Well, I’m just a lad but I remember cod liver oil, fried bread or champs sometimes for tea, itchy woolly trousers, walking to school a couple of times a week and spending the saved fare on 1/2 ounce of Old Holborn, being a mug for dares resulting in getting caned a lot, a whack from a copper (didn’t feel like it at the time but it was better than going to the magistrates and getting a conviction), saving up pennies for the latest Airfix model airplane or warship (after a break of 40 years I’ve started doing that again!), slam door trains that had guards, breaking a leg at school (no OSH, Labour Dept investigation, or talk of suing in those days - I was happy to get a few weeks off school), playing on the common and bomb sites all day, warm milk at school and school dinners for a bob,.......the list goes on.
But it wasn’t all good, I remember classmates in leg irons from polio.
good to see you posting again tutae wara pakha. looks like along with countless thousands of others had the same kind of childhood, but they were GOOD DAYS, and i wish we could go back to them,unfortunatly its not possible.but at least we have those memories,the current generation doesnt, its up to them ,to creat there own good memories, so that40 years down the line they can also say they were good old dats ray
Quoting: raymond hall good to see you posting again tutae wara pakha. looks like along with countless thousands of others had the same kind of childhood, but they were GOOD DAYS, and i wish we could go back to them,unfortunatly its not possible.but at least we have those memories,the current generation doesnt, its up to them ,to creat there own good memories, so that40 years down the line they can also say they were good old dats ray
By the way, we had small groups of real live friends, not hundreds of on line Facebook ’friends’.
your right there gerard, but more importantly we had neighbours whose door was always open to you and i9n times of troubleyou knewthat come what may they would always be there for each other i have lived in my present home for 18yrs and i can honestly say that apart from 3 families those kind of neighbours no longer exist, not gecause thet are bad people,its because society as a whole has lost the trust that you need to feel safe ,hope you understand where ime comming from. ray
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Bunch of old foggies doing the "I remember bit"!!! I am sure that you will all survive the modern age though, due to your training in the hardships in life and the fact that you had to work for your own fun. Mums at home looking after the littleuns and you free to get into mischief and none of the PC rubbish that we have today. Kids today can be like us, but society does not let them do what we did. Fear of litigation is also a problem as well. Life is not as we remember, but it is still out there and needs US to bring it out in youth today. Join a youth group and help keep them off the streets. It will make you all feel younger as well.
Consult the veteran, not the incompetent Politicians.
