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The Dandy comic and the story of Black Bob the collie birlliant Howardxx

my mum and dad.. miss them so much xxxx

Glazed Cotton dresses with big flared skirts ,bought from Dorothy Perkins. White with huge green roses!! Film 'Harvey' a giant imaginary Rabbit. All boys went round muttering at their invisible 'friend' !! Can't believe that these kids were 15 and 16 yrs'!! Jane

hiya everyone, thanks for your replies. ohhhhhhhhh i have been laughing my head off. guess what i saw on weds a donkey stone, didnt think people still used them, i wore a hoop under my skirt, you had to be careful sitting down or it would flick up and people could see what you had for your breccy lol x

Bay City Rollers,salad cream sarnie's long hot summers when I could wonder up Elloughton dales with my friend when our parents didn't need to worry about where we were. All my rellies were still alive to ask them stuff I should have untill leaving it too late!!!!!!. angie

walking down the lane,with a basket,picking blackberries...one for me,two for the basket lol. going to chapel on a sunday,knowing if i was good,i would get a mint to suck during the sermon. looking down to the rhondda valley at night,and seeing thousands of street lights in the distance. and the best memory...seeing a steam train puffing away,knowing it's got my rellies on board,coming home from the pits...and the thought,that my gran would be putting the chip pan on lol bryan.

1950s.Rockers, Black leather Jacket, Red shirt, White studded belt, Black pants,( tight as ) White socks,Pointy toed high heeled boots, Bryl-creamed slick back hair, Widgies - Bodgies, 1948 FX Holden, Drive-inn movies, Cracker night, Beach parties, Pony tails,Angora jumpers,Pleated skirts,Bobby socks, 45RPM Record night's, and.........Spin the bottle ( my favourite )....lol Tony Oz :>))

Trying to tune in to crackly old Radio Luxembourg - bit different to the digitised music today! A dozen or so mates congregating at mine to have egg and chips cooked by my Dad while we got ready to go to the local dance hall (Ironing my mates hair under brown paper to get it straight!) We never stopped laughing! Those were the days! Jo

Tony Oh yes Angora. I had a pink bolero for parties. It's a wonder we weren't all sneezing because of the moulting fur. I also had a hat,- handknitted and made of similar wool. It only fitted on the back of my head and was a sort of half-hat with a metal Alice band threaded through the front hem. Finished with a fetching tassle at the back, I was 'it'.

Does anyone remember thosed awful swimming costumes we kids used to wear - all made by using sheering elastic in a quare pattern so it clung to you regardless of your size. A cause of great giggles amongst us kids when we stripped them off to find outselves covered in square marks where the elastic had clung to us ? I do believe our enterprising mums actually made most of them on their sewing machines with a nylon type material. Still they were an improvement on their predecessors - the navy blue woollen job which when wet reached down to your knees !!!

Beano, Dandy, Whizzer & Chips, Beezer and Topper comics. Chopper bikes. Vinegar dripping out of the bottom of your bag o' chips with scraps. Bringing frogspawn home. Elastic twist, whipping tops, hide & seek, treasure hunts, apple raiding, progging for bonfire night, getting up to no good on mischief night. Bay City Rollers. Sledging until you couldn't feel your feet they were that cold. Those were the days...... Debby

Hot Hot Summer hols, plimsolls, shorts and Aertex shirts, leather Satchells . Bread toasted in front of the fire and eaten with salt and dripping!! Bread pudden' with lots of sultanas. Great big Libraries where you didn't have to prove your 'reading age'!!! and long tables with 'Arthur Mees' encyclopedias, National Geographics and childrens newspapers. Going to the cinema in a mixed gang and singing our way down the High Street. Saturday night hops and walking 5 miles home in the early hours. We had fun and some heartaches too. Jane

Bread and dripping Salmon and Shrimp Paste yuk how I hated it. My mums Cornish Pasties My mum's Yorkshire Puddings. Going what we called CHUMPING for Bonfire night went and collected whatever we could get to burn on a big Bonfire. Fireworks, Toffee Apples, Roasted Spuds and Mushy Peas. Scraps on your Fish and Chips from the Chip Shop Dick Barton Special Agent on the radio The Goon Show ' Going to the Saturday Matinee 3d to go in and 3d to spend Some of the movies that were on. Darango Kid Johnny Mack Brown Tarzan Flash Gordon Three Stooges Roy Rogers and Trigger The list goes on lol Regards Jackie

Crikey... Billy Cotton Band show-used to listen to that sunday lunchtimes and Forces favourites! I loved watching Mr Ed the talking horse and saturday teatime 4 it would be wrestling and then the Clitheroe kid-remember him Jimmy Clitheroe Can anyone remember Amami setting lotion ?Aqua manda perfume-I loved it then bet it stinks now lol Oh happy days :)) Diane:))

flouresant socks...green and pink back in the eightiesxxxx(:

I remember Amami. Wasn't there an advert 'Friday night is Amami night' What about Dreen... The shampoo of the stars. Remember sharing a tin of Gibbs toothpaste? ....A little round tin of solid pink paste, which you all rubbed your toothbrush on.

Oh and Ink and spit balls that you fired with an elastic band in the classroom see how many you could make hit the ceiling. Not that I ever did it of course lol. Navy Blue Knickers for sport God how I hated them. Gym Slips yuk Having to walk about two miles to the swimming baths in the freezing cold for school swimming lessons. Those lovely big Baby prams Silver???? I forgot what they call them now its been so long. Walking to school and having to dig our way out of the snow to get there. Banging the front door , then an avalanche of snow falls off roof and smothers you in snow. Selection Boxes at Christmas And the ever popuar Annuals like Beano and Dandy Singing around the piano with my Dad he had a great voice. Snogging under the midden when I was about 12 lol Mum and dad didn't know lol This is a lovely thread been reminiscing all night. Off to bed now goodnight all Regards Jackie

Fibre glass curtains Park drive cigaretts Coalmen / Rag & bone men School milk Greenshield stamps

Jackie - The prams were called Silver Cross and were very posh !!

hiya all. thanks to you all adding we have all gone back. i think a lot of us are in our 50s. i remember on sundays evening . listening to the black and white minstralls on the radio before me and my boyfriend( GOD I AM SHOWING MY AGE) went to church, we had to go evry sunday so we could get wed in the church cos we lived out of the parish . we came out of church and went to the pub across the road. for a pint of mild and a pony (the little drink with a big kick) lol x