As a kid, I remember....

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by JohnMac » Thu Feb 09, 2023 7:47 pm

Woodbines

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by pureclaret » Thu Feb 09, 2023 8:37 pm

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.

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by pureclaret » Thu Feb 09, 2023 8:39 pm

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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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by bpgburn » Thu Feb 09, 2023 8:46 pm

Colburn_Claret wrote:
Thu Feb 09, 2023 12:53 pm
Kids 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.
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.
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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by COBBLE » Thu Feb 09, 2023 8:51 pm

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

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by NRC » Thu Feb 09, 2023 9:30 pm

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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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by fatboy47 » Thu Feb 09, 2023 9:38 pm

COBBLE wrote:
Thu Feb 09, 2023 8:51 pm
Oh go on then.


Wickets chalked on the garden wall

....and keeping the ball wet, in case of disputes as to where it struck.
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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by Fenwick » Thu Feb 09, 2023 9:48 pm

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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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by fidelcastro » Thu Feb 09, 2023 9:55 pm

NRC wrote:
Thu Feb 09, 2023 9:30 pm
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
Call me a bit weird, but my own blood relatives just didn't float my boat.

:shock:

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by joey13 » Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:00 pm

I remember the team of the seventies, Taffy , Dobbo , and the like ,happy happy days

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by joey13 » Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:01 pm

fidelcastro wrote:
Thu Feb 09, 2023 9:55 pm
Call me a bit weird, but my own blood relatives just didn't float my boat.

:shock:
Can’t be from Burnley then :o

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by fatboy47 » Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:05 pm

joey13 wrote:
Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:01 pm
Can’t be from Burnley then :o
Shadsworth 'appen?

Sister or Eeyore?

A bit like Daddy or chips?... Its a birthright in those parts.

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by kentonclaret » Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:36 pm

No Ney Never wrote:
Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:06 pm
Oh 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.
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.

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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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by Socrates » Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:06 am

NRC wrote:
Thu Feb 09, 2023 9:30 pm
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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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by claretonthecoast1882 » Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:22 am

Socrates wrote:
Thu Feb 09, 2023 2:09 pm
Who remembers incest?
I am glad someone else found that a bit odd :D

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by Nori1958 » Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:34 am

NRC wrote:
Thu Feb 09, 2023 9:30 pm
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
A peek at what?

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by Socrates » Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:44 am

Nori1958 wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:34 am
A peek at what?
Blood relatives sexual organs.

He was pretty clear on it.

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by fatboy47 » Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:50 am

.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.

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by Nori1958 » Fri Feb 10, 2023 9:08 am

Socrates wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:44 am
Blood relatives sexual organs.

He was pretty clear on it.
I know, I was double checking that he thought it was something we had all done

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by ClaretTony » Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:08 am

HahaYeah wrote:
Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:44 pm
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. :geek:
There were two - Mambos & Jubblys.

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by cbx750 » Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:15 am

Strawberries only available in the summer and peaches twice the size they are now.

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by RammyClaret61 » Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:21 am

ClaretTony wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:08 am
There were two - Mambos & Jubblys.
We called them Mambos in Rammy.

I’m told by Mrs Rammy they were called ‘Sunny-Boys’ here in Oz.

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by atlantalad » Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:37 am

“Mambos”, “Jubblys” and “Sunny-boys.” Are they euphemisms but we did not realise at the time?😳

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by HahaYeah » Fri Feb 10, 2023 3:10 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:08 am
There were two - Mambos & Jubblys.
Right, Glad someone else remembers them.
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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by Tricky Trevor » Fri Feb 10, 2023 3:26 pm

Colburn_Claret wrote:
Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:30 pm
I 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.
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.
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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by Tricky Trevor » Fri Feb 10, 2023 3:34 pm

No Ney Never wrote:
Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:53 pm
Who had SEGS in the sole of their shoes to prevent them from wearing?
You lucky bugger. Mine were through and it were a cut off from Weetabix box, grey side down. Oh! The shame.

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by Tricky Trevor » Fri Feb 10, 2023 3:38 pm

JohnMac wrote:
Wed Feb 08, 2023 11:34 pm
And my favourite, Corned Beef Hash...
Technically South American, Fray Bentos tried to kill us in the '60's :shock:
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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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by atlantalad » Fri Feb 10, 2023 4:32 pm

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 :o, 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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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by Tricky Trevor » Fri Feb 10, 2023 5:21 pm

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”

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by Cubanforever » Fri Feb 10, 2023 6:12 pm

atlantalad wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 4:32 pm
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 :o, 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.
Blimey lucky bags....they always held so much promise and then you opened them

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by Jakubclaret » Fri Feb 10, 2023 6:47 pm

Cubanforever wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 6:12 pm
Blimey lucky bags....they always held so much promise and then you opened them
You can bet your bottom dollar he remembers his dentist they'll be on first name terms.

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by Aclaret » Fri Feb 10, 2023 7:05 pm

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 😀

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Re: As a kid, I remember....

Post by Tricky Trevor » Fri Feb 10, 2023 9:21 pm

Tapping dial-a-disc whilst sheltering in a phone box.

Party telephone lines. Picking the receiver up and hearing voices was a bummer.

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