Off Topic I Remember When

[Snaggey]

Great thread, and some great posts....brings back memories.

Coal fire in the sitting room and a Rayburn in the kitchen ...the only rooms in the house that were warm. Bedrooms were bloody freezing, with about two tons of blankets on the bed, there was more chance of being crushed to death than there was of getting hyperthermia. Ice on the inside of the windows!

Playing footy from morning till night, and going home covered in clarts and hungry. Didn't matter how muddy/dirty you got, bath night was still on Sunday.

People used just open their front door and let the dog out....it would come back later.

What does come to mind though, is that most of the stuff me and my mates done as young-uns, cost nowt. Even bikes seemed to last for years and were passed down when no longer needed.
I had two older cousins lived in the same street, so got all sorts handed down from them. If it was still decent, my younger brothers then got it.

 

[rooch 3]

Prompted by a couple of posts on the Boris thread, I thought that I'd start a new thread about what we remember and/or miss . . . .

We usually had a bogey that we used to make out of pram wheels and 'some bits of wood' that we'd ride downhill across a main road, not very bothered about any vehicles that could have been 'in our way'

Bonties in the back lane that roared on Bonty night and were definitely the biggest in the world.

Associated London Lights that our parents used to give us to play with

Having loads of fun jumping on and off moving buses before they had doors . . . . no h&s rules in sight

Playing 'kipper' where we hoyed sharp knifes as close as we could to each others' feet 'cos it wasn't dangerous in any way

Party lines, where you had to wait until a neighbour had finished their conversation before you could use your 'phone !

A few to get us started . . . . let's jog our memories

Did all of them, brilliant, climbing up the Alexandra Bridge Stantions until you were on the very top of the bend and have a game of Chuck stones. Can’t even start to think how dangerous that was.

 

[Mackem-Tiz]

Ice cream vans in Washington included, Jackie's, minchellas, Davies and Mr Whippy!

 

[TopCat.]

Pop Truck - limeade, american cream soda, tizer sold in glass bottles. Money for handing back the empties

Pools man calling on a Weds night - Dad leaving out his Pools slip and the exact money

Smoke filled pubs

 

[rooch 3]

This has jogged my memory of so many things, Mackem tiz made me remember when I was 4 stood outside the shop window in Pooley Bridge where my dad said I could buy a tractor for my holidays, I looked down and saw £1 note, I picked it up and showed my dad and he gave me a cuff round my ear and shouted I told you to keep your money in your pocket, loud enough so everyone around us could hear. Then he dragged me away round the corner and said well done son you can have two toys now. He kept the rest for holiday beer money, 9pennies a pint then.

 

[SAFCDRUM]

Can still get screwballs but not seen one with an ice lolly in it.

Cider lolly was always my favourite from the van

Really random. Literally just shoved a lolly in.

 

[rooch 3]

Another memory, camping at Finchale abbey when I was 12 me and a lad called Eddie State had half a crown each for food at the little shop next to the Priory. Anyway I put a penny in the penny bubbly machine and three came out so we put all our money in and got 90 bubblies to last us the weekend but no money for any food another time bird nesting over in Boldon the little shop next to the bus stop had a 5 boys
( remember them? ) chocolate machine on the wall and the sun had been on the glass front all day and we managed to rake them all out with a lolly stick. Never stopped spewing for two days

 

[TeamOfTalents]

In bed late, hearing the train going along the tracks in the distance during the night, and the foghorns from the coast.

 

[Mackem-Tiz]

Pop Truck - limeade, american cream soda, tizer sold in glass bottles. Money for handing back the empties

Pools man calling on a Weds night - Dad leaving out his Pools slip and the exact money

Smoke filled pubs

Tizer is my knickname lol. Hence the Tiz

 

[rooch 3]

And you would put the same clothes on from the day before and didn't dream about brushing your hair before you went out, I loved the fact no one really cared what you looked like or what you wore, you were just out with your mates without the material things that the kids nowadays judge each other by

My mam used to make sure I’d washed my face but couldn’t care less about the great tide under my coat, that was for Sunday nights bath time

 

[rooch 3]

Can still get screwballs but not seen one with an ice lolly in it.

Cider lolly was always my favourite from the van

You felt as though you were drinking and pretending to be drunk

 

[Mackem-Tiz]

Nutty bars, Texan bars, cabana, pacers, spangles, tip tops and Hubba bubba

 

[rooch 3]

Great thread, and some great posts....brings back memories.

Coal fire in the sitting room and a Rayburn in the kitchen ...the only rooms in the house that were warm. Bedrooms were bloody freezing, with about two tons of blankets on the bed, there was more chance of being crushed to death than there was of getting hyperthermia. Ice on the inside of the windows!

Playing footy from morning till night, and going home covered in clarts and hungry. Didn't matter how muddy/dirty you got, bath night was still on Sunday.

People used just open their front door and let the dog out....it would come back later.

What does come to mind though, is that most of the stuff me and my mates done as young-uns, cost nowt. Even bikes seemed to last for years and were passed down when no longer needed.
I had two older cousins lived in the same street, so got all sorts handed down from them. If it was still decent, my younger brothers then got it.

My mate who I mentioned before had a fixed wheel racer ( death trap ) and when his inner tubes were totally knackered he just forced hosepipes under the tyres and was off again

 

[rooch 3]

Ice cream vans in Washington included, Jackie's, minchellas, Davies and Mr Whippy!

No Fella’s

 

[Oliver's Army]

Making dens and swings down the westy and fighting the castlers, pop van, video van that used to come round. Freddo bars being 10p, going to Mr Lee's chippy at Witherwack for dinner when I was at school.
Putting a can on the back tyre of my bike so it sounded like a motorbike, water bomb fights around the streets in the summer, footy on the field and getting 'shifted' when the ball hit a window.

All good fun.

 

[rooch 3]

Finding an abandoned porn mag stuck in the bushes on way to school with your mates

They used to always make me wonder as I found 1or2 still in their wrappers unread.

 

[FellTop]

Nutty bars, Texan bars, cabana, pacers, spangles, tip tops and Hubba bubba

Texan bar - Sure is a might chew

 

[FellTop]

Tommy Vance Friday night rock show. Could never miss that. Used to have an ear piece that allowed me to listen under the pillow without any bugger knowing.

 

[Mackem-Tiz]

No Fella’s

I knew I was missing one. That's the one!

 

[FellTop]

Sundays were visiting days. Into the car and around all the aunts and uncles houses to visit. Kids in one room, parents in another. Always got a brilliant tea at Auntie Megs, homemade pies and cake. On the way home stop at the pub, mam and dad go in and have a drink, kids stuck in the and if lucky a couple of bags of salt and shake sent out.