So.... Who remembers ......

[Librarian]

Des Lynam,
Hitchhiking,
Mullets,
Poptarts,
Matches you can strike off a wall.

 

[tommypotts]

Watneys Party Seven and 2 screw drivers

 

[Kurt.]

99p cassette singles in Woolworth
Vinyl records ( singles )
Mobile chippy

 

[MickM86]

99p cassette singles in Woolworth
Vinyl records ( singles )
Mobile chippy

I loved cassettes. I had a Michael Jackson album on a cassette.

Never heard of a mobile chippy.

 

[MickM86]

going round the houses and collecting jamjars, taking them to Irwins and getting a halfpenny each.
Irwins before tesco bought them out (1962?)
being able to knock on strangers houses to ask, gorrany spare jamjars please missus
The herbalist on county rd
not thinking it soft to say please
240 pence to a pound
the light program
Eamon andrews on sports report AND crackajack
taxi for Carey
Darts at bill brown
saturday club
saturday films for kids at the lyceum or if you were flush the garston empire
cliffhanger serials
the 500 bus, boss from speke to the match 4d scholar fare
being able to buy a penny banger and a penny lucy at you local sweet shop
lead water pipes
burst pipes
outside toilets
rubbing the ice off the INSIDE your window in the morning
coal fires
living in a house with 5 adults where everybody smoked.

still being here to tell the tale

All that to me sounds like the way they talk in A Clockwork Orange

 

[degsy]

All that to me sounds like the way they talk in A Clockwork Orange

don't remember Alex collecting jam jars in Burgess's dystopian master piece


no wonder you get 'kin negged