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Post by Fairscup on Aug 30, 2011 12:31:39 GMT 1
My curfew was the street light...My Mum called my name, not my cell...I played outside with friends, not online...If I didn't eat what my Mum cooked, then I didn't eat...Sanitizer didn't exist, but you COULD get your mouth washed out with soap...I rode a bike without a helmet...Getting dirty…was OK...and…Neighbors looked out for you as much as your parents did...
I drank from a garden hose and survived
Smoking wasn't dangerous.
There must be hundreds of others!!!
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Post by Pollypeterborough on Aug 30, 2011 13:42:13 GMT 1
My curfew was the street light...My Mum called my name, not my cell...I played outside with friends, not online...If I didn't eat what my Mum cooked, then I didn't eat...Sanitizer didn't exist, but you COULD get your mouth washed out with soap...I rode a bike without a helmet...Getting dirty…was OK...and…Neighbors looked out for you as much as your parents did... I drank from a garden hose and survived Smoking wasn't dangerous. There must be hundreds of others!!! Done all of the above also going out at 8.00am with 2 pence old money to the swimming pool 1p bread and jam and 1p cup of hot oxo returning home at 7.00pm. for tea. PS. no shoes only wellies summer and winter. bath once a week hair washed can not remember when. also mum telling me we need some veg. so had to go to the allotment which we did not have i will leave it to you to work that one out. |
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Post by Fairscup on Aug 30, 2011 13:52:51 GMT 1
polly - did you try eating tar - when it melted in the summer sunshine? ;D
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Post by Pollypeterborough on Aug 30, 2011 14:01:51 GMT 1
polly - did you try eating tar - when it melted in the summer sunshine? ;D Yes and any old apple core found on the road. hungry from the moment i got up till i went to bed. the good old days. also slapping my Ase as if i was the Roy rogers on my horse. kids today AR humbug.  |
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Post by Jazz on Aug 30, 2011 23:07:54 GMT 1
Aye, agree with all the above......I remember one of my favourite foods when coming in for a "fix" of food was white bread soaked in milk with white sugar on the bread! We walked miles and, yes, wellies were worn all day, sometimes wet inside when water from ponds accidently tipped over the tops of them when looking for tadpoles, newts, frogs, snails, fish.....the list goes on! |
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Post by patsie on Aug 31, 2011 1:35:42 GMT 1
Remember bursting the tar bubbles, but never eating them. Anyone remember the bomb crater, close to the Coast Road, on what we called Blackberry Hill (Howdon)? Kids had such fun there - scrambling up and down that thing. Also picking and eating the blackberries off the bushes.
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Post by Fairscup on Aug 31, 2011 10:16:58 GMT 1
Carbollic soap
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Post by Ann1 on Sept 3, 2011 17:18:52 GMT 1
We used to eat all sorts, but must admit I never tried tar!!  Anyone remember "vinegar leaves"? Don't know what they were and haven't seen them for years, but we used to eat them like lettuce!! And clover flowers as well, they were sweet, also water cress used to grow wild in a stream in the local park! I feel dead sorry for kids these days, they don't seem to have any freedom, if it's not "Elf & Safety" it's paranoid parents!!!
All the "wild" spaces have gone under a pile of concrete and houses. In my "hometown" they filled 2 great natural ponds, one we called the "Tadpole Pond" for obvious reasons, and the other the "Lily Pond" as it was covered in water lilies. Then a few hundred yards away, they "built" a small "Nature Reserve" 
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Post by Jazz on Sept 11, 2011 18:07:56 GMT 1
Remember bursting the tar bubbles, but never eating them. Anyone remember the bomb crater, close to the Coast Road, on what we called Blackberry Hill (Howdon)? Kids had such fun there - scrambling up and down that thing. Also picking and eating the blackberries off the bushes. Aye, I remember that well, Patsie.....the water at the bottom was rumoured to be "bottomless"...I was so naive I believed it! Now it wouldn't be there...."health & safety" would have had a 12 foot fence around it! I remember cycling around the cinder tracks there on my bike. There was also a farm further along one of the numerous "black paths" that were everywhere. I was once chased for some distance by a flock of geese from the pond that they had there! Now all this area is mainly taken up by the A189 "spine road". Also, I don't know if you remember the bitter rivalry between the Radnor Gardens kids & the Monmouth Gardens kids.....especially so on the days running up to "Bonfire Night"! Great times! |
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Post by Jazz on Sept 11, 2011 18:15:23 GMT 1
Further to my above post I remember we had lots of stone/soil throwing battles with rival kids....can remember once throwing a fairly sharp stone and it landed on a kid's head! I felt sick afterwards and now when thinking about it I could have possibly killed him! However these sort of things happened and there were no headlines in the next day's paper......it seemed to be just part of a kid's life then. That's my confession over!  |
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Post by Fairscup on Sept 11, 2011 20:48:38 GMT 1
Ouch! So that was you then? Still hurts  ;D |
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Post by Jazz on Sept 13, 2011 22:56:09 GMT 1
Sorry about that, Fairsy! Mind you, one of my memories is making my way over a stream "upside down" hanging from a metal pipe that was acting as a bridge. Some kid had a bunch of nettles and started brushing them on my hands and face as I went over! What a cruel bas**** he was! But that's kids for you.....junior training for life! |
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Post by Pollypeterborough on Sept 14, 2011 0:10:55 GMT 1
How about bonfires, we used to have ones that were about 20feet high in our street on wasteland opposite our house's. that hot it burnt the paint off the doors and windows.( Ar! them where the days my friend.) There's a song in there some where.
Hand full of penny bangers great days never to return.
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Post by Jazz on Sept 14, 2011 13:19:56 GMT 1
Aye, you're right there Polly....remember "Jumping Jacks", they wouldn't allow them now...you never knew where they were going to land next, still it kept you on your toes....ever alert for danger....good training for life, eh!? Yes, we used to have massive bonfires and were for ever raiding and being raided by other streets......trees being dragged around the roads, leaves everywhere, bangers going off, smoke in the air....smashing times! |
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Post by Ann1 on Sept 14, 2011 13:55:01 GMT 1
Yes, I remember all those things as well, albeit in a different location!! (Wales!) When did it all go wrong, and kids started to be wrapped in cotton wool? 
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I've seen Newcastle United win silverware!
Anyone remember "vinegar leaves"? Don't know what they were and haven't seen them for years, but we used to eat them like lettuce!! And clover flowers as well, they were sweet, also water cress used to grow wild in a stream in the local park! I feel dead sorry for kids these days, they don't seem to have any freedom, if it's not "Elf & Safety" it's paranoid parents!!!
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