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General => The Shed => Topic started by: tim on August 15, 2006, 13:20:26
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http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/siteindex/index.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/scotlandonfilm/a_to_z/index.shtml
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That reminds me Tim, on my way home from the plot on Saturday morning, Mark Llamar played the theme from Champion The Wonder Horse. I loved that when I was a nipper, late 70's, not the first time round. I sung it all the way home and kept boring people with it all day Saturday. Memories!
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I used to like Champion the Wonder Horse... and The Flashing Blade... and Arthur of the Britons... oh dear, my childhood seems to be crawling before my eyes...
Cheers,
Rob ;)
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Bet none of you can remember Mr Bean and his Wonderful Machine or Humprey Lestock and Mr. Turniptop.
Still nostalgia ain't what it used to be!
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I used to like Champion the Wonder Horse... and The Flashing Blade... and Arthur of the Britons... oh dear, my childhood seems to be crawling before my eyes...
oh that's brought it all back rob ... and the singing ringing tree ... Robinson Crusoe with that crackly theme tune ... and of course the theme tune to the Flashing Blade ::) - and all that terrible dubbing ... :-X
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The ones I looked up were the Dick Barton & Paul Temple themes.
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Journey into Space 8)
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Oh, YES!!
This got left off -
Hitchhiker's Guide??
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There wasn't an intro tune for The Man in Black - remember the dark brown velvety voice of Valentine Dyall? Thanks for the link, Tim. I'll have fun browsing it.......(now off to listen to Mrs. Dale's Diary - harp music!) ;D
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Yes again!
But what about We are the Ovaltinies??....!!
What the hell is that they all say?
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We are the Ovaltinies, little girls and boys,
Make your request we'll not refuse you,
We are there just to amuse you,
Would you like a song or story?
Will you share our joys?
At work and play we're more than keen,
Because we all drink Ovaltine,
We're happy girls and boys
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Oh, no! And I thought that you were in your 40's!!
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No worries tim that was google!
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I was an Ovaltinie ;D
Had a Badge and the Secret Code 8)
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Me too, I was an Ovaltinie!!!
I used to go to the ABC Minors as well and watch Zoro.......
Was also a Brownie. This is what we do as Elves, Think of others not ourselves!!!!
Wore a liberty bodice too......
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"We are the boys and girls well known as
Minors of the ABC
And every Saturday all line up
To see the films we like
And shout aloud with glee
We like to laugh and have our singsong
A merry crowd are we -eee
We're all friends to-geth-er
The minors of the A B C"
8) 8)
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I've only just realized that I had a Deprived Childhood :o I was NEVER a Minor of the ABC - so spect that was where you were all at on Saturday mornings when I was black-leading the grate and Cardinal polishing the back step?
What did Larkin say ...."they f*** you up, your Mum and Dad...
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I was never a minor either, it would have Cost my father Money. I'm not sure I missed so much.
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It cost us empty jam jars
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Yes i remember it was Jam Jars that allowed me in. Not much money around in the 50s. There was some noise in the Cinema tho. hundreds of children all screaming whenever something exciting came on the screen. Think I was given a 1d for a sweetie tho.
;D ;D ;D
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A Penny :o A PENNY? ::) Could buy 20 aniseed balls for A PENNY ;D
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oh yes, or two halfpeny chews. or a Penny Dainty. or a Gobstopper or or
oh heck, now wonder my teeth are bad....
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bad teeth, but good memories, eh, Carol? :D
Shall be browsing that site of Tim's tomorrow morning, first thing...only scratched the surface here :)
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I was an Ovaltinie ;D
Had a Badge and the Secret Code 8)
I was in the 'C' Cubs (remember them Lish?) we had a secret code, we used to hold our left hand up in a 'C' shape ;D we too had a badge only some thug robbed me of mine and lock me in a coal shed :'( I was only 27. ;D
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Well I had a Tufty Badge! :D
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My mother was in the Shirley Temple fan club. ???
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LOL @ Roy.No, I'd not heard of the C Club, I was never a Minor, don't remember collecting jam jars, never ate Tim's cheese dreams..... :'(
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LOL @ Roy.No, I'd not heard of the C Club, I was never a Minor, don't remember collecting jam jars, never ate Tim's cheese dreams..... :'(
'C-Cub' stood for the Cadbury Cub's a bit like Scout Cubs but sweeter ;D I tried Googleing it but got know where, but it did excist, otherwise I was beat up for nothing. ;D
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Roy, I'll ask me old ladies about it. :)
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I remember the 'Cubs' The lads were dressed in green with green caps as well. ::) ::) ::)
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Been trying for ages to get the music on a wav file of the ABC minors tune
think the original was composed by JOHN PHILLIP SOUSA ? anyone help me out, it's for a wee nostalgic slide show......VEGGIE
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I remember the 'Cubs' The lads were dressed in green with green caps as well. ::) ::) ::)
and the woggle carol, remember the woggle? ::)
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What about the naff theme tunes to Robin Hood and William Tell? Used to love ABC minors and I was a brownie and a guide. Anyone ever go to guide camp at
Holton-le-Moor in Lincolnshire?
Talking of sweets, what DID happen to Spangles? And those lovely Fry's chocolate cream bars will all the different flavours in? My mum used to pinch the orange one!
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It ain't what it used to be...
Sorry couldn't resist that one...
"I'll get my coat"....
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Fabulous! Lot to catch up on here....AND I'm off to uni (anachronism I'm sure to the eighteenies). CLx
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Yes I liked spangles, they brought them out few years back for a short spell but the sophisticated youngsters didn't buy enough!!! I also liked Skippy biscuits. Anyone remember 'Lucky Tatties'.? ;D ;D ;D ;D
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"Kayli", probs spelt wrong, dunno if mentioned B4 but I loved it ;D
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Cor, you lot are well old! ;D ;D ;D ;) ;) ;) ;)
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"Kayli", probs spelt wrong, dunno if mentioned B4 but I loved it ;D
with a liquorice stick dab?
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;D Nah! that came later ;D paper folded into a cone and you just wet yor finger and dipped it in the kaylie and stuffed yo finger in yo mouth, ;D yummie. No flash stuff then. 8)
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and it was an orangey-yellow colour, and so was your finger after?
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Roy, Kayli now your talking how about sherbert bon-bons?.
Muffin the Mule, Bill& Ben, Six fve special, Black & white minstrels.
Ok i am going now. Wait what about SWEET CIGARETTES :o :o. Byeeeeee.
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Did I say IZAL??
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What about the naff theme tunes to Robin Hood and William Tell?
Holton-le-Moor in Lincolnshire?
Anyone else heard Wogan on about the bride, who at her wedding, wanted the theme to the Robin Hood film, 'Everything I do I do for you'. Only to walk down the aisle to the tune 'Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen!!
valmarg
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We'll have to catch up again on all our TV nostalgia since the hackers......?
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Tugboat Annie? The Clangers, Barry Bucknell,Fanny and Johnny Craddock ?
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Aw CL I was enjoying our chat about Lizzie Dripping !
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I know! And WhiteHorses, Belle and Sebastian, Billand Ben, et al....CLx
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http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/themes/2.htm
try this tv themes website for more nostalgia :)
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Fabulous Prink! And they've got the White Horses theme! Hurray!
CLx
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Excellent! But no Robinson Crusoe... :'(
Will search later!
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Katy - try this:
http://www.davidsemporium.co.uk/_SIXTEEN.html
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Oooooh took me right back!
Thanks P!
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How WONDERFUL!! Back to other days....thanks Prink13. Now all e need is Belle and Sebastian hey Katy?
CLx
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What about the old BLUE PETER??.
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;D Or ;D "The Old Grey Whistle Test" ;D Or ;D "Test Card C" (Little Girl on the Chalk board?) and I think a little puddy tat came not long after ;D
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This is going to run and run!!!
What about 'Watch with Mother'?
Tales from the Riverbank, Andy Pandy, Woodentops, Bill and Ben?
REALLY GIVING MY AGE AWAY NOW
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'Watch with Mother'? Don't you remember 'Are you sitting comfortably? Than I'll begin.' on the radio?
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Listen with Mother ?
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"Test Card C" (Little Girl on the Chalk board?) and I think a little puddy tat came not long after ;D
The Potter's Wheel and Normal Service Will be Resumed as Soon as Posible?
ps still working on the Cadbury Cubs Case, Roy
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Fanny Craddock and Johnny; wearing marigolds to toss coleslaw; yesterday's sandwiches cut into decorative shapes and deep fried; oh we knew how to live then ::)
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Watched an old prog on an obscure channel the other week...
"The Galloping Gourmet"
Good grief!!! Why did my Mum and Dad watch it?
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Oh yes I remember it well. No wonder I don't watch TV now when we had such wonderful things to watch when we where younger, nothing could compare to that. I watched avidly Crossroads so much that my mother had to keep telling me it wasn't real. Our Meg and the troubles she had!!!!!
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And Emergency Ward 10? :D
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EMERGENCY WARD 10 ?................Who was the dishy doctor?
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Can't remember....the straight-haired blonde nurse - remember her?
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Wasn't Fanny a p... artist ::)
Do you remember knocking on folks doors to get the bottles to take back to the offie, how much did we get each was it 3d. Yoused to pay for me to get into the flea pit on Saturday afternoon, I to had to do the cleaning in the morning. Remember shining the halls red floor with the bumper. Always wished me mam would slip on her a....e on it for making me do it. Rotten child I was. ;D ;D
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Can't remember....the straight-haired blonde nurse - remember her?
Jill Browne. Bearded Wonder says Dr. was Desmond Carrington ???
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Can't remember....the straight-haired blonde nurse - remember her?
Jill Browne. Bearded Wonder says Dr. was Desmond Carrington ???
OMG what a memory 8).....Jill Browne, of course!! Desmond Carrington....wasn't he something in Dallas ??? ;D
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Do you remember knocking on folks doors to get the bottles to take back to the offie, how much did we get each was it 3d. Yoused to pay for me to get into the flea pit on Saturday afternoon, ;D ;D
We used to sneak in the bars and collect the bottles and take em round the outdoor (offie) to get money off but they soon got used to that and run their finger nails down the label as a sign they were from in the bar, (spoil sports) ::) ;D
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EMERGENCY WARD 10 ?................Who was the dishy doctor?
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Emergency Ward Ten, the flippin Brylcream on them lot.
Do you remember that as it got more to the weekend the stuff got thicker on the chaps hair. Bath once a week thats all didn't need it any more uuugggghhhhhhh !!
What about hair lacquer that you bought in a tube and squirted it into your spray bottle, Margo's for in the week and what was the more expensive one at the weekend ::)I can remember taking the varnish off me mams sideboard with that stuff. ::) ::)
Jeans that you sat in the bath to shrink to your legs, can even remember putting bleach in the bath so I got the in look, must have been mad ;D ;D
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Clarks are using the White Horses theme tune in their advert. Just thought you might need to know that.
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I remember running home on a ?Friday night to see Dr Kildare.
Found this when I was looking for Rag, Tag and Bobtail which was my favourite when I was very little.
http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/watchwm/watchwm.htm
Do you remember going into town on Saturday afternoons and all the women had their hair in big curlers and a net scarf over them? Those were the days ...with Ready Steady Go on Fridays and Dr Who on Saturdays.
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Mike, they look more like the Carry On crowd ;D
Have to confess to being an Ealing Comedy lover,though.
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Have to confess to being an Ealing Comedy lover,though.
Me too, I like the gentle humour
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Anything with Alistair Sim (s?) in it!
St Trinians films mostly. Mum still swears they were filmed at my school!
8)
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St Trinians films mostly. Mum still swears they were filmed at my school!
8)
Send me a photo of the sixth form and I'll give my opinion ;D ;D ;D
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Does anyone remember Pan Stick
and block mascara that you had to spit in ::)
And yeh rollers with your headscarf on.
At our local swimming baths folk queuing up for a bath.
We had a council house with a bath so we were posh ::)
Those were the days ;D
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... and Ultra Glow that turned us all orange? 8)
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Does anyone remember Pan Stick
"Mr. Max Factor of Hollywood..."...how did it go?
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Does anyone remember Pan Stick
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Made mountains out of the molehill zits........... :-[
Bunty, Girl, The Eagle, and Romeo :-*
Round the Horne (got all the tapes) The Navy Lark.
My life was so simple then ;D ;D
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Wackey Wackey Billy Cottons Band Show
Dad coming home from Sunday dinner at the pub
Nice piece of brisket for dinner, can you get that now ???
Spent all morning getting the veg off dads allotment
Preparing and cooking it
Those were the days.
:) ;) :D
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Does any one remember that if you didn't put the pan stick on properly you had an orange face and a white neck. :P
And back combing your hair into a cottage loaf style, my I'd forgotten all about that yeh and making sure you didn't have a hole in the back of your head ;D
That really cheap lacquer that you needed soap spirit to get it out or you looked as tho' you'd got nits, cant believe I did that. ::)
What about this one wearing your Marks cardigan back to front and pom poms on your skating boots. ;D
These memories are so good
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Speaking of looking like you had nits, Dry Hair Shampoo, can't believe we fell for it :o
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back-combed cottage-loaf hairstyle? Does Princess Anne still have it?
Mr. Max Factor..coming back to me now...twas Creme Puff....."smoothes on like powder, stays on like cream" yeah right! ::)
That dry shampoo stuff? Bought some a few weeks ago for a friend in hospital & had the dubious pleasure of putting it on for her....yuk....a trip down Mem'ry Lane I could have done without.
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Gave up makeup when I was 13 :-[ :-[... 8) and have never backcombed. Couldn't stand the smell of hairspray etc
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I used to love 'June and Schoolfriend' mag and the Chalet School books......of course Pony mag was my absolute fave.
Mother watched Emergency Ward 10 I know! Did the Craddocks REALLY wear Marigolds for preparing salads? And there was Crossroads of course....
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How about this girls (and probably some of you guys),
paper knickers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Horrible.. Only tried 'em once. My mum went potty when she saw 'em.
Yep, you can still get brisket if you a good local butcher, although I think they call it rolled beef now. Had some last Sunday actually. Used to be a bit tough when done in the oven, but now I leave it all night in the slow cooker and it melts in the mouth.
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What this thread has reminded me of is a set of books I read when I was 11. Up till that moment I had read books as part of school lessons not for enjoyment. Jennings goes to school etc. change all that, I've not stopped reading since.
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I used to love the Jennings books. Are they out of print now? I remember a poem in one of them which went around the class,
"Latin is a language, as dead as dead can be,
It killed the aincent Romans, and now it's killing me'
'Nuff said
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You know what Shas you must be able to read my mind I tried the paper knickers only once, was a bit quick pulling em up and the sides split ???
Yeah the taste of brisket you cant beat it
What about those record players that only played one record saved up for ages to get that ::)
Radio Caroline under the bed covers so mam didn't hear it. :D
And Jail House Rock ::)
Cant guess what went with the youth club to see the Beatles when Love Me Do first came out, we all started screaming, folk had only just started doing that,the rest of the audience were mortified ;D ;D ;D
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I read all the Jennings books too, at least till my father decided they weren't intellectual enough for me. My sister was into the Chalet School books, so I probably got through all of those as well. When I was little I had all the Thomas the Tank Engine books, the original pre-awareness ones where one of the engines goes into the wrong tunnel in one story, and in those days, came out 'as black as a n....'! I don't know what they replaced it with. I used to read the news pages in my father's 'Telegraph', and was totally overwhelmed by the pages and pages of bumph about the last few hangings. That's something we can do without.
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I used to love the Jennings books. Are they out of print now? I remember a poem in one of them which went around the class,
"Latin is a language, as dead as dead can be,
It killed the aincent Romans, and now it's killing me'
'Nuff said
I think that was meant to be funny?
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the pages and pages of bumph about the last few hangings. That's something we can do without.
You've reminded me ;D visiting my grandma & squares of bumph, ie newspaper, hanging on a nail in the outside lavvy? That was before 'inside' ones and IZAL
CL....ever read the Pullen-Thompson (I think) horsey books?
Shas "My mum went potty when she saw them" (the paper knickers)? ;D ;D ;D
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Who remembers the VASELINE shampoo we had to mix with water to wash our hair, i had so much lacquer on my hair when i went on a works "beano " remember them, i had to use OMO washing powder to get the sodding stuff out of my hair Hahahahaha!!!!. Did any of you ever buy a pennorth of specks (damaged fruit) from the local greengrocers a real bagfull. ::) ;D ;D ;D
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;D Latest hair style for men "DA" Ducks Arse :o those were the days ...when I had hair ::) :'( ;D
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in hysterics at Buddy washing her hair with OMO :'( ;D (tears of laughter, that means)
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Pullen-Thompson! That rings a pony club-type bell! Can't remember any titles tho, google is no help either.
June and Schoolfriend...CL, I think we were separated at birth! lol
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I have vague recollections of there being a plastic toy within the sheets of Bronco... :o and the 'cottage loaf was the first style I mastered as an apprentice. (oh dear).
Anyhow,' Friday night was Amami night'
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Oh yeah the Twink perm with those pink plastic curlers it never worked even if they said it would ::)
Does any one remember hula hoops I practiced no end to keep it going 8)
And those net underskirts that Mam used to put in sugar water to keep em stiff :D
I am going back now what about whip and tops they always flew off and clouted some one on the back of the head ;)
What about those woollen hats with an Alice band and a straggly pony tail was really upset cos Mam wouldn't buy me one, I'm in therapy because of that ;D
This has been great, how did it start radio programmes ???
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Lishka I LOVED the Pullein-Thompson books - totally engrossed from an early age. And Pat Smythe too - and she was a real show jumper. Was staying with friends recently and they have a signed copy of 'Jump for Joy' - I was impressed!
Katy - keep talking, and I'll keep squeaking 'yes'!
CLx
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.....and in non pony-mad moments....any one else a fan of the Chalet School books! Delish! 'Eustacia goes to chalet school' and so on....Fab! CLx
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mmmmm, great thread......those Pullen-whatsit sisters? cos I'm sure there were about 3 of them writing horsey books for little girls - I've tried googling, too & come up with zilch....got the Pullen right, I'm sure, AND the hyphen 8) but think the last name's wrong?....funny tho, heard one of the sisters talking on Radio4 just a few months back
Oh, those 'frou-frou' underskirts & starching them with sugar&water IN THE SUMMER and getting attacked by wasps round me nether-regions ;D
Howzabout 50s mobile phones = 2 cocoa tins & string? Brill they were, and we learned semophore so that we could talk to our friends in the houses over the way when we were all supposed to be in bed asleep at 7.30pm on a summer's night ::)
And Friday night Amami Night? How could anyone forget?! It was years and years later that I realized the true pronounciation & what it meant.....
And Choc....if you think you've got problems being in therapy an'all, just think of me IN TRACTION trying to keep one of those hoops up! And did you know? They're selling them at our Pound Shop now! But times change....when I saw them I thought....ooo yes! a TopTip!! a Hoola-hoop cut in half.....what a SPLENDID frame for a cloche ;D ;D ;D
(aha........PullEin-Thompson......thanks SO much CL... I can now go to bed) :)
No I can't - not yet. Who were the twins at the chalet school? One did boring domestic science stuff and got told off cos her potato peelings were too thick, and the other got to do more interesting stuff (but can't quite remember what it was....car mechanics perhaps?)
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What a good idea using the hula hoops for cloches will have to send sister up for some
And Lisha what does Amani Night stand for I'm a bit thick ???
Any one remember Milly Molly Mandy she lived in a thatched cottage and had adventures :D
Secret Severn, Famous Five,The Brontes did we read more than the kids today it seems like it ::)
Mam sending me to the library every Saturday ;D
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.Any one remember Milly Molly Mandy she lived in a thatched cottage and had adventures :D
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OOh yes and she lived wiv Muvver and Farver..... ;D
Give me Billy Bunter any day. ;)
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Ah, now we're talking childhood. Enid Blyton! (not terribly PC these days though). Eldest g'daughter (13) was given a set of the Malory Towers books by mum-in-law. I thought she might find them a bit boring (although I'd be quite happy to re-read them), but she loves 'em. I always thought I'd had a deprived childhood coz I didn't go to boarding school or have adventures like Malory Towers, Famous Five, Chalet School et al.
Talking of nostalgia, re-met an old friend through Friends Reunited, and we hadn't seen each other for over 30 years. She came over to Blackpool for the weekend and we had a great time. Anyway, I digress, what I was going to say was, the thing I remember most about her is her grandma's house still had gas lights (like those horrid smelly caravan ones).
Ah, there's another memory, caravan holidays......................
I'll shut up now, before I bore you all................
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Vesta Beef Curry! In a packet, loaded with E numbers probably! Seemed the height of sophistication when I was 11!
8)
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Snap again Katy! I remember my mother getting those occcasionally - as a treat?! Hideous!
For Chalet School girls, look at this ......
http://www.newchaletclub.co.uk/
And Angela Brazil? 'The nicest girl in the school' and so on......
Reading then (including the Brontes, didn't like Dickens), and still reading now....CLx
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I've been sitting on my hands trying not to get pulled in, but....
Vesta Curry -YES! YES! YES! Sooooo exotic, and those chewy bits of reconstituted chichen or prawn. Luxury.
Telly switching off during the day and coming on again for Children's TV when I got in from school, Little Nose, Noggin the Nog ( sadly now illegal) Fanny & Johhny ( definitely illegal) "Get Down Shep", Secret Seven, doing your times tables, knitted socks with elastic rings to keep them up, warm school milk in bottles, getting snowed in EVERY winter, potted hough, The Tomorrow People.
Enough, I gotta go and refocus back into the real world, I'm a grown up now don't you know. :-\
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What about COD LIVER OIL & MALT at school or COD LIVER OIL CAPSULES, just before we had our milk at playtime
The school NIT nurse Hehehehehe!! :o ahhhhh!! those were the days.
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Rose Hip syrup anyone?......Teaspoon every night along with the cod liver oil! Mils at school? Loathsome! Luckily someone would always take mine.....CLx (who still does not drink milk except in tea or coffee!)
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And that glass bottle of free concentrated orange juice for youngsters and babies to get that vitamin 'C' ;D
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And of course NATIONAL DRIED MILK our 3 children thrived on it and the orange juice.
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If I started to look a bit 'peely wally' my mum gave me a dose of 'Syrup of figs' on a Friday night to clean me out over the weeknd. Now that was cruel. I remember all the other memories of years ago. My Ma in law was the Nit Nurse as part of her job. I had Nits twice and managed to pass them onto my Mum and Dad.
::) ::) ::) ::)
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What about listening to the comedies on the "wireless" - Up The Pole (Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss) and ITMA were my favourites - remember being really upset hearing Tommy Handley had died (I was in hospital at the time and all of 9 years old :'() Childrens Hour with Uncle Mac and Auntie Kathleen were the most proper I expect but used to love get really scared listening "The Black Museum" !
MY Mum and Dad were real film goers and being the youngest I was always taken along whether suitable or not - drooled over Michael Wilding in The Courtneys of Courzon Street whe I was far too young!!
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Then there was “Much binding in the marsh” with Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch. ;D
http://www.turnipnet.com/radio/mbitm.wav
In Town Tonight ;D
http://www.turnipnet.com/radio/intowntonight.wav
http://www.turnipnet.com/radio/ittending.wav
Dick Barton Special Agent ;D
http://www.turnipnet.com/radio/dickbarton.wav
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Remember Childrens Newsreel?
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Talking about gas lights in the house, granddad wouldn't have them taken out as he said electric was bad for you ???
They lived in a long terraced street and even till his 90s granddad used to light the streets gas lamps and knock folk up for work at the same time. Thats only 50 odd yrs ago but it seems an eternity. ;D ;D
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I remember some friends of mine moving iinto a bungalow which was apparently the first house in Whitemoor to have electric, way back between the wars. At the time they'd said 'We'll never get electric in Whitemoor'!
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Some of my earliest memories are of the gas lights, also litten candles on the C*******s tree. I also remember the Fish n chip man going round the streets selling from a horse drawn cart with gas lights. At the same time, the vegetable man had a horse drawn cart as well. I must have been under 5 at the time so that wasnt in the 60s!!!! :D :D :D
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Yeeaahhhh !!!
Grandad always got the tree from the market on Christmas Eve when they were cheaper!!
He'd decorate it and put the candles on for us grand children to light them during the evening.
What about sugar mice grandma always gave us one at Christmas.
Hanging an old army sock for Santa and not having much in it except nuts and fruit.
Does any one remember making the Christmas cake and puddings with silver sixpences in.
Those were the days ;D ;D
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Till I was three we lived in a caravan that didn't even have gas light, just a Tilley. My mother had a calor gas iron that she nearly set the place on fire with once. I remember my grandfather coming to visit in a car (most unusual on the site!) with a crankhandle.
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My Dads first 'bought' car was an old Ford 8. Dont know how many folk he managed to cram into it for a day trip to the sea side! I remember my Uncle learning to drive in it and somehow I was in a car behind him and watched the 'instructor' almost falling out the car once when he took a bend too quickly. ;D ;D ;D ;D.
Our Chr****** cakes always had silver 6d in them, in fact I still have 6d in the house. Sugar mice in my stocking along with an apple and orange. I used to get loads of Annuals, The Broons or Oor Wullie, Bunty, Judy and Girls Friend Annual. Was never keen on the Beezer or Dandy etc.
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First car I remember my dad having was a Triumph Mayflower. Mine was a Triumph Herald.
As we've got onto the 'C' word subject again, my mum used to put the sixpences in the pudding, not the cake. Anyone remember those paper chains you used to sit and make? Is it me, or were the winters always colder when we were kids? I remember my bedroom window being frosted on the inside, as well as the outside.
Or is it global warming? If so, why did the summers seem hotter and drier then?
We've still got sixpenny pieces (and some silver ones!), and I've got my grannys old flat iron that she used to heat up on the fire.
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My Dad’s first car was an “Austin eight” I can still smell that leathery smell that they had in those days. ;D
http://www.philseed.com/austin8-16.html
I remember the “Triumph Mayflower” as my mate bought a second hand one, I thought at the time blimey he must be rich, although they were only a small family car but looked very ‘Regal’. 8)
http://www.philseed.com/trmayflower.html
My first car was an “Austin A40 Devon” £27.10s second hand, can’t remember the date I bought it but it was a long time ago. ::)
http://www.philseed.com/austin-counties.html
Oh! Memories. ;D
Oh! And yes I do remember those paper chains we used to make and the rag rugs from old clothes and my parents putting thick coats on top of our bed clothes for extra warmth during those very cold winters. :o ;D
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And the rag and bone man and the goldfish?
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;D And the coalman delivering coal in the coal shed and my uncle throughing white wash over it so he could tell if anyone was nicking it ;D
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Wise man, your uncle, Roy 8)
Howzabout this, tho? Digging in the garden last week I dug up an aluminium disc - 2" diameter with a hole in the middle. On it's stamped '1 ctw coal. 1/2 cwt coke'.......remember the sacks they were delivered in? Oh and btw....anyone collect memorabilia? Still got the darned thing & can't bear to throw it away :-[
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;D I've still got an old "Park Drive" Fag packet, just can't bring myself to throw it away. ;D
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;D I've still got an old "Park Drive" Fag packet,.
If I remember rightly, they were even worse than Weights,only you could buy Weights in 5s.
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Childrens` hour on the radio - `Out with Romany` and `Toy Town` with Larry the Lamb, Dennis the Dachshund, Mr. Growser and Ernest the Policeman. Hoop racing along the street, and Top and Whip contests on the pavement. Rally-O in the school yard, and Tip Cat competitions.
Sweets at a ha`penny an ounce. Watching the Gas Lighter coming down the road at dusk with his pole and lighting the street lamps.
Putting 3 (old) pennies into the slot machine and getting 5 Woodbines.
Listening to the radio at 11 am on Sunday the 3rd September 1939 and hearing Neville Chamberlain telling us that we were at war with Germany, and everything that followed.
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Making a slide the length of the school playground in the winter,fine till someone had a 'greenstick fracture',then the caretaker came out with a bucket of ashes. Would never happen these days of course.
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Drying damp woolen mittens on a pot-bellied black stove in the classroom on wet days! They used to steam gently all morning, the whole classroom smelled like wet dog!
;)
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I remembered the ash thing on ice last year when I couldn't get my car out of the garage - neighbours thought I was mad but a) I have a multi fuel stove & therefore ashes, & b) it worked.
Dug a co-op milk token out of the garden - I'm the only person round here who knows what it is............
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I've dug the odd bit of shrapnel out of mine. Apparently there was an AA gun on the railway at the end of the site, that went up and down the track. someone lived in the shed on the plot for a while to escape the bombs, and had bits of it landing on the roof.
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Last autumn I dug up a Stratton powder compact - remember those? Still got some powder and puff-thingy in it.
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Last autumn I dug up a Stratton powder compact - remember those? Still got some powder and puff-thingy in it.
Crumbs that brings back a lovely memory. First thing my eldest son bought me with some money he'd saved was a Stratton powder compact from a charity shop. It didn't have powder in it, didnt use that anyway, but had a lovely little mirror, and butterflies on the outside. Still got it.
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Coal and milk checks from the Co-op I do remember them, cos I sold the things. I had a short spell working in the Co-op when folk came in to pay their grocery bill and buy the tokens for the week. Does anyone remember their Divi No.? The Divi paid for my school clothes and boiler suits for my Dad. It was a great help to the house budget having the Divi to fall back on. Money was then tight, no credit cards then ;D ;D ;D
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Yes, I remember our divi number, shopping seemed so involved then. I remember the co-op bread really well, it was absolutely awful. However, it did come wrapped in greased paper, which was every child's delight, as it made the slide faster at the playground ... the result was often bloodied knees from shooting off the end too fast !!!
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I remember my mother collecting Green Shield Stamps!
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Yes, I remember. The Green Shield Stamp place up Cowley Road was in a newly built block, and our dog put his footprint in the concrete outside. That racket went on for years until people realised that it was putting the price of everything up. I wonder how much people really paid for the stuff they got through it.
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Very true.....I remember Mum getting 'things' but heaven knows what they were!
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Even some cigarettes had tokens in the packets. I've still got a red leather cigarette case (now containing travelling sewing stuff 8)) from one of them, but can't remember which...Embassy perhaps?
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I remember my Dad collecting Embassy tokens, and also Kensitas?
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I feel so young ! lol!
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Black Sobranie for when you wanted to pretend you were posh .......... and Passing Clouds that looked as though someone had sat on them but were actually made that way.
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Black Sobranie for when you wanted to pretend you were posh .......... and Passing Clouds that looked as though someone had sat on them but were actually made that way.
and those coloured Sobranie for the 'sophisticated' touch? roflmao
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Oh my!! Sobranie cocktails and Sobranie Black Russian! Then we had a craze on 'More' - long, thin, looked like cigars.....thought they were very 'elegant' Hee Hee...
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Oh yes! I remember More, they were t....h...a...t long. But what about the new cigarette that crashed cos of what was perceived as negative publicity? Strand, it was....TV advert showed man with a hat (natch!) and raincoat lighting up in a rainy street at night, presumably broken-hearted?....."you're never alone with a Strand"..aaahhhh!
AND...just remembered!!
Those cigarettes that you didn't need a match to light? You struck them along the side of the packet? Now whatever were they called? ::) ;D
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Now Bearded Wonder has let me down......but I can remember them. They had a pink dot on the side, the striking bit.
Gin and orange? shudder............rum and black, the only drink I ever got sick on............. :P
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Heldi, I'm with you girl!! ;D
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Does anyone remember the the stamps on the side of the green brooke bond tea packet, always in a diamond shape Hehehehe!! giving my age away here.
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Heldi, I'm with you girl!! ;D
;D Your time will come ;D
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;D ;D ;D
My Dad and my Grandma both smoked "Guards" cigs. You got coupons inside and they saved up for lots of things! Think most of them were luggage or garden related items!
Did anyone wear Ben Sherman shirts the first time round? I had loads, wish i had kept them now!
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Ben Sherman shirts....yes, and in Needlework I made an A line 'tonic' skirt!
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Guess you must have been a mod then CL. Ski pants, hush puppies,quilted anorak---cropped hair..........I must have looked an absolute sight. :o
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Real mods were well before my time and I guess I wan't really anything, to be honest - parents FAR too strict!! Very shortly after the tonic skirt I had become was VERY hippyish...Remember loon pants? Indian tshirts with drawstring sleeves? and the Afghan coat my father made me keep in the garage as he said it smelt of old goat!! Well, he did have a point I guess...
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CL...YES!!!!
Had a tonic skirt, and a Prince Charlie check one! Also, feather cut hair with a steel comb tucked in the back of my Levis pocket! Was desperate for a Crombie coat too, but v strict parents wouldn't allow it!
My best friend had an Afghan coat, and yes, they did smell! Also Monkey Boots!!
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Join you with the strict parents Katy AND Prince Charlie check! Used to put lippie and make up on in the garage while donning the smelly Afghan! Think I swapped 'looks' as I had very long hair and wasn't allowed to cut it.
And did anyone else have a real thing about Biba? LOVED going to Ken High St store and finding bargains in that heavenly, overdone emporium.
CLx
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The taste of cigarette sweets!
(saw some on hols this summer but Mr T ruled out buying them for our kids... and since he's the ex-smoker, I have to defer!)
And steak-and-kidney pudding in a tin...
And thru'penny bits ... just the nicest coin ever
And the sound of Blakeys on kids' shoes in the playground
... Before I started reading this thread I could have sworn I was in the 21st century ;D
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Used to love sweet cigarettes...
Agree about thru'penny bits - they were too fascinating to look at, never wanted to spend them.
Tim, you've really got us going here.......
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What about high heels black patent ones cleaning them with Vaseline, practicing to walk in them so that you were able to walk in the 3" heeled ones. Measuring the height of the heels with your thumb.
To go with the shoes pencil skirts as tight as possible with a slit up the back or if you were posh pleats at the back.
Happy days :D ;D ;)
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Oooh, remember the stillettos well, Choc - always liked to have a red pair - then there were the flat ballerina shoes for wearing with the tartan trews and pedal pushers! And the 4" wide elastic waist cincher belt with the clip fastenings as well as the plastic Poppet beads. And what about the kisscurls and short haircuts, (the Bubble, the Urchin and my fav the short one with the heavy straight fringe a la tv Milk Advert girl Zoe(?)- even tho one guy said it reminded him of a Davy Crocket hat I still thought I was the bees knees............
We were soooo stylish ;D ;D ;D ;D
And not all the males were Teddy Boys - liked the James Dean look myself (black leather bomber jacket, white tee shirt and jeans) but they were thought to be a bit "dangerous" - then came the smart Italian suits, Mr W looks great in his wedding pics wearing one of those!
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Winkle pickers, chisel toes, Lois heels, Kitten heels,Dr. Scholls,hush puppies,those things you wore on your legs so your shoes looked like boots, pearlised leather.........
How I loved shoes. ;D
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Arthur of the Britons...
Oliver Tobias ... I loved that man.
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and it was an orangey-yellow colour, and so was your finger after?
i'm sure we called it lemonade powder !
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Did I say IZAL??
the devil's work !
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CL...YES!!!!
Had a tonic skirt, and a Prince Charlie check one! Also, feather cut hair with a steel comb tucked in the back of my Levis pocket! Was desperate for a Crombie coat too, but v strict parents wouldn't allow it!
My best friend had an Afghan coat, and yes, they did smell! Also Monkey Boots!!
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i had a crombie, with a pulled up satin hankie, a tie pin and a 99p bottle of Brut ?
red/yellow/black tank top - de rigeur
those combs did more damage to your hair than anything i've ever done since lmao
wonderful thread, so much of the above is totally familiar, a great walk down memory lane .......... now where had i got up to.
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Mrs KP I agree, this is the BEST fun! Off on hols tomorrow until the 18th....keep nostalgia going!
See you all soon, CLx
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;D I remember my cousins (female) when I was about eight, used to put sand/water substance on their legs to make them look tanned and some drew a back line down the back of their legs to mimic a seam to give that expensive stocking look. :o :P
That started my puberty off quite early if I remember right :o ;D
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have fun lass ! that's SOME holiday !
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Happy Hols, CL 8)
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CL have a wonderful holiday. :)
Mrs KP, I absolutely adored Brut, couldn't get enough when I was young, ooh, you've really brought back some memories....
T.
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used to carry in in that clear plastic box it was in and sniff it from the bottle ! lmao
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CL. Have a great holiday.. don't forget the pics. Don't worry the "oldies" will keep this thread going!!!
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Mums 'Marcel Wave' was legendary.
She saw Heinz and the Tornadoes at Wimbledon theatre, Joe Brown in Streatham and Gene Vincent somewhere, but she couldn't remember where......
Dad was on Ready Steady Go!
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6 nights a week ice skating in Streatham in the 60's (wonder if the rink is still there?),
I had a Lambretta GT 200 in '64, (when I was 13), Box Hill & Brighton, "Mods & Rockers" days.
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Cant beat that, more roller skating Saturday afternoon Granby Halls Leicester. Pom poms on my skating boots, Marksies cardigan done up back to front (why did we do that?) Hair back combed into a beehive. Used to come home black but happy. ;D ;D
Oh yes mods count me in!! ::)
Loved Twiggy, hair just like hers short and slicked down.
Always wanted a boyfried with a scooter with all those
lights and mirrors on it, never got one tho'. ???
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Help! What was the film that, I think, Rudolph Valentino was in, in a tent in the desert, something like that ???
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Rudolph Valentino!!?? All I can say Lish is that I reckon you are older than you have admitted to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or maybe I just have a bad memory ::) ::) ::) Would never tell on a friend though ;D
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And that song 'The Sheikh of Arabee' or something? Did the two go together?? (and HOW do you spell 'Sheikh'?)...not that it matters much, of course..it's how you sing it not how you spell it that matters... 8)
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My memory has returned. I am sitting here HUMMING the tune. Don't know the words though ;D , and I do remember a cousin having a "crystal" wireless ;D Think that is what it was called.
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now where have i seen this geezer before :P
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THAT'S THE ONE!!!
You're a star, Missus!! roflmao
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When I was sitting my 11plus exam paper I was given this question to complete: Snow White and Jet......? Because I was a big fan of Journey Into Space, which was on the radio at the time, I naturally answered: Jet Morgan, because I thought they meant two fictional characters. Needless to say I failed my 11 plus - I have always thought my answer was better that the "jet black" one which most people had put down. :D busy_lizzie
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busy-lizzie. Quite understandable, I am sure I would have written the same. LOL
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THAT'S THE ONE!!!
You're a star, Missus!! roflmao
bit of a dodgy old get up eh ? :P
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Mrs KP ;D
I nose him...Valentino........Number 46 in the Motor Grand Prix
ROSSI thats it ;) 8)
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When I was sitting my 11plus exam paper... busy_lizzie
In mine there was the type of question....if x horses eat y buckets of hay in w days, how much hay do z horses eat in a week...that sort of thing.
I slashed through the question with my pencil and wrote "Impossible to answer. Some horses eat more than other horses."
Still think that's the most logical answer. ::)
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Friend went to university as a mature student. Studied philosiphy. First essay was a complicated question about 1st world war and the rights and wrongs of sending troops "over the top" to certain death.
She thought and worried for weeks. Had not ever written an essay in her life.
Did the work and came to me all worried, her essay was 3 words long. Big panic!!
She got top marks.
3 words were...
"Shoot the generals"
8) True story, I promise!
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Katy, I've passed this on. Wonderful! What's your friend doing now, btw?
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She is in the army.
No, not really! Manager in the NHS!!!!!
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That Rudolph Valentino sure dont need no pickle with him eh girls!
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Bit of a "rave from the grave" though IMHO and in the words of Dave LeeTravis!!! Boom! boom!!
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Prefer Wilson, Kepple & Betty doing the sand dance meself....... ;D
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Ahhhh Basil Brush ..... I remember him well.
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