General Chat

One of the best things we ever did was every winter all the kids would come out and make a slide in the ice down the middle of the street (much to the anoyance of our parents) and spend a day or week depending on the length of the cold weather running and sliding down the length of the street to see who slid furthest..
Not a lot of cars then so no problems.

Paul

Bonfires on the street corner on 5th November...Everyone mucked in with food and drink and fireworks,,,and we weren't kept well away from the fireworks...No accidents ever...

Oh what memories, playing until late at night 10/11 oclock in summer holidays, riding horse round field no saddle or bridle, falling off. away on a bike ride bottlewater, and a piece in saddlebag. do you remember water can like the army used to have.
Now the fields are built on even old school has gone to houses.
Yes we had the best of freedom.

Having just lost a whole reply (!) I just wanted to add that although I can relate to lots of the things that have been said, my abiding memory is of The 'Tank Field as we called it. Fodens Motor Works went over to making tanks instead of lorries and made an unholy mess of the field opposite our house - but we loved it. There was a trench at the far side where we used to hide and then 'shoot' one another, and at one end were scrap tanks which became in turn tanks, lorries, ships etc. depending on our mood. I wasn't allowed to play there but I did. And I'm still in touch with a friend from those days - seems a million years ago now.
UPDATE: and now it's covered with houses!!!!

How about Uncle Mac on a Saturday morning on the radio, a must...

You had a dolls Pram Linda RSJ????.....hmm! thats not fair!.....I wanted one!

sorry folks I deleted the above...It was a duplicate.GR is playing up again.

I remember those **Linda...cant do it now though cos they were made of wood those days.I think you can buy one but not so much fun as making your own.

My Mother taught us all to embroider, crochet and knit and sew by hand......Just didn't have the patience to teach my own chldren as they didn't seem interested...Now they are older they ask me.

I would be interested to know what the boys got up to in them thar days.

What a lovely thread Granny. I remember most of the things already stated. We were lucky to live near open ground that a brook ran through, mostly only 3/4" of water in but quite wide because it did flood occasionally. There were two sewer pipes that crossed it and we would use them, rather than the bridge. Had great fun but not so funny if we fell off and went home dripping. The open ground had lots of lumps and bumps and ditches in it and we had our own fun biking park. Not so funny when you got a puncter and were read the riot act as dad fixed it. Also had a tree the remants of an old oak. No branches on it and it was like the tower of Pisa. We called it the running up tree and thats what we did, run up it and sat in a hollow on the top. All the dens that we built along the banks of the brook and the fights that broke out between different groups over which one belonged to who's group. We use to be out all day too. Put our dolls in their prams and walk for miles. Remember dressing up my Nan's old dog and pushing her around in a pushchair. She loved it. And what about the swings. Taking them up as high as you felt safe and then jumping off and remembering to duck out of the way quick before it came back and thumped you.
Sorry think I started to write a book here, best get back to the h....w..k.

Keep it going of out now have fun xxxxHowie

Susan you used to get 10p for every bottle you brought back!

Could buy alot of sweets for 10p in those days!

Don't forget to get the box of 'broken biscuits' ooh they were luverly.

And the size of the Mars bars and Bountys......they were huge compared to what they are today.....oh yes and the wagon wheels.

Hope you all have fun putting your memories on here, just going to do my Mums shopping and will be back later, please keep this going as I think we could all do with some fun and laughter.

Granny

remember you also used to take the money off coupons from magazines to the shop and he would give you sweeties for them

lol Mo...yes...you just reminded me.....made a lot of din.

Granny, I also remember taking empty bottles back to get money for them, until some bright spark decided to whip round the back of the store where they kept them in crates and took the same ones back time after time. The store owner then put a stop to children taking them back and asked for adults only.

I had loads of the dressing dolls especially the baby one....also collecting and exchanging scrapes remember them?

oh yea Mojo forgot about that one.

can any of the girls remember those cardboard dolls and you had different outfits made of paper

also an remember having Cotton spool dad used to put 4 tacks in think it was called cork wool and this made a colloured plaited wool

Linda xx

We used to attach playing cards on the spokes on our bikes with pegs...they made a wikid noise when you rode around! Did anyone else do that?

x

Remember going the the matinee on a saturday pinching rhubarb out the alottments, bag of sugar and all the kids sharing, boos when the indians came on, and all stamping our feet for the cowboys.

oooh yes....I remember that, Polly.