Born in the 40's, 50's, 60's??

[RoyalRegular]

 

Sorry if we have hijacked the thread - I am not sure if this is what the original poster had in mind.

 

I don't see this as a hijacking of the thread, more a look at where things are now. I honestly believe that I should have the right to go to work in whatever footwear I want, and have the option of wearing a hard hat etc., but unfortunately the dreaded health and safety brigade say that unless I wear the right gear then I'm not allowed on site. Surely it's my right to take a risk on my own safety, but due to the American culture of sueing anything and everybody for the slightest thing, the "where there's blame there's a claim" mentallity, then the employers are going to try to protect themselves against any claims. If you dropped something on your foot years ago it was your own fault, and you would never dream of blaming your employers for your own mistakes.

When I was a kid and did something wrong, it was a quick clip round the ear and I knew not to do it again. Nowadays, I'd be told I've got ADHD or what ever it is, and carry on doing wrong using this as an excuse for my behaviour. If I got a scutch off a policeman for doing wrong (and I remember getting one for pulling faces behind a bobby's back when I was about 10, I didn't realise that he could see me in the shop window opposite!) I daren't tell my parents cos I knew I'd get another one. They'd never dream of having a go at the policeman who walloped me....again as I did wrong, it was my fault.

 

The only worrying thing for me now is that I can't see things ever getting any better.

[Gangan]

Can anyone remember singing with the Sheffield schools choirs,at the City Hall,in the early 50s.?We sang for Winston Churchill.I believe the occasion was when he was being given the Freedom of the City.

Was it 1950 or 1951??

We sang "Nymphs and Shepherds."I still remember the words.

A record was made including that song...but I can"t recall which schools choir recorded it. Anyone know?

[foxxy]

Not only did we have to walk to school in knee deep snow Hazel, some of us had to do it wearing only a pair of plimsolls, or running slippers as they were called then Ooh, I love this thread, them were the days

 

Hi, I am new to this site but have loved reading all the comments. Your reference to snow brought back memories of having to clear the snow down Tummon Road, Wybourn, in the winter of 1946 (I think) so my Auntie Doreen could get to the bottom of the hill and hopefully catch a bus and return to her camp. She was in the ATS at the time and had been home on leave. Snow came over the shoes/wellies and our legs were chapped from the cold and chafing of the snow. Charlie

[Joanl]

Can anyone remember singing with the Sheffield schools choirs,at the City Hall,in the early 50s.?We sang for Winston Churchill.I believe the occasion was when he was being given the Freedom of the City.

Was it 1950 or 1951??

We sang "Nymphs and Shepherds."I still remember the words.

A record was made including that song...but I can"t recall which schools choir recorded it. Anyone know?

 

Can't remember singing for Winston Churchill, but I was in the Sheffield Schools Choir as well. Must have been a tad later than that though for me cos I actually left School in 57 and was in up to then.

 

This is the first mention I have come across of it actually existing apart from my own so thank you, it wasn't a figment of my imagination.....

 

I remember the half City rehearsals and then the full City ones, then the big night itself. City Hall stage, just behind the lions.....

 

I understand there's something similar in place now but not quite the same..

[Gangan]

I"ve discovered it was the Manchester schools choir who recorded Nymphs and Shepherds, I managed to find a web site and was able to listen to part of the song. http://www.amazon.co.uk/goldenyears

Princess Elizabeth (The Queen) and the Luton Girls Choir also recorded "Count Your Blessings" among other songs. That"s on the web site too.Both are available to purchase.

I left school at the end of 1952.

[bassplayer]

I try to tell my kids how life was in the 60's when I was a child - they reckon they would not have put up with it - but you just did - because there was noother way. Bread & dripping - yummy, and I also recall having the tinned fruit (in syrup) with carnation milk & bread & butter for Sunday tea!

Frost on the inside of the windows in winter, making toast over a real fire - ahhhh....I feel the 4 Yorkshireman sketch looming again!

Plus we did not have the technology then.

Now its produced and refined so quickly, your money is out of yr pocket before it hits the bank!!

[mikey10]

And the teachers gave us the cane. They clipped our ears and our parents did the same! We didnt even have carpets in bedrooms or an inside toilet. A hot water bottle was all that kept us warm. A bottle of fizzy pop was a treat at weekend with sinday dinner. We never had crisps and the like in the house. They were another trat. Football every night and weekend in firth park. Mathces with lads from other areas, brilliant. Made our own bike track at the allotments wher earl marshal is now. Built dens and roasted spuds, bloody hell they were good times!!!

[Gangan]

Hi Mikey10!

Welcome to the Forum!

[puzzler]

Just found the forum. Just read through the thread. So much to agree with. I am achild of the 50s. My saturday threepence (the one with 12 sides) from my grandma was spend on a pennorth of tiger nuts, a five boys choc bar and some friut salads or a sherbet dib dab. Sometimes had a lucky bag or just went for the penny tray. Also spent a lot of time outside playing games, climbing trees, walls, falling off, doing it again so that I proved I could. Sliding down a huge snowdrift up against a high wall in the winter. Walking the 3+ miles to school because the bus was stuck up in the village. Making the longest slide in the ice on the school playground. I also remember that we had to go outside at break & lunch time all the time - whatever the weather. Lots of people got to like cricket because one of the masters had a small tv set when the international or yorkshire matches were shown. You could stay in if you kept quiet and watched the cricket.

Taking the pop bottles back to the pop shop, and being alllowed to spend some of the money on the way back.

Taking the dining table out into the garden in summer so we could eat outside when it was a hot summers day. (Drop leaf oak - sadly no longer with me) - polishing the legs of said table on a saturday.

Using dining chairs to play at buses, or when fine using the door bell and the front steps. Long summer holidays when we could play out all day long - and never get bored. Better stop now or the readers will get bored!!

[Redneck]

Thanks Chairboy and Cynthia. I asked, on another thread, what the name of the sherbert through a licorice tube was called and didn't get any answers. I remember the coal fires in the forties - get one going then run down the hall with a shovel of burning coals to the front room breathing enough smoke and soot for a lifetime of cancer. We used to clean the chimney by pushing a burning paper up it. I had one going pretty well when a policeman came to the door and said " your chimney is on fire " so my sister said " we know, my brother just set it on fire". You don't want to know the rest of the story.

I think that we are more healthy as a result of our exposure to all the dirt and germs that we played and lived in(Remember the one iron cup on a chain at the fountain in the park).Some scientific types think that today's kids get so many allergies and health problems because they don't acquire any defensive immunities in childhood. We didn't know how well off we were.