Now we all like a survey....dont we?

as a child i lived in a place in glasgow.it was the highest point in glasgow,they used to calculate weather forecasts from there. the winter (every year) was freezing, we had snow every year.
the milk in the morning on the doorstep was frozen.the milk had froze and it was sticking out of the bottle about 2 inches,with the tinfoil top stuck to the top of the frozen milk.there was a golf course,about 5 mins walk from our house.in the evening after our meal, all the families ,mums dads
brothers,sisters, even my gran ! would gather at the golf course.they had trays ,home made sleds,
old bits of prams, ! anything that would slide on the snow covered golf course.fantastic fun ,great slopes to sledge down, long and steep.fantastic fun and all ages gathered as a community.
hate to say it, but these days are long gone! now you would have the police charging you with trespass, and the health and safety on your tail . OH HAPPY DAYS. music.

 

2/6 dinner money in a little tin.

 

Before I left school, I did a paper round and got 10/- a week for my trouble. The money bought a lot, but the thing I remember the most was having to deliver the radio times on Saturday morning because they were too heavy to take out with the ordinary papers, comics and magazines that I normally delivered in the evenings. We even had one of the first televisions in the area, a tiny nine inch B&W set, where I recall watching Bill and Ben the Flowerpot men.

At the tender age of fifteen, 1958, I started full working life as a trainee cook, where my wage was £3.17s.6d. (£3.87p approx.) Even after I paid for my keep, it felt like Iâ??d won a lottery. Iâ??d never had so much money in my life. However, and there has to be one, the chef was like a little Hitler, and frequently acted like him too. Oddly enough, he had a tiny moustache to go with it. I truly hated him! Anyway, I didnâ??t last long in that job and quickly moved on to a job paying £5 a week in in-house advertising, I loved it.:yho:

In those far off days, when the change in your pocket could very quickly wear holes in them, if you werenâ??t careful, you could get a pint of beer for 2/- (10p) or go out for three days, and pay for several rounds, without thinking that youâ??d been landed with the national debt, as the case would be today.

In the 60s, I could buy leather winkle-picker Cuban-healed boots for less than £1.50p. A shirt was less than a £1. I also remember the good off-the-peg suit I bought at 18 cost me £11, and I felt pretty good in it. Fish and chips, they were about 1/6p (Seven and a half pence) and the fish was so big it was almost falling off the pile of chips under it.

Oddly enough, I recall going into Banks and changing a £1 for 240 old pennies just to see if any of then were from the Heaton or Kings Norton mints. Well I did say it was odd. Actually I used to collect coins, but thatâ??s another story.:hehe:

When I was 21, I moved to Derbyshire and itâ??s where I am today. It made me laugh to see the mayor of London, good old Boris, throwing his hands up in the air because of a little bit of snow last winter. When I first came up here, snow was bad enough to bury cars on roads and block them altogether, along with many houses, sometimes for days at a time. The number of days where I couldnâ??t get into work because of deep, and I mean deep, snow, well Iâ??ve never really forgotten it.

Some were indeed good old days, whereas many should and will be forgotten altogether by meâ?¦

 

Straw... you have a better memory then me to remember those prices.
But. it is important we do..
I can recall opening the back door to confronted with about four foot of vertical snow against the door.
What is your first TV memory?
Mine is sitting with the family in grandmas house watching the Coronation (1953) A rather large wooden cabinet with a tiny screen with a snowny picture. Im sure as a child I would have prefered to be somewhere else.

 

Would you just look at the styling of that model. Wonderful.

Have you ever been to a museum and spotted some item on display and to your horror you remarked

"We used to have one of those"

That really instantly dates you and makes you feel real old.
It did me, and that was several years ago now!

 

Well,I don't know about you wrinklies but I didn't exist for the queens coronation,although Mr Kandy was only two at the time so he can't remember it either:rotfl::rotfl:

Shiney,I remember putting covers on our school books but as well as brown paper I did some of mine in wall paper and thye looked quiet smart,even if I say so myself:D Also I used to go to the cinema on a Saturday morning to watch Old Mother Riley and her daughter Kitty and we used to have a sing along with Uncle Pat who stood on the stage at the front and when it was our Birthday we used to have a card sent so me and a friend could get in for free:D

I also collected Brook Bond cards from the tea and was fasinated with the different collections like Birds,Butterflies,Flags Of The World and Trees etc...I did some Googling a little while back and you can still buy those sets plus the albums,but thta is more stuff to hoard :hehe: oh and we also played marbles in the drains and gutters outside of me mums house because we were dead common,plus skipping with a rope and French Skipping with rubber bands tied together,oh happy days.....:D

 

Oh yes... Saturday morning at the cinema.
The sing- a -long with the organ that mysteriously appeared out of the stage.
Dan Dare and the Meekon...da..da..da..daa.

Skipping out of school after dinner to run to aunty and uncles fish n chip shop for a second helping and rush back to school stuffed.

Father deciding it was time the chimney was sweeped so he banks up the fire until the chimney catches alight and burns all the carbon out.

Waiting for the large bang from a second world war 1000Kg (or was it pounds) bomb that was found very near to our house in a marrow patch.
I remember the lorry stopping outside our house so we could get a good look at it. As a lad that was a very, very big bomb!
Brain hurts now but I`m sure there will be more later.

 

"Shiney,I remember putting covers on our school books but as well as brown paper I did some of mine in wall paper and thye looked quiet smart,even if I say so myself "


Made the mistake of backing mine with anaglypta once ( it was the only stuff we had left in the house) the stuff tripled their thickness lol.



I'm too young to remember most of this Edwardian stuff :-)

 

You could always tell how other peoples' houses were decorated...by looking at the wallpaper used to cover their books!

 

saturday morning cinema !. went to the cinema with my 2 brothers ,we were roughing about in the queu,i accidently dropped my sixpence ,which rolled into the hole, where the big metal gates would lock into the ground. we could not get it out as it was a tight fit. in the end no worry! my brothers went in, paid there sixpence then opened the side door and let me in(along with another few!!).
OH HAPPY DAYS!!!! music

 

We must have been posh then, because we had izal toilet paper, it smelled awful and you could only use one side of it!!! all of you who have been here know why :lollol: 02

We used to do errands for elderly neighbours and our wage was empty pop bottles to take back to the local corner shop which we recieved money for, only a couple of pennies , but it was a couple of pennies your parents coudnt afford to part with for luxuries like sweets . Those were the days when every penny counted. :yho: 02