What was popular when you were at school?

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Mum and Dads cafe
The Hand Jive
The Albion
Sea Angling
Playboy (see Hand Jive)
Football,playing of.
Fixed odds football coupons (thanks,Grandad)
Top of the Pops
Doctor Who
Spangles
3.45

Spangles! I remember they did an old fashioned english variety with yellow, black and orange colour sweets. Not sure what the flavours were but they delicious.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Ah I was going to start this thread today so glad to see someone else did it!

As I stated in the other thread the BIGGY was Premier Leafgue stickers. My BIG year was the 95/96 season. I managed to get the number one sticker of the premier league badge SHINY. It was glorious. For a week or so I was commanding big bucks for that bad boy (maybe a tenner). I had people dropping me notes in class, promising me all of their stickers for it. At the age of 9 I felt as though I was in the mafia. It was brilliant.

Other massive COLLECTABLES at my time were POGS.

 

[Titanic]

Blakeys
Single Rothmans from the 'sweet shop' opposite the school gate
Gillian Coleman

 

[CHAPPERS]

Fingering

Wahey! I was wondering if anyone had posted that yet

 

[swindonseagull]

Someone mentioned this on another thread at the moment , so why not.


For me it has to be Football Stickers and Top Trumps. If you had Top Trumps you were the boss.

What about others? :guitar:

B A Y
B A Y
B A Y C I T Y
WITH AN R O L L E R S

BAY CITY ROLLERS ARE THE BEST.....


PORTSLADE SCHOOL LATE MID 70'S

seems strange now I admit but I even had a pair of the rollers trousers.....big baggy things with a tartan stripe...

 

[Trufflehound]

Miners strikes and power cuts

 

[swindonseagull]

Its obvious from this thread that for some posters, school is still a recent memory!!

 

[birthofanorange]

"Nearest the wall", which involved throwing your dinner money against a wall (usually hidden from sight) and the one who got nearest took the pot. No rolling allowed, unless agreed by all participants. Got banned eventually, as so many kids were going hungry!

 

[swindonseagull]

a 3 mile walk to school from portslade to Mile Oak over the big hill....

kids today......buses, mum and dad lifts to school....catchment areas......eh dont know how hard skool was !!!!!

 

[father_and_son]

Till I was about 8 - Toppsies. Flicking football cards against the wall so they'd bounce and land on other cards... Anything they landed on you won.

After that Dungeons & Dragons.

Then from about 12 onwards we discovered Atari computers.

 

[brighton_girl87]

Pogs & Yo-Yos.

 

[Badger]

Football in the playground with a tennis ball
Wall ball (also tennis ball)
Pogs
Football stickers
Casual racism

 

[Mellotron]

Wall ball

LOVED a good wallball tourney. Got a real urge to play it now.

 

[Hiney]

Fingering

hahahahaha

This.

And poker dice, punk rock and Woodpecker cider with a flip-top stopper.

 

[Knightsworld]

Wearing your jacket by the hood only.

Joey Deacon

Lois Cords

Inter school fights, don't actually know if these happened, they were talked about though

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

 

[Norman Potting]

Care Bears.

Whatever happened to them?

They stopped caring. Early '70's "squash" using 2p and a ruler on the old wooden lab benchs with the bit at the back. Also cards, "Black Maria" was our favourite, anyone remember it?

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Beatles and American Civil War bubble gum cards. From Bullens where Conway Court now is near
The old Goldstone Juniors.

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

Panini stickers, marbles, Garbage Pail Kids, Pro-Set cards, scratch and sniff stickers, Bronwyn from Neighbours

now they were awesome! had completly forgotten about these, time for google image's!

 

[Bognor Bystander]

- school holidays !!
- Kiss chase
- British Bulldog
- Wall ball/ headers and volleys
- pea shooters (empty Bic biros)
- retrieving a ball off the flat roof without the caretaker seeing you by shinning up the drainpipe