Childhood & Sentimental memories

shetitasatic

I echo every word that Olliebeak says. my best wishes to you both - Cheryl

glendam

Also so sorry to hear your news bommer.

Glenda

glendam

Olliebeak I think we are a very similar age I failed my 11+ in 1963.

All your memories are so similar to mine it was uncanny. Love them.

I grew up in Wales were Sundays were for chapel and pubs were dry!! even parks had the swings and see saw chained up. So we all went for gentle family strolls. Mum used to give us 5d (about 2p) to go to chapel 3d collection and 2d pocket money for sweets. Years later when talking about it we told her we did it the other way round lol.

I remember for my 14 bithday my eldest brother gave me a purse and a 10 shilling note as he was working. Went to town and lost it all I cried for a week even went to the police station but no luck.

Someone mentioned the diver in Kellogs I remember them too you put bicarb in a little hole in there back to make them dive.

Love this thread its great

Glenda

shopaholictiedtheknot

Bonbon wrote: »

Does anyone remember spearmint ice lollies? they were blue. The ice cream man would come around every Sunday afternoon and it was a big treat for me to be able to have one. I've never seen them since my chidhood (1960's). My biggest hate was 'milk sop'. I would be given it for breakfast when my mum had forgotten to buy cereal. She'd put a bid knob of butter on it...just the thought of it floating in the warm milk turns my stomach now.

I remember spearmint lollies only they were called fantasy tubs and they were in a polystyrene tub and you scraped them with a spoon, you could get cream soda and cola ones too - yum!!

I remember:

Taking it in turns to sit on the storage heater in my friend's bedroom, you got off when your bum was burning and it was the next persons turn!

Buying two for a penny sweets at the corner shop

Taking our seaside buckets to go blackberry picking - mine was a yellow sandcastle and getting told off for eating more than went in the bucket!

Tying a skipping rope from a lampost so only one person had to hold the end from the other side of the road and rarely having to move when a car came!

My granny cutting a hole in the top of an orange and pushing sugar cubes down inside and then we would squeeze and suck the juice out (gillian mckeith eat your heart out!)

OOh and loads more I LOVE this thread!!

bommer

Sorry for being on such a downer.

Would love to hear some more of your memories.
This has been such a wonderful thread everyone seems to have so many wonderful memories. Lets keep them coming.

Luv BommeXXXXX

meanmarie

Bommer...so sorry to hear of your sad news...there are no words to help but remember that on here there are always lots of people who will offer you a shoulder or an ear when you need one.

Love,

Marie

noonesperfect

vixtress wrote: »

did anyone else suffer instant death if they left the house with wet hair!

sorry for too much infomation but sanitary towels with belts attached (more teenage memory than childhood) :eek: :eek:

cabana bars were the best thing ever invented (even beter than a quarter of cola cubes)

Oh yes, it's all coming back to me now! The first stick-on pads came in just as I started, but had to use the above too. It's easy to forget how thick they once were!! Sorry if too much info.

Never ate chocolate as a child, didn't really like it (how times change...). Anyway you could get four fruit salads for an old penny in "our" day! (or was it 8, it's sooooooooo long ago)

Mum spent her life in the kitchen cooking (or seemed to) cooking everything from scratch. The only bought cake was an occasional battenburg.

The only good stuff on the telly was the adverts.
But they were carefree days and happy memories of feeling safe and cared for. When there were proper seasons and shops opened until five sharp through the week, closed at noon every Wednesday and Saturday (mostly) and everywhere was closed (apart from Church which I attended happily as a child!!) on a Sunday.

Meals were always taken round a table, we all had our alloted chairs and no telly.

noonesperfect

AMIE399 wrote: »

sunday was cooked breakfast, then mum would spend all morning cooking sunday lunch, for tea it was seafood, pint prawns, pint winkles, pint cockles bread and butter.

Cinzano Bianco
party 7
thunderbird

funny faces ice cream lollies
bar six
munchies
caramac bars/ pink panther bars
malteesers in the brown bag
pacers
ice breaker chocolate
cresta drinks ( its frothy man !!! )

the only takeaways were fish and chips or wimpy

i remember the parafin man every week and the pop man

watching miss world and eurovision song contest

crying to little house on the prairie when the girl went blind
white horses
follyfoot
champion the wonder horse
top of the pops on a thursday

was totaly in love with Woody from the Bay City Rollers

chopper bikes
those balls on strings that were banned cos they broke your wrists !!!!
paint wheels
those long plastic tubes things that when you swung them round they made a noise

tank tops.. with the white blouse underneath
huge collars and cuffs

smiffy perfume
the pretty peach collection from avon

Jackie/fab magazines

We must be the same age!

I loved Eric from the BCR.s and loved Aqua Manda perfume, do you remember it? Brown bottle with a flat top and a spicy orangey smell.

It was clackers that broke your wrist.

SPARKY16

I Remember we used to stay at my nana and grandads house on a saturday and he always had tripe and onions for supper yuk !! the thought of it now still turns my stomach
i also remember the bread and butter with everything my nana used to have a set menu for which day of the week it was fish on monday suet pudding on tuesday etc and her baking was second to none she used to spend all day saturday baking for the week there was always plenty of food at her house

i remember wash day used to take all day the washing machine going with a mangle on the top then into a seperate spinning machine that had a bowl under to catch the water and a big gas boiler stood on the back step to boil the whites

when i first looked at this thread i thought i didnt have anything to add but now my minds racing lol:rotfl:

MRSMCAWBER

Hi everyone...

Thanks for starting this thread bommer..i am loving it... so sorry to hear about your news....this thread has brought back so many memories.. i lost my dad on my 16th...20years ago this xmas and this thread has made me think of soooo many things from my childhood..mainly food related:o ...but lots to do with dad - who stayed at home with me, whilst mum worked.

Ive remembered... choc dip.... it was all broken up choc bits that you got loose in a paper bag....

jamboree biscuits... had biscuit, jam, marshmallow and coconut..it had to be the oblong ones not round , i think you can still get them - but they arent the same.

wagonwheel seemed as big as your face
curly wurlys were massive..... they are tiny now...
tinned ham -Old Oak i think it was ..eughhhhh

we used to have to take it in turns to wash up on sundays..we did it in pairs... and every time it was our brothers turns -we had the eldest standing at the sink crying when it came to wahing the gravy pan ..always was tissicky...whilst other brother ran around the kitchen with a collander on his head pretending to be in the army ....:rotfl:

watching arm chair thriller and tales of the unexpected...

My eldest sister is 12 years older than me and when she started working she used to give me a lovely crisp green £1 note.... until she found out that my brother was swapping it me for a couple of shiny 10ps.. which i thought was worth more as they were shiney:rotfl: ...she then started giving me 10p pieces instead!!!

I remember dad having a fit when Marc Almond turned up on top of the pops... never seen him shift so fast to turn the tv off:D

I remember the Friday woman.... a company that were like a catologue.. she used to come in a van with what was new in and you paid back weekly... my dad was always buying things.:rolleyes: never understood why when she came on a thursday, she was called the friday woman!!:rotfl: