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10 Quality Things That Remind You of Your Childhood
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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- Free stuff out the Beano (usually a Dennis The Menace THUNDERCLAP)
- Celtic winning the European Cup despite a power cut covering most of Scotland
- The whole family huddling in Winter over a single candle. If it got really cold, we would light it.
- Cremola Foam. Just add water for a sparkly treat.
- Sherbet Fountains. ditto. The licquorice straw thing was about as much use as a licquorice straw.
- Cinnamon sticks. Sticks. That tasted of cinnamon. And possibly WERE cinnamon.
- Free milk in school. Under a Labour government. Obviously.
- Underfloor heating in council flats. Nobody could afford to switch it on. Obviously.
- Ginger Ten Pound Pom neighbours selling all their possessions to start a new life down under. The bloke from Radio Rentals knocking on our doors about a month later, enquiring after his company's telly.
- Muffin The Mule. Er, allegedly
- Celtic winning the European Cup despite a power cut covering most of Scotland
- The whole family huddling in Winter over a single candle. If it got really cold, we would light it.
- Cremola Foam. Just add water for a sparkly treat.
- Sherbet Fountains. ditto. The licquorice straw thing was about as much use as a licquorice straw.
- Cinnamon sticks. Sticks. That tasted of cinnamon. And possibly WERE cinnamon.
- Free milk in school. Under a Labour government. Obviously.
- Underfloor heating in council flats. Nobody could afford to switch it on. Obviously.
- Ginger Ten Pound Pom neighbours selling all their possessions to start a new life down under. The bloke from Radio Rentals knocking on our doors about a month later, enquiring after his company's telly.
- Muffin The Mule. Er, allegedly
SJ's Love Monkey
Ambrose-ia
Sally James
SJ's Love Monkey
Ambrose-ia
Raving Bonkers
World Cup Edition Subbutteo
Matchbox Steer 'n Go
Red Chopper Bikes
Spacedust
Getting actual LP's for Presents!
World Cup Edition Subbutteo
Matchbox Steer 'n Go
Red Chopper Bikes
Spacedust
Getting actual LP's for Presents!
1) My comics - Tiger and Jag, and Scorcher
2) The football special bus from Worthing Pier
3) The football league revue in your programme
4) St Bruno - piped tobacco
5) The football half time boards around the
perimeter at the Goldstone.
6) Cream soda and Smiths salt and shake
7) Jamboree bags
8) Cheeking up the local park keeper
9) 5 Park Drive ciggies
10) Muddy knees
11) My Dad (should be No 1 really)
2) The football special bus from Worthing Pier
3) The football league revue in your programme
4) St Bruno - piped tobacco
5) The football half time boards around the
perimeter at the Goldstone.
6) Cream soda and Smiths salt and shake
7) Jamboree bags
8) Cheeking up the local park keeper
9) 5 Park Drive ciggies
10) Muddy knees
11) My Dad (should be No 1 really)
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I remeber:
Having to put a cassatte tape in to load up a computer game and it made that horrible noise
Getting a reflector from ceral boxes to put on to your bike
Charlie Chalk
Playing 'simon' and being abit rubbish at it
When the bladder of a football appears after playing on concreate for too long and still kicking it around even tho its going all over the place
Also them really small crappy plastic balls that had the holes in them
Having to put a cassatte tape in to load up a computer game and it made that horrible noise
Getting a reflector from ceral boxes to put on to your bike
Charlie Chalk
Playing 'simon' and being abit rubbish at it
When the bladder of a football appears after playing on concreate for too long and still kicking it around even tho its going all over the place
Also them really small crappy plastic balls that had the holes in them
SJ's Love Monkey
Ambrose-ia
Ronco & K-Tel!!
SJ's Love Monkey
Ambrose-ia
8-Track cassettes
NMH
Banned
The Cottage record shop.
Great bands at The Dome for £1.50p
Rory, at The Dome
Birdsnesting
Newting
Digging for bait.
Ludo, Monopoly.
Coming home late after footy, covered in mud.
Telling great looking birds that they were rough scrubbers, then they'd fancy you for being arrogant and rude.
Playing red rover.
Spazzing because the ice-cream van was playing its' tune outside.
shouting "rag and boooone" back at the rag and bone man.
buzzing slates at swallows and housemartins
smashing windows in derelict houses, or over the RAF Camp.
Tying things to your bike wheels.
catching pigeons
making loud eating noises to get your parents attention
flicking matches
Football commentators REALLY getting excited when ball hit net, and everything leading up to it really.
Grandads cooking - greasy and fatty, and he lived to 99.
Going to the pub and sneaking a sip of milk-stout.
Sunday drives to Drusillas Arundel Lake, Barcombe Mills or Chessington Zoo.
Picking blackberries.
Scrumping apples out of people's gardens
Fishing off the power station 'hot pipe'.
skiving off PE class, with the dodgy queer teacher
looking up girls skirts....well.......alright, that's not something you ever stop.
Calling a queer, queer
having a train set, or scalextric, ...and a gollywog.
Great bands at The Dome for £1.50p
Rory, at The Dome
Birdsnesting
Newting
Digging for bait.
Ludo, Monopoly.
Coming home late after footy, covered in mud.
Telling great looking birds that they were rough scrubbers, then they'd fancy you for being arrogant and rude.
Playing red rover.
Spazzing because the ice-cream van was playing its' tune outside.
shouting "rag and boooone" back at the rag and bone man.
buzzing slates at swallows and housemartins
smashing windows in derelict houses, or over the RAF Camp.
Tying things to your bike wheels.
catching pigeons
making loud eating noises to get your parents attention
flicking matches
Football commentators REALLY getting excited when ball hit net, and everything leading up to it really.
Grandads cooking - greasy and fatty, and he lived to 99.
Going to the pub and sneaking a sip of milk-stout.
Sunday drives to Drusillas Arundel Lake, Barcombe Mills or Chessington Zoo.
Picking blackberries.
Scrumping apples out of people's gardens
Fishing off the power station 'hot pipe'.
skiving off PE class, with the dodgy queer teacher
looking up girls skirts....well.......alright, that's not something you ever stop.
Calling a queer, queer
having a train set, or scalextric, ...and a gollywog.
NMH
Banned
Airfix.
Rub-off transfers in cereal packs.
bubblegum with Beatles cards, Confederate money, Man From Uncle cards, WWII cards depicting gory occurrences like tanks running people over, or planes exploding with people underneath
Rub-off transfers in cereal packs.
bubblegum with Beatles cards, Confederate money, Man From Uncle cards, WWII cards depicting gory occurrences like tanks running people over, or planes exploding with people underneath
Theatre of Trees
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edna krabappel said:
My year 10 tutor group do exactly the same thing today.
1) Going to the Goldstone with my Grandad - train from Haywards Heath then under the Fonthill Road bridge.
2) Subbuteo Stadium Edition - which I still have.
3) Texan bars - most of which still have my teeth.
4) My Chipper bike.
5) Jenny Agutter waving her red bloomers in The Railway Children.
6) Michael Rodd's Screen Test
7) The snail climbing frame behind my old house in Wilmington Way, Haywards Heath - It was still there 10 years ago.
8) Eating sunday lunch in front of The Big Match
9) Cycling from Peacehaven to Southease bridge and back.
10) Shaking Great Uncle Bulgaria's hand.
aftershavedave
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Theatre of Trees said:
good call!
dougdeep
New member
Lead soldiers.
Pork Sword
Banned
- Jan 5, 2007
- 326
Getting baths with 'Uncle' Nobby from next door.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
ah nostagia ain't what it used to be....
Norman Baker suck my lozenge
New member
1.Wedgies
2.Spacedust
3.Fawcett, Stringer punch ups.
4.Wham bars
5.Sam fox
6.Grange Hill
7.First non self administered Lamb shank on school trip to Germany.
8.Highbury semi final
9.Adrian Mole
10. The Goldstone
2.Spacedust
3.Fawcett, Stringer punch ups.
4.Wham bars
5.Sam fox
6.Grange Hill
7.First non self administered Lamb shank on school trip to Germany.
8.Highbury semi final
9.Adrian Mole
10. The Goldstone
no mortgage
withdeanwombat
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The West Blatchington Windmill
Worthington "E"
Auntie Yum Yum
The Ghost Goes West
Albion 4 Middlesbrough 6
The West End Cafe Beach
Shoreham Harbour Arm
The Maytree
Family Holidays.
NO MOBILE PHONES.
Worthington "E"
Auntie Yum Yum
The Ghost Goes West
Albion 4 Middlesbrough 6
The West End Cafe Beach
Shoreham Harbour Arm
The Maytree
Family Holidays.
NO MOBILE PHONES.