Generation Gap

sherbert dabs,jamboree bags and spangles .
for a sledge it was a plastic bag nicked from to the local farm as they had the strongest ones .
cowhorns for handlebars on your bike and ape hangers for the braver ones.
going fishing with a tin of maggots and a couple of slices of bread and staying till you couldnt see your float anymore ,mum would come down to the pond to fetch us back as it was past tea time.
five park drive cigs,and the old man smoking weights cigarettes ,unfiltered.
scrumping in the local orchard ,and making sure to bring some cooking apples home with you so mum could make an apple pie.
 
A Curly wurly was as long as your arm.

Blue nun and black tower were the height of sophistication.

Gary Glitter singing " do you wanna be in my gang" and thinking nothing untoward about it.
 
Walking to school
Cycling to the golf course
1-4 wooden woods
Wrapped dunlop 65s
'Sing something simple' on the wireless during Sunday roast.
Joyce Parker
3d pocket money
Sharing a bedroom with my brother
Throwing water down the garden path in the winter to make a slide
3 alarm clocks for my paper round
One bath a week
Honda SS50
Not getting served in pubs
 
The pop lorry coming once a week.
Recording the top 40 on the tape player
Fluff freeman
Fantasy football was a game called Logacta which you could only buy by mail order from shoot. (i'd be surprised if anyone else remember this)
World of sport - bi-planes with wrestling as part of the schedule
 
A family of 6 in a Morris Minor with the youngest on Mum's knee. No seatbelts or child seats and windscreens made from plate glass.
Drawing in the frost on the inside of the house windows.
Having central heating but couldn't afford to turn it on.
No such thing as double glazing.
Knowing everyone of your neighbours. Visiting them all without being told to and them being happy to see you.
Mum at home everyday.
One family car and you were posh.
Having respect for your elders.
Wondering what all the fuss was over that new BBC2 when all it showed was boring programs.
Party lines and asking the operator to connect you to a number.
The little white dot on the TV screen when you turned it off.
The National Anthem on close down on BBC but not on ITV.
Waiting for Watch with Mother to start and staring at the Test Card.
Being amazed that you could tape video just like audio.
Heavy footballs. Footballs with laces. Football boots with rounded toe caps. Coveting white Alan Ball boots with swivelling studs that snapped your ankle. Desperately wanting George Best boots with laces on the side.
Not buying a new carpet because the old one wasn't threadbare yet.
Wearing the clothes your brother had grown out of.
 
Anyone recall Dick Barton,Special agent on the wireless weekdays 6.45 PM?
Or for a real fright The Man in Black read by Valentine Dial(spel?).
Both early fifties,no ! no !I am not that old !!!!!
 
Fantasy football was a game called Logacta which you could only buy by mail order from shoot. (i'd be surprised if anyone else remember this)

YES YES YES!!! Good shout - loved that game - the different coloured dice to use based on the team's rankings. Filling in the record charts - gave me OCD that did.
 
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