For those of a certain age

[MOUSEMARSH]

Originally Posted by Mrs Red C

Sitting in the car with a bottle of pop and bag of crisps in pub car park.

No house telephone, had to use neighbours in an emergency

Having cold rice pudding for tea if I'd not eaten it at lunchtime, YUK, still won't eat rice now!

School lunches, tables of 8 with pink, blue or green metallic cups so water tasted funny.

Small bottles of milk were warm and rank, always swapped mine with a greedy kid. 🤮

Watching wrestling on a Saturday afternoon if Nan visited.

M4 starting at Maidenhead to go to London.

Old money, loved a sixpence

Never watching tv on Christmas Day was a big thing in our house. Alwsys cards and games plus toys.

No trick or treating, no Christmas Eve Boxes etc no chocolate advent calendars

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We had to sit in the car outside the pub aswell😁

My Dad also insisted that we had a holiday, same two weeks every year in term time, no fines back then. 4 boys on the back seat of a Ford Cortina for 5 hours drive to Wells in Norfolk lost count of the "If you lot dont stop it I'm turning round and going home!"

[cartoonp]

Originally Posted by MOUSEMARSH

We had to sit in the car outside the pub aswell😁

My Dad also insisted that we had a holiday, same two weeks every year in term time, no fines back then. 4 boys on the back seat of a Ford Cortina for 5 hours drive to Wells in Norfolk lost count of the "If you lot dont stop it I'm turning round and going home!"

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What did you think of wells next to the sea not that much have changed there. I go as much as I can mother in law lives little walsingham so when we stay with her we go I all so walked the 5 miles there and back

[Mrs Red C]

My mum's wage paid for extras such as a 4 door car instead of a 2 door

Day coach trips in the school holidays or going to visit dad at his London office.
Sharing a drink and cake with my brother too if going to the cinema or on a trip. No food wastage unlike some families that gave my mum dirty looks with this. Their kids left loads, such a waste of money too.

[MOUSEMARSH]

Originally Posted by cartoonp

What did you think of wells next to the sea not that much have changed there. I go as much as I can mother in law lives little walsingham so when we stay with her we go I all so walked the 5 miles there and back

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We went every September for 14 years in a caravan at Pinewoods, collected pine cones for the fire and argued over who emptied the waste water bucket, nothing was plumbed in back then. Rented a portable TV from Walshinghams shop. Fresh bread from the west end bakery and watched the grain ships unload and spent the last night in the penny arcade. Loved it every year and I took a 50 mile detour a couple of years ago so I could have chips sat on the harbour wall. 😁😁😁😁

[cartoonp]

Originally Posted by MOUSEMARSH

We went every September for 14 years in a caravan at Pinewoods, collected pine cones for the fire and argued over who emptied the waste water bucket, nothing was plumbed in back then. Rented a portable TV from Walshinghams shop. Fresh bread from the west end bakery and watched the grain ships unload and spent the last night in the penny arcade. Loved it every year and I took a 50 mile detour a couple of years ago so I could have chips sat on the harbour wall. 😁😁😁😁

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Yep pinewood the one down by the sea had the mini train ru along to the town used to walk though from the main gate ro the one that led to the sea I still do the walk although not as much as they stopped it but never mind the cafe just off from the seashore loved the place still do.

[mick]

Originally Posted by Mr Tom Morrow

Every Morning on the way to school pop in to the corner shop
1 No 6 fag and 2 matches. I think it was 9d maybe a 1/-

Great times.

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Tom

School dinners were a shilling a day. There was a shop near the school gates where you get a steak & kidney pie for 10 pence and an Embassy for tuppence. Pre-February 1971 currency obviously.

We used to call them scab pies. The small hole in the pastry lid had a cooling hole where the gravy would seep through and set - hence scab

Mick

[Mrs Red C]

Did anyone else at junior school have a savings club. I seem to remember queuing up with a TSB Savings book🤔

[MOUSEMARSH]

Originally Posted by Mrs Red C

Did anyone else at junior school have a savings club. I seem to remember queuing up with a TSB Savings book🤔

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Yes we had one with TSB I cant remember ever cashing it in though. Wonder how many of these will be dormant accounts?

[kk20]

School dinners were meal tickets. I grew up in a small miserable mining town where that was the same for everyone. Black and white TV was normal, i remember renting a colour TV from granada. Fast food was a sandwich from whelans cafe or a pie from the bakery. 10p (2 shilling piece) got you anywhere in the GM area on the orange bus and 5p was enough to phone home and get your message across in the pips. Seat belts in cars were a luxury, as were mirrors other than drivers side. Speaking of which, babies were in carry cots, sometimes even anchored in (if you wanted to drill the holes). Pay was weekly in a little packet too. Punishment was not being able to go to cubs/scouts/brownies/guides or air cadets etc. Kids were scared of teachers and them telling your parents you were naughty at school. Everything was climbable. If it couldnt go through a chip pan it was foreign food, although pretty much anything could go through a chip pan (my gran did a mean egg, chips, sausage, peas and carrots all from a chip pan). Witch hazel cured ANY cut, graze, chest cough etc. If it was a deep cut then neat TCP was threatened.

Foods such as grans sterilised milk that (I think) would survive a nuclear war.

[MOUSEMARSH]

Mum doing the washing on Saturday in the Twin Tub