Children of the 50s,teens of the 60s,did we have a better childhood

[dafodil]

I wun't have swopped being a kid in the fourty's and fifty's for any other time in history.

Although we didn't have material things we were all in the same boat,

, playing out in the Streets until it was dark no Teli or computers to keep us glued to the settee,No trecking across the City to get to school which meant that we all grew up together as close neighbours and friends.

 

If we were lucky enough to get a tanner so as to go to the Saturday Rush at the local pictures and then a bag of chips on the way home we thought that we were millionares which we were at the time.

 

We had chillblanes in winter and sun burn in Summer as we were always playing out no matter what the weather was like so we were fit as fiddles.

 

And then! came the sixties! A time that will never be surpassed and us lot born in the 40's and mid 50's were in heaven, The music scene at that time will never be surpassed with The Beatles,The Stones,Bill Hayley,Chuck Berry, Freddy and the Dreamers,Joe Cocker and hundreds more fantastic groups [not forgetting Elvis of course].

We even managed to win the World cup and had matches played in Sheffield with all the foreign supporters singing and dancing with the locals in the Black Swan on Snigg Hill every night.

 

Then along came the night clubs with International artists appearing week after week and all us lot dressed up to the nines with not a shirt lap or pair of traners in sight, No bad language in front of the lasses and no tatoos on those same lasses who apreciated being treat like ladies in fact men were men and women were glad of em!

 

Me to.

thats how it was.