- 2-tone trim phones
- windjammers
- frost on the inside of window
- warming the day's clothes on the clothes horse in front of the fire
- running downstairs in the freezing cold to get dressed in front of the fire
- my friend's roll on
- vests - I used to hide mine
- the noise and sight of the now old-fashioned dentist's drill
- putting rags in my hair to make ringlets
- perms - what a heavy head!
- white kinky boots
- pink calamine lotion for my chicken pox spots - yuk
- childhood ailments - chicken pox, scarlet fever, German measles - I didn't get measles or mumps
- my friend's liberty bodice - what a lot of buttons to do up
- plastic sandals
- bubbly swimsuits which always smelt of the sea
- playing in the rough sea with a car tyre - no adult around
- Lucky bags - what a rip off for 3d
- knicker bocker glories - another rip off
- aniseed balls
- liquorice wheels
- butterscotch and liquorice gums
- skipping
- handstands against the school wall - had to tuck my dress into my knickers
- Brownie cameras which only took 8 pictures
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The list could go on and on.
My memory is having a tiny radio under my pillow, turned just loud enough so I could hear it, listening to Radio Caroline. Plus camera flash bulbs, only four per unit and you always needed more than you had. Sending off film with everything crossed the photo's I took were good, and feeling cross when they came back rubbish, but you still had to pay for the process. Love your list.
ReplyDeleteOh, I remember perms! My mum used to have my hair permed twice a year because she didn't like my straight hair, and thought I looked better with curls, and I hated it!
ReplyDeleteJulie xxxx
I too remember transistor radios. Also buckle on skates, bikes with one speed only, tv with 3 channels all in black and white and they didn't come on till 3pm.
ReplyDeleteI had a liberty bodice aged about 4....... heavens knows why!
ReplyDeletePeople knocking on our door to use the phone as they had no change for the public phone or it didn't work. I was talking to the grandchildren today and said milkman and they both looked at me. What's a milkman? 😂
ReplyDeleteI would rather not remember! All in the past. Looking forward is good.x
ReplyDeleteGosh I remember so many of those :-)
ReplyDeleteLove this post. The kids remember when there was ice on the inside of the windows. Don't think many kids would tolerate that now. lol
ReplyDeleteWere they good times or are we fooling ourselves ?
I look back fondly at bringing my lot up, its only as they got older that we've had problems with the boys partners. such a shame.
Briony
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Great.
ReplyDeleteI remember hiding under the blankets with a flashlight in order to finish a chapter or two in the book I was reading.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Yes, I remember most of those. My twelve year old granddaughter loves to hear my stories of childhood. She finds it impossible to comprehend how it was with no iPads, mobile phones, endless tv or "designer" stuff!
ReplyDeleteI didn't live near enough to the sea to play in it with a tyre, but we did nick the offcuts of cardboard from a local factory and used them to slide down the grassy bank that came down from the motorway!
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