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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.

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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.

 

 

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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!

 

xmas6 Iain.

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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! :norty: So much for INflation lol:

 

 

xmas6 Iain

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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 Minicars

Grundig tape recorders.

Home-made go - carts racing down the road.

Pogo sticks.

The Walls man

Sliding 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 morning

Stone-cold composition floors.

Friendly local coppers.

Biggles books.

Petrol at 4/6 a gallon

Press 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 line

Cream on the milk which was in glass bottles

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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............................ :kiss

 

 

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Roy of the Rovers,

 

Topical Times Football Annual

 

6d's in Birthday Dumpling...... Elf n Safety, what elf n safety  :naughty:

 

My yearly season ticket for TWO Golf courses 4/6d Ayr Belleisle & Seafield

 

Being a Steward at the Saturday Morning Odeon Club

 

 

xmas6 Iain.

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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'!

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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,,, 

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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

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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.

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