[NSC] Things your kids would NEVER understand...

[wunt be druv]

Fights at school where a mass of children would form a circle around the two kids fighting chanting "bundle,bundle!"...and all you got was a clip round the ear from the teacher breaking it up and if you were really unlucky, detention.
Also going off in gangs to fight with kids from rival local schools, I remember myself and a bunch of mates riding from Durrington High to go for a punch up with West Tarring...Happy days! Ironically I became very good mates with some of the guys we used to fight.

 

[wunt be druv]

Progressing from a Chopper or a Grifter to a racer.

Having to get the TV Times at Christmas and then seeing your parents had marked everything you were going to watch for the next 2 weeks.

Using Kay’s Catalogue underwear section as an alternative wankbank when someone stole your Razzle.


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Now the "Racer" was another bone of contention..whether you had a five gear racer, 10 gear racer or were really elite with a 12 gear racer!

 

[wolfie]

I'm convalescing and have just discovered this thread and had a very enjoyable morning in a cool room so far. Just about everything resonates with me, having grown up in Brighton in the 1950s and 1960s. The whole thread should be donated to the My Brighton and Hove website or The Keep down at Falmer.

 

[zefarelly]

Now the "Racer" was another bone of contention..whether you had a five gear racer, 10 gear racer or were really elite with a 12 gear racer!

My first was a Puch pathfinder, 3 gear sturmey archer when I was 11! Peugeot Premiere 10 speed @ 14 from John Spooner in Worthing. cracking bike, still have a peugeot road bike. 12 gears is more than enough.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

One year paper passports with husband, wife and kids all on the same one.

Dansette record players with a stack of 6 7'' records which fell in turn to be played. Changing the stylus when it got blunt.

 

[jakarta]

From the 1960's before we got that new fangled Central Heating...

Waking up in a stone cold room, pulling back the curtains and looking at Jack Frost on the inside of the Window.

 

[wunt be druv]

Waiting for the telly to warm up when you switched it on, I remember looking down the back to see the orange glow at the back of the tube, so frustrating when Scooby doo had already started and you were missing precious minutes of it! My parents would also insist on pulling the ariel out of the back and unplugging it at the first rumble of a thunderstorm.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

I'm convalescing and have just discovered this thread and had a very enjoyable morning in a cool room so far. Just about everything resonates with me, having grown up in Brighton in the 1950s and 1960s. The whole thread should be donated to the My Brighton and Hove website or The Keep down at Falmer.

I wish you well sir.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Fights at school where a mass of children would form a circle around the two kids fighting chanting "bundle,bundle!"...and all you got was a clip round the ear from the teacher breaking it up and if you were really unlucky, detention.
Also going off in gangs to fight with kids from rival local schools, I remember myself and a bunch of mates riding from Durrington High to go for a punch up with West Tarring...Happy days! Ironically I became very good mates with some of the guys we used to fight.

Tideway v Longhill up Telscombe Tye


when Longhill would turn up

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I was born and brought up in Scotland. My kids were born and brought up in Sussex. They never ever got to grips with the term "going for the messages". And why would they? It's a mystery even to me who said it, has to be said. It means "I'm going to local shops to buy basic foodstuffs"

 

[Mr Bridger]

From the 1960's before we got that new fangled Central Heating...

Waking up in a stone cold room, pulling back the curtains and looking at Jack Frost on the inside of the Window.

Was he your neighbour

 

[Guinness Boy]

Even after decimalisation, seeing prices marked up to the half penny.

Having half penny coins to pay for those items.

Using half penny coins to play "up the wall" when you were really skint.

 

[Muhammed - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

Esso world cup coins

 

[giveusfalmerplease]

AND SMITH MUST SCORE

 

[giveusfalmerplease]

Esso world cup coins

lol I've still got the classic cars collection - missing one car - never did send off for it.

 

[sydney]

diving behind the sofa when dr.who came on , saturday evening , 6 ish , john pertwee was the man .....i had a real problem with daleks.. would have been 4 or 5 i guess.

 

[AZ Gull]

Shops closing every Wednesday afternoon. Or Saturday afternoon, depending on the town. And all day Sunday.

Thursday afternoon if you lived in Chichester

SO its just the posh towns that have early closing THursday? , all the plebby places on a Wednesday

I'm not sure. Portslade closed early on Wednesday......................but so did Hove

Cyprus still closes early on Wednesdays!

I remember shops closing Wednesday afternoon (in Eastbourne), but didn't know the reasons behind it. A little bit more info on the history here - Remember when shops used to have a half-day closing?

 

[wunt be druv]

Hot summer days you could enjoy without fretting that it was all down to Global Warming.

 

[GT49er]

I remember shops closing Wednesday afternoon (in Eastbourne), but didn't know the reasons behind it. A little bit more info on the history here - Remember when shops used to have a half-day closing?

Well I remember the nuisance of early closing day! I seem to remember the information was included in publications like Bradshaw and The ABC Railway travel information), and the YHA handbook. I'd have thought the practice had ended long before 1994 - but I suppose the sale of fresh produce and medical supplies exempted the suermarkets anyway, so they just kept right on flogging and we didn't notice if some of the smaller shops were shut.

 

[Eric Youngs Contact Lens]

"Screw-in Studs?" Yep, and the more gawdy the studs were, the better!
Buying a replica kit was impossible.. literally impossible (until Bukta BHA kit arrived! )
A season ticket with loads of tear-out tickets and included Cup games!!
GK picking up a pass-back and then bouncing it down to the edge of the area..