10 Quality Things That Remind You of Your Childhood

[Mendoza]

This kinda happened because of Triggers on this day threads, which reminded me of my trip to old trafford, and talking about the excitement of being a kid, and the memories of my childhood.

We then started getting all nostalgic and came up with loads of great stuff about being a kid

These are mine

1 - Watching Saint and Grevsie, then going to the Goldstone
2 - Mel and Martina the funhouse twins
3 - Thundercats
4 - Hungry Hippos game
5 - The Littlest Hobo
6 - Global Hypercolour T Shirts
7 - Nerds and Dweebs Sweets
8 - Baywatch
9 - Liverpool v Arsenal when Michael Thomas scored in the last second of injury time to win the league
10 - Typing 5318008 into a calculator and turning it upside down


Ahh the memories


So come on fine people of NSC, whats the 10 best things you remember about growing up

 

[byf]

1. The goldstone
2. Heman
3.Danger mouse
4. Bill & ben flower pot men
5. Helter skelter on the pier
6. my pijamas that I called my sniffers
7. watching the usa world cup on a black & white telly in my dads room
8. a mud slide in about 1992 in rottingdean which meant my primary school shut for 1 day
9. my teddy called ted
10. my thomas the tank engine lamp and wallpaper

 

[McShane79]

6 - Global Hypercolour T Shirts

I had one of those! But now I think about it, why would you wear them? To highlight that you're a bit sweaty!! Mad.

 

[Gwylan]

1 Snow that lasted for days
2 Watching the blacksmith in the Open Market
3 Picture Book with Sausage the dachshund
4 Going on steam trains
5 My toy slide projector
6 Going to Butlins
7 Believing in Father Christmas
8 Playing cricket with my dad in his lunchbreak
9 William books
10 The Goldstone (of course)

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Pissing the bed after 2 cans of Carling.


Some things never change.

 

[The Wookiee]

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

- Taking the bridge over the tracks at Hove Station (can you still do this?)

- Seeing Alan Mullery on the TV

- Dolphins (remember the dolphinarium)

- My 9-month old daughter discovering how her hands work (still remember making stories with my hands as spaceships etc)

- Seeing tankers in Ýzmir bay (Athena B anyone?)

- Marmite

- The roar of a football crowd

- The sound of seagulls

- The smell of the inside of used keepers gloves

- Going bowling (we used to do our football training at the back of the bowling alley)

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Done Wookie

 

[Rougvie]

1. My first Albion British Caledonian shirt
2. Steve Foster
3. A drama programme called Maelstrom which was SCARY
4. The adventure game.
5. Arriving in Scotland as a 6 year old with a Brighton accent
6. Battle of the planets
7. Wimpey
8. Spending every summer in Hove
9. Rubiks Cube
10 Rifelling my big sisters underwear drawer and getting a semi reading her diary.

 

[cardboard]

1. Ker Plunk
2. The hill at Manor Hall 1st school
3. Climbing trees in the wish gardens in Southwick
4. Famous Five books
5. Conkers
6. ZX Spectrum
7. Luminous socks (different colour on each foot)
8. Fire balls
9. The thin man (scary schools kids program)
10. The water slides at the King Alfred

 

[Knightsworld]

Rowntree Nutty Bars
My First game at the Goldstone BHA 7 Wallsall 0
Saying the F word for the first time in front of my Dad when Smith missed.
Hornby Train Set
Playing football in the road
The summer of 76
Adam & The Ants
Pontins Holidays
Dad getting a Betamax Video!!!
Staying up late with Mum to watch the Hammer horror films

 

[Hadlee]

1) Chocolate Treats (now Minstrels)

2) Going to the Goldstome with My Dad on the Bus.

3) Hot summers days on Southwick beach

4) Cold Summer days at the County Ground

5) Thunderbirds

6) Firework night parties with my Cousins.

7) Walking on West pier

8) Black & White TV

9) Giant cough candy humbugs from "the Handy Shop" on corner of Sheldale Road, Portslade (knocked down years ago)

10) Watching the Moon landings.

 

[Gully]

1. Listening to John Peel on the radio when I should have been asleep.
2. Sledging on the Downs in winter.
3. Summer holidays in Ireland.
4. Playing football/cricket with my mates, depending on the time of year.
5. Annoying our neighbours because we made so much noise as kids playing.
6. Liberating bottles from behind the off-licence, then returning them for the deposit.
7. Getting caught by the local cops in the act of number 6, then spending a week hoping he didn't tell our dad.
8. Convincing the cop at number 7 that we weren't taking the bottles but tidying them up.
9. Discussing the merits of an up and coming Albion team with everyone at school, the majority of whom also supported them (bet that wouldn't happen today).
10. Looking at an atlas and dreaming of far away countries that I might visit when I was old enough.

 

[aftershavedave]

walkabout with jenny agutter
the flashing blade
robinson crusoe dubbed from german
sledging
tanktops
budgie jackets
holidays in christchurch
forest walks with my folks
spud guns
cycling trips in the country

 

[Gwylan]

10. Looking at an atlas and dreaming of far away countries that I might visit when I was old enough.

That's a good one. I did the same thing with my stamp collection.

 

[surrey jim]

1 - rainbow
2 - goldstone
3 - first premiership game, Saints v Wednesday at the Dell
4 - Thunderbirds
5 - 1987 Hurricane
6 - Herbie Films
7 - NES, Sega Meagdrive
8 - Fireworks nights
9 - Family holidays in Spain
10 - My dad getting a new Cortina with electric windows (very mod con )

 

[jevs]

The smell of pipe tobacco at the Goldstone

Fishing in the Pells pond in Lewes

Staying out till it was dark

Playing wallball with me mates

Hot summer evenings

Playing subbuteo, striker and Binnatone tennis on the TV

Collecting football stickers

Getting a "bootfull" whilst playing down the local streams in Lewes

Making mud pies in the garden

Christmas

 

[The Large One]

1: Boys' Brigade
2: Downs Middle School
3: Being shown around the Goldstone by Alan Mullery
4: Meeting Brian Horton and Mark Lawrenson at Boys' Brigade - they'd come down for a visit.
5: Crap holidays in places where it always rained. Like ruined castles and abbeys
6: Rainbow (obviously earlier in the childhood)
7: Don Masson missing a penalty for Scotland in the 1978 World Cup.
8: Getting my first Subbuteo from AA Baker
9: My first game at the Goldstone - 1978
10: On the way home from Play School in about 1973, finding 2p in the coin return slot of a chocolate vending machine, putting it in the machine and getting a free bar of choclate.

 

[Rougvie]

oooh, I forgot to say Splicer bars.

Yum

 

[The Wookiee]

Hope that wasn't a joke Wookle cos it's bloody shocking. If it wasn't a joke then kudos to you for sharing.... but quality?

Bad choice of picture, I apologise if i offended anybody.

it was not a joke nor was I abused in the way you may have interpreted the picture.

i was thinking of playground fights, going home with a black eye, bloody nose etc.

Wrong choice of picture, now changed to something more appropriate.

If you could edit my quote in your post in order not to offend anybody else. Sorry and thanks for the feedback.