02-08-2011, 08:07 PM
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Originally Posted by plantman
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Going to the shop was always fascinating, watching them pat the butter, weigh sugar into blue bags, cutting a wedge of cheese with the cheesewire and asking for some broken biscuits out of the bottom of the tin because they were a couple of pennies cheaper than whole ones....oh, and the excitement of taking a bottle back and getting threepence to spend on sweets....And can you remember your mum's Co-op number? Ours was 55280..
03-08-2011, 12:46 AM
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had a mad childhood, did 'war' charity shows with all sorts of famous people, trod the boards of the 'Met' and the London Pavillion ( plus church halls etc,) later loved 50's Soho was an amazing place with the cross dressers in dresses to die for, and did a strippers turn when her daughter was taken ill and had no one else to stand in for her, met people like the Cray twins. had a ride on the police horse that lead the coronation in exchange for cleaning tack, helped with the coal and milk horses, and got to feed the animals in the zoo, and cuddle some cubs and a friendly lion, learnt to repair cane chairs seats from an old man who sat in the gutter to do it, and listened to stories told by an elderly junk shop owner who had stuff like aladdins lamp, cinderellas ball gown, yah ok he lied but but I was a gulliable 6 year old, went with a guard at the museum to the storerooms and tried on some of the jewellery and held stuff that was millions of years old. , we made dens and built a street bonfire night bonfire on an unexploded bomb on a piece of waste land. ran away with the circus (to help with the animals) and the fair (for a couple of nights) never ought to have reach adulthood, think kids miss out on so much these days03-08-2011, 01:51 AM
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It was a different world back then, seaspirit. Kids today have smart phones and video games, music on demand and cameras in everything, but I do wonder if they have as much fun as we did with our unorganized play and our games based on our imaginations........???03-08-2011, 09:52 AM
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Re: Childhood memories
Originally Posted by seaspirit
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had a mad childhood, did 'war' charity shows with all sorts of famous people, trod the boards of the 'Met' and the London Pavillion ( plus church halls etc,) later loved 50's Soho was an amazing place with the cross dressers in dresses to die for, and did a strippers turn when her daughter was taken ill and had no one else to stand in for her, met people like the Cray twins. had a ride on the police horse that lead the coronation in exchange for cleaning tack, helped with the coal and milk horses, and got to feed the animals in the zoo, and cuddle some cubs and a friendly lion, learnt to repair cane chairs seats from an old man who sat in the gutter to do it, and listened to stories told by an elderly junk shop owner who had stuff like aladdins lamp, cinderellas ball gown, yah ok he lied but but I was a gulliable 6 year old, went with a guard at the museum to the storerooms and tried on some of the jewellery and held stuff that was millions of years old. , we made dens and built a street bonfire night bonfire on an unexploded bomb on a piece of waste land. ran away with the circus (to help with the animals) and the fair (for a couple of nights) never ought to have reach adulthood, think kids miss out on so much these days
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