As a kid, I remember....

[No Ney Never]

Feather cut, that's luxury.
We used to have a rusty razor dragged over our head.
Rusty razor, you were lucky, broken glass were best we could do....

It just jumped into my head when I read your post.

I remember that sketch, was it the fast show or similar?

[No Ney Never]

Games of Wembley, headers and volleys and three and your in

Wembley, was that otherwise known as one and you're through?

[HahaYeah]

Them triangular ice things we called them Mambo's and like you say if they went on the floor you just picked them up brushed the white dog poo off and away you went slurp slurp.

[Cubanforever]

Wembley, was that otherwise known as one and you're through?

That's the one

[RMutt]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0hK8EbafSlg

[Cubanforever]

Wembley, was that otherwise known as one and you're through?

And you always used to get the lazy/crap ones goal hanging

[No Ney Never]

There was always a bloke in the street with his car jacked up fixing something himself cause he didn't want to pay the garage to do it.

[fatboy47]

Ah yes
Nits, polio, impetigo, izal bog paper, the air thick with coal smoke, all good stuff

You could use that izal bum wipe as tracing paper.

[Quickenthetempo]

We used to go to quick Micks, top o Padiham.
Short back and sides or a feather cut.

The Turkish lads taking an hour to cut your hair these days is a world away from the minute and half quick Mick dealt with you.

[Clovius Boofus]

Them triangular ice things we called them Mambo's

We used to call those things Jubbly's.

[Cubanforever]

My mum used to rent a black and white TV from Hargreaves in Clitheroe for years as did most...he must of made a fortune from everyone

[Colburn_Claret]

I remember that sketch, was it the fast show or similar?

It was pre Monty Python, because Marty Feldman and Tim Brooke Taylor were in the sketch, but I can't remember which show.

[No Ney Never]

My mum used to rent a black and white TV from Hargreaves in Clitheroe for years as did most...he must of made a fortune from everyone

Was it one of those that went off and you had to put 50p in back to get it back on?

[HahaYeah]

We used to call those things Jubbly's.

Aye the lad further back said they were called that.

I'm sure the ones we used to get were called Mambo's though from Bills on Briercliffe Rd or some called it Mavis's.

I'm going back to about 1973.

[Cubanforever]

Was it one of those that went off and you had to put 50p in back to get it back on?

No but I remember those from Pontins holidays at Southport and Prestatyn...very posh as they were colour....though thinking about it we did have one of those when we lived in Leek before moving up here in 78....and also using candles during the power cuts in the 70's when they were striking

[No Ney Never]

And you always used to get the lazy/crap ones goal hanging

Goal hangers LOL, is that still a thing these days?

[Colburn_Claret]

Was it one of those that went off and you had to put 50p in back to get it back on?

It was sixpence for us, Rumbleows was the local. I remember having to sprint to the local shop for change if we were watching something and the tanner ran out.

[No Ney Never]

Who had SEGS in the sole of their shoes to prevent them from wearing?

[Cubanforever]

Flashlight fanny in the pictures showing people to their seat and threatening to turn the film off if you didn't behave

[No Ney Never]

How many singles could you stack on your grama phone?

[Clovius Boofus]

Aye, the lad further back said they were called that.

I'm sure the ones we used to get were called Mambo's though from Bills on Briercliffe Rd or some called it Mavis's.

I'm going back to about 1973.

Yeah, I'm in the same time period. Was Mavis's down from the TV shop?

[HahaYeah]

Yeah, I'm in the same time period. Was Mavis's down from the TV shop?

Think there was a tv shop now you mention it on the corner of Briercliffe- Melville, I think so. Not sure though.

Mavis's would be across from the shopping centre as it is now.

[Croydon Claret]

Making a snow/ice slide on the pavement. Groups of kids would come together as a team and rub the snow with their shiny soled shoes to make the best slide ever.

Then getting told off by the adults because apparently it was lethal

[Rowls]

Patches and Vs sewn into trousers.

[Clovius Boofus]

Think there was a tv shop now you mention it on the corner of Briercliffe- Melville, I think so. Not sure though.

Mavis's would be across from the shopping centre as it is now.

Ah, yes, I know where you mean.

[Eloise Laws]

Mum scraping the metal nit comb through your hair after the Sunday night bath before school on Monday

[Cubanforever]

Patches and Vs sewn into trousers.

Used to hide the holes I'd worn in my jeans.....always used to have scabs on my knees when I was a kid

[JohnMac]

Raves?

You were lucky to hear your latest single on a Dansette Monarch unless you were within 10 feet.

That's after you had taken the accumulated fluff off the needle

[Clovius Boofus]

Oh, yes, the metal nit comb treatment. Our mum used to crack us around the head if we screamed out while she was using it. I reckon the one she used was a relic from the inquisitor's tool kit.

[expoultryboy]

Fatboy : Dr Palin in Reedley used to have an ashtray on his desk and he gave me one when i was 15 .
Enjoyed releevo and kick the can . 3 of us playing wally against a wall on Highfield avenue and putting it through nextdoors window - it was Ralph Coates mothers !!!! Anyone mentioned sports pink on a Saturday teatime ?

[expoultryboy]

Just read what i put - he gave me a cigarette haha

[No Ney Never]

Proper English food, non of that foreign muck.
Cottage pie
Shepherds pie
Liver and onions
Gammon, egg and chips
Fish fingers and chips
Potato ash
Casserole
Fish and chips
Scampi and chips
Fray Bentos pie
Chips and beans
Beans on toast

[expoultryboy]

Chicken and chips in a basket

[basil6345789]

Soup in a basket

[Rowls]

Chicken in a basket needs to come back. Why don't they serve chicken in baskets anymore?

[LoveCurryPies]

Life was much harder in the 60’s and 70’s but we failed the young generation when we allowed the government to set up university fees.

[JohnMac]

Proper English food, non of that foreign muck.
Potato ash

And my favourite, Corned Beef Hash...
Technically South American, Fray Bentos tried to kill us in the '60's

[Dano1bfc]

Respect .. whether it be for your elders or anyone and any age on the street .. it’s what was expected and given. Times have changed with little to no consequence, and not for the better in my opinion.
Whether it be due to the anonymity of websites or whether a lack of harsher physical punishments and human rights is up for debate.
However the world we live in would be a better place if we all just respected each other . It’s not too much to ask.

[Jimmymaccer]

Hills pop………..especially dandelion and burdock, and sarsaparilla.

Factory in Padiham

[Buxtonclaret]

Little bags of salt in your crisp packets.

[Cubanforever]

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[eastanglianclaret]

The orange colour of the river Calder and getting a talking to from my parents after wading in it and coming home with orange shins! I'm sure that the stiff brush they used to get the colour off was more of a punishment than a solution!

The smell of the 'skinyard' on Plumbe Street.

Proper Coltsfoot rock from the chemist.

Marching bands on religious festival days.

Spangles.

[mdd2]

Shove halfpenny anyone?
Used to play it on the stonewall in the old BGS and later on desks at BGS
In sixth form the late ChrisBuckland who went on tobea journalist did a weekly newspaper and one headline was ……….. hangs up his shover
I recall most of those memories
Any hair cut as longasit was short back and sides
Sometimes the bread fell in the fire
Doing Xmas post in6th form
Didn’t celebrate Halloween in my day
Knock and run
Shop chase
Tin inthe ring

As we knock the NHS no one survived leukaemia know of three school friends who died
Mum always looked at the back page of the Burnley Express and then telling Dad who had died that they knew
Being told off by police for playing footie in the streets
Anyone recall back rats playing marbles with a large cylindrical metal bearing to remove marbles I a circle against a wall

[Eloise Laws]

The smell of the 'skinyard' on Plumbe Street.

Thanks for reminding me of this it was awful

Loving this thread

[mdd2]

Daltons wheat flakes
Arrival of sliced bread
Fog as thick as pea soup as my Dad described it
Radio News in the winters in the 50’s saying how many died from the smog each day in London
The clean air act abolished most pea soup era
Being told to get away from the coal fire to allow mum to dry the washing
One bath per week
Mum had the same iron all the time I knew her
In summer milk went in the cooler front room
We had no fridge
Black and white TV and one BBC channel
The 53 Cup Final on TV

[AlargeClaret]

Fatboy : Dr Palin in Reedley used to have an ashtray on his desk and he gave me one when i was 15 .
Enjoyed releevo and kick the can . 3 of us playing wally against a wall on Highfield avenue and putting it through nextdoors window - it was Ralph Coates mothers !!!! Anyone mentioned sports pink on a Saturday teatime ?

Different times i guess , but the dirty b@astard !

[Claretkraut]

Test matches being broadcasted by the BBC , and the despair of my dad when the coverage got interrupted by Open University at an interesting stage of play.

[MrTopTier]

I was in St Annes yesterday.
The scrap man was out collecting on a horse and cart.

[expoultryboy]

Playing football at Nelson grammar on a hot day with the smell of Bothwicks drifting over .

[AGENT_CLARET]

White dog poo you don't see it anymore