I Remember When I Was A Lad ( Or Lady.. Ducbird)

Getting 80p for my lunch money and being able to buy 10 fags, chips and a 1/4 of sweets with it.

 

111/2 d ...... for 5 Park Drive tipped & a box of matches

£8 wages on a thursday morning ..... and then paying £5 10s rent thursday evening

Moulton vs RSW16 bikes

Loon pants

Brutus shirts ...... that fell to bits first wash.

Sitting in the bath wearing Shrink to fit Levi's

Little bottles of warm milk (crate left by the radiator) at school

Chillblains

 

proper winters where the ice was in the inside.

 

Yeah ...and constantly scraping it off the inside of the car windscreen with the side seam of your glove......... Brrrrrrrr !!

 

yip. we had one coal fire for the whole house. no radiators.
Brr.

 

Outside toilet and newspaper as bog roll, I kid you not and I'm only 51.

 

tbh, thats all there fit for. (dont get me started).
yip, most flats round my way still had the bog out in the close.

 

yip, me to, but it was that cold we had to burn it. we didn't think that one through,

 

Power !!! - just stand back.....

 

school uniform from the co-op

 

for the school bus

 

Hands up who also remembers pinching said Corona pop from peoples dorrstep whilst on way to school.

Or who pinched empties from back of shop and took em to another shop for their 2p's and sweets.

 

This is not a million miles from what IS/Dash/ISIS are doing...how do you sleep at night !

 

Mars had Snickers and M&Ms as the official Olympic snack in 1984 (Barcelona).
That led amongst others at Mars, the owner (Forrest Mars) to foresee the globalisation trend coming - that allied to the marketing of Snickers to young men would likely feature sports. Mars sponsored the FIFA world cup in 1990 and chose Snickers as the brand. So Marathon (UK only brand) had to go and Snickers arrived in UK.

So blame football (soccer haha !!)

PS Opal Fruits got retired and Starburst arrived, Treats went and M&Ms hit these fair shores.
PPS The Spangles production line now makes Tunes

 

not me, boots
we had Alpine.
but spoolying was fashionable. (nicking fruit from gardens)
the grand national running through gardens and jumping the hedges.
plying chickomellie. a long length of thread with a pin on the end and a button 5" from the end, you would pin the thread to the window and hide in the undergrowth and gently and repeatedly pull the other end of the thread causing the button to knock on the window sill. drove the inhabitants nuts.*falling down laughing* ahh the good ol daaays.

 

Watching my old man use an opened newspaper to get the fire to draw when it also catches fire.