- Apr 5, 2014
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Became Nat West in 1981. The famous last ball final
Worth a cup of coffee and a half hour watch
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[Misc] Things you did as kid that don’t seem popular any more
- Thread starter POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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Worth a cup of coffee and a half hour watch
POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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Sussex 300 hundred odd and bankers. Then came Asif Din. What a final.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Comrade Sam
Comrade Sam
That's how I made a crop circle. I recall with several regular posters on here.
61 in my case.
Frey Bentos steak and kidney pies (Saturday lunch)
A lovely mug of Camp coffee (virtually coffee free. WTF is chicory?)
Wall's sausages
Gold top milk (cheese by teatime)
Hedge porn (I know this has been mentioned, but WTF?)
Slinky
Shoot magazine
Health and Efficiency
I may have damaged Thread Integrity, but so what?
Not following instructions
Playing out till dark
Always having dog shit on my shoes.
The lovely smell of creosote
Having nice clean clothes every Monday
Always having a bath Sunday evening, with Tony Prince, the royal ruler on lucky Luxembourg
No deodorant
A lovely mug of Camp coffee (virtually coffee free. WTF is chicory?)
Wall's sausages
Gold top milk (cheese by teatime)
Hedge porn (I know this has been mentioned, but WTF?)
Slinky
Shoot magazine
Health and Efficiency
I may have damaged Thread Integrity, but so what?
Not following instructions
Playing out till dark
Always having dog shit on my shoes.
The lovely smell of creosote
Having nice clean clothes every Monday
Always having a bath Sunday evening, with Tony Prince, the royal ruler on lucky Luxembourg
No deodorant
Parents smoking cigarettes in the car. Even back then it was grim.
Mo Gosfield
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- Aug 11, 2010
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Making darts out of matchsticks and pins and firing them out of empty biro tubes. Location...top deck of bus. Targets...telegraph poles...pub signs...anything wooden. It was an art to judge the slipstream of the bus. Remember a man standing at a bus stop with an umbrella. Cue 20-30 darts in the top of his brolly.
Happy days in the cowshed with a sandwich, a frozen Beejam yoghurt, and a bat and ball for lunch & tea intervals.
Handy for A&E if you crashed
Publius Ovidius
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Marbles. At school in South Africa we used to all sit in a row on the floor, in the dusty road outside school. in front of us we built a pyramid of marbles ( the bigger the marble the harder it fell) and kids would come along and flick their marbles at it to try and knock it down!
You kept the marbles that didn’t knock it down
The big buggers we’re like gold dust to get but made you loads of little ones
Tell that to t’kids today, they wouldn’t bloody believe you
You kept the marbles that didn’t knock it down
The big buggers we’re like gold dust to get but made you loads of little ones
Tell that to t’kids today, they wouldn’t bloody believe you
POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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That made me chuckle. One lad used to bring a health efficiency into school every now and then. We’d rip out the pages and on a breezy day the pages would stick to the mesh perimeter fence. Teachers had to go and pull the pages down.
Playing in the coal bunker and licking coal as it tasted nice I am sure it was akin to really wanting some dark greens to eat you know that need for Iron I was telling the grandchildren about it only last week and they genuinely thought I was making it up
In Newtown Road, South of the Goldstone (but on the same side of the road) there was a company that distributed magazines to newsagents, etc - and also processed the bundles of unsold ones.
They had a huge industrial skip in their car park full of brand new, unsold publications. They'd get tossed in there in bundles, including any free gift or similar attached to them. So you could find a bundle of 50 copies of Good Housekeeping, each with a free cereal bar attached, or 50 copies of Shoot! each with a pack of panini stickers inside, or 50 copies of the Beano, each with a polystyrene aeroplane...
We'd risk getting PULPED to death, by climbing in there on a weekly basis to forage for the free gifts. Unsold copies of Health and Efficiency were an occasional thrilling bonus!
They had a huge industrial skip in their car park full of brand new, unsold publications. They'd get tossed in there in bundles, including any free gift or similar attached to them. So you could find a bundle of 50 copies of Good Housekeeping, each with a free cereal bar attached, or 50 copies of Shoot! each with a pack of panini stickers inside, or 50 copies of the Beano, each with a polystyrene aeroplane...
We'd risk getting PULPED to death, by climbing in there on a weekly basis to forage for the free gifts. Unsold copies of Health and Efficiency were an occasional thrilling bonus!
Not central heating only a coal fire in the front room windows single glazed metal frames would be soaked then freeze over night and you touched the nets they would snap I remember a number of times being told off for that, bedtime was freezing no quilts just sheets and blankets and being tucked in so tight you couldn’t move I can just remember we had a copper bed warmer filled with hot ash from the fire that was put in the bed for a few minutes before you got in if I remember correctly it was at my nans and we only used a couple of when I stayed
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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Alongside the marbles don't forget the ball bearings. When I think about it was bloody dangerous as the usual source was breaking open aerosol cans which back thence all seemed to have them inside.
Yep, same here. Copper bedwarmer but soon replaced with stone hot water 'bottles'.
As well as the coal fire in the lounge, we had a coke boiler in the dining room (posh council house
) which had a back boiler to heat our water.For the very cold days we had two stinky paraffin heaters, one in the hall and one on the landing.
Hence...smell and moisture everywhere.
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