PatMc Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Posted by Giuseppe Saroli on 08/02/2016 13:01:12: Going to school on my bike. Getting told off for smoking in the back of the gym by the caretaker My first kiss Must have been a better looking caretaker than our school's janitor ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Daithi O Buitigh Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I can recall shirts with tails long enough NOT to slide out from your pants. Things I'm glad to see go - collar studs, plastic collars (the RAF eventually got collar attached shirts in '63), boots, army pattern (hob-nail ones), brass buttons and Brasso. Did anyone mention 'Brylcreem'? Things I also dislike - the Americanisation of things - spelling words with 'z' instead of 's', putting dates backwards, devaluing a 'billion' from 10^12 to 10^9 (that's actually a 'milliard', antennas for aerials (actually the plural is antennae but then Latin isn't taught it seems) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hopkin Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 Posted by Tom Sharp 2 on 08/02/2016 20:55:59: So if any one out there thought Sooty was real, please look away now. You unspeakable cad sir...................... I am traumatised............... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pete B Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Posted by Daithi O Buitigh on 08/02/2016 21:29:09: Things I'm glad to see go - collar studs, plastic collars (the RAF eventually got collar attached shirts in '63), Blimey, they were way ahead of the police - it was about '75 for us! Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Privett Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Posted by kc on 08/02/2016 12:58:27: I wonder when long trousers at school became normal at any age? I started secondary school in 1969. Nearly all the boys wore long trousers from the first-year upwards, the few that didn't on day one were generally doing so by half-term. I don't think any of the new first-years in following years were not wearing long trousers on day one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Privett Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Posted by Daithi O Buitigh on 08/02/2016 21:29:09: Things I also dislike - the Americanisation of things - spelling words with 'z' instead of 's', putting dates backwards, devaluing a 'billion' from 10^12 to 10^9 (that's actually a 'milliard', antennas for aerials (actually the plural is antennae but then Latin isn't taught it seems) I've seen it claimed that spelling words with a 'z' is actually the old-English way. Whereas we have changed at some point to using 's', the Americans had kept the old way. Billions, I don't know... I've always regarded a billion as 10^9. As for back-to-front dates, I agree - their way is just plain silly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I started secondary school in '66 in short trousers and had exactly the same experience - by the second term I'd persuaded my mother to buy me long trousers - and as I recall, there was only one boy in the whole year who made it to the end of the year with both knees on show (ripped trouser knees were a common occurrence at 11 or 12 of course). I do remember feeling rather aggrieved when the BBC started reporting financial figures in American "short" billions but I'd guess that would have been around the beginning of the 70s. Having been brought up on imperial measurements until the age of 11, I still find my distance measurement is in that system. All secondary school and onwards was conducted in S.I. but ask me to visualise 300mm and I do a mental conversion to a foot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetenor Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I for one still buy Vesta curries from Home Bargains bonfires n Bommie night in the street or on the" oller "or bombdey Both mean cleared bombed site. Bangers like thunderflashes In fact them too if you could lay hands on some ( Brothers in the forces Roasting Tatties in the fire embers.Without foil on them.Wasn't available then LOL Picking the crust off and sprinkling salt on em My first all balsa parlour flyer when i was 5 and getting taken to a RTP exhibition at the same age in 1948 Upstairs in Rushworth and Dreaper in London Rd Liverpool I already liked planes but the flame really got lit then First engine Allbon Javelin Still got it 49/11 About £2.50 Oh I forgot Amco . 87 given to me minus carb S ill have 'nt fixed it yet . No available spares All sheet Frog and KK models. In school hols able to see the "Weather Spit " fly over in line with our back yard and giving a wave and gettng a wingwaggle back. if I was quick Would I go back For those things YES but some others No Anything will " FLY " given enough thrust dept John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Keith Evans 3 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 "Camp" coffee--chicory essence in a bottle with a scots guardsman on the front . . Toys with comics --the " Thunder clap " , a triangular piece of cardboard with some brown paper stuck on two edges ,folded inside and when brought down sharply opened out causing a loud bang . Whizzers ---round star shaped discs with two holes through which you threaded a loop of string ,wound up and twisted to make the whizzing noise . Remember "Corkwork "----A cotton reel with 4 small nails hammered in around the hole ,winding wool around the outside of the nails ,flicking the bottom row of wool over the top and bringing it out through the hole to form a plaited cord of wool . Cutting notches on the edges of a cotton reel ,putting a rubber band through the cork ,through a piece of candle with a matchstick on the other end winding it up and seeing the "Tank" roll along. The game of "Five stones . Cutting out the drawings of cowboys and fences etc. on the back of Weetabix boxes to create your own ranch . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GONZO Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Remember and have done them all. But, Camp coffee is still available and I still use it, although its not as nice as when made with steralised milk. Mainly used now to make coffee flavoured butter cream iceing and iced coffee in the summer(if and when they happen). Started secondary school September 1959 with long trousers from the start. Cereal packets - what about the constructional offerings on the back of the box. IIRC one I made was for a rocket launched with 'laccy bands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 dont forget pants tied up with string....and if you were well off a snake belt... ken anderson...ne.....1 frost inside the windows dept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Etheridge 1 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 'Toys with comics --the " Thunder clap " , a triangular piece of cardboard with some brown paper stuck on two edges ,folded inside and when brought down sharply opened out causing a loud bang'- The first comic that had these clappers was the Beezer which was first published in about 1956 / 7 . After a limited number of claps the brown paper would shear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Evans 3 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Hand knitted bathing trunks that weighed a ton , and hung down to your knees when you came out of the water . Dan Dare jackets . Calamine lotion to treat sunburn . A big dollop of cod liver oil and malt . One third pints of school milk along with cod liver oil in orange juice . Being "checked out" by the visiting school nurse ! ! ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Cotsford Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 School milk bottles on an icy morning with a 1" top hat of frozen cream poking out the top Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hopkin Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Ah yes visits by "nitty nora".... Everyone shouting "mind me scab" after the TB jabs DAPs in the gym- I wonder how many will know what they are? Snake Belts Cut out and fold animal heads from cornflake (I think) cornflake boxes Being told off for rumaging down into the cereal box to find the small plastic toy Gloves with string sewn on and threaded through your coat sleeves Setting fire to Airfix planes and "gliding" them out of the bedroom window Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 inkwells and the pens we used to make spears with and also play darts with them...the local shop that used to sell you 1 cig and a match for 2d!..... cossack hairspray--you could now use for modelling app's..the hop along cassidy watch that got confiscated off me..for telling everyone not long to home time who was hop along cassidy i hear you all say... ken anderson ....ne...1..... 2p cig dept. Edited By ken anderson. on 09/02/2016 12:55:05 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Anyone too young to remember Hopalong Cassidy can look it up here They wil probably not remember getting a second TV channel in the 1950's and then a third channel in the 1960's. Having only 2 or 3 channels meant everyone saw the same programmes and discussed them next day. Of all the TV westerns I thought The Virginian was the best - shown about 1969-70. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Daithi O Buitigh Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 That and the surprised expression of the BBC announcer when he realised that the Virginian wore a red shirt (when colour came along). As a service engineer back then I recall some gaffes (and 'jokes' - when the RTE announcer heard NASA saying (during the moon landing) "We're receiving your sync pulses" and solemnly telling everyone that the black bars on the NASA monitor were the 'sync pulses' (actually they were interference patterns similar to the 'backwards rotating wheels' you see on wagons on TV). Richard Dimbleby's 'Spaghetti Trees' episode in Panorama., which had the BBC having to issue an apology when people tried to buy one (not overlooking the biblical quotation when he thought the mic was dead during a state visit to Germany, causing another apology). Raymond Baxter at Farnborough not quite understanding why the visiting Russian Air Force wanted the 'BBC' badges , the Fairey Delta 2 being described as a 'subsonic research aircraft'. I could go on but probably others have their own memories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hopkin Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Telstar...... Raymond Baxters commentary on it and the record...... All our yesterdays on TV Edited By Dave Hopkin on 09/02/2016 13:59:10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fun Flyer Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Anyone remember the free gifts that used to come with RC mags? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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