As a kid, I remember....
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atlantalad,
the junction of manny rd and rossendale rd the shop there when i was growing up was a wooden shop and just a litttle further down from the shop on manny rd was a toilet block with the bus stop just there too.
the junction of manny rd and rossendale rd the shop there when i was growing up was a wooden shop and just a litttle further down from the shop on manny rd was a toilet block with the bus stop just there too.
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60 senior service was the brand I remember my mum smoking and that as a 6 year old daily been sent to Mrs peacocks on Glen view rd to get them for her,
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You could also buy a pack of 5 Park Drive for 5 and half pence or 6p with a book of matches, that was half your 12p school dinner money gone.Colburn_Claret wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 12:53 pmKids knocking on the door to ask if my Dad could lend their Dad a fag.
I'd forgotten that some cigarettes were sold in packs of 10, Players No 10, and there was a Gold Packet the name evades me. 3 drags and it was gone. If you smoked Players No 6 you were posh.
My Gran used to smoke Senior Service, untipped, and she could sit there knitting, and the cigarette would never leave her lip. I'd watch fascinated to see how long the ash would get before it fell off. When I got older and started pinching the odd one, I found it impossible to smoke them without getting the end as soggy as hell.
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Oh go on then.
Ink wells and inky hands.
Playing wall-y (A sort of squash using a football and a gable end)
Wickets chalked on the garden wall
Bus conductors
Rosegrove sheds
Wakes weeks
Bradshaws tripe works
Back streets blocked with washing
And COBBLES
Ink wells and inky hands.
Playing wall-y (A sort of squash using a football and a gable end)
Wickets chalked on the garden wall
Bus conductors
Rosegrove sheds
Wakes weeks
Bradshaws tripe works
Back streets blocked with washing
And COBBLES
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the scale of "holier than thou" is ridiculous on here.... so none of you, preteen or so, tried to "sneak a peak?" give me a break
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....and keeping the ball wet, in case of disputes as to where it struck.
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A game I can't remember the name of. Two teams, a tennis ball, wooden pegs forming a wicket against a wall. All of which somehow ended in a violent game of tig involving the tennis ball being thrown at the fleeing team.
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I remember the team of the seventies, Taffy , Dobbo , and the like ,happy happy days
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Can’t be from Burnley thenfidelcastro wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 9:55 pmCall me a bit weird, but my own blood relatives just didn't float my boat.
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I can recall the dustmen and the milkman expecting (and receiving) a tip at Xmas. Nowadays there can be up to 4 different coloured bins, general waste, recycling, food waste and garden waste.No Ney Never wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:06 pmOh my, those blokes used to graft.
Great big metal bins with a huge heavy rubber lid.
It's no wonder they used to retire early due to a bad back.
My mother waiting for the man to arrive and empty the gas and electric meters. He used to sit at the living room table and empty the meter of coins, count them, and return quite a sizeable sum as a refund left on the table in neat stacks.
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.The innate curiosity of an innocent 6 year old and the motives of the 50 year old perv drilling holes in the walls of the public bogs are 2 different things... I think there's a failure to make that separation here.
Edit... And as such it's a subject best left alone on here.. Time for NRC to stop digging.
Edit... And as such it's a subject best left alone on here.. Time for NRC to stop digging.
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Strawberries only available in the summer and peaches twice the size they are now.
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We called them Mambos in Rammy.
I’m told by Mrs Rammy they were called ‘Sunny-Boys’ here in Oz.
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“Mambos”, “Jubblys” and “Sunny-boys.” Are they euphemisms but we did not realise at the time?
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Right, Glad someone else remembers them.
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Joe Corner up at White Shops. He had a gammy leg, Dad said he’d had some connection with Sunderland that I can’t remember.Colburn_Claret wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:30 pmI used to get my haircut by a barber (Joe, can't remember his surname but it will come), who never took the cigarette out of his mouth. The ash just used to get longer.
You had a choice of Short Back and Sides, Short Back and Sides or Short Back and Sides.
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You lucky bugger. Mine were through and it were a cut off from Weetabix box, grey side down. Oh! The shame.No Ney Never wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:53 pmWho had SEGS in the sole of their shoes to prevent them from wearing?
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My favourite Winter warmer. I only learned this week it is traditionally done in a frying pan. We always boiled everything until the spuds were just starting to fall apart.
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Football clackers.
Getting caned by a head teacher nun at junior school.
Getting caned by headmaster at secondary school.
(**** and both were before it was recognised as some sexual perversion - I think/hope , just being clear I mean by administrator - not me )
Plimpsols- not allowed in the gym unless adorned. ( now thinking may be related to *** above )
Lucky bags ( same era as Jubblys/ Mambos),
Kali.
Sherbets ( in yellow cardboard tube with liquorice).
Liquorice twigs.
Blackjacks
Flying saucers.
Peashooters & foraging for the clusters of immature green berries off sycamore? trees.
Getting caned by a head teacher nun at junior school.
Getting caned by headmaster at secondary school.
(**** and both were before it was recognised as some sexual perversion - I think/hope , just being clear I mean by administrator - not me )
Plimpsols- not allowed in the gym unless adorned. ( now thinking may be related to *** above )
Lucky bags ( same era as Jubblys/ Mambos),
Kali.
Sherbets ( in yellow cardboard tube with liquorice).
Liquorice twigs.
Blackjacks
Flying saucers.
Peashooters & foraging for the clusters of immature green berries off sycamore? trees.
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Getting a thrupenny bag of broken biscuits at Woolies.
Getting kicked off the school bus home. I was once kicked of for asking me mate, “have you got a rubber, Johnny?”. I was genuine, too young to know what a rubber johnny was for.
Reading all the graffiti on bog walls. What a waste those artists were. And who made all those holes in the dividers at 2’6”
Getting kicked off the school bus home. I was once kicked of for asking me mate, “have you got a rubber, Johnny?”. I was genuine, too young to know what a rubber johnny was for.
Reading all the graffiti on bog walls. What a waste those artists were. And who made all those holes in the dividers at 2’6”
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Blimey lucky bags....they always held so much promise and then you opened thematlantalad wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 4:32 pmFootball clackers.
Getting caned by a head teacher nun at junior school.
Getting caned by headmaster at secondary school.
(**** and both were before it was recognised as some sexual perversion - I think/hope , just being clear I mean by administrator - not me )
Plimpsols- not allowed in the gym unless adorned. ( now thinking may be related to *** above )
Lucky bags ( same era as Jubblys/ Mambos),
Kali.
Sherbets ( in yellow cardboard tube with liquorice).
Liquorice twigs.
Blackjacks
Flying saucers.
Peashooters & foraging for the clusters of immature green berries off sycamore? trees.
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You can bet your bottom dollar he remembers his dentist they'll be on first name terms.Cubanforever wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 6:12 pmBlimey lucky bags....they always held so much promise and then you opened them
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Selling my dinner ticket to another kid at school so I could buy some fags
Andy Lochhead.
My dad taking me to Football training on Monday nights at the gym behind the Longside, hoping I would make the grade ( he didn't drive, took me on the bus from Bacup)......I didn't make the grade.
Living in a back to back house
Sharing a row of bogs at the end of the street....the mums took turns to clean them !
No bathroom , bath every Sunday night in a tin bath in front of the fire ready for school the day after....shared with my sister.
Going to my grandma's on a Saturday....Dickie Davies World of Sport, wrestling, footy results....then she made a blancmange in the shape of a rabbit !!
Jam butties
Sneaking a look at dad's ' Men Only' hidden at bottom of his wardrobe.
Blimey, you young uns have it easy
Andy Lochhead.
My dad taking me to Football training on Monday nights at the gym behind the Longside, hoping I would make the grade ( he didn't drive, took me on the bus from Bacup)......I didn't make the grade.
Living in a back to back house
Sharing a row of bogs at the end of the street....the mums took turns to clean them !
No bathroom , bath every Sunday night in a tin bath in front of the fire ready for school the day after....shared with my sister.
Going to my grandma's on a Saturday....Dickie Davies World of Sport, wrestling, footy results....then she made a blancmange in the shape of a rabbit !!
Jam butties
Sneaking a look at dad's ' Men Only' hidden at bottom of his wardrobe.
Blimey, you young uns have it easy
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Tapping dial-a-disc whilst sheltering in a phone box.
Party telephone lines. Picking the receiver up and hearing voices was a bummer.
Party telephone lines. Picking the receiver up and hearing voices was a bummer.