Living in Somerset a few mile's from the Clarks Shoe factory, a big truck used to turn up at our junior school and fit every kid up with new shoes to 'road test' for a few months and then come back, collect them up and the cycle would start again.
Me GDad me Dad and me in 67 watching Moore Hurst&Peters from the chicken Run at the Bolyne ... ticket programme and chips on the way home for 5 shillings I think.. happy happy days.. 50 yrs a hammer this year.. x ( couldn't see bugger all mind)
Useing your arm as a machine gun,we you a , dddddrrrrrdddddrrrrrrdddrrrr deddli de diddle da uhuhuhuhuhuhuh or the finger pistol, peow peow Apples for grenades.
I liked Haliborange, they were just like a sweet (orange Tictac). Rosehip syrup wasn't to bad either but you could stick your Rusks, horrible bloody things.
I remember being quite poorly once and was given some malt extract and told by my mum she would rib vick in my chest, my best friend in junior school was called victoria so it panicked me a bit as she was quite a big girl
Playing in the adventure playgrounds donated by the Luftwaffe.... Happy days. https://yooniqimages.com/images/det...n-a-bomb-site-in-bermondsey-south-east-london
Walking to school on rainy winter days wearing shorts with wellies slapping red welt marks onto my bare legs. I hated being a teacher. But on the bright side we had these. I think you can still get most, if not all, though probably in a less toxic form. Sherbet Fountain Fizzy Cola Bottles Flying Saucers Fried Eggs Milk Teeth Red Lips. I think we called them Cherry Lips. You probably can't get Spanish Gold sweet tobacco or sweet ciggies.
The social justice warrior special snowflakes would go mental if they tried creating this today Spanish gold sweet tobacco and candy cigarettes
Or these. I remember collecting the badges and the little figures. Hard to believe but Robertsons didn't drop the golliwog until 2001. I remember when these arrived in a little white box and you unpacked the wood shavings to see which one you'd got.