Memories from your childhood.

[OldGit]

Rationing

 

[SJN-Fox]

Decimal day, the day we went from £sp to decimal.

£sd

 

[SJN-Fox]

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

The ABC was better!

We are the boys and girls well known as
Minors of the ABC
And every Saturday we line up
To see the films we like
And shout aloud with glee
We love to laugh and have a singsong
Such a happy crowd are we
We’re all pals together
The minors of the ABC

 

[Boy Genius]

£sd

I did that on purpose so as the younger ones would understand and not think I was on drugs........:icon_bigg

 

[SJN-Fox]

I did that on purpose so as the younger ones would understand and not think I was on drugs........:icon_bigg

Do they not think that anyway

 

[Biff]

Early 40's

Ration books
bomb shelters
blackouts
air raid siren
odd socks
first radio
train to the country
jam sandwiches

 

[The Major]

The ABC was better!

We are the boys and girls well known as
Minors of the ABC
And every Saturday we line up
To see the films we like
And shout aloud with glee
We love to laugh and have a singsong
Such a happy crowd are we
We’re all pals together
The minors of the ABC

You beat me to it.

There used to be a black and white Captain Marvel serial from the 30s, a Mighty Mouse cartoon and a kids film.

 

[The Major]

A really crap holiday camping in Cayton Bay neat Scarborough in the boiling hot summer of 76 and getting a bollocking from my dad for walking dogshit into the tent.

 

[Melton Fox]

Mud on my face
Big disgrace
Kicking my can all over the place
My black Harrington
Mucky trousers
Flares with oil stains and holes from getting stuck in my bike cogs.
Being able to open a packet of Weetabix simply by tearing it.
My yellow Boxer.

 

[Scarby]

being mascot for leicester for leicester V Norwich at Carrow road. I think it was November '93.

 

[Cate Fox]

being banned from having those as they were dangerous

that fizzy sugar stuff you put on your tongue / sweet cigarettes
.

space dust wasnt it I think ?

 

[Cate Fox]

early 90s

niff naff (or something, they made jumpers etc.)

naf naf

 

[Chuck T Masala]

Aylestone Swimming Baths
The Aylestone Fleapit
Wicksteed Park
Johnny Quest
The Victor
Beano Summer Specials
Ice Cream Lolly's with Faces on them
Herbal Tablets
Tuppence worth of scratchings from the chip van
Bluebell Wood
Walking through the corn fields (Now Soar Valley Way and Fosse Park)
Snow
Sun
Hillman Imps
Corporation Buses
The Refuse Disposal Operatives Strike
3 day Week

Etc.

 

[Scarby]

naf naf

thats the badger

 

[Darth Vodka]

naf naf

Naff co 54, the cheapy copy

Campari ski jackets.....ugh

****ing god awful "The Sweater Shop"

massive baggy jeans in 1990, and ones with the back bit a different colour

stupid VW signs that everyone nicked and put on their bags

Doc Martins

Skoda jokes

 

[Darth Vodka]

them Global Hypercolor T Shirts that changed colour when hot

until your mum washed them on hot!

 

[Darth Vodka]

Panini sticker album, filling Espana 82 and Mexica 86 and learning all the countries in their own languages

"what the heck is Magrorszag" ? (spelling!!)

first song i remember is "we're the kids in America" by Kim Wilde...it was the first day at school

milk being handed out for a year, then Thatcher taking it away

teachers on strike and walking home in the middle of the day

my dad on strike at the pit and annoying my mum by being around the house

some girl pulling her knickers down and showing every lad in school

grandma dying, grandad dying, great-granma dying, great-grandad dying

 

[Chuck T Masala]

Jeans with awful native indian motifs stitched in beads on the back pocket.
Vietnam
Crombies
Tonic Ray-Seams
Loafers
Tank Tops
Platforms


The Tube
Sweeney (UK Gold)
Professionals (UK Gold)
Generation Game
The Yom Kippur War

 

[Chuck T Masala]

Jonny Seven
Civil War Playing Cards

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[Matt_B]

Monsters in my pocket and poggs