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sanguine said:
Mashed banana and sugar sandwiches!
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Hard-boiled egg and marmite sandwiches every day for my packed lunch.
sanguine said:
Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service. Who remembers Walter Gabriel in the Archers? I've only been an avid Archers listener for a few years, but Mrs Sanguine remembers when all the current 40-somethings were kids. Pick of the Pops with Alan 'Fluff' Freeman on Sunday afternoons, followed by that sinking feeling knowing that you had to go back to school next day and still hadn't done the weekend's homework.
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Walter was diabetic, old-stylee, always complaining about his lack of chocolates....
William Grundy was 'born' the same year as my daughter, 1982.
Where's your Archers stamina? :)
 
Headmaster checking hundreds of kids shoes had been shined as we marched into school .... woe betide the muddy and scuffed.
 
JACKTHELAD said:
Headmaster checking hundreds of kids shoes had been shined as we marched into school .... woe betide the muddy and scuffed.
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I think that such a headmaster must be slightly touched. I will not say further since there will be bother.
 
nosher8355 said:
Do you mean things like short pants and caps for grammar school?
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Oh dear you've reminded me of the Grammar School pinafore dresses and blazers and ties and berets, yuck. I think I meant things like the cane
 
It was the proper cane administered by the Head, deputy Head and Head boy.
The teachers use to use various instruments of torture, the favourite was a thick metal ruler. If out of reach they would use the blackboard eraser. Ow!
 
It was just the boys in our school...and a few of them were always picked on even though they weren't any more badly behaved than anyone else. Girls could get away with just a detention......didn't seem fair to me.
 
There was no nastiness in my girls' school. The only badness was getting into it via the 11-plus exam which discriminated unfairly against many young people at the time.
 
Having BBC but not ITV. :D
Saturday morning 'pictures' (cinema? Did we call it the 'Flicks?'). So much chatter from us gangs of kids, no hope of watching the no-hope film anyway.
The Black and White Minstrels. Am I dreaming or did it really happen?
 
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The ABC Saturday morning matinee club. How did that a Awful song go. We are the kids blah blah blah. Buster Crabb and the inevitable reruns from the thirties. Just remembered those awful kids film from the children's film foundation.
 
lizdeluz said:
The Black and White Minstrels. Am I dreaming or did it really happen?
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I'm afraid it did. Wasn't it on the first night TV went colour?
 
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