Childhood & Sentimental memories

Peartree

Sugar butties! One of my very earliest memories (and I mean I was a toddler then) is of a friend of my mum's coming over and eating sugar butties. It probably sounds ridiculous but I can remember being a bit taken about it (as it did not usually happen in our house). If it hadn't been mentioned here, I would have thought I'd imagined it - it seems so strange now!

One of my best memories (apologies if mentioned before but this is a v long thread!) is Mum making apple pie and my sister and I eating the skins from the bramley apples dipped into the sugar bowl - gosh who has sugar bowls now!

dND

Great thread this one. I have some early black and white TV memories from the 60’s

• “Coughs & sneezes spread diseases” – we might get that one back if TB re-appears!
• The Martian space ship round the corner that beamed you away into space, which I think was part of a road safety thing to make you slow down
• The Tufty club

And then a couple of sweet adverts

• “Buy some for Lulu” – possibly for Smarties
• and finally a cat like creature who ran across the screen saying “They’re creamy, creamy, creamy” which I think was to do with toffees.

Does anyone else remember these or am I just getting senile?

dND

Oh and another one, something like Dr Collis’s mixture. It came in a little bottle was very dark and you only had a couple of drops in a glass of water for an upset stomach. It tasted vile and I preferred to feel ill rather than be given it

gilly41

I love this thread----so many memories!I remember going to see my grandma every Saturday and having a tin of cooked meat,tomatoes and hard boiled eggs. We then had tinned fruit and evaporated milk.Every week the same---aww bless her!We then used to be allowed to go in the sideboard and she had bought us a magazine each

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usually Jackie---and some sweets. Also 50p pocket money each which was quite a lot when you think back to the 70s!!!!Plus we used to play HAPPY FAMILIES

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I loved that game!At home we always drank coffee made with full cream milk which was boiled in the milk pan----I used to love it then but find it really sickly now! My brother and I used to fight for the cream off the milk for our cereals! I also remember going to the corner shop for my dad for his Whiskey ready rubbed tobacco for his pipe(think i have got the name right!!!). Imagine allowing a kid to buy that now????? Also getting traffic light lollies from the little sweet shop.Aww it brings a tear to my eye---so many happy memories!!!!x

pounds_and_pensive

Oh no - Traffic Light lollies. When me and my sister were 5 and 6, my mum went into our favourite Traffic Light lolly shop, leaving us guarding my youngest sister in her pram. Pointing to the brake she said "Whatever you do, don't touch that". Of course, me and my sister had never noticed THAT before, and just HAD to see what it did. My next memory is of my mum rushing shrieking down the street and just managing to snatch the pram before youngest sister found herself in the middle of the main road that crossed the bottom of it. There wasn't much chance of us ever being allowed to forget what THAT did after that

Nix143

Extra ones for me...............

Queuing round the block to see 'Grease' with my mum and little sister and my mum had brought big bags of crisps and bottles of pop so we didn't have to pay 'stupid cinema prices'

Me and mum eating mince beef Findus Crispy Pancakes and thinking they were bloomin marvellous LOL - what an invention!

Not food but ....................being dressed up in red, white and blue including red, white and blue stripy socks to watch Charles and Di get married - everyone was round me Nanna's house, big buffet, drunken uncles, the lot - you'd have sworn it was Christmas but with bunting

rosieben

I remember sugar sandwiches, and ketchup sandwiches! My sister used to have condensed milk sandwiches too...

I remember being taken out to the front porch to hear the local silver band playing christmas carols - we lived at the end of the village and they would stand under the last street light to play and then come down our little row of houses with the collection box. Happened every christmas for years and years. Even now the real sound of christmas is a band playing carols. :xmastree:

I also remember being fetched out of bed one night to 'come and see who's here' and I didnt recognise my big brother and cried! Soon got to know him again though and spent the rest of the evening cuddled on his lap except for the moment when he lifted me up till my head touched the ceiling and then put me in his (by then emptied) army kit bag!! I fitted really well! I still remember his army number even now, he was in the KSLI and was conscripted. That was literally a lifetime ago, he died a few years ago and still miss him so much but can never think of him without smiling!

grannybroon

Well, I could bore your rotten about Zorro and taking jam jars to cinema.

However, vivid meorries - Going to see Blazing Saddles in local cinema - fantastic. Latterly took kids to see Back to the Future films plus Star Wars and Indiana Jones!! First film for DS was ET when he was age 3 - he is approaching 29!

GB

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pocket money day on saturday. 6d and I would go and buy the beano, spend 2d choosing sweets spread on the counter and I would still have a penny or two left for my savings bank

also broken biscuits and also square tins of biscuits that you bought from

taking my dolls pram empty and walking to fill it with veg for my mum. I must have been all of 9 then but oh so sensible

washing soaked in a bath of cold water overnight and then washing all day, also using the mangle

ice on the inside of the windows in the bedroom

having a coat put on the bed because it was freezing

grey blankets from the army and navy shop

big bags of clothes given by kind hearted people to our family with 7 children

I could go on and on but I`m thinking now how all 7 children have come good because we were taught to value school, politeness and care for others

lolarentt

Condensed milk spread on white bread and butter..(and 2 bottles of pop a week from the Neptune man, who later turned into the Corona man)