What Hobbys Did You Do As A Nipper?

old tup · 08-06-2012, 14:54

As a young Tup I had allsorts of hobbys mostly collecting things for instance stamps,you went to the paper shop in the 50s and they sold packets of foreign stamps for a tanner.When I got fed up with that it was cigarette cards with pictures of footballers or soldiers on,then it was foreign coins begged borrowed and stolen,this hobby came to an end due to my little bro nicking em and useing them on the slot machines at the Owlerton fair.It came to light one night as he arrived home between two coppers in the back seat of a squad car,he was let off as usual but he received a little therapy from yours truly a little later.As I got older it was American comics,Superman,Batman,Lash Larue,Lone Ranger ect.What were the hobbys of you Forum threaders way back when you were carefree little kids?.

willman · 08-06-2012, 14:57

Stamp collecting
Book matches collecting
Chewing gum card trading and collecting followed by Panini football.
I developed a collection of bookmarks from day trips,holidays etc.

1960boy · 08-06-2012, 15:06

Airfix kits...loved 'em to bits

willman · 08-06-2012, 15:08

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Airfix kits...loved 'em to bits

Me too - i really liked the models of the Kings and Knights and some cars more than aeroplanes and ships though.

I bought some a year or two back but they didn't have the same appeal and seemed much easier to make.

scousemouse · 08-06-2012, 15:08

......a few of us sat by the side of the road collecting car registrations!!! What for I know not, we couldn't have got that many as 60 years ago there were not that many cars!! I roller skated too. The metal ones, that extended as your shoe size got bigger!! I was a bit good on those back in the day!!!

willman · 08-06-2012, 15:10

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Originally Posted by scousemouse

......a few of us sat by the side of the road collecting car registrations!!! What for I know not, we couldn't have got that many as 60 years ago there were not that many cars!! I roller skated too. The metal ones, that extended as your shoe size got bigger!! I was a bit good on those back in the day!!!

Did you ever have the Eye Spy books where you had to find different number plates etc.? Didn't the plates used to be geographical at one time?

Kelvinlad · 08-06-2012, 15:41

Stamp Collecting - used to love the triangular ones.
Train Spotting - not the same now with passing of steam.
Airfix Kits - Aeroplanes.

Bypassblade · 08-06-2012, 15:51

Cigarette cards from the packs, used to take them off me grandad & nan & mum, remember standing outside the Esso petrol station's in 70 for the World Cup coins. I know for a fact they are still at me mums somewhere in a box, both mine & our kids.

magjam15 · 08-06-2012, 16:22

well l was around when they was building the M1 MOTERWAY as kids we would collect tizzer bottle ect and take then back for the pennys l would save up for sindy dolls bye heck you cant let your kids do that now can you

pigeon · 08-06-2012, 20:48

[QUOTE=old tup;8935834]As a young Tup I had allsorts of hobbys mostly collecting things for instance stamps,you went to the paper shop in the 50s and they sold packets of foreign stamps for a tanner.When I got fed up with that it was cigarette cards with pictures of footballers or soldiers on,then it was foreign coins begged borrowed and stolen,this hobby came to an end due to my little bro nicking em and useing them on the slot machines at the Owlerton fair.It came to light one night as he arrived home between two coppers in the back seat of a squad car,he was let off as usual but he received a little therapy from yours truly a little later.As I got older it was American comics,Superman,Batman,Lash Larue,Lone Ranger ect.What were the hobbys of you Forum threaders way back when you were carefree little kids?.

[/Q WENT BIRD NESTING COLLECTING EGGS ... KEPT PIGEONS AS WELL....

Allen · 09-06-2012, 00:59

Did the stamp collecting, car registration collecting. Never got the anorak so didn't do the train spotting.

As a teenager I collected beer mats.
I painted a whole wall of mi bedroom "post office red" and then covered it in beer mats, everyone different.

gregconn · 09-06-2012, 09:00

Train spotting in the late 50's, Saturday morning in Midland Station platforms, I seem to remember large numbers of kids all doing the same. We used to get the number of a train and have a book (printed) that had lists of train numbers in it we would underline the number when we had spotted that train. What a way to pass a day. Anyone remember those books?

scousemouse · 09-06-2012, 09:34

No willman I didn't have eye spy book!! You are quite right in saying that car reg numbers were geographical, Sheffield used to be WA WB etc, Derbyshire was RA RB, Rotherham was HE Liverpool KB, those are the ones that spring to mind.. I got my own registration number as I couldn't remember the new fangled ones!! I will never forget my own!

curriechick · 09-06-2012, 09:38

This is going to sound so twee and girly - Pressing Flowers.
Put flowers between blotting paper and place under several heavy bookd till dried then stick into a scrap book.

Who had a scrapbook?

Then it was collecting cards from PG Tips to stick in their albums I filled one with birds, one with plants and my favourite space one, this one developed my interest is astrology which I still have.

Then even later collecting posters of Donny Osmond to plaster all over my bedroom wall, there wasn't one inch of wallpaper showing....

I am sure there were others but I can't recall them. Like Bypassblade my brother collected those world cup coins by standing outside the garage at Sheffield Lane Top. He got the full set and I even think he still has it.

rabitter · 09-06-2012, 15:09

stamp collecting.used a shop in town on holly st for buying them.still got my stamp album must be 50+ years old now

Dreb48 · 10-06-2012, 06:44

Hard for people to believe now, but Trainspotting in the late 50s wasn't considered nerdy. It was actually quite cool. Being chased round train sheds cos you were trying to 'cab' an engine was pretty hardcore.
Spent most of my time at the Cutting near Dore and Totley Station. It's a triangle of land off Twentywell Lane. On a hot summers afternoon there would be loads of kids there. The added bonus being there was a bit of a dirt track so you could fill the time in racing round on your Raleigh.

shane39 · 10-06-2012, 11:18

I use to collect metal beer bottle tops..(sad i know)
Old coins..
Football cards I had a collection of over 22,000 which i sold last year on ebay (for a tidy sum)

trastrick · 10-06-2012, 11:21

In the 40's and early 50s. Birds eggs, scrapbook, autographs, stamps, badges but my favourite was cig packages. Used to wander all over to find, collect and trade them. Best places for the unusual ones were the train and bus stations. In those days our hobbies didn't cost much, if anything!

rabitter · 10-06-2012, 18:52

forgot about egg collecting went all over to collect them great hobby for getting to know about rare birds but understand now why its illegal
still think pesticides and destruction of hedges kills more birds than we ever did

Joto · 12-06-2012, 00:02

Curriechick, you think yours was girly, listen to this. My Dad bless him had four daughter's, me being one. My hobby when I was a girl was collecting beads, I kept them in a matchbox. My Dad was a smoker so that's how I got the box, I left my collection on the mantlepiece. One day when dad was dashing off to work he accidently picked up my beads. Apparently he proceeded to light a cigarette on the bus, and when he came to lighting the cig, he opened the matchbox upside down. Well the beads rolled all over the floor of the bus, how embarrassing that must have been, he wasn't very pleased with me I can tell you.