A Trip Down Memory Lane

[Bobbisox1]

From ‘ Parkies’ who loved their jobs and did it with Pride to School board men, strange it was always a man , we were terrified of him and playing truant was never in our minds.
The friendly neighbourhood policeman who wouldn’t think twice of cuffing you with his gloved hand and telling you to get home else he’d be knocking on your parents doors
School dinners with Semolina and jam making it pink
Post office saving books every Monday morning
Milk monitors

Can you recall anymore ?

[MargoTester]

Nitty Nora the flea explorer

[Bobbisox1]

We used to call her the dickie explorer :0))

[Atheist]

Ink monitors.
Pulling tar bubbles from between the cobbles on hot summer days just off the town-centre with only the occasional rag and bone man's cart and errand boys on bikes.

[Mamyalynne]

Clouds of chalk dust when the teacher banged the board duster.

The wholesale panic when a wasp got into class.

The long poles to open the fanlights that seemed so high.

The mystery of what was behind those heavy velvet curtains on the stage in the hall.

Those tiny toilets that years later when you go back as an adult you marvel at how you ever fit your behind on them.

[mushroom25]

that stuff that claimed to be milk that came in a strange shaped bottle with a crown cork. it wouldn't curdle even if it got struck by lightning.

[emmie]

an orange drink always with a straw through the top, or milk with same, this was at school
collecting dads ciggies from the local shop,
taking the lemonade bottles back to the off licence for money back, can't remember how much, but it wasn't a lot.
playing in the ruins of the two local churches, bombed
during WW2.
school uniforms which in my senior years were green and yellow tie, yuck.
green shield stamps for saving up for that must have item.
getting goods where you paid every week/month...

[Bobbisox1]

Brilliant Mamya

[emmie]

off the Prudential i think it was.

[Bobbisox1]

My school uniform was a green blazon, grey pleated skirt and a cream shirt, the tie was black with the colour of the house you were in , with slanted horizontal stripes and a small shield

[emmie]

playing in the bombed sites away from my home, area

school trips to Warren Farm for Physical exercise, i was
always sick on the way, sitting in the coach with no air.

[emmie]

policemen were looked up to, same as teachers, never
truant as school board persona as you say would want to know why.

[Buenchico]

>>> The wholesale panic when a wasp got into class.

That reminds me of my friend, who taught at a junior school in Sheffield. His class were panicking because some wasps had got inside, so his stood up and adopted his 'strict' pose, which was standing erect with his hands behind his back. He told his class very firmly that they should all calm down, as the wasps wouldn't hurt them if they didn't try to hurt the wasps. Just as he spoke those words, he felt a wasp sting his hand - but he daren't let on to the kids that he'd just been proved wrong, so he had to battle through the rest of the lesson with his hand hurting like hell ;-)

[emmie]

rag and bone man coming round for anything he could collect/sell
coal man delivering everyweek, kept you warm in winter, no central heating in our flats.

[Mamyalynne]

Love it Buen.

[Hopkirk]

Going into a phone box and pressing button B to see if any coins came out.
Sometimes you were lucky.

[Bobbisox1]

Chris that reminds me of when we were on Holiday and a wasp was hovering around us and I jumped and waved my arms about like a lunatic, Mr B sat calmly saying if you stop waving your arms it’ll leave you alone....it stung him :0)))

[davebro]

I once got the bus home from school and paid my usual but they had recently extended the route by about 1/2 mile to make another stop nearer my home so I stayed on. An inspector caught me and as I had no more money he took my name and address. Next day after tea he came to our door to collect tuppence!

[Bobbisox1]

Arh you did that too Hoppy :0)

[Jackdaw33]

Going round phone boxes stuffing paper up the chute so the coins wouldn't drop then going back next morning to collect the loot.

[Bobbisox1]

No mamby pambying then Davebro, haha