SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Aztec bars (purple wrapper) and Tudor crisps (two and half pence when Smiths were 3 pence).
'Plain' forerunner of Quavers from stall at Kelvin Hall Carnival
Aztec bars (purple wrapper) and Tudor crisps (two and half pence when Smiths were 3 pence).
'Plain' forerunner of Quavers from stall at Kelvin Hall Carnival
Mungoscorner
Journeyman Pro
Peg guns.
Spud guns.
Cap guns.
Ever Ready being the only brand of battery you could buy.
Dynamo lights on your bike.
Corona "every bubbles passed its fizzical".
Cresta "its frothy man".
Party Seven.
Davenports home delivery.
Alpine home delivery.
Stylophone.
Spud guns.
Cap guns.
Ever Ready being the only brand of battery you could buy.
Dynamo lights on your bike.
Corona "every bubbles passed its fizzical".
Cresta "its frothy man".
Party Seven.
Davenports home delivery.
Alpine home delivery.
Stylophone.
bluewolf
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Living near the Heinz factory, I remember when we used to be able to buy several carrier bags full of random tins for a fiver. None of them had labels and if you didn't have the crib sheet with all the codes on it, then lunch was a bit of a lottery....(shakes can.."sounds like beans and sausage", opens can..."macaroni cheese again"....)
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
We had Alpine home delivery - it was cheap but we couldn't afford Barrs etc. We also had an onion Johnny - bicycle, striped bklack and white shirt and black beret - and French. Exactly as they are portrayed. Also had rag and bone man and dhad to watch out for midden (midgy?) rakers out the communal bins back of our tenement black.
Birchy
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There is some old buggers on this forum 
Doon frae Troon
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Silver trupennies and farthings.
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Coal was delivered in cloth sacks on the back of a lorry.
If you misbehaved, the local bobby gave you a smack round the back of the head
You could be patriotic without offending anyone.
If you misbehaved, the local bobby gave you a smack round the back of the head
You could be patriotic without offending anyone.
bluewolf
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I hope you're not talking to me Scott, I'm not 40 yet......There is some old buggers on this forum
Our coal got delivered in a tipper (coal miners used to get an annual allowance back in the day) 1 ton a time and I got a day off school to shovel it up and put it in the coal cellar/bunker. Then had to get cleaned up using the old carbolic soap
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
...trolley bus pole (pantograph) would come off power lines and trolley bus would stop - usually blocking Cathcart Road.
Oh yes - sneaking into Cathkin Park when Third Lanark still played there - I was VERY little - and climbing into Hampden Park over wall on Somerville Drive - and scoring a goal at 'Celtic' End, before getting chased by Groundsman.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Which is why in Milngavie, sex is what you get coal in...
Birchy
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I hope you're not talking to me Scott, I'm not 40 yet......
Even the internet hasn't heard of half of this stuff :rofl:
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
...me and my brother thought it a good idea to go to Hampden Park and spend 20p each to get in and wave cherrio to Ally and the Boys about to head off to win the World Cup in Argentina.
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Always thought that was the ladies of Morningside.
Some folk I know had a job to keep a straight face when they asked for black sacks.
Hogan, it that on your CV.
'Once scored the winning goal at Hampden'
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Foxholer
Blackballed
Indeed. Coal delivered in sacks on the back of a lorry and carried in by a guy with a leather vest/jacket.
Outside loo!
Walking to and from School, but being warned about the 'Strange Man' sitting in the adjoining park by the Teacher before going home.
Rugby boots used for Hockey; Sand shoes - with no spongy sole - for Tennis. The wealthy/Good guys used Dunlop Green Flashes. Tennis Balls came in Dozen Boxes, not cans!
Outside loo!
Walking to and from School, but being warned about the 'Strange Man' sitting in the adjoining park by the Teacher before going home.
Rugby boots used for Hockey; Sand shoes - with no spongy sole - for Tennis. The wealthy/Good guys used Dunlop Green Flashes. Tennis Balls came in Dozen Boxes, not cans!
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
You are of course correct - it is the Morningside ladies. But I like to think of the Milngavie ladies also ordering sex (of coal). And no scoring the goal is not on my CV as my mate Ralph was in goal and that doesn't really count (and we were seven yrs old at the time)
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Leather laced up footballs that did your head in when you headed one when it was wet - and Liberties (what we played if only 3-5 of us) using one set of goals.
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Sand shoes..........
reminds me of that great line form a song of that era.
'A said to Hairy Mary can I run ye home,
A'll jist pit oan ma new pair o' sand shoes
reminds me of that great line form a song of that era.
'A said to Hairy Mary can I run ye home,
A'll jist pit oan ma new pair o' sand shoes
stevie_r
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My grandad being tight, used to pinch his from work, it had 'now wash your hands' printed on every tracing paper like sheet.
I also remember no central heating, single glazing and lino in my bedroom instead of carpet when we finally got a house after living in flats
teetime72
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If you lived in Wigan,thats where you kept the coal.LOL.
Remember when car tyres had inner tubes.
