montgomail

Long school holidays - the summer hols seem shorter now?
Making tree houses in the fields - not an adult in sight
The local outdoor pool, one man in charge of about 100 kids
Scrumping for apples
Black jacks
Lucky dips
No 6 fags
Crap 70s music
Freedom

Deedee13

poldark.. black jacks. when cigs were 25pence a packet! and u could get 10s and not just 20s. the half penny.

the ice cream man! and playing outside. leaving home with the doors unlocked.

Scouse Express

I didn't see much of Doctor Who. I was too busy hiding behind the Couch especially when those Darlecks came on

I remember The Goodies
Not The Nine O'Clock News (with its over the line, cutting edge wit)
The Kenny Everett Show
Morecambe & Wise Christmas Specials (Priceless)
The Sweeney
The Professionals (Remember the Capri MkIIIs and RS2000s)

& a whole bunch of other programmes that are too numerous to mention.

Jim.

Bob

Milk at school

Crap school dinners

Long summer days, playing footie in the school fields or the park till well late

chicagojlo

Can't you still get 10s of cigs? I thought they still had them in England.
I used to love halfpenny sweets. Handy when my parents would only give me 20p a week pocket money!

lisag8070

I remember the trick my dad would use when we asked for our pocket money

"50p, what do you want with 40p, I don't think I've got 30p, check the mantle there should be 20p on there"

you used to walk away scratching your head holding 20p in your hand....

but it was enough for the Beano and penny sweets...

montgomail

Yes still available.

ukelaine

I remember playing football out in the streets until 9.30pm at night and it was STILL light !

Seeing school fights where no weapons were involved only fists.

Teachers that actually dressed to look like teachers.

Saturday job, had one from the age of 11. Working in a sweet shop, then Boots the Chemist and working there in the summer holidays.

Being able to get in pubs and night clubs without showing an ID, just by dressing up and wearing make-up.

Going to the Off-Licence and buying Cider and potato chips.

Going out no earlier than 9pm to go to a club and then on to a party, coming home at about 6am and nicking a bottle of milk off a door step on the way home

Elaine

bevinva

Bloody Salvation Army band waking you up playing in the street! We had some kids across the road who used to come out and encourage them, I hated them. My brother did too, he put dog pooh in an envelope through their letterbox.

cybersecretary

The Goodies, LOVED that show esp the one with the squirty tomato fight and remember the giant doogle dog one?

Oh yeh, another thing I remember, the 5 minute kid show slot (eg magic roundabout) just before the early evening news.

paddingtongreen

The Boy's Brigade.

Here comes the Boy's Brigade
all covered in marmalade
the marmalade is mouldy
and so is the Boy's Brigade

gazza64

Anyone remember?


Saturday morning pictures at the local flicks? What was the name of the gang who use to live in a double decker bus? Double deckers? One of the gang had a cat?

Saturday teatime watching Basil Brush. hahahahahaha boom boom!!

Runaround with Mike "Paaaaat" Reid. Terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrific!

Knock down ginger. Name of the game was to knock on a strangers front door then run away, hide then see the look on their face. Classic!

Sea cadet band marching round the streets on a sunday morning!

Swap Shop with Noel Edmonds, Cheggers and Maggie Philbin(had serious crush on her!)

Actually caring what song was at Number 1 in the charts,especially at Xmas

Making a Guy Fawkes out of old newspaper and clothes.

Xebedee

Rag and bone man.
Christmas carollers at your door.
Mike Yarwood, Bruce Forsythe.
Jaws & Star Wars at the movies.
Intermissions and ice cream ladies.
Conker fights and raw knuckles from near misses.
Skateboards.
Wizard of Oz/Planet of the Apes on TV at Christmas.
Kentucky Fried Chicken once a year.
Weymouth beach in the Summer.

And you try to tell the kids that today.

paddingtongreen

Fivestones.

ukelaine

Roller skates with four wheels

That toy that was like conkers, but there were two of them, hard balls (No jokes) and kids were breaking their wrists from them, can't remember the name ?

Southend On Sea - Stoney beach, cockle and eel stores (my uncle owned one) UGH !! slot machines that you actually had to pull tha handle and got REAL money out of.

Bill and Ben and of course LITTLE WEED !!!

Andy Pandy

Getting Annuals every year for Xmas Bunty/ Beano / Desperate Dan / Rupert the Bear etc

Setting off fireworks in your own back yard (illegal here)

Seeing TWO films when you went to the cinema

Shoes / Wedges so high you broke your nose if you fell over.

Elaine