Childhood & Sentimental memories

gb57

My dad didn't polish our shoes - WE had to polish them, he inspected them to make sure they were done properly!

Baggy navy blue knickers with pocket for hanky - you mean they don't wear them any more?

School uniform bought when you were 11 (grammar school, expensive uniform), bought to "last", therefore WAY too big - blazer practically down to your knees, and sleeves much too long, gymslip flapping about and down to mid-calf or lower. "Skirt" shorts for PE/games which were baggy and came below the knees. By the time we were all 16 and taller and curvy we all looked like some dirty old man's wet dream of the way schoolgirls dress - skirt shorts barely covering the bum, blazer barely containing our bosoms, etc We had been able to graduate from gymslips to skirts by then, good thing too, because the gymslips also barely covered our bums! (Just before mini-skirts came in wearing a skirt above your knee was tantamount to going out naked). Tights had not been invented then, either. The type of stockings you were allowed to wear for school were strictly regulated - very thick (30 denier I think:rotfl: ), no black stockings cos they were fashionable in the early/mid-60s and our headmistress did not allow "fashion" at school.

Gabardine (sp?) macs that buttoned either way, so were passed down the whole family as they were outgrown, as they never wore out. For years I went to school with my eldest brother's name in indelible ink in my mac

Chaps look away now. Those STs that hung on little hooks on a sanitary belt :eek: ! When we were 14/15 me and my big sister asked mum if we could use those tampax things that she used:j . The girls at school were adamant that using them meant I was no longer a virgin:rotfl: . Sorry, chaps, too much information here.

We STILL play Newmarket for pennies when we get together at Christmas - new pennies now of course.

positivelymummy

oh recovering spendaholic! you've reminded me about my arran cardigan! my mum knitted it for me when i was about 5 but somehow it lasted about 5 years! it seemed to grow with me! and it weighed a ton!!! and the comics too! well done for remembering most of the 4 mary's!! jenny wren was my fave!

green shield stamps ring a bell too? not sure why though, was it a co-op thing??

my fave sweets i miss from back then were pacers, a white chewy spearmint sweet that had 2 green stripes on it!

Danni-R

I'm only 24 and my mum used to make me read Bunty, I only liked it a little, promise!
And for my first 3 years at school I had the blue pants.

rev229

Did anyone have one of those vey nice loo roll cover dollys, the ones with the blond hair nice boobs and then her legs popped down the loo roll, and she had a knitted dress that covered the loo roll. Her pride and place was on the top of the cistern. What was the point of that Oh yes knitted tea cosies no heating in the house but you must have a tea cosie to keep the teapot warm!
Walking miles to school rain hail or snow, our schools never closed when it snowed, if there was no heating you wore your blazers and duffle coats to keep warm. And talking of school uniform we had to wear white knee socks up until we left and I stayed right until I was eighteen:eek: :eek: can you imagine 18 year old girls wearing knee socks now! My DD is 9 and I have never let her wear knee socks I am just so traumitised from having to wear them myself. When she started school they wanted her to wear green PE knickers and I just said no way, the playground is next to a busy road:eek: :eek: :eek: so she had black shorts like the boys. I wouldn't let her play outside in the street with just knickers on!!

Georgiabay

Oh yes the loo roll dollys, I'd forgotten about them. Then there were the crocheted mats or fabric with a crocheted edging that were placed on a table with a vase or bowl on top. My Mum had an oval one and two small round ones on her dressing table with a dressing table 'set' on top which consisted of a glass tray and two glass candlesticks then matching hairbrush, comb and mirror.
And you had a runner on the sideboard and those covers over the backs of chairs and settees to keep the grease off (antimacassers).

arabellacatpig_2

There is most definately such a thing as growing pains.
My daughter gets them regularly.Thinking she was 'attention seeking' I asked the doctor and was told yes

recovering_spendaholic

At my school we had those big navy blue non-stretchy knickers with elastic in the waist and round the tops of the legs, but the pocket in them was for your Rosary! We had to wear our velour hat in all weathers and if we didn't wear our regulation shoes we were made to walk home in one shoe and one PE pump, which was very embarassing as all the boys from the boys school opposite would laugh at you (or you imagined they did). I used to go to Mass after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays because I had a big crush on one of the Altar boys - they don't even have Altar boys in our church any more.

Iguana

mumoftwo wrote: »

if only my kids would be happy with an oxo cube as a snack, I would even give them one each!!

Oxo is a drink that is very cheap and you drink it after swimming in an open air swimming pool. I think it used to cost sixpence!

Peartree

arabellacatpig wrote: »

There is most definately such a thing as growing pains.
My daughter gets them regularly.Thinking she was 'attention seeking' I asked the doctor and was told yes

'Growing pains' are a real medical condition. However, my dear, late, sister was told that she had 'growing pains' in her teens in the 70s and she actually had rheumatoid arthritis. I'd like to think doctors would pick it up, now, but wouldn't be sure as it is still a much misunderstood disease.

Olliebeak

I well remember the Green Shield Stamps AND the Pink Stamps. I suppose they were like a 'loyalty card' of the 50's/60's/70's.

Not quite sure when they finished but I do remember getting some things for my eldest son's first birthday (in 1974) from the Green Shield Stamp shop in Hanover Street, Liverpool.

In the mid-60's my mother had used Green Shield Stamps AND her cigarette coupons (Embassy ones) to get all our camping equipment for family holidays.