Childhood & Sentimental memories

Toonie

OK...I got to page 3 and my stomach started growling with all the memories of food, not a good thing as I've just had supper!

My memories will also be mostly food based...MrsM-great minds think alike---chewing nuts (which I might add can be bought in Wilkinsons in the sweet aisle-not that I do that often ) oh they were/are lovely.

Sherbet Pips (that can be bought in Sainsburys in the kiddies sweet section for 30-odd pence).

Fizzy lemonade powder and a lolly in a paper bag. Penny sweets costing a penny!

Going shopping on a Saturday with my eldest sister. I'm the youngest of four, three girls, one boy. Between me and my eldest sister there are 10 years, me and my brother 9, and then me and my other sister 18 months. My elsdest sister used to take me and my other sis shopping on alternate weekends and we she would let us buy a pic & mix-I always kept mine under a quid as I saw it as a real treat.

Having a roast on Sundays, followed by leftovers and chips on Mondays.

My Grandma coming to stay when we were little (we live in London, she used to live near Whitley Bay). She would come twice a year, Summer and Christmas. When she came in summer, she would always bring with her the Easter eggs she had bought for us. It was great having Easter chocolate in July! She always used to have different glasses for reading, so when she needed them would send either me or my slightly older sister to get them and she would also say "and get yourself a sugar lump" because that was her little treat for us.

Me and my sister would play in our garden and there was nothing wrong with playing with toy guns. Playing cricket with two people. My dad coming home one day with a netball ring that had been dumped and him attaching it to the garage so we could practice. No wonder we never had to worry about obesity back then (early 90's) we were always running around and having fun, how much changes in 10 years.

Streeg

my memories?

Runny boiled eggs and toast soldiers eaten infront of the TV for Sunday tea.
Eating the leftover applesauce with top-of-the-milk
10p for sweets on a saturday
going to the village shop for something mum had run out of and asking for it to be "put on the bill"
stealiing sugar from the pantry and hiding behind the garden shed to eat rhubarb dipped in sugar
a HUGE (and I mean really huge!) baking session on Christmas Eve afternoon (mince pies, sausage rolls, jam tarts, biscuits, fairy-cakes etc) while listening to Kings College carol service on the radio
yorkshire pudding and gravy before we got the meat/veg for sunday dinner
bacon egg and chips for Saturday tea
mum doing us Jam sandwiches dipped in batter and deepfried for pudding (EEK!)
Going blackberry picking in the ruins of an old abandoned garden near where we lived. We also picked elderberries and elderflowers so mum could make wine, apples from the tree in our garden too....

taking the pop bottles back to the shop for a refund.
bread and marg with tea
and one of my earliest memories is taking mysucky-beaker (I was a toddler) to my granddad to have the holes unclogged because the tealeaves had blocked them

RugbyLisa

Oh MRSMCAWBER you have made me laugh with your replies - you're not missing a sister from the north east are you!!

So many things have brought back memories - Puffs crisps - wow what I would give for a bag now...

- White horses - "run white horses" go on you know the tune, and the Double Decker Kids, perfect summer holiday mornings

- Those adverts to make you close the farmers fences in the countryside

- Meet Dave he swims like a fish!

- A special from the ice cream man - a cone with ice cream in, with a rocket lolly shoved in it!

- Meals without pasta, rice or pizza - wow what did we eat!!

- My gran always having a secret supply of sweets (bullets), cakes and fig rolls.

Turning up at the school disco thinking you looked really great in the hand knitted tank top..
RL

meanmarie

Somebody mentioned Scott's emulsion and I felt the taste at the back of my throat...vile stuff indeed!

No tv in my childhood but we played outside and 'grazed' for blackberries, apples and rose hips which had a sweet skin and woolly kind of centre...that bit you threw away

Being sent for a loaf and starting to eat it as you came home...and then trying to disguise the damage!

Apple, rhubarb or gooseberry tart hot with custard..mmmmmm

So many of you talk about grandparents, mine had died before I was born, so none of those memories, which makes me glad that my children knew all of their grandparents well.

Marie

balmaiden

Another fond memory of mine is the "camps" that my friend and I used to make. We had them in various places, as we lived in the country and roamed freely for miles, but the best camp of all, was when we came across an illegal fly tip in some woods, well we were made up we had an old cooker with pots and pans, an old chair with the springs hanging out and played there for the best part of one summer as we never knew what we would find each day that had been dumped there over night.

I cringe now to think of the germs we must have been playing in, but I am still here and I am sure it was more fun than playing on a play station or what ever the in thing is now.

sophiesmum_2

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

I learnt to count with grandma..... playing dondimoes as we called it...well it got us as far as number 6 :rotfl: , then we moved onto cards.... got me to number 10 and finally playing bingo :T it must have worked as we could all read, write and count before we started school:rotfl:

Did we have the same grandma:rotfl: :rotfl: We used to do this when we stayed at grandmas when mum was working saturdays. Also learnt to add/subtract and colours by watching darts and snooker with my grandad.:D And he always had lots of little pencils and papers that we could draw on - these were betting slips. I could work out the odds on horseracing easily by the time I was 6:rolleyes: spent saturdays watching world of sport and walking to bookies with grandad to pick up his winnings, then call at sweetshop on way home:D
He was also a keen gardener and used to pay us 10p to pick all the daisies and dandelions out of the lawn before they seeded, or collect slugs in a bucket with salt in:rolleyes:

Olliebeak

I lived with my grandparents until I was nearly 14 - so many of my memories of the 50's were more like those of the 40's.

Grandmother washing on a Monday - using the copper boiler with a fire underneath, the hand-operated mangle (not an electric one), dollypegs for mixing the washing around, dollyblue (for the whites) and dollycream (for cream lace curtains) and the house being full of a damp mist if the weather was too wet to dry things outside. She got her washing machine in 1964 and thought it was wonderful - one button to start and another to stop!

Going for long country walks, or riding my three wheeler bike, to pick blackberries and nettle tops (for nettle beer!). Bunches of nettles would be hung from my handlebars!

Being taken to the local museum EVERY week - those exhibits are well imprinted on my mind!

Always wanting to 'walk on walls' where possible!

Getting a TV in 1956 and Watch with Mother, Torchy the Battery Boy, Muffin the Mule, Robin Hood (Richard Greene was my first 'pin-up' on my bedroom wall!), Roger Moore in Ivanhoe, Robert Shaw in Buccaneers, Conrad Phillips in William Tell, William Russell in Sir Lancelot (hmm methinks I had a penchant for 'men in tights!'), Champion the Wonder Horse, Rin-tin-tin, Scotland Yard (with Edgar Lustgarten introducing), No Hiding Place, Emergency Ward 10, Sea Hunt, Sunday Night at the London Palladium, watching the first ever episode of Coronation Street.

Listening to Forces Favourites (radio request show for soldiers stationed abroad) on a Sunday.

Going to Sunday School every week and church on 'special occasions' and Whit Monday walking days.

Grandmother making rag-rugs (but can't for the life of me remember how they were done - something to do with strips of fabric knotted onto an old sack for a backing fabric).

Having an outside toilet (with guzundas for during the night!) and having to run past our cockerel to get to the toilet. That bird (Georgie) hated me. I would have to shout for my grandma to put him away so that I could get back to the house.

I loved the smells of Christmas Eve morning - home made stuffing well on the go by the time I got up with the smell of sage and onion permeating the house! We sometimes only had a chicken (or a capon) on Christmas Day (they were relatively expensive in the 50's) but the stuffing was the important bit to me. Grandad getting the nutcrackers out on Christmas afternoon and struggling with the almonds (no ready shelled nuts for us in those days). Roasting chestnuts on the open fire on top of a shovel - and then having to retrieve them if they jumped off the shovel when they popped.

Grandad teaching me how to play dominoes, draughts, card-games - I STILL today shuffle and deal cards left-handed even though I'm righthanded!

Cold winters - piling coats on top of the bed for extra warmth, ice on the inside of the window panes, sitting almost on top of the fire because anywhere away from the hearth was freezing cold, draughty windows and doors even WITH draught-excluders along the bottom of doors.

Getting a 10/- note for my birthday one year! What riches!!

I'll have to stop there - getting misty-eyed now.

wishiwasarichgirl

i am a child of the 80's and i remember watching Dallas & dynasty with mum and james bond or john wayne films with dad.

I remember 10p mix ups/luckybags with their tacky plastic jewellery.

remember my babysitter "mrs D" who used to give us custard creams and party rings" and another babysitter who let us try Babycham!! :eek:

I remember the rollerskates that strapped onto your feet, ooh, and those candy bracelets/watches - i used to love them!

Remember getting locked in the outside toilet once, living in NI there were always army men around, so mum got a group of them to rescue me, loved the armed forces ever since - now engaged to a RAFer

MRSMCAWBER

Hello everyone...

Stop encouraging me

Rugbylisa - im originally from the notts area... but i would have been quite happy to swap you for one of my sisters when i was a kid ...she used to drive me nuts:rolleyes:
I had forgot about the double decker kids... ooohhh figgy biccies... still one of the few biscuits i like...oh and dead fly biccies:j

Sophiesmum - Grandma was a bingo/card whizz... every boxing day, we all went to their house..and after tea played chase the ace, queeny, one under, ...you did the bee winning shuffle...basically runing round your chair for good luck ...thing is all my nieces n nephews are carrying it on :T they go to mums for boxing day and cant wait to get the cards out :rotfl:

and olliebeak - i would think you were my mum..if she knew how to work a pc:rotfl: right down to the cockerel... my mum regularly mentions being terrorised everytime she went to the loo...
Dollyblue n dollycream get a regular mention too...
And when mum was little and they had a loo that got emptied every so often..her and her sister made a swing in the doorway, only mum was stood on the seat pushing her sister.. who promptly swung back and knocked her into the loo...ankle deep_pale_ eughhhh

And christmas, sitting on the floor at grandads -who was one big man.... passing him nuts to crack..not because we wanted em, but just to see him crack em.... he used to be able to put 2 almonds in his hands and use them to crack each other...even now that amazes me

dumpy

I'm so glad that some one else remembers Chorlton and the wheelies!! I love my DVD of that Dragon of happiness with a Manchester accent, a Welsh witch, a German spell book and an Irish telescope. And that Monty Python Leg for the Son...... Children's TV in the 70s was very weird!

For all the sweet trips down memory lane it's worth looking at

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/?source=affwin

The A-Z will have you saying Ooohhhh I remember that (and I think you can go through quidco, which makes it MSE!)