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Re: I remember that/those
Posted: 01 Jul 2022, 17:48
by Davycc
Anyone else attach a bit of cardboard and a clothes peg to the forks of your bike so that it "sounded like a motorbike " when it rubbed against the spokes. You had to get the piece of card just right.
Re: I remember that/those
Posted: 01 Jul 2022, 18:28
by cheffy007
Davycc wrote:Barlow Boy wrote:Davycc wrote:Barlow Boy wrote:NottinghamWhite wrote:Having a cup of Bovril at the football was always a winner for me. I used to love doing the football pools really miss the excitement as the results came on the teleprinter on a Saturday afternoon. Saturday teatime & waiting for the Green Un to arrive & once it did popping to the pub next door to read it cover to cover. Blokes at the games with transistor radios held high & passing on any scores he thought we would be interested in. Buying a rosette of the opposition.
I used to deliver the green un when I was a paper boy.
You still fit in those trousers too
I could probably still fit on the pushbike I used to have.
Mine still has stablisers
in the West Midlands it was the Pink that gave us the scores. I remember going to a patomime at the Wolverhampton Grand in the early seventies and Freddie Garrity of Freddie and the Dreamers read out the results. I remember us winning and Wolves losing, but don't ask me who too.
Re: I remember that/those
Posted: 01 Jul 2022, 18:51
by Barlow Boy
Davycc wrote:Anyone else attach a bit of cardboard and a clothes peg to the forks of your bike so that it "sounded like a motorbike " when it rubbed against the spokes. You had to get the piece of card just right.
I used a lollipop stick
Re: I remember that/those
Posted: 01 Jul 2022, 18:55
by Davycc
Barlow Boy wrote:Davycc wrote:Anyone else attach a bit of cardboard and a clothes peg to the forks of your bike so that it "sounded like a motorbike " when it rubbed against the spokes. You had to get the piece of card just right.
I used a lollipop stick
Snob
Re: I remember that/those
Posted: 01 Jul 2022, 20:06
by mapperleywhite
DC Marvel comics - Superman, Batman, Green Lantern - had such a distinctive odour, printing ink presumably. Fairly sure they were imported from the US. I was endlessly fascinated by the adverts for 100 (?) piece sets of cars, or was it military stuff at, it seemed, amazingly low prices. Ring any bells folks?
Re: I remember that/those
Posted: 02 Jul 2022, 07:29
by NottinghamWhite
Did anyone else have a cap gun not sure if that’s the right name.?
Re: I remember that/those
Posted: 02 Jul 2022, 08:00
by ChilwellWhite
NottinghamWhite wrote:Did anyone else have a cap gun not sure if that’s the right name.?
Yes cap guns I’m sure is the right name when you fired them there was a smell that was delicious I’m sure looking back it fuelled the child pyromaniac in me
Re: I remember that/those
Posted: 02 Jul 2022, 08:14
by NottinghamWhite
That’s them yeah I got one bought for Christmas one year
Looking back at Christmas presents I remember one year getting a Zoro outfit thought I was the dogs dangly bits
The Inner child in me today is thinking of buying a train set I think it would be very therapeutic you see we never really grow up do we
Re: I remember that/those
Posted: 02 Jul 2022, 08:24
by Selby White
Yep remember them
Remember dustbins that you managed to fit what little waste we had and the bin men could still carry over their shoulder.
Now we need 4 giant bins on wheels and still have to take stuff to the skips.
And they tell me today's society care more about the environment
It's not about dealing with a mountain of waste its about not creating it.
Recycling was about eating your fish & chips out of a newspaper and a penny back for your pop bottle.
Re: I remember that/those
Posted: 02 Jul 2022, 09:55
by NottinghamWhite
I saw pictures of Glastonbury after everyone had left you couldn’t see the ground for litter & rubbish yet today’s youngsters believe we older folk are the problem
When did this trend of littering start ?