When i was a kid-a bygone era.

[Seagulltonian]

You received a dinky daily bottle of milk infants school, to make sure you had healthy bones!

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Outside of Croydon people can generally afford gas/oil central heating

Again, well done. Are people viewing this forum on large enough computer screens or is it just too subtle?

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

The Waxworks on the seafront with the dummy lying down with a swinging pendulum blade above him.

The Sea Life Centre used to be the Dolphinarium.

Ice skating rink near the Clock Tower.

On TV, things like Randall & Hopkirk, Benny Hill, Monty Python.

Sandwiches with unhealthy rubbish in them - I had salad cream sarnies sometimes as a child and a friend had condensed milk in hers...yuk!

Yes-used to scare the crap out of me,where the Albion hotel is? from memory or some where there

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/derek+hammond/gary+silke/got2c+not+got/8443036/

Got this for Xmas which should be right up your (cobbled) street! Well worth a read.

We can thank Insider, Paul Camillin, for that book being published.

In Backpass magazine, author Gary Silke wrote of how many publishers turned down the book before a final throw of the dice in pitching it to Pitch Publishing '....and they instantly got back to us, inviting us down to Brighton for a quick discussion. In November last year we travelled down to Sussex and Brighton was at its bright and breeziest. We had a fortifying breakfast in the shadow of the pier and met Pitch at Withdean Stadium. It was soon clear that Pitch 'got it' and that this was a case of 'how' rather than 'if' they would publish Got, Not Got, with Paul Camillin expanding our vision from 120 pages to a daunting 224, beautifully designed with 1000 pictures of our huge memorabilia collections and heartwarming Mirror Football archive shots...'

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Again, well done. Are people viewing this forum on large enough computer screens or is it just too subtle?

Post 3

answer 5.... to much self abuse has hurt eyesight

 

[spongy]

Tangy Tom's crisps, used to be 2p per pack in my junior school tuck shop.

Candy sticks that were fake ciggys.

The old tescos in Churchill sq at the back

Stubbing plates on the back of bus seats

The hurricane in 1987.

Do McDonald's still do birthday parties?

Actually being able to buy penny sweets for a penny.

Some aren't in the true spirit of this thread but I'm pissed and have gone down a memory lane tangent........oh the memories...

 

[severnside gull]

The Waxworks on the seafront with the dummy lying down with a swinging pendulum blade above him.

The Sea Life Centre used to be the Dolphinarium.

Ice skating rink near the Clock Tower.

On TV, things like Randall & Hopkirk, Benny Hill, Monty Python.

Sandwiches with unhealthy rubbish in them - I had salad cream sarnies sometimes as a child and a friend had condensed milk in hers...yuk!

Aaah! Madame Tussaud's waxworks - what a joyous waste of a shilling that was on a wet summer's afternoon!

and the dolphinarium was originally just The Aquarium with sealions in a circular pool the main attraction.

 

[Race]

car seats smelling of real leather and petrol

 

[Race]

proper saturday night telly. none of that shit thats on nowadays. presenters and stars with real talent

 

[Dominoid]

£2.50 (I think it was anyway) child tickets to get in the SW stand of the Goldstone. Pay on the gate too.

 

[severnside gull]

finding a proper dirty mag in someones camp over the woods/park

ha ha! In my day it was "Health and Efficiency" - black and white pictures of naked ladies playing volleyball at a nudist camp. We have lost so much from the past but pornography at least seems to have improved over time

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

Wooden matchboxes.

A few years ago, when I mentioned these to the heir to the Bracknell title, he was genuinely ignorant of the FACT that matches used to be sold in wooden matchboxes.

send him here
http://www.phillumeny.com/beginners_guide.html

 

[BadFish]

things you remember from childhood,that are rare or no longer exist.

Under 25's need not apply as you would think we were on another planet..
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Here are a few to start with.

1)The newspaper stand outside London Rd Sainsbury's-Brighton

2)Coal fires.

3)5p or was it 1p? if you returned a bottle to a shop.

Good times

I do like an open fire but i don't really see how these things equate to "good time"

Now mind altering drugs, loud music and computer games......that is a good time. Where were they in the olden days.

 

[spongy]

Pirates deep above the dolphinarium

Proper kids tv like Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Bagpuss and fingermouse to name but a few.

Toys that didn't need batteries

Decent climbing trees, where'd they all go?, they all look easy to a hardened veteran like me, it wasn't a proper Saturday morning til I fell out of one.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Aaah! Madame Tussaud's waxworks - what a joyous waste of a shilling that was on a wet summer's afternoon!

Ahem ... LOUIS Tussaud's waxworks.

 

[severnside gull]

I do like an open fire but i don't really see how these things equate to "good time"

Now mind altering drugs, loud music and computer games......that is a good time. Where were they in the olden days.

LSD/The Who / Sinclair ZX............................................ oh well, 2 out of 3

 

[Race]

going conkering. being able to chuck a big f*** off stick up the tree. part of the fun was trying to avoid getting hit on its descent

 

[severnside gull]

Ahem ... LOUIS Tussaud's waxworks.

I stand corrected - I knew I was wrong when I said it because Madame T's was of course next to the London Planetarium

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

having to get up to change the channel on the telly. I was the remote control in our house!

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Is that supposed to be the original crew of the Starship Enterprise?