Wynne Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 nothing like credit cards or debit cards for our parents in those days, but we did have the chequeman for places like Banners or Blanchards. Clothes and shoes were bought there but at a more expensive price. No such place as Primark or the like!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linda b Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 beat you frankie rage,didn't have an indoor bog til 1978,when we moved up the manor from Heeley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucifer Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 The trouble with newspaper, it used to leave print on your backside. In winter we used to put fire bricks in the oven in the Yorkshire Range and the went to bed with a hot brick wrapped up in a towel instead of a water bottle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidorry Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Has anyone mentioned the Walls Ice Cream man on the pushbike or the man selling milk from the churn.Lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian1941 Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 anyone remember cutting up newspaper into squares to use for bog paper.My son doesn't believe that you had to posh and rich to afford the real stuff. HI LINDA, THOSE WERE THE DAYS AND YOU COULD SPEND TIME READING NEWS OF WORLD IN TOILETS, WHEN FAMILY FINISHED WITH PAPER I WAS THE ONE WHO CUT IT UP TO MAKE SQUARE`S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denlin Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Thank god Im an eightys kid, `cos that just sounds boring and dull. It was neither boring nor dull, boring is not having imagination to make your own entertainment, building things with your friends and achieving something tangible - lasting friendships. The children I grew up with inb the 50's and sixties are still my friends now. Now everyone relies on someone else for their entertainment. And theres no respect for others . I see so many people saying they get no respect but theres no wonder. Today, and this is common occurrence, I got on a packed tram and there were numerous children sat down while the adults with them stood in aisles blocking gangways. There were elderly people standing. How are children learning respect when they are given the impression that they have a right to sit when older less firm people wobble unsteadily as tram hurtles along. Respect has to be earned. When I was at senior school between 1962 and 1966 there used to be a teacher on every bus and if you were seated when an adult was standing up you got and you didn't moan or argue either. I am 60 in April and I still get up if I see somebody older or less able to stand than I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvey19 Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 If a neighbour was carrying bags of shopping my mother would tell me to go and carry them for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missdan Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 anyone remember cutting up newspaper into squares to use for bog paper.My son doesn't believe that you had to posh and rich to afford the real stuff. Yes, I do, it was only there for emergencies though, for if we ran out of horrible Izal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soft ayperth Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 It was neither boring nor dull, boring is not having imagination to make your own entertainment, building things with your friends and achieving something tangible - lasting friendships. The children I grew up with inb the 50's and sixties are still my friends now. Now everyone relies on someone else for their entertainment. And theres no respect for others . I see so many people saying they get no respect but theres no wonder. Today, and this is common occurrence, I got on a packed tram and there were numerous children sat down while the adults with them stood in aisles blocking gangways. There were elderly people standing. How are children learning respect when they are given the impression that they have a right to sit when older less firm people wobble unsteadily as tram hurtles along. Respect has to be earned. When I was at senior school between 1962 and 1966 there used to be a teacher on every bus and if you were seated when an adult was standing up you got and you didn't moan or argue either. I am 60 in April and I still get up if I see somebody older or less able to stand than I am. My mum would soon have me on my feet if I sat down while adults were standing. I even remember other passengers shaming kids to stand up and make way for adults. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolrdgal Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 My mum would soon have me on my feet if I sat down while adults were standing. I even remember other passengers shaming kids to stand up and make way for adults. I stood up for someone when I was visiting my auntie in London, in the 60s. The conductor tried to put me off the bus as there was too many people standing. My auntie went mad and made me sit in the first available seat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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