Childhood & Sentimental memories

Bobbykins

RugbyLisa wrote: »

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

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AND the white blouse underneath with the puff sleeves??????

Plum_Pie

I was born in 1980 but my parents were born in the 40s. They felt they had had good childhood and moved to the sticks as they thought it would be better in quality of life terms:

Not allowed much telly but loved: Supergran, RentaGhost, Pob, Simon and the Witch, Pigeon Street
Learning to bake by watching my mum
Climbing trees in bare feet (better traction)
Picking blackberries in the local abandoned quarry
Blue "Spong" bean slicer with meat mincing attachment
The smell of fish being gutted and the huge chopping board covered in blood
Very firm HM brown rolls with marmite for packed lunches (my friends called them 'rock rolls'!)
The crust of a white loaf with butter straight out the oven as the best treat imaginable
Cornflakes with ordinary milk and a little evaporated milk
Not being allowed to buy penny sweets because they had too many e-numbers....and buying them in secret esp cola bottles and candy shrimps
Jumble sales in the village hall and the local primary school Christmas bazaar (which was the most exciting thing that happened all year!)
Going to a very Christian primary school and singing hymns from 'Come and Praise' EVERY DAY
Hand-me-down clothes

poppie,s_dream

olliebeak your reply has just had my son in hysterics (16) i had to explain what guzundas was lol (chamber pot or potty lol)
things i remember from my childhood
vimto lollies 1d from local shop running home from school to nan's to watch little house on the prairie with marmalade on homemade bread and little brother always had to have one sided toast with summer county marg
brownies on monday nights and grandad picking me up diverting to nan's to watch high chaperal till mum finished work at bingo hall.
other programmes i remember the champions, caseyjones, randall and hopkirk deceased most are now repeated on itv 4 at 6.00pm ooh memories

Gale_10

I remember: pink dinner tickets for free school meals cos my mum was on her own (my dad died).

After shopping day treat was tea of a bag of crisps and a hunk of cheese. Also, sometimes, angel delight for pudding!

Only being allowed to watch bbc - I think it was so we didn't nag for things we had seen advertised on itv.

Going to see my Nan in my mums little mini - I was in charge of not letting the milk leak, as my mum hated that. She always took my Nan a pint of milk.

Our childminder doing her make-up (my mum was a midwife and worked nights, two a week) and she used to call it "Putting on her face"!

I was born in 1967, I think we were a bit more well-off than some especially in the seventies, there seem to be lots poorer than our family was.

Gale

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there Gale_10

i was born in 71 and I still call it "putting my face on"..something i picked up from my mama:p

On our shopping days we had potted dog cobs, porkpie/sausage roll and crisps.. the only day we didnt eat "proper" full cooked dinners..but i loved thursday for that .... and still love potted dog mmmmmm

Iguana

tanith wrote: »

What a great thread...

I remember the old girl downstairs used to sneak us sugar sandwiches when our Mum wasn't looking..
What was that thing with bread and marge with fruit and carnation milk?

Before fridges we kept our bottles of milk (delivered by Samson the carthorse) in a white enamel bucket filled with cold water , covered over with a teatowel that was drapped in the water so it kept the milk cool..

Condensed milk out of the tin, sugar sandwiches, jamboree bags, the Lyons ice cream man on a bicycle with the (insulated) box on the front of the bike.
Being able to buy fags and booze for my mum and dad by taking a note written by them to the shop! Being able to buy single cigerettes and packets of 5!
Gold top milk!
No fridge and the dog nicking the sausages out of the cupboard! Milk in a jug og cold water with a cloth kept over it.
Chips in newspaper. going into the chip shop and buying the the crackly bits from the bottom of the fryer!
God I feel old:rotfl: :rotfl:

Iguana

I forgot beef dripping on toast!!!!!!

Crazychik

This is brilliant - bare with me whilst I share my memories.

Tomato sauce sandwiches, sometimes fried egg with picalilly
spending my weekly spending money (£1) on Smash hits magazine & a packet of shortbread biscuits!
sometimes buying records 7" singles, from the market which had been played on jukeboxes for 25p
Being able to get a 10p mix and having about 20 sweets in the bag!
Mum having a biscuit barrel, and when we was allowed we could have "1 plain & 1 fancy - and no digging" so it meant we had to take the horrible ones from the top & eat those before getting to the bottom - hence the no digging.
Condensed milk sandwiches
When Curly Wurly's was mega long!
Dancing on my dad's tiptoes to Abba or the Bee Gee's, during the Sunday evening of listening to the charts!
Always went out on day trips/outings with my grandparents in the car and always taking a flask of milky coffee and digestive biscuits!
Front Doors was always left open/unlocked.
Green Shield stamps from the Co-op

Erm - lots more, but will need to reminise some more - Thanks to OP, will be back soon!

rosieben

Great thread!! Brought back some memories -

• me getting told off for pinching raspberries and gooseberries from our garden bushes
• sitting outside in the sun shelling peas for Sunday dinner
• scrumping apples – ripped the seat clean out of my trousers on the barbed wire fence once
• bread and butter with ketchup or sugar or condensed milk
• tinned fruit and cream and – yes! - bread and butter; I loved it dipped in the fruit juice
• a weekly tablespoonful of cod liver oil and malt or virol – yuk! One of my sisters loved it and used to come back for seconds
• daily glass of Wincarnis tonic wine if I’d been ill
• my brothers having ‘flag’ sauce (horrible brown sauce) with every meal – even a roast
• 5 boys chocolate bars and Cadburys 1d and 2d bars of chocolate (that’s old pennies!)
• my one gran wearing a dead fox around her neck – I was terrified of it when she leaned forward to kiss me :eek:
• visiting my other gran and having the task of tearing up the radio times and threading with string, hanging on a nail in the outside loo
• the smell when my dad paunched a rabbit - he used to hunt with a ferrett
• the kettle singing on the rayburn in winter
• dad warming a brick in the oven and wrapping it in a pillowcase to warm my feet in bed
• the old gas copper boiler on the go all day every Monday
• helping mother turn the mangle on washing day
• helping to turn the mattresses – they had to be pummelled to get them flat again – hard work!
• ice making pretty patterns on the inside of the bedroom windows in winter
• sleeping with the big bedroom windows wide open in summer and listening to the sheep and the owls etc in the fields and woods nearby
• our first black and white telly – and watching Barry Bucknell (I think) on the first ever DIY show
• and just to really show my age, I remember taking a pail out to the lane to get milk from the delivery man
• firewood and blocks delivered by horse and cart
• the rag and bone man – got a goldfish for a bag of rags and then cried all the way home because I didn’t have enough money to buy fish food

BusyGirl

Crazychick Your memories are very similiar to mine!
I remember trying to tape the top 40 every Sunday night without getting the DJ's voice on the tape...never could though as they talked too much! :rolleyes:
I also religiously bought The Smash Hits from about 1981 and covered my bedroom wall in posters of Haircut 100, Spandau Ballet, The Jam and Madness.
I remember doing 'The Jam' dance at the youth club disco whilst wearing my pod shoes and my tank top!!!:eek: Thought I was so cool!