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Police. We had a visible police force that you were scared of. Would give you a clip round the ear for being cheeky, knew who you parents were, and did the job the were paid to do

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Our phone number was 491.

They then decided 6 villages should have the same area code so each village got a different 2 digit prefix so we ended up with 0647 61491.

Then came the 1 after the 0 so ended up 01647 61491....

Remember when all London was just an area code of 01.

 

And no ones mentioned the old binetone game you used to plug into the t.v with 1 wheel on the handset.

Tennis and squash lol.

 

Hand held space invaders? Original rubiks cubes? Space dust? gobstoppers, jawbreakers and aniseed balls that made your mouth red. Black jack liquorice sweets and fruit salads?

Back when sweets where all in the glass jars behind the counter and you went in and bought 1/4 of a pound in weight.

The hand ham slicers at every village shop...

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Watch with mother, bill and ben, pogles wood, the woodentops all watched on a telly as big as a chest of drawers with a screen as big as todays tablet.

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If you where a 70's child this will bring back memories....

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMxzVK0p6GM]70's Kids TV Nostalgia.flv - YouTube[/ame]

 

And the adverts for flake, old spice.....ah bisto....

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZFqyAhvQWc]70's TV adverts - Best of (part 2/2) - YouTube[/ame]

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in our village we had a chap who would turn up in a Austin curtain sided lorry

full of everything a housewife needed to run the house, salt in loaf size blocks

that he would slice of pieces.

Paraffin heaters.

Being bathed in the kitchen sink as we didn't have a bath.

A bottle of Vimto from the pub.

Riding in the corn trailer and holding on at the top when tipping.

When TV ended at 12 with the test card and started in the afternoon.

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memories......when did I suddenly get old...lol most of the previous in one form or another, stuck out in the rain weeding swedes, sorting straw bales when you couldnt see for dust off the combine, mucking out the byre before school, warm milk straight from the cow on your porridge, standing in the beer tent at the farm show talking to your teacher with a pint in your hand :), things that some dogooder would ring social services for these days, but we all grew up and became pillars of society........

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