The Compers Inn - Part 21

NoNameWoman

:D:D Like Today's topic x :T have lots of wins tomorrow everyone x I miss this place when am out and about :eek::eek::eek: but have to kick myself out and do an hour's reading in bed!!! nightx

Amilucky?

wingobins wrote: »

I used to love Cabana's. Anyone remember them? Chocolate with coconut & cherry, mmmmmmmm....and there was Texan bars, and I wish they would bring back square Bovril crisps, the Marmite ones don't taste the same! :rolleyes:
You can actually still buy a lot of the old sweets in places, there is a place in Whitby where I often go for traditional sweets, including them liquorice sticks, cough candy twists, abc's, chewing nuts, crispets....now i'm hungry!

Black Jack's Mo Joes and Fruit Salads I also remember buying! along with Parma Violets!

Amilucky?

NoNameWoman wrote: »

:D:D Like Today's topic x :T have lots of wins tomorrow everyone x I miss this place when am out and about :eek::eek::eek: but have to kick myself out and do an hour's reading in bed!!! nightx

Night night no name woman god bless!

may tomorrow bring you all sorts of wonderful things

cistolic

Aaaami what year were you born, I 1949

Amilucky?

cistolic wrote: »

Aaaami what year were you born, I 1949

July, 1957

cistolic

those were the days

Amilucky?

Eeeh!

do you remember the rag and bone man on a horse and cart shouting RAG - BONE and your mother going mad if you gave him a load of old clothes and you accepted one of his balloons instead of a red door stone!

how my mother used to polish and colour our doorstep it was a shining example to the rest of the street :rolleyes:

wingobins

Our street house didn't have a bathroom. Toilet in yard, tin bath that all 5 of us had to get in cos it took too long to fill (and no hot water) and you could gaurantee, my bro would always do a poo in the bath, mam would have to scoop it out but we still had to bath in it!
When mam got a twin-tub washer we would bath in there too...or the big square sink! The mangle never worked properly though. :rolleyes:

Oh...and my dad was a rag n' bone man for a very short while!

Amilucky?

cistolic wrote: »

those were the days

To quote Mary Hopkins

"Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.
La la la la...
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days

Then the busy years went rushing by us
We lost our starry notions on the way "

and now we wish for those years to return forever and a day!

Amilucky?

wingobins wrote: »

Our street house didn't have a bathroom. Toilet in yard, tin bath that all 5 of us had to get in cos it took too long to fill (and no hot water) and you could gaurantee, my bro would always do a poo in the bath, mam would have to scoop it out but we still had to bath in it!
When mam got a twin-tub washer we would bath in there too...or the big square sink! The mangle never worked properly though. :rolleyes:

Oh...and my dad was a rag n' bone man for a very short while!

Remember very well the toilet in the yard and the newspaper on a nail!

I always remember my uncle getting one of the new fangled electric mangles he got his tie stuck in the rollers and nearly choked to death!

our kitchen also had great big stone flags and a big stone sink on four metal legs!

you may laugh but if you rented a TV from Redifussion they would give you a little red indian with a feather in his hair to put on top of the TV, just wonder if this would be politically correct in this so called modern society