JennyMorgan Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Newspaper 'squares' threaded onto string and hanging in the 'privy'. Dan Dare & Digby, Radio Luxemburg and abbreviated Richard (Di*K) Barton and Horace Batchelor Crystal sets, X-Ray machines in the shoe-shop, The 'Light Program', Workers Playtime & the Northern Dance Orchestra, London to Brighton in one minute on the TV, Billy Bunter, yah-roo! Bronco, Archy Andrew. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Memory is going! London to Brighton in FOUR minutes, see it here: I thought it wonderful, at the time! Mr Crabtree, The Tiller Girls, Percy Thrower, Barry Bucknall, Jack Hargreaves, I remember them well! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonzo Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Ranworth Breeze: No, we did not make rafts from the lolly sticks but we did used to make rough boats from any piece of wood, sharpening the front, banging a hole somewhere near the front of it and pushing a stick in for a mast. A piece of cereal packet served as a Viking type sail. We used to race our makeshift boats across the local park lake when the wind was in the right direction. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Lenny the Lion Club, Ovaltinies...(Sing)Yes We are the Ovaltienies happy girls and boys...... Co-op Plastic Milk Tokens Red and White. To have your milk delivered. Dandilion and Burdock and Vimto Pocket Radios under the bedclothes listening to Radio Luxembourg Top 20! Iain. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Iain, didn't think that you would have got Luxembourg that far North! The signal here in Broadland was pretty inconsistent at the best of times back then. Then along came Radio Veronica, good signal, good music, no Horace Batchelor or the dreaded, mundane NDO, bliss! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonzo Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Wagon Wheels! And giant arrowroot biscuits with a bottle of Vimto whilst mum and dad were having a drink in the local. Kids were not allowed inside. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 JM, We got ok, but a bit like listening to a test match at 5am from Australia on the old Philips Valve radio. To improve the signal you sat them on old cast radiators, gave it a better ariel. Bonzo, still get Wagon Wheels but so small now compared to the original ones. Bit like Lees Macaroon Bars and Tunnocks Caramel Wafers...all shrunk! So much for INflation Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Arrowroot biscuits plus a pint or two of Bullards mild, wa-hey, far, far worse than sprouts and beans, especially on a small boat! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Arrowroot biscuits plus a pint or two of Bullards mild, wa-hey, far, far worse than sprouts and beans, especially on a small boat! So thats where the word "Stinkies" originates from!....oops! Iain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Iain, there are certain similarities! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VetChugger Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Oh for the days of a proper train set with lots more stations, tracks, buildings and trains! Bloody Beeching! Proper windows with straps to lean out of as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppy Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 This thread evokes so many memories. A few more:Home made explosives with sodium chlorate and sugar.Hornby trains sets. (Posh, I had Triang)Carbolic soap.Workers Playtime and Family Favourites.Journey Into Space.Uncle Mac.1/2d Little Devil bangers.Isettas and Bond MinicarsGrundig tape recorders.Home-made go - carts racing down the road.Pogo sticks.The Walls manSliding down a snowy slope on a sheet of corrugated iron.Lighting fires in the woods, baking potatoes, then peeing on it to put it out (the fire, not the potato).Dustcarts with slide up hatches on the side.Lighting the fire in the morningStone-cold composition floors.Friendly local coppers.Biggles books.Petrol at 4/6 a gallonPress button B and get your money back. (we’d never pass a phone box without popping in to try it.)Picking up the phone to hear the party on the lineCream on the milk which was in glass bottles 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxwellian Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Peter That London to Brighton used to be on TV every Christmas when I was a kid. I have watched it so many times. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 None of you Norfolk boys have mentioned the infamous 'honey cart! Biggles, yes, but let's not forget John Wentley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockham Admiral Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 The "pop" man delivering pop on the back of his horse and cart. Asking in the local baker's shop for "Any old stale cakes?". Frozen lolly-pop sticks (you didn't need coupons for them!). Buying cinnamon sticks from the chemist shop to smoke,,,,,, honestly! Fetching Dad from the local National Fire Services club at 1.15pm on a Sunday for his lunch! He and his mates were on a short pink-slip but still managed their gallon of Hewitts' Mild each Sunday lunchtime. Making a canoe out of an orange box, Mum's washing prop and some old canvas... my pal (who could just swim) tried it out in Grimsby Docks.... it turned turtle and sank! (He's still my pal to this day! All of these were in the mid to late 40's when no-one had heard of H&S. We had nothing during and immediately after the Second World War and had to make all our own entertainment............................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Roy of the Rovers, Topical Times Football Annual 6d's in Birthday Dumpling...... Elf n Safety, what elf n safety My yearly season ticket for TWO Golf courses 4/6d Ayr Belleisle & Seafield Being a Steward at the Saturday Morning Odeon Club Iain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumpy Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Sitting on the running board outside the pub with a bottle of Vimto and bag of crisps with blue bag of salt.(I wasn't allowed in the car because I fiddled with things - good job it had a starting handle!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Fenders were knotted rope covered in canvas, they really took some scrubbing after a night alongside a muddy bank. Life-Jackets were blue and orange, bulky affairs and filled with kapok, once saturated they never dried out so didn't last long. Bilge pumps were ex WD things that were designed for putting out phosphorus fires, they really weren't much good. Sails were cotton canvas and if they were stowed away damp soon developed mildew so drying sails could be a chore in wet weather. Decks were covered in painted canvas and laying in bed during a rainstorm often included clutching a bucket rather than a teddy bear! The 'gents' at Geldeston Locks were a hole in the ground, surrounded by tarred, corrugated iron. There was no roof so one hoped that it wasn't raining because the 'bog' was someway from the pub. Locally the Waveney Inn (WRC) was known as 'Dirty D*ck's', and that was nothing to do with the customers! The landlord was a 'puggy old bugger'! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorAndDeirdre Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Mention has been made of good being delivered by horse and cart. We had coal, vegtables and coal all delivered by horse and cart. It was my job to go out afterwards to pick up (you know what) for the roses in the garden. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowjo Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Press button B and get your money back. (we’d never pass a phone box without popping in to try it.) Poppy! we used to stuff tissue up the holes in all the old red phone boxes near us, then go back later remove the tissue and hey presto! loads of penny's to buy fags and sweets, we never paid for calls we tapped the phone to get free ones! not that many people had phones that we knew, it was back in the days when you actually walked to your friends house to see if they were in, I was watching my grandkids the weekend, texting friends 100 yards away to see what they were doing, I got a few dirty looks when I asked them don't your legs work,, Frank,,, 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hylander Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 We still have the any old iron man come round here in Beccles. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Hi Monica, Sadly we have too many coming around where we live, it is big business. One of the neighbours was fitting new radiators earlier in year when the scrap man can around, not only were the old radiators taken but also a couple of the new ones as well. It pays to leave nothing around that they can see outside of the house. Regards Alan 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadAmbition Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 We still have the any old iron man come round here in Beccles. So old men in Beccles are made of Iron are they? What's his name - 'Iron-man' ? Griff (Who is just getting his coat) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 We still get a rag & bone man with a hoss & cart, one of the local travellers, decent sort, I think. Once upon a time we made music with a comb and 'hard' toilet paper. Once upon a time a walkie-talkie was two empty tins, baked bean tins for example, and a piece of string stretched between them. Once upon a time a take-away-meal was handfuls of peas nicked from a passing pea lorry or tractor delivering to Birds-Eye at Lowestoft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppy Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 This is all getting to sound like this 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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