A Bit Of Light Hearted Banter, Remember When

[Bobbisox1]

you had to dial up the Internet which made your landline busy
Shops closed half day every Wednesday

Anymore?

[Bobbisox1]

You’re just a bit * misunderstood * 10c, that’s al, :0)))

[10ClarionSt]

However, a darker memory for me is one that I still have vividly in my mind from when I was 7 or 8 years old. I saw a man beaten up and slashed with a razor only a few yards from me. It was a Whit Friday, outside a pub called The Apollo, on Livesey Street in Ancoats. I thought he'd been murdered but I ran home, just round the corner, and never heard any more about it. But I can still see it all very clearly in mind. It was horrific. Sorry folks. Not quite in the spirit of things.

[Bobbisox1]

Oh No, that’s awful 10c,it’s obviously left an impact on you

[Jackdaw33]

With regard to biscuits being sold from tins, shops would sell off the broken biscuits cheaply. We would occasionally buy them as an alternative to sweets.

I remember tea and sugar being sold loose from wells in the counter at the Co-op.

The Co-op was never referred to as such, it was always the Store.

[10ClarionSt]

It's a bad memory that will never leave me, although I never speak about it.

[Cloverjo]

Wearing deeley-boppers and rara skirts.

[10ClarionSt]

The war left on thing over for my mother as she always referred to the shopping as "going for the rations". Ha Ha!

[Bobbisox1]

Jack, a shop called The Hadrian did all that, sugar in blue bags by the lb, butter in a barrel cut with wire with a peg on the end to hold it, broken biscuits sold for half the price

[Jackdaw33]

That was a common expression till about the end of the 50s. My mother and all the neighbours used it.

[Jackdaw33]

I remember the Hadrian well. My mother used to work for them before the war.

[10ClarionSt]

Another memory I have is going with my mother to get some NHS powdered baby milk and orange juice from an office in Oldham St, Manchester. Also, just a few shops away, was an electrical hardware store that my dad sent me to for some gramophone needles, so he could play his 78's!
At the top of Oldham St, at it's junction with Oldham Rd and Great Ancoats St, was a huge, very ornate, horse trough. They were still around in the 50's you know!

[woofgang]

Bobbisox "I'm thinking that too and yet London was the Mecca of 60s fashion Woof"


I am thinking there might be a link there? :)