Getting empty R Whites lemonade bottles round the back of the Welcome Inn and taking them to the local newsagents and getting the 10p deposit on them 
Good things back in the day !
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With jacket potatoes cooked in the embers
Soup out of polystyrene cups?With jacket potatoes cooked in the embers
Hackney Hawks Speedway team and Greyhound Racing, both at Hackney Wick
Use to go to the dogs at Catford and worked at the one at Crayford
Been to both of those plus Walthamstow for dog racing. Can’t remember with Catford - could you get right next to the track or was it like Crayford where you were just up in a bar area watching through glass ?
Not the same unless you could hear the dog’s breath and get splattered by sand as they went past, like Hackney Wick and Walthamstow.
Could get right next to the track at Catford if I remember correctly- went there as a nipper , my dad worked in Catford and his twin brother worked at Foresthill so they use to meet at the dogs
Route-master buses that you could hop on and off of, at traffic lights or in a bit of congestion 
Used them to get to school & back most days for 6 years.
And no bus lanes.
Used them to get to school & back most days for 6 years.
And no bus lanes.
"Any more fares please"?Route-master buses that you could hop on and off of, at traffic lights or in a bit of congestion
Used them to get to school & back most days for 6 years.
And no bus lanes.
Clippies with those chrome (or zinc or nickel?) plated ticket machines, winding the little handle to print a ticket.
The overhead cords that rang the bell.
Edison screw light bulbs....
The overhead cords that rang the bell.
Edison screw light bulbs....
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Lived 10 minutes walk away from Catford Dogs. They were the only good thing about Catford, and were a sad loss.Use to go to the dogs at Catford and worked at the one at Crayford
The wages clerk coming round on Friday with the wage packets.
The call of the rag & bone man, who used to walk the streets of SE7, must have been back in the 1970's.
Collecting Co-Op and Green Shield stamps & sticking them in the books.
Cigarette cards & tobacco tins (Dad & uncles were all smokers of course).
Keeping rabbits in a hutch in the back yard. We kept chickens too I'm told, but that was slightly before my time.
An upright piano in the front room, and the family singing songs around it of a weekend evening
(I kid you not, they actually did do that. I must have been very little back then, but I just about recall it).
Collecting Co-Op and Green Shield stamps & sticking them in the books.
Cigarette cards & tobacco tins (Dad & uncles were all smokers of course).
Keeping rabbits in a hutch in the back yard. We kept chickens too I'm told, but that was slightly before my time.
An upright piano in the front room, and the family singing songs around it of a weekend evening
(I kid you not, they actually did do that. I must have been very little back then, but I just about recall it).
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My love of horses started with helping to look after the rag and bone man’s ponies in stables in Alexander Alley. Horses, stables and alley now all long gone
Green shield stamps
and then in the eighties those stamps you got from Shell garages to trade in for gifts.
Linked to our cars thread - cars you could actually work on yourself without needing a bloody computer. And garages where you could rack up at 4pm with a minor problem and be told “yeah give us 10 minutes and I’ll have a look for you lad”.
I stripped & rebuilt the engine of my Ford Corsair V4.
Nobody can do that to their own car these days.