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Post by trickydicky73 on May 16, 2015 17:07:29 GMT
Renting a telly from either DER or RADIO RENTALS Think ours was from Rediffusion.
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Post by harryburrows on May 16, 2015 17:13:23 GMT
Going outside in the dark to clip a parking light over the drivers window lifting the bonnet and connecting it too the battery
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Post by DunnetHeadMoonraker on May 16, 2015 17:28:13 GMT
As a little boy in the early 50's living on Cannock Chase I remember being put in a tin bath in front of the living room fire to be washed. I also used to make mouses houses out of stones on the rough ground behind our house. I used to love playing amongst the huge silver birch trees and thought that this was indeed a wonderful world.
My Mum and Dad moved to Stoke when I was 7 and my view of the world was cruelly changed for ever.
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Post by maninasuitcase on May 17, 2015 7:16:06 GMT
Minding cars on match days. Going to the off license with a pop bottle so the landlord could fill it up with beer if my Mum decided to have a night in. Slapping your backside,pretending you are riding a horse after Saturday morning pictures. Drinking pop and eating Suger butties in Stoke Church yard on sunny days. Eating Tinned fruit,with carnation cream and bread and butter on a Sunday night. Drinking sterilised milk out of the bottle, before we had fridges. Cardboard in your shoes if you had a hole in them. Great days. Lol totally forgot the fruit and carnation milk. And the cardboard in the the shoes. God they were good days Also remember putting a shilling in the gas meter and the alpine pop man. I had some great times as a kid cos I lived at my nans between the ages of 3 and 11 with my Bro. I had a very old world upbringing. Good fun though.
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Post by bathstoke on May 17, 2015 7:26:34 GMT
As a little boy in the early 50's living on Cannock Chase I remember being put in a tin bath in front of the living room fire to be washed. I also used to make mouses houses out of stones on the rough ground behind our house. I used to love playing amongst the huge silver birch trees and thought that this was indeed a wonderful world. My Mum and Dad moved to Stoke when I was 7 and my view of the world was cruelly changed for ever. Brutalisation
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Post by jeycov on May 17, 2015 7:28:05 GMT
My memory may be slightly off but: 1. Take the kitchen knives out to be sharpened by the paedophile cyclist. 2. Give dead relatives a kiss on the forehead whilst in their open caskets. 3. As a 13 year old walking from the Abbey to Stoke ground on the railway lines with stolen food from the kitchen stashed in dads work bag. Returning 5 hours later and lying about getting lost in the fields. 4. Eating Salmon paste sandwiches. 5. Getting up off the settee to change one of 4 TV channels over. 6. Use manual choke on first car. 7. Go to shops on Sat Morning for Nan to by a quarter of tongue! That's a thoroughbred Stokie post ....I salute you sir , especially the Shiphams spread bit . May I proffer a couple of additions for you approval ....a bit extreme , but true in my case ... Chopping sticks on a Saturday morning for the rest of the week ... Digging out coal from disused open cast pits like Goldenhill and Birchenwood .... Digging up 'discarded seconds ' pottery from potbank dumps and flogging them on... Pinching veg from South Cheshire farms and riding it 'wom' for dispersal amongst the masses ... Cashing in clothing vouchers at Taylor's supermarket at Tunstall roundabout ... Going for a dip at the paddling pool at the bottom of Pittshill ....with Winger aka Ste Foster in tow ... Fanbloodytastic ..... Paddling pool at Austins playing fields?
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Post by harryburrows on May 17, 2015 17:24:00 GMT
when we were kids. If we saw a funeral, we had to hold our collars and say, "Hold a collar,never swaller, until you see a four legged animal. Avoid stepping on pavement cracks. Watch people use the Beechnut chewing gum machine, then get your penny in at the right time and get 2 for the price of one. Go to the Pie shop near closing time and get the Pies at half price. Nip into Woolworths to buy broken biscuits. Ask an adult to get you into the pictures so you could see an X rated film. Anymore? Brocken biscuits were great , used to love the hot salted peanuts from woollies as well
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Post by harryburrows on May 17, 2015 17:29:14 GMT
Take the empty pop bottles back to the pub and get 5p back for each bottle for sweets. Get bottles of stout for your grandparents from the off sales at the pub Go into the smoky pub as a kid to tell your dad his Sunday dinner was ready. They were good days. A whole shilling for a pop bottle , our local toffee shop had a yard out back with a 6' wall where he kept the crates of empties form a human pyramid and push the youngest over the top to climb down and pinch a load , climb back over on the stacked crates , got 3d a bottle , got 2 oz of loose boiled sweets for 3d .
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Post by maninasuitcase on May 17, 2015 17:31:41 GMT
Take the empty pop bottles back to the pub and get 5p back for each bottle for sweets. Get bottles of stout for your grandparents from the off sales at the pub Go into the smoky pub as a kid to tell your dad his Sunday dinner was ready. They were good days. A whole shilling for a pop bottle , our local toffee shop had a yard out back with a 6' wall where he kept the crates of empties form a human pyramid and push the youngest over the top to climb down and pinch a load , climb back over on the stacked crates , got 3d a bottle , got 2 oz of loose boiled sweets for 3d . 3d was a little bit before my time. Lol
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 17:49:38 GMT
A whole shilling for a pop bottle , our local toffee shop had a yard out back with a 6' wall where he kept the crates of empties form a human pyramid and push the youngest over the top to climb down and pinch a load , climb back over on the stacked crates , got 3d a bottle , got 2 oz of loose boiled sweets for 3d . 3d was a little bit before my time. Lol And mine ....
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Post by dutchpeter72 on May 17, 2015 18:07:05 GMT
Remember outside toilets? Did anyone have a hurricane lamp for nocturnal dumps and a bucket in the bedroom?
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Post by harryburrows on May 17, 2015 18:31:10 GMT
3d was a little bit before my time. Lol And mine .... you're in denial Bish
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 19:17:26 GMT
And mine .... you're in denial Bish just a bit ....
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Post by AlliG on May 17, 2015 19:58:41 GMT
.....Eating Tinned fruit,with carnation cream and bread and butter on a Sunday night..... You have just described a typical wet Sunday afternoon at my Nan's. It is bizarre to think that in those days that was seen as a treat!
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Post by kbillyh on May 17, 2015 20:03:20 GMT
Letting your dog come and go as it pleased.
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Post by dobing1863 on May 17, 2015 20:27:28 GMT
Ducket toilet down the back yard
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Post by lastoftheldk on May 17, 2015 20:41:21 GMT
Gas lamps
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Post by dobing1863 on May 17, 2015 20:46:16 GMT
Spud guns
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Post by harryburrows on May 17, 2015 20:48:21 GMT
White dog shit
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Post by dobing1863 on May 17, 2015 20:49:32 GMT
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Post by dutchpeter72 on May 17, 2015 20:54:34 GMT
In Newcastle we had half day closing of the shops on a Thursday.
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Post by dobing1863 on May 17, 2015 20:56:57 GMT
In Newcastle we had half day closing of the shops on a Thursday. Had same in stoke
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Post by kbillyh on May 17, 2015 21:01:11 GMT
Hahaha yeah, half day fucking closing. Either Weds or Thursday afternoon depending on where you went, got you proper pissed off when you got it wrong.
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Post by dobing1863 on May 17, 2015 21:03:47 GMT
Frozen jubblys from the shop in bath street
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Post by kbillyh on May 17, 2015 21:11:07 GMT
Slopping out in Strangeways...........Not me obviously.
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Post by Billybigbollox on May 17, 2015 22:48:43 GMT
Slopping out in Strangeways...........Not me obviously. Reminds me of when I was doing porridge.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 22:56:51 GMT
.....Eating Tinned fruit,with carnation cream and bread and butter on a Sunday night..... You have just described a typical wet Sunday afternoon at my Nan's. It is bizarre to think that in those days that was seen as a treat! Yes ....Sunday tea at my Nan's was always a Salmon ( tinned of course ) salad....even in the middle of winter followed by tinned fruit and cream and bread and butter as you have described ....and the bread and butter was compulsory !....Pretty much standard throughout the Potteries in those days I think
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Post by stokeharry on May 17, 2015 23:04:14 GMT
You have just described a typical wet Sunday afternoon at my Nan's. It is bizarre to think that in those days that was seen as a treat! Yes ....Sunday tea at my Nan's was always a Salmon ( tinned of course ) salad....even in the middle of winter followed by tinned fruit and cream and bread and butter as you have described ....and the bread and butter was compulsory !....Pretty much standard throughout the Potteries in those days I think Had bread n butter with every meal growing up
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Post by stokeharry on May 17, 2015 23:06:37 GMT
Grilled cheese on a plate with milk poured over and mopped up with half a loaf of bread
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 23:32:46 GMT
Grilled cheese on a plate with milk poured over and mopped up with half a loaf of bread Yep I remember that .....on a tin plate of course !
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