Yesteryear

[laurence2]

People moan in todays society about being poor etc, surely they've never had so good compared to previous generations.

Who ever ate Bread & Dripping then, i believe this is still quite common up north.

Who waited for the jelly to set on the window seal {no fridge} in the height of the summer {it took 4 days to set lol}

Who had advertising logos on the bottom of their footwear { ie cardboard from the weetabix box to cover the worn out sole}


You can't beat the good old days, what memories to you recall of your earlier years, thats if you have any memories

[Mr k]

Do you all remember your milk like this at the door in the winter

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb27/mrknow all/1963_milk_bottles.jpg

[toonmilo]

Spokey Dokeys on yer bike.

Also, turning in the front of the mudguards on yer bike to make it sound like a motorbike.

Going out all day with mates during the summer holidays and coming back home just before it got dark.

Water bottle fights on the local green with empty washing up liquid bottles.

Sweets called Pacers.....they were amazing!!

Soda Streams

My Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum were the dogs back wheels!!

[radiogaga]

i had a blue parka jacket with fake fur round the hood and orange lining. quite a popular make, i realised when at school.
barlinnie breakouts, rubber shoe type things. bought for 60p by mum. named after the local jail for some reason. i was mortifyed and threw them up on the school roof claiming someone stole them (aye right)
also a tomahawk bike, my cousin had a grifter.
my gran and grandad had a sweetie shop, yumyum. i have approximatly 5 teeth left that are my own. rest are replacememts. boohoo.
long hot summer hols, that never seemes to end.
green double decker buses
freedom, being fearless.
paddling pools.
magic days. xx

[RATTER15]

Doc Spock. I live in the South West, Devon to be precise, and we often say "up north" but only in the context of someone living up north and I have never heard it used in a derogatory way!!!

Whats wrong with living up north anyway?

Does it mean something different to different people, im confused by that!!

[PatriciaH]

We had steralized milk ugghh couldnt touch that now - 12 bottles a day delivered - 8 kids in the family!! lol

[bigmamma]

Who admits to wearing hot-pants , and a cow bell , and omg the size of the first personal calculator !!!

[Panic Button]

Oxford bags and cornish pastie shoes

[PatriciaH]

Plastic summer sandals and school uniforms that drowned you "youl soon grow into it" said mum... : )

[bigmamma]

Finding a stone that you could use to score a hopscotch grid onto the pavement........the rollerskates with the extendable base , always with a missing screw and a broken strap.

[Dassie]

Winkels for tea on Saturday, Steam trains that ran on time, Free school milk at breaktime together with a cream donut that cost 3p, Creating my own amusement, not relying on computer games and TV, feeling safe walking in the street and being allowed to go out by myself as a child. Hospitals/doctors that actually treated you as a person and now for the unmentionable in this day and age! Bl..k pudding, The Robertson's Golly..g.

[PatriciaH]

Agggh just thought of something awful : (






















The school dentist ! gas mask on your face and held in place by a horrible dentist , gave you nightmares ....all cos of them sugar sandwiches ! lol

[bigmamma]

Standing on the railway bridge madly waving to the Flying Scotsman as it flew by under you .

Lol PatriciaH:-)

[chitchat]

Bread and Dripping - Yum Yum I had some on Tuesday night. Dipping my bread into the meat juices is nicer than the meat itself! Not very healthly but lovely.

[dot.hawkes]

listening to alan freeman on a sunday night and then after the number one, hearing the opening title song of 'sing something simple'!

[nuoyg]

I have loads of happy early memories, what a nice reminder - painting stones in the back garden with my mum. My mum cutting potatoes in half and cutting shapes out of them for me to paint them and stamp on to paper. Me taking everything (hairdryer, flannels, hairbrushes, newspapers) and putting it in my dolls pram and insisting my dad walk up and down the road with me and refusing to go in so bless he had to walk up and down for ages. My darling brother being born and my dad taking me to see my mum and him! I could go on and on. :)

[raysparx1]

i grew up in a London slum in the 1950s, no bath, a toilet that had rats coming out of it when the drains blocked, we ate bread and dripping a lot, we had about 6 sacks hanging up in the scullery to collect woolens, rags, papers, copper, etc, my dad picked up dog ends, to put in his tobacco tin, London smog, Christ you cant beat the good old days, Rickets, scurvy, nits, izal toilet paper, icicles on the inside of the windows, lino on the floor, if you were lucky, we cut up newspapers, bring back those days I am feeling nostalgic.

[LoftyLottie]

Just passing by and I thought I would drop in for some bread and dripping. Grandma always had a huge bowl of the stuff with that lovely brown meat jelly at the bottom. (That's when meat had plenty of fat and was cooked on the bone! ) Spread it on thick white bread and sprinkle with plenty of salt, mmmmmmmmmmmmmm lovely. I can taste it now!

I'm a born and bred Londoner!

[jno]

what were the candles for, Ethel?

There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.

[weecalf]

I t used to get so cold that my dad used to eat Victory Vs and we used to sit round his mouth warming our hands.

[LoftyLottie]

As a child, Having your face hands and knees scrubbed at the kitchen sink before bedtime,
Toasting thick slices of bread on a toasting fork over the fire on a winters evening.
Once a week bath in a bathroom preheated with a paraffin heater.
Sitting on a high wooden stall in the grocery store whilst the grocer sliced the bacon, cut a slab of butter and weighed out sugar into blue bags.
Overhead rail systems in department stores that took your payment off to the cash office and brought your change back.