What things are you old enough to remember?

[gnvqsos 10]

Does anyone remember SUFC topping the old Division One for a fortnight in 1971?

[Bypassblade 10]

Does anyone remember SUFC topping the old Division One for a fortnight in 1971?

 

Oh yes, didn't we win 8 out of 1st 10, and some notable scalps as well

[lens a tener 10]

Oh yes, didn't we win 8 out of 1st 10, and some notable scalps as well

 

its that when they got a BLUE PETER BADGE

[Bypassblade 10]

its that when they got a BLUE PETER BADGE

 

No its when we had a bloody damn good team

[gnvqsos 10]

Oh yes, didn't we win 8 out of 1st 10, and some notable scalps as well

 

You were overturned by MUFC who were in turn done by LUFC.Where did you finish that season?

[Bypassblade 10]

You were overturned by MUFC who were in turn done by LUFC.Where did you finish that season?

 

It was 42 years ago but, I think it was 12th in the end, and we stuffed Leeds 3-0 @ BDTBL. For the Man Utd games over 55,000 in ground & 20,000 locked out, unreal.

[denlin 12]

All everyone else has said - and I've seen Jimi Hendrix live :headbang:

[nikonuser 10]

I think this song is brill and brings back some memories.

 

[pottedplant 10]

our first telly had a knob you twiddled to change channels - there were only three at the time and the aerial was a long pointy thing sticking out the top that you also had to keep adjusting

 

Nowadays TV is full of "nobs"

 

Classic Cinema Saturday matinee

 

Open backed buses

 

Coffee bars with juke boxes, and glass cups for coffee

 

People respecting their elders

 

No technology

 

This should strike a chord

 

TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

 

1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70’s

 

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos...

 

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

 

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

 

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

 

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.

 

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Sunday, somehow we didn't starve to death!

 

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

 

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers and Bubble Gum.

 

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter, milk from the cow, and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

 

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

 

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O..K.

 

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

 

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY , no video/dvd films, or colour TV

no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

 

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no

Lawsuits from these accidents.

 

Only girls had pierced ears!

 

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

 

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time....

 

We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,

 

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

 

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet because we didn't need to keep up with the Jones's!

 

Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/netball team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on

MERIT

 

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and throw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating ..

We can string sentences together and spell and have proper conversations because of a good, solid three R's education..

 

Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!

 

Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'

 

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL !

 

And YOU are one of them!

 

CONGRATULATIONS!

 

Love this post (we also swam in rivers and were allowed in the Lido on masse without even having to take 1 adult for 20 of us )

[rossyrooney 12]

I remember me grandad blackleading our dog on a great big donkeystone every Sunday before he took us hop picking on the farm,when i say hop picking,we picked rhubarb really but he made us do it on one leg.

[Looker 10]

I can remember potato puff crisps. Putting 2 pence into phone box to make a call. Remember if people wanted to phone you, they had to wait till you were home to take the phone call, only landlines with a cord attaching the receiver to the phone, and the round dial on the front of phones. Princess Anne getting married for the first time, 1976 I think and my mum and dad getting their first coloured tv for the occasion. Black and white tvs. Frankie goes to hollywood having their record banned from radio stations RELAX! No such thing as WAGS. Having a real fall of snow. Top of the pops on a Thursday night.

[pottedplant 10]

I can remember potato puff crisps. Putting 2 pence into phone box to make a call. Remember if people wanted to phone you, they had to wait till you were home to take the phone call, only landlines with a cord attaching the receiver to the phone, and the round dial on the front of phones. Princess Anne getting married for the first time, 1976 I think and my mum and dad getting their first coloured tv for the occasion. Black and white tvs. Frankie goes to hollywood having their record banned from radio stations RELAX! No such thing as WAGS. Having a real fall of snow. Top of the pops on a Thursday night.

 

and recording the top ten from the radio on a Sunday by putting a cassette player next to it then leaving the room .