Random things from childhood.

[JLW]

Getting stung by a Wembley trophy ball.
Health hazard them things

 

[JLW]

Going the swimming baths and coming out with red raw eyes then getting an oxtail soup from the vending machine and a wham bar.

Total cost for everything was about a £1

 

[Kurt.]

Teachers cocks

Our music teacher was very well endowed…. I’ll never forget Mrs. Williams.

 

[Kurt.]

Our Headmaster who used to wear a cape and occasionally a motar board hat being nicknamed Batman but everyone was terrified of him as the cane was still a thing.

Had an abandoned house with quiet a bit of land at the end our street where the over grown gardens were used for a recreation of ‘Nam / The Falklands, using elazzy band guns made from bits of old timber, clothes pegs and a nail. Also had a wall for jumping off that felt about 20ft high at the time but was probably closer to 7ft looking back!

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Then when i moved down south there was a welsh geography teacher who would rugby tackle anyone into the nearest wall if you dared carry your school bag over your shoulder.

Nobody under 45 years old even knows what a peg gun is these days

 

[Kurt.]

Robbing the bread trays from the local supermarket and taking them to the grassy hills nearby and using them as a sled

A local shop near us used to store empty Corona bottles in crates in the back yard, we used to jump the wall and rob some bottles as you used to get 10p back for empties back then, we’d be going to their shops spending the bottles…. Got away with that for weeks until the shop owner got wise to it.

 

[Bryan+]

I'm actually from Crosby if truth be told.

Can't help the fact you grew up in South Liverpool, which is basically just some team Aldridge used to play for. Nobody from South Liverpool has ever been a proper scouser

I’d have kept the bootle heritage tbh

 

[summerisle]

Doing the washing in the launderette every Saturday morning ; very whiffy in there, as well as being as humid as the Amazon rainforest.

 

[witchdoc187]

Robbing the bread trays from the local supermarket and taking them to the grassy hills nearby and using them as a sled

A local shop near us used to store empty Corona bottles in crates in the back yard, we used to jump the wall and rob some bottles as you used to get 10p back for empties back then, we’d be going to their shops spending the bottles…. Got away with that for weeks until the shop owner got wise to it.

Used to shoplift from my local Safeway then sit on their roof and eat and drink all our loot. Was only about 9. Jeez my kid is so well behaved.

 

[Pootsy]

British Bulldog in the playground (Red Rover)

Broken limb each day

 

[Bedfordblue]

Being able to buy individual ciggys from the bottom shops while also buying a bag of cola cubes and a polystyrene model spitfire on the way to school.

 

[Nymzee]

Absolutely anything can be made it into footie goal posts

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Getting loads of sweets for a quid.

 

[Kurt.]

Getting squashed into the bosom of all yer mar’s mates and being told they were your Auntie….. great mammories…. Errr Memories

 

[RufusCat]

Our Headmaster who used to wear a cape and occasionally a motar board hat being nicknamed Batman but everyone was terrified of him as the cane was still a thing.

Had an abandoned house with quiet a bit of land at the end our street where the over grown gardens were used for a recreation of ‘Nam / The Falklands, using elazzy band guns made from bits of old timber, clothes pegs and a nail. Also had a wall for jumping off that felt about 20ft high at the time but was probably closer to 7ft looking back!

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Then when i moved down south there was a welsh geography teacher who would rugby tackle anyone into the nearest wall if you dared carry your school bag over your shoulder.

Our "fun" involved jumping off the roof of the local electricity sub-station and landing on an old door leaning against the fence below. I still have a crown on my front tooth after the inevitable happened.

 

[Eggs]

…..some of you need to look through the oldies thread