When i was a kid-a bygone era.

[s5.bha]

Fingering.........


Sent from my bed in my garden shed !

 

[brightonbutterfly]

Fish and chips snacks-yum!
Loved those information films-spent a few hours a year or so ago showing my daughters (11, 13)-they thought I was bonkers and couldn't understand the point of them!

 

[Shinbreath]

Buying my British Caledonian Albion kit from that sports shop on London Rd near where blockbuster is/was.
Getting computer games from The Soft Centre, Lower level of Churchill Square
Shopping in Tesco, Lower level of Churchill Square
Going to the paddling pool near the West Pier
ABC cinema on East Street
Going shopping with my mum to Fine Fare on London Rd
Finding my first porno mag under the bridge at London Rd station. There was a huge stash dumped there.. Was only about 8. My eyes popped out of my head !!

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

White dog shit

Ha ha, brilliant,would not mind treading in that,always seemed crumbly......the stuff today,well,but it's true....where has all the white DS gone?

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

What! your a Japanese Albiom fan?

No but i was in to WW2 stuff from about the age of 8...............i'd break a few bits of of one and pretend the deck had been hit by bombs(rough it up a bit) then burn it.......

 

[Garage_Doors]

Waking up in the front room after a night on the piss and see just a still picture of girl holding a dolly playing noughts & crosses on the telly.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

where has all the white DS gone?

Now turned into a games console. Sorry!

 

[Mutts Nuts]

Taking corona pop bottles from behind the newsagents then walking in the front and getting 10 pence a boottle deposite,this when a mars bar was only 9 pence.Affordable football at the Goldstone on a saturday afternoon in the N stand

 

[DumLum]

1 spangles
7 the red hand gang ( great theme tune, da da da da da da )
10 subbeteo

The Red Hand Gang was amazing. Not just the theme tune, the whole soundtrack. Thirty odd years later and I still hum what the cool kid used to play on his kazoo thing. Your comment made me look it up on you tube and he plays it in this clip. Warning this clip is Intense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUR2jUGIfcY

pacers. the green and white sweets. and spangles - kids of today have never experienced cutting the roof of their mouths to shreds with these

Also:

The Two Shoreham Chimneys.
The Athena B.

 

[Frutos]

There's a book called "21st Century Dodos" which laments, in a humorous way, the loss of some of the stuff listed here and plenty else that might bring back a few memories.

Well worth a read.

 

[BadFish]

Mutts and Mongrels.

Why does everyone these days have to have a pedigree dog?

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Mutts and Mongrels.

Why does everyone these days have to have a pedigree dog?

Try West Street tonight,be plenty about

 

[Norman Potting]

Ahem ... LOUIS Tussaud's waxworks.

Really can't imagine why people stopped visiting it!!!

 

[BadFish]

Try West Street tonight,be plenty about

ha ha ha

 

[WATFORD zero]

Lyons corner house at corner of St James Street and Steine - but i can't find any pictures of it

It was there, i'm sure of it

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Ended up putting this on the "teenager" thread by mistake..

This

replaced with this

Funny how the design was heavily influenced by the the old Viaduct & i believe the clock(not in sight on either picture) from the old building in the top picture,is now on the front of Sainsburys

 

[upthealbion1970]

Banana splits the tv programme
Opal Fruits
Milk men delivering milk to every house

 

[Bwian]

Centigrade (before it became Celsius)
Dubbin
The row-boat ferry to Southwick Beach
Cheap cigarettes off the Russian freighters in Shoreham Harbour that smelled like burning sewage
Beatles Monthly
Ken Johnstone's
Tit Bits Magazine
Parade
The Evening Argus Classified on Saturdays
Self-lighting cigarettes-they had a kind of match head inserted into the end of the ciggies-forget the brand because the idea didn't last long
Cigarette ads on TV
Worldwide Family Favourites (hello Bill Paul in Toronto)
Worker's Playtime on the BBC Home Service
Watch With Mother
Fryco's Lemonade Factory with its 'B-right-on' sign.
Manually operated level crossing gates by Portslade Station
Jack Hargreaves: (Say what you will, School dinners make you ill. Davey Crockett died of shepherd's pie. All school din-dins. Come from pig bins. Out-of Town. ) our version of the theme song).

 

[c0lz]

the original chopper bike, bloody big and clumsy thing is was too.
two favourite chocolate were Ice Breaker and Aztec
the PG tips song Saturday morning pictures.
the 50 bob note, felt rich with one of those in your hands lol

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Centigrade (before it became Celsius)
Dubbin
The row-boat ferry to Southwick Beach
Cheap cigarettes off the Russian freighters in Shoreham Harbour that smelled like burning sewage
Beatles Monthly
Ken Johnstone's
Tit Bits Magazine
Parade
The Evening Argus Classified on Saturdays
Self-lighting cigarettes-they had a kind of match head inserted into the end of the ciggies-forget the brand because the idea didn't last long
Cigarette ads on TV
Worldwide Family Favourites (hello Bill Paul in Toronto)
Worker's Playtime on the BBC Home Service
Watch With Mother
Fryco's Lemonade Factory with its 'B-right-on' sign.
Manually operated level crossing gates by Portslade Station
Jack Hargreaves: (Say what you will, School dinners make you ill. Davey Crockett died of shepherd's pie. All school din-dins. Come from pig bins. Out-of Town. ) our version of the theme song).

Cigarette adverts was a good call-Tit bit's and Parade,pervert!!

Although this bit though reminded me of being at Downs Infants school Ditching road-

We had a similar thing going on.....when we came out at home time,me and some mates came skipping along,and i was what 5 or 6,and we would all shout to all the parents,at the top of our voices-guess what we had today for dinner? shit and bogey pie!!!

I know we only boys being boys,but it's funny how certain events stick in your mind,for life.