I'm Old Enough To Remember...

[Tuna]

MS-DOS

 

Count Duckula

 

Acorn Computers

 

Not having Channel 5

 

Tamagotchi.

 

 

 

[Strokes]

Getting a quarter weight of sweets from the corner shop, which was not what it was called back then.

 

July Fortnight.

 

Summer holidays down the allotments.

 

Strawberry picking.

[Webbo]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

Having a party line, where you could pick up your phone and hear a conversation between two random people. Usually the neighbour and whoever they were talking to. During this you were unable to make your own call until they'd finished.

I remember party lines you'd be sitting in the living room and you vaguely hear people talking. My dad picked up the phone once listened for a bit and then, thinking they were strangers, shouted "piss off" down the phone. One of the voices said " its okay daddy, its just Brian next door"  

[pSinatra]

When people knew how to make a proper brew.  Loose leaf tea, a teaspoon each & one for the pot.  A dirty old teapot & a hand knitted tea cosy.

 

Dad driving us home from relatives houses on Christmas/New Years eve........pissed out of his brain

 

Semolina or tapioca puddings at school

[Buce]

 

....when ‘boil in a bag’ curry was considered exotic. 

 

.....proper tramps. 

 

....Oxford Bags and Crombie coats. 

 

.....when every community had their own fire on bonfire night. 

 

....when James Bond was on television every Xmas. 

 

....Penny Chews and Blackjacks. 

 

....Kipper ties.

 

....when kids liked Gary Glitter, not the other way around. 

 

....when ‘Top of the Pops’ was the highlight of the week. 

 

....when being gay just meant you were happy. 

 

....Mods and Rockers fighting at the seaside on Bank holidays. 

 

....when men didn’t wear ‘scent’. 

Edited 30 December 2017 by Buce

[RODNEY FERNIO]

1 hour ago, separator said:

World Of Sport, Wrestling (Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks etc..) on a saturday afternoon on the telly, followed by the A-Team in the evening. A time when ITV was decent.

 

 

I remember the wrestling ... complete tosh.

Two fat middle aged men doing fore arm smashes that landed about two feet from the opponent's chin but still managed to pole axe them.

For some reason my Granny , a very prim and proper lady, used to love it.

She also loved the snooker even thought she never progressed to a colour TV ... God knows how she knew what colour ball they were potting .... bless 

[Costock_Fox]

Not having to remortgage to buy a chomp.

[Saxondale]

• Chocolate bars being actually big
• A pound going a long way in the corner shop
• Four TV channels, yet somehow you always found something to watch
• Having to ring your mates' parents' landlines
• Pubs being busy, even on weeknights
• Nightclubs being so smoky they made your eyes water
• Taping stuff off the radio

 

[Thommo]

3 hours ago, Parafox said:

When New Years Day wasn't a holiday. 

 

Buses having no doors and the driver was in a separate cab and there were notices banning spitting.

 

TV's had no remote, you had to get off yer arse and twiddle a tuning knob. And it was black and white in 625 lines.

 

Corona pop wagons.

 

Coal holes/bunkers in the back yard.

 

3 penny (thrupenny) deposit on bottles of pop to encourage you to take them back to the shop to be re-used.

 

Steel rubbish bins which bin men had to put on their backs and empty into trucks with sliding panels on the side

 

 

 

 

 

 

How do you get on a bus with no doors??

[Tuna]

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Edited 30 December 2017 by Tuna

[Buce]

9 minutes ago, Thommo said:

How do you get on a bus with no doors??

 

They had an open doorway at the back and a conductor came round collecting fares. You had no contact with the driver. 

[Webbo]

Seeing a film for the first time on the BBC or ITV. Actually being excited about TV programmes coming on at Christmas. 90% of adults smoked. Crimpeline trousers and nylon shirts.

[Merging Cultures]

We actually had a gas fridge, no joke.

You can still get them. Especially in this part of the world.

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50 minutes ago, RODNEY FERNIO said:

I remember the wrestling ... complete tosh.

Two fat middle aged men doing fore arm smashes that landed about two feet from the opponent's chin but still managed to pole axe them.

For some reason my Granny , a very prim and proper lady, used to love it.

She also loved the snooker even thought she never progressed to a colour TV ... God knows how she knew what colour ball they were potting .... bless 

Fat middle aged men!!! those lads were the peak of physical fitness 

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

Rushing round the back of the local shop at 6pm to get the beige Sports Mercury to find out how City did.

 

Mum doing your week's shopping at said shop.

 

Carrying large sacks of potatoes back from said shop.

 

Spending all my spending money n a Friday evening on a can of pop, chocolate bar and a comic (read whilst consuming the former).

 

Redefusion TV which had a dial on the wall to switch between three channels of TV and also radio stations.

 

Taking empty bottles to the offy to get money to buy penny sweets.

 

Not being allowed into pubs as a child and drinking Vimto in the beer garden.

 

Playing out, all weather's, jumpers for goalposts, etc.

 

Streets on council estates with only one or two cars parked on them.

 

Midland Red and Corporation buses.

 

The paddling pool on Western Park.

[fuchsntf]

# rent man

# insurance man

# milk-floats

# bread man

# pubs on nearly every corner

# 3-4 Fish n chips shops within a sq.mile of each other

# scratchings, no cost

# fish n chip vans, with only f+s or a battered sausage.

# dripping for the sunday roast, no cost

# ice cream vans where a 99, was luxury, and no weird names for ice lollies

# school uniforms..short trousers, and school caps

# school playing fields, with competive school sports days

# coppers walking the beat

# coppers with bikes

# coppers taking off their tops and playing footy with the local kids.

# where houses were homes and security

# Older houses with big connecting coal cellars

# more candles than xmas lights

# expected power and water being cut off, accepted as normal..

# Snow around xmas

# coal fires and single frame windows, gaps protected against frost with newspaper.

# lean to toilets, and pipes being protected by various means for lagging

# attic where criggy decorations were stored.

# bus holidays and mystery tours

# many  markets on the sea, with pea-soup and mint..or cockles, crab, welkes, winkles, mussels plates

# pubs with family or kids rooms, and no bloody amusement machines.

# vimto, Dandylion and burdock, Tizer, Juzoda, ginger beer, limeade, icecream soda.

# off licenses, where kids fetched the beer

# Scrumping

##  Where babbling brooks around Bradgate and charnwood, could be drunk from.

# when kids were safe when, walking to school,going to the shops, or playkng around the corner

# Where yobs > now asbos <  were controlled, by the good guys and dads, with cop support when necessary.

# no drugs...

# kids allowed on the fringes of the footy pitches.

# No soup kitchens for normal earners

#apprenticeships were not a political statement, just a normal career growth, respected by all.

 

##  no supermarkets, but a great Leicester market...

 

Edited 31 December 2017 by fuchsntf

[Carl the Llama]

 

[Wymsey]

No Facebook.

[DatfoxesKid23]

5 hours ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Only yuppies had mobile phones. And they had to cart them around in a huge case because the battery was so large.

 

Going to the back of Woolworths every Saturday to spend my pocket money on £1.99 computer games for my ZX Spectrum 48k, and having to load them in a cassette player which took about 5 minutes.

 

When people actually knew or cared what song was no. 1 in the charts.

 

Top flight football games on free-to-air ITV on a Sunday.

 

FA Cup final day was the biggest sporting event of the year.

 

Bermuda shorts were all the rage.

 

 

When did that stop happening 

[Strokes]

4 hours ago, DatfoxesKid23 said:

When did that stop happening 

1991 or 92. I remember watchng Leeds win division one on terrestrial and they were on most weeks.

[Kinowe Soorie]

Waiting about two years for a film to come out on vhs, go to the video shop and all the copies would be already rented out!! Kids playing in the streets. 6000 down Filbert Street. Lewis's, Zodiac toys and the Co-op on High Street in Town. Bmx's and Break dancing being all the rage. Hand me down clothes from my cousin. Fox Cub small buses. Playing football and cricket down the park in the summer holidays. Going to a "holiday camp" Pontins etc with family or if work was being done on our house... Wicksteed Park for a day out . Adventure play grounds. St Margaret's swimming baths. Fish and chips being decent. Smokey working men's clubs. A pink? sports evening newspaper. Hating school. Flat tops . Radio controlled cars with a wire attached. Action Men. Dukes of Hazard, The A Team, The Incredible Hulk and The Fall Guy.

[lee7]

Being only 24 there is probably not a lot of things that I would remember that would not be deemed 'recent' but some of the things mentioned in this thread are still going! 

 

Both of my nans have pantries. An old style sort of milk float still comes around where I live  

The local garage you can't put fuel in yourself, you have to wait to be served. 

A few others that have been mentioned too 

[Free Falling Foxes]

14 hours ago, Parafox said:

When New Years Day wasn't a holiday. 

 

Buses having no doors and the driver was in a separate cab and there were notices banning spitting.

 

TV's had no remote, you had to get off yer arse and twiddle a tuning knob. And it was black and white in 625 lines.

 

Corona pop wagons.

 

Coal holes/bunkers in the back yard.

 

3 penny (thrupenny) deposit on bottles of pop to encourage you to take them back to the shop to be re-used.

 

Steel rubbish bins which bin men had to put on their backs and empty into trucks with sliding panels on the side

 

 

 

 

 

 

625 lines? You were lucky. I remember 405

Edited 31 December 2017 by Free Falling Foxes

[STEVIE B]

12 hours ago, Buce said:

 

....when a band consisted of drums, bass, guitar and vocals, and they wrote all their own songs.

 

....when all young men wanted to be Frank Worthington.

 

....when it snowed every winter and was hot in the summer.

 

....when chopper bikes were cool.

 

....the coalman.

 

....when you could buy cotton in a shade called 'nígger brown'.

 

....when shops would sell cigarettes to kids if they were 'for me mam'.

 

....when teachers could beat you black and blue and nobody raised so much as an eyebrow.

 

....when working class people voted Labour by default.

 

....when wearing Doc Martens made you 'hard'.

 

 

We had a nutter of a teacher, he would throw chalk and the blackboard Rubber at us ! He was Welsh, had a glass eye ( his aim wasn’t always true ) and lived 2 houses away from our house. I received no preferential treatment from Mr Roberts. 

[Crinklyfox]

Farthings, thruppeny bits and half crowns.

 

The rag and bone man coming around every week.

 

Coal deliveries.

 

No TV.

 

Public telephones with 'A' and 'B' buttons.

 

Police boxes.