Chicken bald back

[Ardene5]

Joke shop toys under 1 shilling for a great laugh

Fun with moth balls in water early version of larva lamp.

Metal hub covers

Chrome plated car bumpers

Policeman on point duty directing traffic.

On foot Copper ( policeman)

Blue Police Box

For those who remember Sheffield Cole's Corner

 

 

Best regards

 

Ian & Valerie

William & Harry

Missy & Millie Dogs

9 Hens

Henian Castle with + inside

[Janty]

Mint Cracknell or Ice Breaker anyone?

 

Hubby and I often talk about Icebreakers. Remember that lovely shiny bluey packaging?

[clootie]

I do and the blue minty bits inside..... yum!

[redhotchick]

I was in Audlem the other weekend and there was a copper on foot, by himself! He was talking to some local youths, (in a friendly way) I waited politely to ask some directions.

Lovely to see a helpful community policeman.

[Mutrix Farmers]

2oz of sherbert pips for 2p

sweet cigarettes with red tips (and Tom and Jerry on the packet)

4 black jacks for a penny

hand knitted twinset to wear to parties with my kilt

playing out in the park with friends all day and only going home to eat

one car per family (if you were lucky)

using next door's telephone for emergencies

black and white rental TV

Pricerites

Jon Pertwee as Dr Who

flowery maxi dresses in psychedelic colours

a designer label had a ladybird on it

1p bus fare into town

3 TV channels

power cuts (always seemed to be happening when I was growing up)

 

kids don't have half so much fun today as we did!!

[Mutrix Farmers]

I forgot Camberwick Green!!

[chickencam]

Bread strikes, I remember being the only one at school with sarnies because my Mum made her own

[The Dogmother]

Anyone else remember the power cuts during the winter of discontent?

[Tina C]

And a toilet roll shortage....

 

A yellow capri with a black roof just went past me on the high street (but not my dad's old one ) Weird.

 

And yes Clare I remember them well. Thankfully we had a coal fire and lived in a mining village.

[Valkyrie]

Oh wow, I remember loads and can add a few:

Childrens tv:

Torchie the Battery Boy

Twizzle

The Pingwings (knitted penguins Clanger prototypes)

Mr Pastry

Blue Peter with Christopher Trace

Lost in Space

Dr Who with the old guy, glad Patrick Troughton replaced him- loved Frazer Hines in his kilt!

Rawhide

77 Sunset Strip

It takes a Thief with Robert Wagner (drool)

Fireball XL5

Get Smart

Car 54 Where are You

The Munsters

Stingray

Skippy

Barrier Reef

The Magic Boomerang

Crackerjack - and childrens TV didn't last long and we had BBC and ITV, it was all in black and white and you had to turn a big k"Ooops, word censored!" to change the channel.

The first thing I wanted to see on our new colour TV with BBC2 was the High Chapparal.

All Our Yesterdays which was all war footage - booooooring.

Cuddly Dudley which I named my teddy after.

Scarey movies were Night of the Demon and Quatermass

 

The first car I drove was an A40 when I was 10 over the New Forest at Sway - cars could go anywhere then. Then we had a Hillman Imp, Hillman Minx, Vauxhall Viva which used to gunge up it's pipes with a brown oily foam until my dad altered the engine. Datsun Sunny my driving instructor had. I also remember eating "mandarin oranges, dink,dink, dink" on the running board of my dad's Standard 8! How sad I remember the jingles!

 

Steam trains and then the first diesels!

 

Matchbox cars that were made by Lesney.

 

Sweets and goodies:

Gobstoppers that were huge

Sherbet Fountains

Cremola Foam

R Whites Lemonade - Canadian cousins had 7Up long before we had it here

"I drink IDRIS when I's dry" - lemon squash with a horrible lemon with an angry face on the doors of the grocers shop.

 

My grandad insisted on Izal - my mum showed me how to use it - you rubbed it like doing hand washing over your knuckes to make it soft - the odd bent bits still scratched - thank goodness my nan discovered Andrex, but then you couldn't put that around a comb and hum through it and make your mouth all tingly!

 

Going out on my Raleigh 16 (huge heavy thing) without being frightened of strangers. In fact we always said hello to anyone - it was just polite.

Dogs running loose in packs - not so good.

I still like cloud watching - some things never change.

 

Oh yes "gimme mint cracknell 'n I don't care"

Amazin(g) choccy bar with raisins

Old Jamaica - yummmmmmm

Yep also power cuts - they were fun with lots of candles and torch waving and making shapes with shadows.

My mum had a stalker and the local policeman told my dad to beat him up in the woods when there weren't any witnesses! Dad didn't though because the policeman sorted him out first - he then became an inspector and then chief - a bit on the Sweeney side of the law!

It is still not illegal to kill someone with a bow and arrow on Chobham Common - but would recommend it!

 

Hermans Hermits

Dave Clark 5

Billy J Kramer

Johnny Kidd and the Pirates

Freddie and the Dreamers

The Scaffold

The Monkees

 

Yep remember a bread shortage and a sugar shortage.

 

Oh dear I really should get back into the 21st century

[Egluntyne]

For those Sheffield people, I remember getting on a bus to go anywhere in the city for 2p. I think that it was only about 10 p for over 16s..

When we first moved to Sheffield bus journeys were 10p for adults. . Now they are around 2 quid. Hardly an incentive to use public transport when it is more expensive to go into the city centre on the bus than to drive and park for a couple of hours.

[Cinnamon]

Old Jamaica was delicious,wasn't it?

 

I remember that Momster Munch seemed HUGE back then,but they look small these days.Ditto to Curly Wurlys & Wagon Wheels.

 

I used to love 'The Banana Splits', C.H.I.P.S,'The Dukes of Hazzard', 'Mulitcoloured Swap Shop' & Lamb Chop

 

I read Bunty & Twinkle,then Blue Jeans, then Jackie then Just 17,then Smash Hits

[Seagazer]

Wow you really dragged an old memory out with Old Jamaica!

[Cinnamon]

My dad adored it & I would save up really hard to buy him a bar every Christmas

it was brought back for a short while about 5 years ago, & I got him another bar , which he was really delighted with

[ClaireG]

I'm just under 40 and remember most of them. Mum was an avid green sheild stamp fan! We had a Morris Minor and then several Austin Maxis. My sister and i were always in either handmade matching outfits or in Ladybird dresses.

I don't think anyone has mentioned my all time childrens TV favourite yet, The Clangers, i loved the soup dragon.

[jlo]

Old Jamica - yummmeee! I had forgotten all about that.

 

What about The Woodentops or has anyone mentioned The Herb Garden or Noggin the Nog?

[Seagazer]

I used to love those programmes too.

 

I watched a programme when I was young and it scared the living daylights out of me. I'm sure it was a childrens programme. It sort of ended with the children sitting inside a ring of lights and there was a white horse (not sure if it was a ghost or just a white horse) it was really scary and you could hear it galloping along a corridor (that is wierd) and then it jumped into the circle and disappeared. I'm hoping someone else watched it because otherwise I probably imagined that I watched it

[Egluntyne]

I loved Noggin the Nog, Clangers, Captain Pugwash.

[KimmyCustard]

I remember Jungle Ted and the Crazy Buttonpoppers , having only the choice of a grey phone with the dial on it cos there was nothing else, eating spam (and not realising it was made from lips,bums,beaks and claws), playing Knockdown Ginger, finding out there isnt a tooth fairy nor Father Christmas .

 

My Dad (aged 80 in Dec but acts about 50 and looks 60) still goes on about the price of things 'Ten bob?! You could get loads for that and still have half a crown change!' (or something like that). Then he said he used to drive his little sports car up to Soho for a night out and not locking the doors COS IT WASNT BUILT WITH LOCKS! Weird......

 

 

Kimmy

x

[The Dogmother]

I loved Noggin the Nog, Clangers, Captain Pugwash.

 

Me too, you can get Clanger knitting patterns you know.. just wish I could knit

[Cinnamon]

I used to have a knitted Clanger & a Soup Dragon, who I loved

I wish I still had them now,actually

[The Dogmother]

Shall we see if we can get The Clangers on DVD Sarah? Children these days don't know what they are missing.

 

Puff the Magic Dragon?

[Ardene5]

Does any one remember those knitting patterns your mum found in the women mags.

Although they sounded great they gave you (us) problems.

A wooden balaclava made in brownish wool with a hole for our face great in idea, rubbish in the wool it was made in.

Or those hand made swimming trunks made in some form of toweling material great for the beach but not to swim in or come out of the sea, very embarrassing.

Then you get that photographer on the beach wanting to take your photo in those swimming trunk ......... not way was my response, he did take the photo but I know a mum who never made any more swimming trunks , thank goodness, after seeing the photograph.

TV program ....... Super Car, Bat man 1960 version, Top Cat.

 

Best regards

 

Ian

 

Ian & Valerie

William & Harry

Missy & Millie dogs

9 Hens

Henian Castle with inside

Edited October 9, 2008 by Guest

[Egluntyne]

Anyone have a bubbly swimming cozzie?

 

And plastic sandals in brown from Woolworths, a bargain at two and sixpence, long before anyone had heard of jelly shoes or Crocs.

[chickencam]

Fav.TV

 

clangers

Ivor the Engine

The Wombles

Paddington

Grange Hill

Rent a Ghost ( We watched a couple of these recently for the children to see and they were rubbish )