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Back in my childhood days..

woodbine
woodbine Community member Posts: 11,521 Disability Gamechanger
So what do you remember from your childhood days that todays kids wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about?

1)Our first home phone was on a party line (i.e a lone shared with a neighbour, if they were using it you couldn't)

2)TV's with only 3 channels and no remote control

3) The national anthem played at the end of the film in cinemas.

Over to you..
2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡

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  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 1,411 Disability Gamechanger
           Black and white telly
           No inside toilet
           No central heating, only coal fires 
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,964 Disability Gamechanger
    Having to go to phone box to use phone 

    Internet cutting off if you used house phone 

    Playing out on street 

    Putting on concerts in the back garden 
  • woodbine
    woodbine Community member Posts: 11,521 Disability Gamechanger
    In 1981 when we got married we had a B&W telly as we couldn't afford a colour licence  :'(
    2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡

  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,550 Disability Gamechanger
    edited March 2021
    You needed a licence for your dog but not a cat (suppose cats don’t need a cat catcher)
    jamboree bags were thruppence
    my parents had a habit of calling 25 to or past the hour five and twenty to, or five and twenty past.
    the flying Scotsman was the fastest train in Britain anyway. 
    You could get three pennies per empty bottle of pop returned to the pop man, who came around in a huge lorry full of various flavours of pop!
    my mum still used a mangle to squeeze water from the washing when I was three or four and shed often give me a piece of raw potato to chew when getting dinner ready. 
    Wow, memories.

    actually even when I was fifteen you could still buy a single no6 cigarette from the newsagent for a sixpence.

    “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.” 
    ― Dalai Lama XIV

  • woodbine
    woodbine Community member Posts: 11,521 Disability Gamechanger
    @leeCal glad someones as old as me  B)
    2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡

  • Cher_Alumni
    Cher_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,741 Disability Gamechanger
    edited March 2021
    I'm thinking and:
    • Having cassette tapes and recording the top 40 off radio 1 on a Sunday night - this was a fine art that took some mastering as to press stop just before the DJ started talking again  :D
    • Having dial-up internet that was sooo painfully slow and my mum shouting upstairs to get off the line so she could ring someone up, ha!
    • Spira chocolate bars which I wish would make a come back! 
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  • Cressida
    Cressida Community member Posts: 1,014 Pioneering
    edited March 2021
    • Dogs roaming the streets! 
    • Queing to dial a disk from the local phone box which smelled of cigarette smoke
    • The butcher and baker vans who delivered to the house, the butcher used to give the kids half a cooked **** :o 
    • Having Lucozade or hot Ribena when you were ill
    • Chasing the fire engine down the street to see which neighbour's chimney was on fire
    • Fat white slugs (they seem to have disappeared)
    • Walking in the fields and sucking the nectar from pink clover leaves
    • Ice on the inside of my bedroom window
    • Being tucked in really tightly with wynciette sheets and blankets
    • The girl on the tv test card
    • The smell of the mangle and the spin dryer jumping all around the kitchen 

  • woodbine
    woodbine Community member Posts: 11,521 Disability Gamechanger
    edited March 2021
    Reminds me of mum she was a great fan of Brentford Nylons and we had bright orange bed sheets when you got in bed you got a massive static shock!
    Had ice inside bedroom windows for all of the 1960's as we didn't get central heating till the 1970's.

    I still love lucozade today, but only the original not the flavours they do now.
    As well as the coalman we had "corona" pop who delivered weekly, as well as a chap who came round Sunday morning selling fruit and veg off a massive van.
    2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡

  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,964 Disability Gamechanger
    The man who came in pubs selling cockles and mussels 

    Buying sweets from the jar asking for quarter of something and they put them in paper bag 

    Buying records at  Woolworths 

    Having a bath on Sunday and taking it in turns to go in using same water 
  • Cressida
    Cressida Community member Posts: 1,014 Pioneering
    White dog excrement.
    I was going to write that! Apparently we feed them better diets nowadays.
  • Cressida
    Cressida Community member Posts: 1,014 Pioneering
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 46,788 Disability Gamechanger
    Not hearing a metal bin lid clanging on the floor at night out side, 
    Drawing flames on an open fire with news paper. Having a house phone with a lock on and having to ask to use the phone, with every one listening and timing. 
    Having to type endless codes in a computer (think it was a comador 64) to play a game, blitz was highlight, 
    Not having anything in bedroom except bed and wardrobe, no tv's, PlayStations.
    Moving tv  Ariel every where to get a picture, and having to turn the 3 channels over no remotes.
    Cb radio, and talking over next doors tv when using it.
    Listening to police radio on am frequency.


  • Geoark
    Geoark Community member Posts: 1,463 Disability Gamechanger
    Saturday morning cinema, no computers in school, buying pop from a delivery pan, Saturday morning jobs and newspaper rounds. Going to the laundry with the family washing. School cross country runs in winter followed by a cold/luke warm shower. Nit nurse. Chemical baths for fleas. Playing out all day, but had to be home in time for tea. Going back to a neighbour I had been rude towards because I knew if they spoke to my parents I would get a good belting. Listening to plays on the radio. Libraries with books in them. Learning to read with ladybird books. Finally getting an action man figurine for Christmas to find no action man and a label my father had put on the box with the word 'deserter'. Mechano sets.

    As an individual I stood alone.
    As a member of a group I did things.
    As part of a community I helped to create change!

  • Geoark
    Geoark Community member Posts: 1,463 Disability Gamechanger
    Oh, and shops where you could take electrical items to be fixed. Rag and bone men with horse and cart.

    As an individual I stood alone.
    As a member of a group I did things.
    As part of a community I helped to create change!

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Community member Posts: 2,586 Disability Gamechanger
    edited March 2021
    "Belly's gonna get ya"

    The quality of the PS1 Harry Potter graphics...  :#

    The enormous cheat codes on GTA San Andreas... 'Circle, square, circle, circle, triangle, up, down, left, left, circle, tri...  :D
  • woodbine
    woodbine Community member Posts: 11,521 Disability Gamechanger
    Shops only open 9-5.30 and half day closing and no sunday shopping, and yet we didn't starve.
    Cig machines outside shops so anybody could buy them.
    Robertson's jams where you collected the label for a "golly"
    Greenshield stamps.
    Co-op divi. (yes I really am that old)
    Renting your telly from radio-rentals/DER/Granada etc.
    Getting just a few presents for xmas not half of Hamleys.
    Being respectful to adults.

    2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡

  • woodbine
    woodbine Community member Posts: 11,521 Disability Gamechanger
    By the late 90's all cheques were crossed and only any good to the "payee"
    2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡

  • Cressida
    Cressida Community member Posts: 1,014 Pioneering
    • Candlewick bedspreads
    • Clackers
    • Outdoor unheated swimming pools
    • Budgies
    • Larders with mesh windows
    • French skipping
    • Loon trousers
    • Salt & shake crisps
    • Knowing all your neighbours
    • Scrumping apples  :#





  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 13,368 Disability Gamechanger
    I’m only in my 20s but a few from me that maybe some my age can relate to

    - Dial up internet or even NO INTERNET  :open_mouth:

    - Rewinding videos using a screw driver

    - Automatic pencil sharpeners at school that you’d put pencils in and sharpen until they disappeared

    - Being fed on airline flights

    - Phones that only made phone calls and if they were fancy sent text messages

    - following from above, cameras that were standalone devices

    - the smell of petrol


    I remember passing the qualification to be allowed to use a pen as well :smiley:
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,550 Disability Gamechanger
    What about those shrink to fit Levi’s! I remember sitting in a hot bath, as instructed, waiting for the jeans to shrink to fit me, ouch! What nonsense ?

    “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.” 
    ― Dalai Lama XIV

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