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Bygone days ....

Opalshards said:
:rolleyes:
Pastimes , Whip and Top making patterns on the top with coloured chalks. Skipping, Jacks, Hide and Seek, Kick stone, Tig your it, To offset the technology in our lives I buy my Grandson olds fashioned games, Ludo ,Snakes and Ladders, Pick a Sticks, Dominoes, Quoits etc. Then hopefully he will remember playing games with Nanna instead of just playing on his tablet.
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Did you ever play a game called 'Touring Europe'?
 
Squire Fulwood said:
Bread was delivered daily by a man in a little cubic van with double doors at the back. The whole thing was pulled by a horse. My brother was employed as "The Boy" on this van and sometimes he got permission for me to go for a ride. The smell of bread and horse seemed to be very natural and secure.

Looking back I wonder how I took it as so natural to ride around so close to a horse's **** but don't worry, my brother grew out of it.
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What, and left you inside ??? :hilarious:
 
....loving this thread!

Being told to 'go out and play' after breakfast, we got up to all sorts, no supervision and we always got home safely :p

Pocket money once a week, never saved mine up, spent it the day I got it, usually sherbet dips, toffee arrow bars, liquorice pipes and giant humbugs:D
 
Red letter day when my pocket money went up from 2/- to 'arf a crown.
 
sanguine said:
Red letter day when my pocket money went up from 2/- to 'arf a crown.
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Were your family rich?
My eldest sister got a shilling, she was 18 months older than me. My little sister, 3 years younger than me, got the same as me, sixpence. When I suggested to my dad that ninepence would be a fair amount for me the poor misunderstood middle child, he stopped my pocket money for a month for being cheeky.
Still disgruntled 50 years later.

P.s. Anyone who is younger than 50 might have difficulty understanding the monetary system in the 'olden days'.
 
I didn't get pocket money, except on the annual holiday, when I walked down to the local knick-knack shop with my big sister on the first morning and blew the lot on a Cornish pixie brooch or a set of miniature carved dogs or a pink-eyed china cat to place on my 'Gay Box'. Don't ask!!!

Hmm, why no pocket money? Upshot is I still can't handle money today.

No pocket money, but I never seemed to go without stuff, apart from the learning to budget.

I had to collect money at church on a Sunday for a missionary charity, It certainly put the fear of God in me to go up to elderly parishioners and ask for their weekly contribution of 2 bob or half a crown. I was a shy, retiring thing, that's why. :(:hilarious:
 
Haha, gay boxes. I had one too. Filled it with Whimsies.
 
Now you're speaking an alien language - to me anyway! I've no idea what that means!
 
Gay boxes?
Underpants for gay men?
 
New avatar?
Pollylocks said:
....loving this thread!

Being told to 'go out and play' after breakfast, we got up to all sorts, no supervision and we always got home safely :p

Pocket money once a week, never saved mine up, spent it the day I got it, usually sherbet dips, toffee arrow bars, liquorice pipes and giant humbugs:D
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Bluetit1802 said:
The National Anthem being played at the end of the cinema film, when TV closed for the night, at pub throwing out time, at the end of other social occasions, when everyone stood up straight and sang.

The old 9" Bush TV sets, and if you were posh you had one in a cabinet, probably bought in 1953 for the Queen's coronation. Oh yes, and the coronation mugs given to every school child. I broke mine on the way home - walking with friends of course, no school runs in those days.
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What about when pubs closed for a few hours during the afternoon?
Good old days? I think not!

But maybe.

Shops closed on Sundays too.
 
Pipp said:
What about when pubs closed for a few hours during the afternoon?
Good old days? I think not!

But maybe.

Shops closed on Sundays too.
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I'd love we went back t Sunday closing.
The world of consumerism stopping for one day a week has to be good for the soul and I don't mean in any religious way.
Peace quiet time with the kids and if you forgot to buy that new saw ... tough!
Wow ... to stop consuming the planet once a week and people are scared by the very thought of it!
Half day closing Wednesday was a bit of a bind ...
 
JACKTHELAD said:
I'd love we went back t Sunday closing.
The world of consumerism stopping for one day a week has to be good for the soul and I don't mean in any religious way.
Peace quiet time with the kids and if you forgot to buy that new saw ... tough!
Wow ... to stop consuming the planet once a week and people are scared by the very thought of it!
Half day closing Wednesday was a bit of a bind ...
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Winter sundays were pretty boring, especially if it rained. You had to read quietly after dinner when the adults were snoozing in their chairs. No point going to your bedroom, it was freezing and nowt but a bed in there anyway. Was glad to go to Sunday school in the afternoon for a break from the monotony.
Would be good to have a day of rest again though.
 
@Pipp, yes, pubs closing in the afternoon was a bit of an issue in student days, but there was one pub, the Cambrian, which stayed open all day and until closing, on one day a week. So students were there for the duration. Not me of course.
 
Pipp said:
Winter sundays were pretty boring, especially if it rained. You had to read quietly after dinner when the adults were snoozing in their chairs. No point going to your bedroom, it was freezing and nowt but a bed in there anyway. Was glad to go to Sunday school in the afternoon for a break from the monotony.
Would be good to have a day of rest again though.
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Yes, not exactly a day of rest, though. Church and Sunday school in the morning, more Sunday school in the afternoon, and church again in the evening. My mum always made a coffee sponge on Sundays, though. So it wasn't all bad. :D
 
Brownies was great. I was a gnome. At the start of the session, we danced around a toadstool and put our 2 pence (old money) subs on the floor around it. I never made it to be a 'Sixer' but I was a 'Seconder' - story of my life! I remember doing 'Laying a Table' badge, which was useful. :)
 
lizdeluz said:
Brownies was great. I was a gnome. At the start of the session, we danced around a toadstool and put our 2 pence (old money) subs on the floor around it. I never made it to be a 'Sixer' but I was a 'Seconder' - story of my life! I remember doing 'Laying a Table' badge, which was useful. :)
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A yes, Brownies. I was a fairy.
Our song for dancing round toadstool,
"We're the fairies glad and gay,
Helping others every day"
I didn't even get to be a seconder though.
 
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