lazarus Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Beech-Nut Spearmint machines, get one free every fourth penny. Wagon Wheels by Burtons, real wagon wheels covered in chocolate, so big you had to roll them out of the shop, it took a week to eat them. Mars Bars they were so thick and hard you wood swear they were frozen.The Trianagular shaped lolipops in cardboard, they were called Joy-Sticks. Penny tram rides. Running out of the house if you heard a Ambulance or Fire Engine bell, Its just an every day sound now. Listening to Josef Locke on the wireless. Whitsuntide Clothes and Whit Walks. Being able to walk all the way to School in the middle of the road. Children sharing apples, trying each others new clothes on, sharing an ice lolly. Having a cycle rim and stick. Making trolleys out of old bits of wood and pram wheels. Flying kites. Playing Marbles. Playing Kick Can. Playing Farmer, Farmer. Having a dog and no one complaining about it as everybody had one. Hearing cocks crowing and Skylarks on the Manor (true) The Car Brook that ran at the back of St Theresas School and ran all the way to Tinsley, till some fool decided to fill it all in after it had flowed for over a thousand years. Children playing without destroying property. Short trousers. Little girls looking like little girls instead of images of their Mothers. The Rag Man coming round. The original Dandy & Beano. Black and White T.Vs. Dear friends that have passed away. Street Cleaners using horse and carts. Ice Cream carts pulled by horses. Sunshine every day in Summer. Snow every Winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clocker Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 There have been a lot of things mentioned on this thread that do bring back fond memories . The one thing I have not seen mentioned , and loved playing this as a kid , Conkers , remember the chestnuts on a string . One had to bash the other guys conker off of the string to win . Anyone ever play that game ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbuck Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Beech-Nut Spearmint machines, get one free every fourth penny. Wagon Wheels by Burtons, real wagon wheels covered in chocolate, so big you had to roll them out of the shop, it took a week to eat them. Mars Bars they were so thick and hard you wood swear they were frozen.The Trianagular shaped lolipops in cardboard, they were called Joy-Sticks. Penny tram rides. Running out of the house if you heard a Ambulance or Fire Engine bell, Its just an every day sound now. Listening to Josef Locke on the wireless. Whitsuntide Clothes and Whit Walks. Being able to walk all the way to School in the middle of the road. Children sharing apples, trying each others new clothes on, sharing an ice lolly. Having a cycle rim and stick. Making trolleys out of old bits of wood and pram wheels. Flying kites. Playing Marbles. Playing Kick Can. Playing Farmer, Farmer. Having a dog and no one complaining about it as everybody had one. Hearing cocks crowing and Skylarks on the Manor (true) The Car Brook that ran at the back of St Theresas School and ran all the way to Tinsley, till some fool decided to fill it all in after it had flowed for over a thousand years. Children playing without destroying property. Short trousers. Little girls looking like little girls instead of images of their Mothers. The Rag Man coming round. The original Dandy & Beano. Black and White T.Vs. Dear friends that have passed away. Street Cleaners using horse and carts. Ice Cream carts pulled by horses. Sunshine every day in Summer. Snow every Winter. Lazarus..You are the only one on the forum that remembers the "Joy Stick"..I recall a time when "Joy Stick" waxed cardbord tubes littered Concord Park, all chopped to pieces after the grass cutter had got at them..I remember they were blue with white letters, and a dotted line across the middle so they could be sold in halfs..2 pence for a full one & 1 penny for a half one...Did they do any other flavour than orange?...and who made them was it Wall's?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbinabobin Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 A child of the 50's I can remember wearing my dad's old socks on my hands to go sledging and snowballing (I understand some schools have banned that now!) cutting cardboard insoles when I had holes in my shoes Fetching the hobbin foot on pay day and Dad repairing my one pair of shoes asking for scraps, splits or fish pieces for a few coppers The scarlet fever ambulances with red blankets Tru Fruit lollies, shaped like pears Robinade crystals in little paper sachets for a penny Whit Walks Can anyone remember the cardboard masks on the back of cornflake packets? and those plastic submarines that you put bi.carb or something in and then put them in an old pop bottle of water Playing two balls up against the school wall Playing 'Queenie o' coco' penny bars of Cadbury's chocolate skipping with someone's Mum's washing line across the road (obviously not on a Monday) Fetching a jug of beer from the side window of the pub down the road for Dad and trying not to spill any The fantastic smell of allotment bonfires Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetdexter Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 There was a thread "Old farts from the 40s.Do you remember these pastimes?" It will stir a lot of memories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoroughGal Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 There have been a lot of things mentioned on this thread that do bring back fond memories . The one thing I have not seen mentioned , and loved playing this as a kid , Conkers , remember the chestnuts on a string . One had to bash the other guys conker off of the string to win . Anyone ever play that game ? I think that kids still play this, clocker, soaking them in vinegar to make them hard/winners! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jauntyone Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 I remember going round scrap yards to get pram wheels which we used to make a four wheeler. We would take it in meersbrook park and come down the big hill like a bat out of hell. Such good days I remember going to the sasparela shp on abbeydale road and we would get a pint of it, sit out side and think we were super cool, never got into any bother though. Such simple days but really good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maz3 Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 How come you never see white hens eggs anymore? In the olden days you used to get brown and white eggs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrinderBloke Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 Under 10s helping with the slum clearance, like we did in the long hot summers of the 70's, Woodbourn Road was cleared (with our help ) in double quick time. chabbies rushing out to get a long balloon off the rag and bone man (Mrs Grinder doesn't believe we had a man come round with a horse and cart collecting rags, she is sooo posh ) I never new anyone who took bones but they had bones on the cart. Youngsters walking from Wire Mill Dam to their estate with a couple of sticklebacks and a few tadpoles in a jam jar. Jubblies sadistic teachers bobbies who have respect Kids getting lost in the various dead end stairwells on Park Hill and Hyde Park flats. Grass fires Penny chews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrinderBloke Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 The weird rubbery oily smell of the older open platform buses struggling up some of Sheffield steeper hills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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