from the chassis of prams

 

Hull Brewery Mild - and showing off by buying a girl a Brandy and Babycham.

 

Dart boards without trebles.

 

Bombed buildings with abandoned cars sat on them

 

Actually choosing to have a mullet.

 

The Beano and Dandy

 

When Thunderbirds was cutting edge technology

 

This is great thread, it makes you glad that you experienced most of the things on it, almost worth getting older for, except that god awful Izal toilet paper, and sad for young 'uns like Quill and Sterling that they missed out

 

Mint Cracknell. Still got some stuck in my teeth 40 years on.

 

Didn’t they used to use that for the ‘prize’ ornaments they gave out at Hull Fair when they ran out of goldfish?