Memories from your childhood.

[spionfox]

I know that some of the posters on here are still in their childhood :icon_bigg but for the rest of us, what are you favourite memories of the time?

For me, who's formative years were in the late 60's and early 70's:

Chopper bikes
Knackers (plastic balls on a string)
Glam Rock
6" soles on shoes with patterns around the side
6 button waistband trousers
Sovereign cigarettes ( a smaller B&H)
Mackeson
Percy Gee building
Aunties (and then Grannies)
Ben Sherman shirts
Doc Martins
Silk scarves around wrist at football matches

 

[H T B]

Watney's Party 7
Carousel
Fusion
Standing at football matches
Clyde Best
"love they Neighbour"
Bailey's (night club not drink)
Goal magazine (in particular the 1969 cup final edition)
Parkers books of football
Typhoo tea poster cards

 

[spionfox]

"love they Neighbour"

Can you imagine the outcry if they tried to show that today!

 

[spionfox]

Forgot to mention:

Black Jacks
Fruit Salads
'More' or 'Consulate' menthol cigarettes (thought it would hide smell!)
Emmanuel
Jesus Christ Superstar
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Batman the Movie (the shark on the helicopter ladder one!)
Saturday matinees at the Odeon
Magpie vs Blue Peter
T.Rex vs Slade
Double Deckers
Banana Splits
Partridge Family
Acorn Electron
Oric 1
Deliberate fainting in school playing fields
Downing Street run

 

[Jeff]

Knackers (plastic balls on a string)

Clackers :icon_roll

 

[Scarby]

early 90s

wackaday
bucko hare
thunderbirds
niff naff (or something, they made jumpers etc.)
football stickers (6 for 20p)
conkers and the banning of conkers in my primary school
football at school with a tennis ball
massive village water fights in the summer
football down the garages and rec
fishing in the brook (every year we caught less and less) and the rumour of a rainbow trout that was caught, and the spotting of an eel.
the hurricanes cartoon football team

 

[Jeff]

Saturday matinees at the Odeon

I remember my parents used to sometimes drop me and my sister off there while they went shopping.

They used to do a draw during the intermission, which I won once. The prize was a magazine that was several months out of date.

 

[Scarby]

early 90s

wackaday
bucko hare
thunderbirds
niff naff (or something, they made jumpers etc.)
football stickers (6 for 20p)
conkers and the banning of conkers in my primary school
football at school with a tennis ball
massive village water fights in the summer
football down the garages and rec
fishing in the brook (every year we caught less and less) and the rumour of a rainbow trout that was caught, and the spotting of an eel.
the hurricanes cartoon football team

999 on TV
youth club with your 10p subs on tuesday night
finding a porno near the school bus stop
1p sweets
10p space raiders
curely whirly which i also think was 10p
those little cans of coke

 

[spionfox]

Clackers :icon_roll

Sorry. You are right Jeff, my mind mind isn't what it used to be.

 

[spionfox]

Downing Street run

I'm more fuddled than I thought - that should be Downing Drive run.

 

[City Fan]

Rainbow (the TV programme)

 

[Scarby]

playing out till it got dark and wondering off on my own without the rents having a second thought about it.

 

[bocadillo]

Saturday matinees at the Odeon

We come along on Saturday morning
Greeting everybody with a smile
We come along on Saturday morning
Knowing it's well worthwhile
As members of the Odeon Club
We all intend to be
Good citizens when we grow up
And champions of the free
We come along on Saturday morning
Greeting everybody with a smile - smile - smile!!
Greeting everybody with a smile

 

[East Anglia Fox]

Oasis seeming like the biggest band in the world ever...

I was born in 1990, so my early childhood was Britpop and then a bit later on Limp Bizkit and so on. Whenever I listen to songs by Limp Bizkit like "Hot Dog", or "My Way" it's so nostalgic I almost want to cry.

 

[Macky]

Memories of childhood (I've given it some thought):
Scrumping;
fighting;
playing soccer, football, hurling;
****s for teachers;
girls;
getting in trouble;
Scouts;
being kicked out of Scouts;
breaking bones;
music;
Desperately wanting to be and dressing up like a mod/skinhead;
trying to work out if it was cooler to be a mod or a skinhead;
girls, especially Emma Buckley;
music;
girls, especially Maria Guerra;
being able to get fags;
Cassettes;
vinyl;
girls;
Leicester ****ing city

 

[Siouxsie]

Clackers :icon_roll

being banned from having those as they were dangerous

that fizzy sugar stuff you put on your tongue / sweet cigarettes
caps and cap guns
falling out of a tree
falling off my bike
knocking myself unconscious in the school gym
endless games with a tennis ball against a wall
playground games - skipping / french skipping/ british bulldog
Blue Peter pets
tiswas
Bay City Rollers / Osmonds
Moon landings
Powercuts / only having to go to school one day a week because the school had no fuel.

 

[Boy Genius]

Decimal day, the day we went from £sp to decimal.
Top Deck Shandy
T Rex
The Cameo cinema
climbing in through above cinemas bog window, to watch x rated films at 14...:icon_bigg
Coming back from away matches with few windows left in the bus
nearly 40,000 at Filbert Street for FA cup replay match with Arsenal!
Driving around the clock tower
Newarke Bus station

 

[Boy Genius]

I know that some of the posters on here are still in their childhood :icon_bigg but for the rest of us, what are you favourite memories of the time?

For me, who's formative years were in the late 60's and early 70's:

Chopper bikes
Knackers (plastic balls on a string)
Glam Rock
6" soles on shoes with patterns around the side
6 button waistband trousers
Sovereign cigarettes ( a smaller B&H)
Mackeson
Percy Gee building
Aunties (and then Grannies)
Ben Sherman shirts
Doc Martins
Silk scarves around wrist at football matches

Aunties was next door to Grannies. Aunties for the under 18's and Grannies for the over 18's

We also used to collect these silk scarves from other clubs.....

 

[bocadillo]

We also used to collect these silk scarves from other clubs.....

Odd use of the word 'collect', but I am sure we all know what you mean.

 

[Boy Genius]

Odd use of the word 'collect', but I am sure we all know what you mean.

I had loads of them, even had swaps on Luton scarves