Bam! And then you realise how old you are

[Shane]

Home

A knackered old pre-fabricated bungalow near Windsor Great Park

 

TV

Tunderbirds - the first time round.

The Esso blu advert -boom boom boom boom...

Cigarette ads, and Bobby Moore telling you to pop into your local for a beer.

Children's programs that were NOT backed up by toys in the shops

 

Weather

Proper winters (1963)

All the summers were hot

 

Holidays

Camping in Cheddar Gorge

 

Motoring

My dad's TR3 and the E type Jag

AA sidecars, AA patrols at Dorking to tow many cars over the 'steep' A24 hill

 

Sport

1966 They think it's all over.. it is now!

Jim Clark

 

School

If you failed a test you were told so - no such thing as 'not yet achieved'

11 plus

 

Political correctness

Not yet arrived, it was preceeded by honesty.

 

Music

See any late night music history program for details.

 

The down side...

Jimmy Tarbuck, Bruce Forsythe,

 

Memories which left scars

Moors murderers, Aberfan

 

Work/play

Parents all had jobs. We could go in the park and play all day without adult supervision

 

probably tons more but that's a start

[ArthurBottlesworth]

E4b and georgie best

That girls wearing harmony hairspray

Then we smashed them all to bits ........

[wisecobandit]

Maybe we should start separate threads on how much was in your first wage packet, first car and favourite tv programs lol

 

Wresting with Big daddy,Giant haystacks, Mick McManus and British bulldog...

Ski sunday?

The muppets on a sunday teatime

The goodies with Tim Brooke Taylor Graham Gardner and Bill Odie...

 

Then there where all the tv commercials that don't happen anymore. The hamlet cigar adverts especially. Advertising ciggys on the F1 cars - the likes of JPS lotus and embassy spring to mind. Back when racing was real racing....

 

Darts on Tv with players drinking pints and having a fag in there hand as they are throwing

Alex Higgins half cut attempting to play snooker chain smoking.

 

Oh yeah Felicity Kendall, I never looked at her arse as she was always quite chilly and talk about scammel wheelnuts...

[Stubby]

First car Renault 750 ( look it up ) with Dophine ( sp) Gordini engine an R8 suspension and brakes . TV , Captain Pugwash ( remember the joke about seaman stains ) Blue Peter ( in black and white ) Val Singleton and Chris Trace . Winter 63 ..riding my bike on the Chichester canal ...getting bronchitis and then pneumonia at the age of 10 . Them were the days .....

[ArthurBottlesworth]

£10 first week

Mini 850 18s to fill tank from empty (£0.90) in 1973

In 1963 saw austin 7 on lake at ellesmere - wheels had dropped through ice

George Best trying to pick up girl I was with.....In club at stretford Again 1973

[Stubby]

Tommy Cooper ! :lol:

[Mark Bolam]

You lads will remember Big D peanuts behind the bar, the lass in the denim bikini revealing more the more bags you bought.

 

 

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[Will Heal]

Think last time I went in a pub in Devon they had them, can't you get them anymore?

[Mick Stockbridge]

Now you mention it yeah I do, also remember drinking light n lager so you always got that little bit more than a pint for your money.

 

What I saved I spent on peanuts lol

Edited September 5, 2014 by Mick Stockbridge

[s.varty]

You lads will remember Big D peanuts behind the bar, the lass in the denim bikini revealing more the more bags you bought.

 

 

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Remember it well, peanuts for breakfast,dinner ,tea and supper, good for you peanuts ,so my dad said anyway.