Taking child benefit book to cash at the post office where they stamped the ticket and stub Ah the good ole days
When we were young, kids had things they just don't have these days. Rickets & ringworm come to mind......
Fixed wheel bikes, bar operated brakes, saturday morning cinema, radio luxembourg, the Corona lorry delivering pop, the test card, streets with no cars at all, I could go on. In the school where I work all the kids have grown up in a generation of internet and mobile communications and know nothing else........Ooooh I feel old!!!
funny how no ones mentioned missing Afghan coats ,cheesecloth and jewelry made from horse shoe nails,,,
Free orange juice when I was about 4 (early 60s). When did they stop handing out milk in schools? I always loved milk Also our school won a national swimming competition - twice! Prize was a bottle of Coke for every kid in the school! Luxury in about 1970. Can't imagine today's youth being very impressed by that.
No, they'd probably be doing lines of coke. I used to love the dinky bottles of milk...Happy days...when the milk left the kids breath reeking like sick and the teachers breath stank of stale fags, mellow birds and gingivitis, but absolutely no shame.
Cresta as well and R Whites my Uncle used to deliver them always got bottles I lived by Selsdon Park Hotel with the big posh golf course. I used to go horse riding there. some of us would hide wait for a golf ball to appear near the rough magic it away and they'd give you mars bars local kids always pinching golf balls as we where surrounded by golf courses . my Mum got barred from the local one as she had a row with my Dad and he went to play golf. she went after him with me in a huge coach built purple silver cross pram and wheeled it straight across the green ! it messed up the green .
Those little bottles of milk yes!! With thick cream in top ! I was milk monitor because it meant if any kids off sick I got to drink there's I asked our milkman here if they still sold gold top? He looked at me as if I was mental. Starwars collectable cards that came with a sheet of pink bubble gum . ( bugger wish I'd kept mine!) shrinky Dinks .. Where you coloured in picture then shrunk it in oven. then you'd do crisp packets and any random stuff .. Until your mum went mental when you welded some molten plastic to her clean oven !
It was Margaret Thatcher that stopped school milk for kids in 1970. She was education secretary. Shape of things to come? It was vile anyway as our teachers used to bring it in and warm in by a radiator. I remember the steel crates it came in and the kid whose head need stitching when he fell and nutted the crate. They were built to last so off he went to get sorted.
Tis a small world He11cat .I use to walk into Selsdon when I was working up the road in Sanderstead.My brother in law was in charge of all building works at Selsdon Park Hotel.
I used to usually be wading about in Sanderstead pond! I also went out the the son if the fire chief at Sanderstead fire station guess where I am going tomorrow
