Do You Remember.....................

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A scone & tea at half past 3 makes the day a little brighter. Keep yer cakes and fancy tarts... AND SHOVE THEM UP YER ****ER

If you know, you know...
 
They are still about.... though mostly as wedding transport.

I was more thinking when they were in service. Coming from Saaf Laaaaaaaaandan, they were a lot in the very late 70s and early 80s I remember. Disappeared from the mid-80s round our way and then only to be seen in Laaaaaaaaandan.

When cars did not have power steering... or aircon....

God. You do get used to cars with these things. I once went from PAS back to non-PAS with one car for a couple of years. I never noticed before but trying to turn it round (a G reg XR3i with correct pressures) quickly and it was a real effort!

I still remember my first car with it back in 1999. What a god send on hot days!

When he had to plan a long route with a physical map and notes on paper

Yes... and navigating round London with my dog-eared copy of the A to Z.

When you'd often see / hear hedgehogs.

I was reading an article recently about how numbers have dropped from 36 million in the 1950s to around 1 or 2 million now.

Sad really.
 
Bazooka Joe xray specs

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For the perv in every 9 year old boy.
 
Dreading your mother tidying your room..... [emoji127][emoji129][emoji130][emoji1290][emoji882][emoji499][emoji507][emoji898][emoji620]
 
Frozen Jubbly orange.
Model aero engines bolted to a plank so you could run them.
"My Friend Fred Has Hairy Balls" (downwind checks mnemonic in a Chipmunk...).
Gat air pistols.

The Lee-Enfield .303 rifle.

TUF lace-up school shoes - guaranteed to last six months. I could get through a pair in five months; when I picked up my third pair, the shop told me not to come back...
 
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Spud guns

Forgetting to take the porno tape out the house VHS player in the front room

Selling cigarettes and porno mags at school and making a killing (I was a paperboy at a newsagents and what paperboy didn't pinch stuff from his boss' shop!)
 
Original: Adidas torsion, Jordan's, Vans, Travel Fox, Pump ERS, Nike air 180s and on the pitch Puma Kings!!
 
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Hearing the milkman's float - that unmistakable electric whineeeeee as it he chinked his way up the road.

Can you remember the noise of the handbrake being released and the relays clicking in?!
 
Can you remember the noise of the handbrake being released and the relays clicking in?!

Is it not great how one memory triggers so many more from the era? You still get a similar sound on the London Underground. I had almost forgotten, or maybe just not thought about the handbrake noise. Now it is as fresh in my mind as if it were yesterday. Happy days. That sound signified the start of the day. As a child growing up next to a huge park and the freedom to roam from dawn till dusk. I now want to go and find my D!ck Turpin mask & cloak that mother made for me and run round the park looking for my childhood friend and spend the day being D!ck Turpin again. Suddenly I have no desire to get to the station, get on the train head into London to spend a day with modern day D!ck Turpin's.

If I sit back now, I can hear my mother calling me for Breakfast. How I wish I could do that just one more time.

RIP mum.
 
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Jack de Manio (sp?) on the radio in the morning.
Getting the time wrong.

Oh, and the milkman with a horse and cart. He used to whistle it and it would trot up to him. We would feed it with grass.

Driverless, autonomous, tax free,, silent, and pollution free (except for the poo which was eagerly picked up "for the rhubarb" whilst still warm.
Over fifty years on and we still haven't caught up.
Plus ca change, plus la meme chose.
 
When Baa Baa Black Sheep was allowed to be sang in schools
 
I remember my parents having a mangle in the back garden for some reason. I also remember finding out that it was not a good idea to put your fingers in it!
 
I haven't laughed so much since Grandma died or...


The worst job I ever had...

I wonder how many heads those references flew over?

Having said that some of our more seasoned posters might be fans judging by their prolific use of foul language (and bypassing the swear filters to prove the point). :ban:
 

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