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Old Jan 29th 2009 | 4:59 am
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Quatermass.

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Old Jan 29th 2009 | 5:00 am
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Totally overcrowding cars for day trips to seaside
 
Old Jan 29th 2009 | 5:01 am
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Our Co-op Divi number - 9262 - and getting new clothes when it was paid out.
 
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
Lucky Bags

Love Hearts

Parma Violets

Sweet Tobacco

Buster and Smash comics.

Banana Split penny chews

It's a knockout.
I found Parma Violets in the Scottish & Irish store, yaaaaay!!
 
Old Jan 29th 2009 | 5:01 am
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Originally Posted by albertabound
Totally overcrowding cars for day trips to seaside
My Dad's Brown Allegro
 
Old Jan 29th 2009 | 5:04 am
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Originally Posted by KRoss
Yes I remember getting sent out with a list of groceries which was then wrapped around some money (to give to the lady) and had to tow my 5 year old sister with me. I was 7! We would be on the "at risk" register nowadays!
Latch Key kids which we woz would be at risk now!!!
 
Old Jan 29th 2009 | 5:06 am
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Havang rags put in my hair to make ringlets. Using sugar and water to 'set' our hair. We moved on to a globby green jel sold in Woolies that you could dip your comb in.
 
Old Jan 29th 2009 | 5:08 am
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Originally Posted by dboy
Too funny! I remember being like 10 and having a note from my dad for 10 benson and hedges from the local paper shop. Wow times sure have changed.
I can remember being sent to the off-licence with a jug to buy draught bitter
 
Old Jan 29th 2009 | 5:09 am
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Green Shield Stamps and picking gifts out of the cigarette catalogue and realised you could only get an umbrella with 75000!

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Old Jan 29th 2009 | 5:11 am
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Originally Posted by bluemoon1
Green Shield Stamps and picking gifts out of the cigarette catalogue when you had saved up 75000 for an umbrella!!
Oh God, i'd forgotten about that

I remember my Dad having enough for a 'fancy' lighter and ashtray.....he quit smoking 2 weeks later
 
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Originally Posted by FlirtyKnickers
Oh God, i'd forgotten about that

I remember my Dad having enough for a 'fancy' lighter and ashtray.....he quit smoking 2 weeks later
In place of "fancy" do you really mean "cheap and tacky"
 
Old Jan 29th 2009 | 5:15 am
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Originally Posted by bluemoon1
In place of "fancy" do you really mean "cheap and tacky"
Of course.....it was green marble
 
Old Jan 29th 2009 | 5:20 am
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the offy (off license) actually being in the pub
 
Old Jan 29th 2009 | 5:23 am
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Remote control for the TV that plugged into the tv set and had a long wire trailing across the loung floor!!

The tennis game - big bat/short bat, fast or slow!!
 
Old Jan 29th 2009 | 5:33 am
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The house in our street which was the local betting 'shop'. Being sent down there with a 'sixpence accumulater' at the last minute before the race started.
 


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