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[Baron Von Spongebob]

Jublys
Bazooka joes
Captain caveman

[Golfbuddy]

Comics:
The Wizard
Tiger & Jag

TV programmes:
Whirlybirds

Sweets:
Potato Puffs


God, I'm old.  

We used to crush those up and get a whole bag in our mouths at once.

[LFF64]

3d Whats that then  :question is that the old fashioned money  

[Baron Von Spongebob]

3d Whats that then  :question is that the old fashioned money  

It was the mobile network before 3g took over.
Commonly known as 2 bean tins and a piece of string..

[Golfbuddy]

Saturday morning pictures:-

Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe
Tarzan with Johnny Weismuller
Childrens Film Foundation

5p bag of chips on the way home with scrumps/scraps with vinegar pouring out of the bottom all over your trousers and it was always a sunny day.  8-) 8-) 8-)

[Baron Von Spongebob]

The Marx brothers

Sherbet pips

Sunday night at the Palladium

Lucille Ball.

 

[Tony H]

Saturday morning pictures:-

Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe
Tarzan with Johnny Weismuller
Childrens Film Foundation

5p bag of chips on the way home with scrumps/scraps with vinegar pouring out of the bottom all over your trousers and it was always a sunny day.  8-) 8-) 8-)

Is nostalgia a thing of the past?

[Golfbuddy]

Saturday morning pictures:-

Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe
Tarzan with Johnny Weismuller
Childrens Film Foundation

5p bag of chips on the way home with scrumps/scraps with vinegar pouring out of the bottom all over your trousers and it was always a sunny day.  8-) 8-) 8-)

Is nostalgia a thing of the past?

No, but it's not what it used to be.

Parkas with real rabbit fur around the hood.
Buckles on your shoes (before velcro was invented)
Boiled eggs in your packed lunch
1/3 pint bottles of warm milk at break time
Sharing a phone with the neighbours three doors up

[Nickbat]

During the winter of '61, I would walk to school on the banks of snow piled up high alongside the pavement and at the tuck shop I'd buy one of those football cards which featured great players like Frank McLintock and Nobby Stiles then I'd....



Oh, do shut up Nickbat! (Save you lot saying it!).  

[Entwood]

All the family sitting around the radio after sunday lunch to listen to "Around the Horn"   and at night hiding under the bedclothes trying to tune a crystal set into "Radio Luxembourg - the great 208 - the wing a ding station of the stars".. and the first thing you heard was the advert from Horace Batchelor .. part of which a present member seems to use in his signature .....   (unless I'm confusing sites ... I'm on too many these days)  

[Baron Von Spongebob]

All the family sitting around the radio after sunday lunch to listen to "Around the Horn"   and at night hiding under the bedclothes trying to tune a crystal set into "Radio Luxembourg - the great 208 - the wing a ding station of the stars".. and the first thing you heard was the advert from Horace Batchelor .. part of which a present member seems to use in his signature .....  

Johnnie Walker..

A great drink..

[wakeyomega]

Merry Maid toffees. Midget gems.
bakelite
Hilversum and the third service
duffle coats
ladybird books
I spy books
5 boys chocolate
whip & top

.............ok...I'll go and get my coat.

[amigov6]

 :)Black Jacks/Fruit Salads (pre tooth filling days)
   Being allowed to slide on the ice in playground.
   Being kept in @ playtime for putting stones in snowballs.
   Raspberry Mivis.
   Suzi Quatro , Mud, Slade, Sweet etc.
   White eggs.
   Gold top milk which the birds had pecked!
   My Dads Cortina & my Mums Triumph Herald 13/60 Estate.
   Log fires/storage heaters.
   Tv wise, Frank Cannon,
                Multi coloured swapshop,
                Rent- a -ghost'
                Marine boy. (look on you tube)

[sluggi]

parma violets
licorish wood
floral gums
lips
kay lie

[Baron Von Spongebob]

Swizzles..