NHS specs with a plaster over one of the lenses. Someone beat me to this, so I'll add desks with ink wells and teachers throwing blackboard rubbers at you.
Players being numbered 1 to 11, that should never have changed. Freshly baked bread cakes on Sunday morning. Raiding the Apple orchard. Balaclavas. Packs of dogs roaming the streets. Lights going out and a kick in the balls...
Small independent supermarkets: Frank Dees, Grandways Video shops: Vista, New Way, Pharoahs Video shops only stocking one copy of a film and having to reserve it
I was only thinking about video shops the other night, while scanning through the options on the firestick.
Let's see. Stuff from my childhood and early teens. I was born in 1988, so I didn't miss much of what had already gone before. Allder's. The top deck of Prince's Quay and the 30% oxygen level there. UCI Cinema Megabowl (with Jazzbo Brown's bar - sounds more racist than I'm sure it was) The Austin Montego and it's awesome colours. Channel 5 softcore porn on a Friday night. Often given names like 'Ilicit Affairs' or 'Indecent Allegations'. Playing block. Drawing dicks and tits on your mate's work, because he was an underachiever and I was a straight A* student and they'd never suspect me. Waiting for the Tranby bus to go through South Cave so that I could catch the eye of the pretty blonde girl in the hopes that somehow she would track me down and be with me forever. The **** her. Brass Eye White Room on Cleveland Street. Heavy metal, smoking and under age drinking. And now it's a house. ****ers. Dave Benson Phillips Golf Ball radar system at RAF Fylingdales - seeing them meant you were almost on holiday Hornsea Pottery not seeming **** and boring and full of knitting shops. I mean it was but it had kid things back then. Pokemon Blue and the joy that came with it Playing stick guns in Spook Wood. Then in later years starting fires and camping in Spook Wood. Then drinking, starting fires and camping in Spook Wood. Then hospital. Walking the old train tracks at Weedly Springs because your mates thought it was haunted somehow because of the many deaths there (they weren't clever). Getting my first BB Gun. Then hospital again. Lazer Quest and Funjunction and the sugary drinks that never quenched your thirst. Antiques Roadhsow being the theme tune to the words 'school is back tomorrow'. Facing the wrath of staff members hired by my Grandmother at Hunsley. I was told I'd get a break from them. They were wrong. Mr Bradshaw was a ****, the rollerblading sheep haired numpty. EDIT: It was dying out, but early doors times at pubs was still a thing. 12-2, then 5 till close if I remember rightly.
