pearl
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Did you know the groundsman at West Hove golf course?
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Memories of Being a Kid - #Nostalgia Alert
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Did you know the groundsman at West Hove golf course?
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Probably did at the time but it was in the early 60s so no great recollection of names or faces.
Was it someone you knew?
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Runaround....
The only game show in the world where you had the possibility of winning a.....
Cabbage
....and a Crackerjack pencil for you.
Peter Grummit
Well-known member
Cricket in the street, mate smashing window of the flats opposite.
Taking Panda Pops and crisps over to Waterhall golf course Selling 'lost' golf balls back to players to fund more supplies.
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Taking Panda Pops and crisps over to Waterhall golf course Selling 'lost' golf balls back to players to fund more supplies.
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At the time white dog sh*t was somehow allegedly exclusively from poodles.
Dogs eating a high mineral raw food diet will produce poo that turns a much lighter color within 24 hours and disintegrates very quickly. Dogs eating raw foods that could be too high in calcium or bone pass white, chalky feces, and may suffer from obstipation. 14 July 2015
Brightonfan1983
Tiny member
Ha ha god yes I'd forgotten that!!
Going to watch the Albion as an 8 and 9 year old back in the 1960s. Nothing strange about that you might think, but myself and my other friends went on our own (on the train from Lancing) without any adult supervision - with our parents' blessing.. And do you know what? None of us were abducted by paedophiles, or fell onto the tracks, or got lost. If in today's ultra-paranoid world a group of 8 year olds turned up at the Amex unaccompanied there would be a complete meltdown. Losing custody of the kids would just be the start of it.
According to other posts on here you had your collection of nude magazines which surely led your generation into depravity and the reason today's parents watch over their children so closely. You know what your children are capable of because you did "it" as a child.
Super Steve Earle
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I had a fabulous pair of roller skates which were brilliant for book racing. They had metal wheels and no tyres, so kicked up sparks when taking corners on paving slabs. The other option was taking my scooter over Withdean Park and sitting on the footplate to race and skid down the muddy tracks.
Saltydog
New member
Hunting down Corona fizzy pop bottles to claim the deposit.
Eh? I never had a collection of nude magazines and I've never posted on here that I did.
Saltydog
New member
Remember an ongoing battle to not get caught by the park keeper at St Anne's wells - do they still have a "Parkie" there these days?
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Saturdays with your mates (while still at junior school)
Walk from Mile Oak to Portland road Hove for ABC Minors (picking up obligatory stink-bombs on way)
Walk back home for a sandwich (didn't know what 'lunch' was back then)
Walk from Mile Oak to the Goldstone for the Albion
Walk back home for DInner
Take Neighbour's greyhound out for 'walk' (trying to catch Rabbits over the downs, with extremely occasional success !)
Home for Bed
Don't know how we fitted it all in (and nobody worried about the children of Mile Oak)
Walk from Mile Oak to Portland road Hove for ABC Minors (picking up obligatory stink-bombs on way)
Walk back home for a sandwich (didn't know what 'lunch' was back then)
Walk from Mile Oak to the Goldstone for the Albion
Walk back home for DInner
Take Neighbour's greyhound out for 'walk' (trying to catch Rabbits over the downs, with extremely occasional success !)
Home for Bed
Don't know how we fitted it all in (and nobody worried about the children of Mile Oak)
pearl
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no, I never met him, but he was my friend's grandfather and he lived in one of the cottages by the golf course.
I grew up on the edge of a forest, have great memories of playing there. We always had an assortment of bugs, beetles, frogs, toads and huge spiders in the house. Our back garden was full of slow worms and lizards and occasional hedgehog. I recently had a mad rant at someone because they told me they kill spiders. I don't like killing anything, stupid I know (I'm not even a veggie). When I was about 8 we went to Glasgow to visit cousins. I was shocked to discover they lived in a horrid black tenement block with no garden.