For a bit fun I was thinking of starting a thread the other day of past memories, particularly childhood ones. Born in 67, a child of the 70's Ice on the inside of the wooden framed, multi paned, single glazed sash windows. A red leg from sitting too close to the coal fire on a winter morning before school, we went posh years later with a gas one We were posh mind, we had an indoor bog, the cistern was up near the ceiling in them days mind, you could flush the biggest turd away nee problem Having a sort out today reminded me to post this thread after finding this. And this from @Makemstine Roger 's war days.
Looking forward to this one and all the interesting posts to come, nice one nig and sorry I’ve got none myself
Six lads in a 3 bed semi in my early years, sharing three in a bed (I know not like that you lot). Ice on window insides and the dreaded dripping tap so you had to chip I've from round the plug hole, outdoor netty freezing cold in the winter, pisspot under the bed I could go on but we seemed to have a happier childhood than kids seem to have today. Dad never had a car went everywhere by bike, never had a family holiday with my parents, people would say we were dragged up but that's not the case. Always food on the table and the usual hand me down clothes from older siblings. Simpler times but happy times.Thanks That's enough for now.
Well I’ve said this before but here we go Born 1952 Lived in a pit village Lived in a 2 bed flat Only 1 cold water tap pail to collect water Only light switches No sockets ( nowt to put in ) Big black fire place for cooking and heating Tin bath in front 2bedrooms for 8 of us sometimes 4 in a bed with a flock mattress on a frame Not toilet only outside midden for ashes and rubbish Still had food and excellent christmases When I was 12 we moved into a council house and had hot water bath room and toilet thought we had won the pools
Reminiscent of the Monty Python Yorkshiremen sketch . But I'll join in, 2 up 2 down with no inside toilet, no bathroom, no central heating and a geyser for hot water. Tin bath in the yard. Only got a bathroom, inside toilet and hot running water when I was 10 and the council had to give us a council house as no longer allowed to sleep in the same bedroom as my sister at that age.
funny that i was spoon fed grapes around that time, me da used to tell the lasses not to hoist their skirts up to the nickers, and stop standing in front of the fire or you'll get corned beef legs, on the radio was the lord mayor of Sunderland saying today Germany had bombed our chip shop so henceforth war had been declared ya bassas. It was about that time Ada Scragend invented fish fingers after playing doctors and nurses behind the coal shed. and my uncle Billy had electric instead of gas and invented a new hair style after licking his fingers and placing them in the socket, he named it the Colin Kaepernick. It wasn't but a few years later on a Friday you got your pocket money and flogged the dead horse like mad to the local shop for your fix of Sarsaparilla, bag of sweets, bar of chocolate, your arse was red raw hitting that horse but you still had to ride it home. it was about that time we had our first colour neighbour, he had to move sharpish when the story got out, Johnny Perry was sent to the shops for 10 woodbine by his da, well it was dark nights winter he was walking past their door when all of a sudden he sore this ghostly apparition of lily white teeth and massive eyeballs, he ran like the wind home, the locals were out with their coal scuttles saying the neighbour was using an ouija board to summon the devil and it nearly got little Johnny , aye them wus the days and plenty more to tell
Calling Bono a ****ing idiot and him apologising to me, just one of many during my days of backstage.
Brilliant My mam was one of 17 . I remember her telling me she was taught to swim by her dad tying a rope around her and throwing her off the bridge at high tide
Some things I never understood about our house in Percival st in the 50s when I got older, the tap was out side the back door of our kitchen and every day my dad used to defrost the tap in winter so we had water for the kettle and for washing up why the f uck did the plumber not put the pipe through the wall so the tap was on the inside also the toilet was at the bottom of the yard and was bloody freezing why was the top and bottom of the door cut diamond shaped so the wind howled in also the coal house and wash room were on the end of the house so you had to go outside for coal or to do the washing why could they not put the doors on the inside of the house builders must of been as thick as s hit
Then there's the time our neighbour was one of the first in Sunderland to have aa colour telly, why the narrs half the street would have deckchairs outside his front window, often fights would break out as people jockeyed for the best seating position, they would send little Alfie to knock on the door to turn the telly up as grandpa couldn't hear the news well as he had got one of the hapeny spots at the back and nee bugger would shift for him. Down the club on a Friday neet Norman who had the colour tele, well he was git posh a pit deputy no less, well as he stood at the bar he would have pints coming in left right and centre all free as eevry body tried to influence him to get a seat on his couch for the filum as we called the film in those days.
anar still the same today in the lake district yadda thowt they wodda caught up by now...............
My earliest memorie was waiting for the stork to take me down , well the que was git lang waiting for god to hand out all the special traits to the newborns, it was ages before my turn so i thought id have a nap on the grass, i woke up with some fekker kicking my foot, it was god saying im late so i asked him what special skill am i getting he said well i given out all the brains, the good looks, the charm, the athleticism, not much left for you fella he saw it brought a tear to my eye, so he dug around the bottom of the sack like santie, and said there's nowt left but this massive thing and attached it between my thighs, and just for good measure he gave me one more he called it the gift of the gab, as I've got nowt else going for me ,at least i could charm them to bed, that's why he called me Roger and in the years to come he said i would thank him, so as soon as i reached 15 i sang his praise often, the lord is my shepherd wonders to behold and i did
I remember me mam saved the coloured transparent sweet wrappers one Christmas and sellotaped them to the television screen. She said "here's ya colour tv"
Remember when you could leave your house doors open ? I remember me mam cooking a sunday joint, and next doors dog coming round and taking it off the kitchen table Me mam was fookin livid. Mind next door were pikeys. He broke in our house when we went to South Shields and stole the leccy and gas meter money and me taids 50 year clock from the steelworks. Me dad knocked the shìt out of him in the pub one night. There was a hole in his hand when he came home, you could see the bone
big get together xmas in our house mum was cooking a massive turkey and leg of lamb, she opened the oven door to baste the meat and the pikes next door had knocked a hole in the wall took the back of the oven door off and were dipping their bread in the juices. so me faver said........... like when he told me he lost his leg in the war a story he often told for free beers in the pub, but you still got two legs da say i........miracles of modern science he says they can do owt these days did i tell you i was a script writer for Monty Python
Two coal houses joined together This lad took a brick out in the empty coal house Racked the coal out and re bagged it Sold it back for 5 shillings a bag
