My Mum used to give me dinner money for the week to buy 5 tickets for my lunch at Buckingham on Monday. A mate and me decided to spend the weeks dinner money on sweets on the Monday and then go scrumping the rest of the week for lunch ( or to the Co-op at lunch time to nick something.
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My Mum used to give me dinner money for the week to buy 5 tickets for my lunch at Buckingham on Monday. A mate and me decided to spend the weeks dinner money on sweets on the Monday and then go scrumping the rest of the week for lunch ( or to the Co-op at lunch time to nick something.
Wardy's twin
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5p or 5d?
- Apr 5, 2014
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I remember Luke Nye getting in trouble for selling his dinner tickets!
Most of our funds got spent in Baldwins.
Red and blue star wars cards, then panini stickers.
School dinners at Buckingham were good. Or maybe I just like eating anything!
Got my first French kiss off a girl who lived down Stoney Lane after walking her back from the Shoreham Community Centre disco.
The fact that we had these disco nights where they’d bring together all the youths from Shoreham and not expect a punch up was madness in itself.
I can confirm that the girl from Stoney Lane did kinda fit that ‘loose’ bill. I mean, I wouldn’t have kissed me.
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Beach Hut
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5p......
Worried Man Blues
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or a Tanner!
Loving the Banana Splits on TV and never knowing when it might be shown - it just seemed to appear randomly.
Deliberately getting soaked on the way to school in the hope you might get sent home.
Chucking everything out of the railway carriage between Shoreham and East Worthing on the way to school.
Just being told to be home by teatime.
Dialing home from the call box at the station and just letting it ring twice so that the parents knew you wanted picking up.
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Deliberately getting soaked on the way to school in the hope you might get sent home.
Chucking everything out of the railway carriage between Shoreham and East Worthing on the way to school.
Just being told to be home by teatime.
Dialing home from the call box at the station and just letting it ring twice so that the parents knew you wanted picking up.
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Taybha
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44 save all .
Taybha
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You stood by a lamp post , pretended to close your eyes for 44 seconds , all your mates would then run off and hide with the one girl that played and took turns snogging her.
It was the job of the counter to find all those hidden , if by chance a loner happened to be found somebody else could in theory save them by reaching the lamp post undetected .
It was the job of the counter to find all those hidden , if by chance a loner happened to be found somebody else could in theory save them by reaching the lamp post undetected .
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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Sounds like a variation of what we called POM123. Not the snogging bit!
Do people recall Cresta soft drinks. Cloudy lurid coloured pop with god knows how many additives that had you bouncing off the wall. Used to be advertised by a polar bear in shades with the tag line " It's frothy man ".
pastafarian
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To consume the food you had ordered from the take away you needed to physically go to the establishment you had ordered the take away from and pick it up in order to be able to take it away and then consume it.
- Jan 3, 2012
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Yes, on both counts. And the polar bear was a cool dude wearing sunglasses, I seem to remember.
I recall it being “Man, it’s frothy”
Brok
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"It's frothy man" surely?
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
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I was the instigator of The Great Dinner Ticket Scam , 1973 at Steyning Grammar. I used to purchase a pork pie about once a month, or even better, pinch one, and use it as my packed lunch every day to enter the dining hall. I would then join the queue for school dinners. As tickets were taken at the door, no one ever checked of you had a ticket, once in the queue. Genius in its simplicity, and the black market in dinner tickets was a thriving enterprise, they would sell at almost cost price. All went well, until I was grassed up, and a letter was sent home. My parents checked my dinner tickets that had been bought en masse at the start of term and found I had only got about 6 left and it wasn’t even half term.
I got the cane at school, and a clip round the ear from my Mum, pocket money stopped till I paid for them and grounded for about 6 months.
cjd
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An open coal fire in the classroom. St Pauls Brighton, down West Street.