HOW TRUE IS THIS

[Guest]

There is an old song that really sums up how I feel about the past

 

If I had my life to live over I would still do the same things again

I would still want to roam to the place we call home

Where my happiness never would end.

[Guest]

Old english spangles, white mice (don't taste the same now) making your lips red with cherry lip sweets. The Marathon bar became a Snicker bar (still don't know why).

I remember blowing a big bubble with bubbly gum and my mum had to cut it out of my hair lol

Playing Monopoly by candlelight because there was a power cut.

Ohhhhhhh i could go on forever  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

[newburgh lofts]

I remember rushing home from school in the 60s/70s changing clothes on my bike and up to the plots in froghall aberdeen whare  there was about 20 lofts and listning to all the old doo men. tell there storys . frank troup. old dod smith .bob hadden. dod kemp. to name but a few in our plot we kept  pigeons hens a goose lurchers ferrets i remember  the guys in the next plot to us would dry there salmon poaching nets ready for night time .no one bothered what the other guy did. but we all had a great respect for each other. no one had a lot of money but we had everything you need to be happy.   (the best days of my life) ;D ;D :'( :'(

[blaz]

as a 12 year old with a few mate raiding gardens for apples .this old guy came out slow but determined with a walking stick as an aid. so we only needed to get on to the garden wall .so we did giving him aload of cheek and back chat as we did. as he got close to us standing on his wall full of lip as you are at 12 or13.  all in one movement he moved forward moving walking sick in his hand to grip it at the bottom .using it like a shepherd's crook and hooking one of my mates back in to his garden to be whacked with it . the rest of us near fell of the wall in shock   ;D ;D ;D

[Guest numpty01]

Old english spangles, white mice (don't taste the same now) making your lips red with cherry lip sweets. The Marathon bar became a Snicker bar (still don't know why).

I remember blowing a big bubble with bubbly gum and my mum had to cut it out of my hair lol

Playing Monopoly by candlelight because there was a power cut.

Ohhhhhhh i could go on forever  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

do you remmber flying saucer .s sherbets and the fish that used to move in youer hand before you ate them brill sweets them days weres the world gone

 

[ch pied]

this post was from our very own ROLAND , on this site, & ALL credit belong's to him . it was first posted on another forum that has now gone , but not forgotten . it was a fun place to be & sometime's it was like a gladiators arena . then roland would post a cracker, and thing's would be brought back into perspetive .

 

[just ask me]

we used to tie fishing line unto knockers on houses not one but 20 or so at the same time every neighour in the place out ohhh how we laughed  ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Guest numpty01]

i remmber once with my mate norman taking his dads moped for spin he found out and waited till it suited him to remmber one day we spent all day chopping sticks to light the fire we used to bundle them and sell them all was ready for next days sales so we went up the village when we got back his dad had burnt the lot and dinied it his comment was you had my bike and lied i burnt youer wood and lied  we never took advantage again you lived and learnt them days sadly they dont today and i have five son.s :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

[BLACK W F]

this has been a fantastic thread  to see guys from otherparts of the country doing exactly the same things so may be we where not  so special as we thought just that we where all in the same boat  and made the best of what we had  and our own brand of humour shone through

[cemetary]

Some very good ready,  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D more posts like this would be fun, keep them coming.

[Taylorsloft]

YES I WELL REMEMBER 2BOB  A PINT DOWN THE CLUB  CAN WE HAVE THEM PRICES BACK LOL

 

I think it was 16 pence a pint when I started drinking

[Guest numpty01]

if you had half a crown you were millionaire  i used to give my mum 4quid out if my 6quid wage and i was still rich  ;D ;D ;D

[Guest numpty01]

anyone remmber the shilling meters for electric 5gallons petrol for a quid can i die and come back :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

[newburgh lofts]

 

I think it was 16 pence a pint when I started drinking

that was the last time you stood your hand  stevie  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

[tom corrie]

Old english spangles, white mice (don't taste the same now) making your lips red with cherry lip sweets. The Marathon bar became a Snicker bar (still don't know why).

I remember blowing a big bubble with bubbly gum and my mum had to cut it out of my hair lol

Playing Monopoly by candlelight because there was a power cut.

Ohhhhhhh i could go on forever  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

And what about the gobstoppers with all the different colours and try too suck it right down to the tiny pin *expletive removed* ball without crunching it you could hardly get them into your mouth they were that big and all for a penny

[BLACK W F]

Stevie  stop telling porkys you was drinking when you where still at school must have been a

shilling a pint then lol

[Guest BRYANBROCK]

when i started drinking it was 9 pennies  that 3 pence to the youngsters on this thread  a pint and to make matters worse the police caught me in the pub and my father got fined £2 as i was only 16 he wasnt happy as you would expect got a severe licking and didnt get out for a month didnt mind that but didnt get to finish the pint (evil)(evil)

[Guest numpty01]

licking hideings the thing of the day if you never behaved you had one ? now if perants hit kids then they go to jail kids into care and then the govement cant understand why kids are like they are ? not all i might add

[Guest BRYANBROCK]

yes i know if my father was alive to day i think he would be doing life

if we did what some of the youngsters do today back then i for 1 would have been thrashed severly and no questions asked oh the good old days hey hey

[blackswan]

this is alot of old tosh have a word with yourself

[Fair Play]

Ration books,long queues collecting "Walks" getting the sledge out (Got snow then) in the winter to go to the coal depot in the next village and haul it round the river. The hot unsliced bread from the local Co-op (half eaten before you got home. Rabbit stew,Salmon  all poached locally,we had a garden and grew our own veg,porridge for breakfast no rice krispies then ate all the things that now are considered bad for you and food had a taste so different from the stuff they serve us now. Sugar came in brown paper bags butter in waxed paper broken biscuits and chipped fruit were luxuries and the Beano, Dandy,Adventure, Hotspur,Rover and Wizard and then the Eagle brought us into space travel with Dan Dare, Digby,Sondar (The Treen) and the evil "Wee Mekon" Flash Gordon,Frank Buck (Bring them back alive) aye good old days ;)

[Guest]

Carol singing, making a guy for bonfire night, chopping the turnip up for halloweens night, the smell was the best when you lit the candle.

I got loads of sweets in this year to give to the local kids for trick or treating.

The one child that knocked on my door was a very lucky kid, he got the lot  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

[Guest]

if you had half a crown you were millionaire  i used to give my mum 4quid out if my 6quid wage and i was still rich  ;D ;D ;D

 

When I started work in 1964 my first wage packet was £3:19s:6d and my Mum (god rest her) took £2 of that for keep and I never begrudged her a 1d of that. She was entitled to every penny of it for the fact that she gave me a roof over my head and food in my belly. The one person I have loved more than anyone else was my Mum, the best person that ever walked this earth.

[Guest numpty01]

my mum died couple years ago and i miss her smile and her calling me chriseeee

[Guest]

majority of above posts are placed by a diffrent person . as far as i can see, could one and all be placed by one. i feel a line of truth on each and every posting , could be my own ,feels like my own . have come to the conclusion we have diffrent names .but we are all the same .                                  andy.