Childhood memories

[northern mark]

One of the posh kids comming to school with a digital watch that cost about £60

 

Digital watches that had red numbers and you had to press a button to light them up.

 

Doing maths without a calculator

 

Happy days

 

Mark

[Mister Toad]

Walking a couple of miles to the library on a Saturdqy morning to change my books and buying a glass of Dandelion and Burdock from the corner shop on the way home.

[John S]

I remember the "witches hat" in our local park. It only lasted a few years until there were too many injuries, good fun though. Riding around on a pal's Chopper - the gear-shift looked great, even it is was a glorified Sturmey-Archer....

 

Talking of bikes - Cycling down to the local park with my pals with our fishing rods tied to the crossbar and everything else carried in a plastic bag hanging off one handlebar.

 

Take care

[chesters1]

i went to school for a year at Tynecastle school in edinburgh at the age of 13 ,we used to get bussed to our playing field and the changing rooms and showers was a large wooden affair ,my first "lesson" was accompying a couple of other boys right up into the roof and looking down into the girls showers whilst hidden in the darkness of the roofspace ,great days

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We used to buy that and a 200ml bottle of coke from the corner shop for sixpence!!

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ml`s didnt exist :confused: surely it was groats

 

[ 05. August 2004, 09:11 PM: Message edited by: chesters1 ]

[Snatcher]

Cherry lips did you say,good for a couple of days off school "look sir a have a terribly sore throat and it is all red" LLLLLOOOOOLLLLL

They never cottoned on at all

[Ian FG]

Summers that lasted for ever.

 

Night fishing for bream with a bunch of mates.

 

Cycling everywhere.

 

Comics.

 

Watching your friend's brother drive off on a BSA Thunderbolt with a bird in a mini skirt on the back.....the sound and the smell (of the bike).

 

Beer and fags were considered GOOD things and were calling us.

 

Women were from another planet and we were curious about that planet.

[Snatcher]

Lying in bed on a sat morning reading the dandy and beano,munching on custard creams - luxury!

[Zigs]

waiting for someone else to put 1d in the bubblegum machine so you could get the free one on the fourth turn

[Pangolin]

Wading in streams to catch bullheads and loach by lifting stones.

Clockwork toys, and the amazing 'Computacar' which read a programmable bit of cardboard as it drove.

Airfix models of every type of plane that ever flew in WW2. hanging from my bedroom ceiling on fishing line.

Alf Tupper: the 'Tough of the track'.

Inkwells in desks with tops that lifted up. Pink 'blotting paper'.

The first boy in school to own a calculator (a Sinclair 'Oxford'), while the rest of us used slide rules and log tables.

Making a bike that worked out of bits found at the local dump.

My first motorized transport: a Puch 'Maxi S' moped. Later, learning to drive in a Ford Anglia that had been brush-painted.

 

[ 06. August 2004, 05:26 PM: Message edited by: Pangolin ]

[Ian FG]

Nice one Pangolin.

I remember Alf Tupper. Anyone else got a favourite comic character? I used to love Q-Bikes (I think they were called) and what was the name of that boy who controlled a minature army with some weird radio control wrist gadget thing?