Actually just realised that due to the bank holiday last weekend, tomorrow will be 7 'working days' since my birthday.
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The Oldies Thread
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Absolutely SHOCKING, but I still remember this as Saturday night TV on BBC1.
Nobody considered it racist or bad taste at the time. I don't remember any of the male minstrel dancers looking as gay as that lot. I suppose some things don't change.
I didn't realise we had a magician in our midst
I made it disappear pretty quickly too.I didn't realise we had a magician in our midst
Marvellous
tommytowne
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That would have hurt.
dholliday
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is merseyside like the rest of europe now in that kids/youth hardly play-randomly outside anymore?
i hardly see it anymore, but in the 80's 'n 90's there was always kids out larking.
It's the curse of the Internet, social media and gaming. When we were kids we used to make our own amusement
In the 1940's 'our gang' had an initiation test for new members. We lived near a railway line which was all slow-moving goods trains. We dug a hole out between the sleepers and new gang members had to lie in the hole while the train went over. A drop of hot oil was an additional 'badge of courage'! To my eternal shame and as an original 'founder member' of the gang, I never had to do it.
If we were going to Broadway in Norris Green, we used to jump on the side of a goods wagon by the bridge over Walton Hall Avenue and get a ride to the bridge at Broadway. Saved a long walk. Had to make sure the guard in the guards van didn't spot you. Was a very mature 13/14 year old at the time. lol
If we were going to Broadway in Norris Green, we used to jump on the side of a goods wagon by the bridge over Walton Hall Avenue and get a ride to the bridge at Broadway. Saved a long walk. Had to make sure the guard in the guards van didn't spot you. Was a very mature 13/14 year old at the time. lol
We had a rain shelter over our front door, with a window above it. As kids (there were seven of us) we used to either climb out of the window (or climb up the drainpipe) onto it and jump down into the front garden. This was the next stage after jumping down the stairs to the hall, which was a bit risky as the front door was only three feet from the bottom step
What? Living in Kirkby?
tommytowne
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Growing up in Rock Ferry in the early sixties was hard enough, but by virtue of what was being said in the Echo about the place, the very thought of Kirkby made me squirm.
tommytowne
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Very similar experience to mine.
I was in the Marine Cadets attached to TS Blackcap in Birkenhead docks. If we finished parade as one of the goods trains was slowly passing a couple of times I jumped on the guards van and rode on the train through the tunnel emerging by Birkenhead Central Station. I knew for a fact that all goods trains slowed to a snail pace as it approached Rock Ferry station and I nipped off there, climbed over the railings and was home one minute later.
Thanks for jogging my memory on that.
Got a clout of my mam though because I stunk of smoke from the time in the tunnels.
gonetomorrow
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I'm on a statin called Simvastatin.
I spend ages altering the names on all the packets to Silvastatin.
It's funny the things you get up to.
I spend ages altering the names on all the packets to Silvastatin.
It's funny the things you get up to.