Care to declare ... how old you are?

23rd aniv in october , so we have a long way to go. Children's Favourites with "Uncle Mac"(anyone remember?)Space Patrol?.
Never enjoyed my time at grammar school either! :(

 

congrats to the Honeybees!! :D The Dendrobiums missed out on the 25th last summer, as one was in Hemel and the other in Edinburgh - so we might just have a belated silver anniversary this year - 30th June, for anyone who uses a diary!!
(as for school, I was one of the swots, and had a great time!! But I was definitely in the minority!)

 

Makes you think doesn't it Strongy - how time flies and all that...

Radio Luxemburg, Jack Jackson and his cat Tiddles? And of course The Ovaltineys:

"We are the Ovaltineys - little girls and boys
Make your requests we'll not refuse you
We are here just to amuse you......"

How sad is that - I can remember part of the song :rolleyes:

Windup gramophone and when the spring broke we used to wind it round with our fingers -made some very weird-sounding music like that, a forerunner of rap music I think? :D

 

Mrs. DAG said:

We are the Ovaltineys - happy girls and boys
We wake each morning bright and gay
We're happy in our work and play..........

I remember the trams and the buses with the outside staircase, oh, and the Ink-Spots, can't claim to be 29 anymore :(

Anybody remember X-1 in the 50's?

 

Anyone remember outside toilets,Dad used to empty it in the veg plot,no wonder we had champion veg...............

Welcolm back Dag.....

 

We had an old brick-built air-raid shelter in our garden when I was a kid - but I didn't come across an outside loo until I went to Liverpool in 1980! We had to remove it as part of a grant project, and built a big kitchen / bathroom extension instead. No garden tho' - all back yard, and VERY shaded. Just a few tubs front and back, but more than most had. Loads of cats in the alley-ways wakiing us up in the night as they sounded like our twin babies! We had to get a baby alarm so we could tell what was them and what was somehing to ignore!! Ah, happy days...

 

That was in your effluant, sorry affluent days Dendy...........

 

Many congrats HB.
Obviously a child bride

 

I can (just) remember visiting a great aunt in Lancs in the early 1950s she still had a dry closet for a loo. Scared me as there seemed to be a very big hole and a very large drop.
Also remember the old chap next door when we lived in Epsom, he would walk down the garden in the morning and tip the contents of his guzunder onto his compost heap.

Jjordie - I've still got the case of a portable wind-up gramophone. I now store my fishing tackle in it. It was second hand when I was given it in the 50s, but it was my first very own record player.

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:D :D Yeah Roders, right the first time!
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Thanks Roders, only been away 4 days and the amount of posts on GC ! Anybody going away for 2 weeks is going to have some catching up to do!
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Strongylodon, Yes I remember Uncle Mac.
"Goodnight children, everywhere"

If I remember correctly, he was tortured by the Germans in WW2, and after the war used to limp into the BBC studios, and was so disgusted by what humans could do to others, that he made innocent children his only hope. I'm glad I didn't know about that when I used to listen to him?

 

Remember the sawdust on the floors of the butchers shops?

Oh, and the signs in the trams saying 'no spitting'!

'Journey into space' used to be my favourite radio programme.

 

My first record player, was a thing that looked like a suit case - but the needle was so light, that to get continuous music, we weighted the arm with a metal nut selotaped on.

As for school, I failed my eleven plus before moving from the country to the town, and had a bit of a hard time being the odd one out at the local secondary school for three years, before passing my technical high school exam and moving schools and a much happier time.

 

In my young school days, sports consisted of standing in a circle and tossing bean bags to one another!!!

 

Fran - I bet you don't have perfect pitch! I used to put pennies (and yes the big old 1d as they were then) on my record player to make it play in tune as it was so sharp.

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:D You'd lose :D I used to sing - but twas either the nut, or needle stuck constantly - beggars can't be choosers. However did make Johny Leyton's Wild Wind sound just a tad odd