Lesley Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Wasn't the White Horses music used for Belle and Sebastian? - or am I having a senior moment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepe Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Mmmm, not sure Lesley, but I remember Belle and Sebastian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Oh yes, I remember Follyfoot, Sarah and all the ones you mentioned Gina Doctor Who was Jon Pertwee and we had Basil Brush and Crackerjack, Mr & Mrs, The Generation Game, Starsky and Hutch, Kojak, The Professionals (swoon!), Man About The House, George and Mildred (ugh!!), The Sweeney. Oh happy days! Anyone remember a truly appalling programme called Love Thy Neighbour. It was completely, utterley, totally dreadful. I am cringing just thinking about it! As life on Mars demonstrated...we've come a long way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Oh dear, yes I do remember it. Wasn't it just awful. So politically incorrect I'm amazed it was even allowed at the time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Ooh, thanks for the link to the white horses music Pepe, great to hear that again! Now, can anyone find a link to the Lightening Tree? Yes, I loved Follyfoot as well. Remember my Gran being quite radical and letting me stay up to watch Tales of the Unexpected, hence my fear of rats (remember the one where the rats ate everyone? ) And Starsky was my crush! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted April 21, 2007 Author Share Posted April 21, 2007 Till Death us do Part Steptoe and Son Take Your Pick Double Your Money Emergency Ward 10 Criss Cross Quiz Ask the Family and "Uncle Mac", "Workers' Playtime", and "Listen with Mother" on the radio. (That will split the 60s from the 70s!) And here are the lyrics of the "Stingray" theme to get you all singing: Marina, Aqua Marina, What are these strange enchantments that start whenever you're near? Marina, Aqua Marina, Why can't you whisper the words my heart is longing to hear? You're magic to me, A beautiful mystery. I'm certain to fall, I know, Because you enthral me so. Marina, Aqua Marina, Why don't you say That you'll always stay Close to my heart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 I loved those puppety things! Fireball XL5 Anyone remember Torchy the Battery Boy? ( See him here ) We were only talking about him at work last week! Do you remember 5 O'Clock Club, Tuesday Rondezvous, and (wince) Junior Showtime. How old is Bonnie Langford. She seems to be about 30, but I'm sure she was around when I was a child!!! Jimmy Clitheroe on the Radio during Sunday Lunch. I had my appendix out when I was 9 (on Bonfire night ) and I can remember listening to it on the hospital radio thingy, and laughing so much that my stitches really hurt! I tell you I'm loving this thread....there will be no stopping me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theherd123 Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 I wish my OH would join the forum and contribute to this thread instead of asking me to relay messages! Ok what about the Double Deckers? (OH is now singing the theme tune!) Come aboard, come aboard, come aboard and join the Double Deckers... How about the Banana Splits and The Hair Bear Bunch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Oh Emma! I've got so many bits of theme tune going round my head now! I loved all three, especially The Double Deckers. What about "Why don't you?" - school holiday TV fodder . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeramaSilly Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 I used to love Marine Boy - but "Ooops, word censored!"ody ever seems to remember it! Dr Who when it was John Pertwee - used to rush upstairs every Saturday night, get my blanket and then lie on the settee watching it from underneath the blanket! Do you remember Slime? It was a pot of truly disgusting green slimy stuff - I loved it! I loved the pippa dolls and Sindy. I remember saving the coupons from cornflakes packets to get a barbie doll in a swimsuit and sunglasses with a beach towel - I was just in heaven when it arrived in the post! Sophie x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Anyone have a Tressy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 No but I wanted one . Anyone have a Katy Copycat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted April 21, 2007 Author Share Posted April 21, 2007 I had a Pedigree Princess Anne doll, which shows my age (and Princess Anne's). In fact I still have her, but she is very scruffy. Do you remember the 6d. saving stamps showing Princess Anne and the 2/6 ones showing Prince Charles? We were a thrifty lot. Do you remember Princess and Diana magazine, and Bunty, with the Four Mary's (Simpson, Radleigh, Field & Cotter) and Stella the ice-skater? And how I wanted to be Lorna Drake and go to Thelma Mayne's ballet school, even though the latter was a tartar (in a wheelchair, if I remember correctly). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Do you remember Princess and Diana magazine, and Bunty, with the Four Mary's (Simpson, Radleigh, Field & Cotter) My finest moment.....Quiz and Curry night at my childrens primary school. We were joint first and the the tie breaker was "What were the surnames of the Four Marys......and I was the only one who knew!!!! We won a bottle of M&S Champagne (very nice it was too). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Anyone have a Tressy? Of course!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Yes, still have her but lost the key. Loved the 4 Marys & all. I didn't have money for comics but my best friend had them & I read hers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Gonks Wincyette liberty bodices - I know my forum twin will remember these as well Gonks .....I had a Gonk. I remember taking it to school by coincidence on the day of the eleven plus. I passed so he must have brought me good luck! Wincyette liberty bodices.......I remember these only too well!!!! Horrible itchy scratchy things wiched seemed to smell of Germolene for some obscure reason that I could never fathom. You wore them from October to May and then from May to October you went into an airtex vest. It was reckoned that Liberty bodices were the cause of flat chests.! (Not in my case! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Wheres Dan - this thread is right up his street Sorry... we hijacked Debs and Dan and the children for the weekend..... He'll soon be catching up with this thread I'm sure, as we spent a good proportion of the weekend talking about it.... and, well,..... I'll let him do the telling, he's FAR better at it than me! Barnaby the Bear The Hair Bear Bunch John Pertwee had me running for the sofa cushions How? Mr and Mrs. Scooby doos... one bath and hairwash a week doing PE in just your vest and knickers I've posted this before, but its just SO funny..... (and as its of OH, not me, its ok ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 (edited) one bath and hairwash a week Unthinkable nowadays isn't it?? I suppose if everyone smelt.....you wouldn't notice. I had an uncle whose BO emptied rooms and dance floors....but he was a really nice man. PS OH is really cute...I can see why you fell for him. Anyone have a tent dress? Edited April 22, 2007 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Wow Annie P The shirt is one thing but to have a matching tie combo! And such a nice finishing touch the way both are tucked into the purple short and belt combo (I see mother was up to date with her mini length outfit too - very riskay!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Only just found this thread and haven't had time to read it, but will try tomorrow - at last a thread for my age group! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 gosh this has made me feel better, I am not alone! Hot pants Plastic shoes to wear at the seaside (mum used to cut the toes out when they got too small so we could wear them another year) Bread and dripping Cadburys 3d bars of chocolate threepenny bits! The Puffin Club We didn't have a telly when I was growing up - reading the threads above I was suddenly back in those days when everyone at break time was talking about Dr Who and I couldn't join in I don't regret it now though, as I read so many books ... hence the Puffin Club mention above! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Bread and dripping - yes I remember that. My parents thought it such a treat. YUK! We used to have sugar sandwiches too. Watching Blue Peter and then the Magic Roundabout. Then the news started and we knew it was tea-time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Oh, this has stirred up a bit of nostalgia . I had some luvverly hotpants, purple with yellow daisies on them They were truly revolting to look at, but I loved them and wore them proudly at every opportunity . They were handmade by my Mum, as were most of our clothes, very rare (& special) to have bought clothes back then. She even made our school uniform, the Co-op sold the fabric and the school's chosen patterns and all the Mum's stitched them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 We had sugar sandwiches too, and condensed milk sandwiches, and masses of jam. And those were the treats! The real meals were a punishment, and we were forced to sit at the table to finish them. Lemonade was delivered by a Corona lorry. Far more people came door to door, e.g. the rag-and-bone man. Butchers' shops all had sawdust on the floor, and most shopping that I remember was done at David Greig. No supermarkets then. School was very very strict. At my primary school there were over 50 in a class (all white and English-speaking, of course) with just one teacher and no assistant. If you spoke one word to another child in class, you had to stand outside the headmaster's door. There was plenty of corporal punishment: boys were caned regularly. Girls just got shaken so that their teeth rattled. If the heating failed we wore our coats in class. The milk was often frozen solid and almost impossible to drink. I feel that people born around 1950 were the last to suffer the Victorian regime. Things changed a lot after that. I think it's exemplified by the vast difference between Prince Charles and Prince Andrew: they are not all that different in age, but were born in different eras, and it shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
