budgie jackets,crombies,harringtons and petrol blue two tone kecks.
penny rounds and kipper ties.3 star jumpers.

Top Dog footy boots (3 sizes too big so you grew into them).
fighting with brothers and sisters for free toy in cornflake box.
old spice and charlie.....
black plimsolls affectionately known in liverpool as "borstal breakouts".
thrippenny bits and going to the corner shop for 2ounces of apple tarts and 6 chocolate logs.
the old codgers at the end of the street who always moaned if you played footy outside their house or hid in their garden playing hide and seek.

Real fog all the time....and real snow at least once every year....

bread was unsliced
rock hudson liked girls
jerry lewis was funny
michael jackson was black

another geezer weighs in...

bang on...until the conclusion that the problem today is government regulating everything...

along with the toxins, running with scissors, and no on-line poker ...we had families eating together, often food grown and cooked at home, ...kids playing outside with bugs and balls and imagination, ...and, in most cases, not a lot of discretionary spending...

the biggest factors in the transition to today has been, in my opinion, constant bombardment of corporate marketing to create 'need' ...all the over-regulation is just a symptom of the over-consumption...

vry funny thread, u guys must b realy well read or unbeleivable ancient then again good stock they don't make it like this anymore :) dont know the trick with the lovebit from ur m8 the girls allways came up with the goods

i never had to do it either ung but i believe you could use a bicycle pump to good effect hehe

Childhood memories eh?

They remain forever,good and bad.

I`ve always said the best days of my life were when I was at Primary School,you had to earn respect to gain respect....
How society has changed nowadays.
Mojo`s,marbles,hopskotch,conkers,going in the street and knocking on doors when we had snow asking if they wanted their path cleaned,match-days near to where I once lived we used to ask supporters if they wanted their cars watched for 50p! Bullseye on Sunday night telly was a belter too.

Ace thread :)

Being a kid in Oz in the seventies where these tv shows (US and UK mixed) molded my thinking ... LOL ... no wonder my head is so scrambled now.

ALL IN THE FAMILY
Are You Being Served
BENNY HILL
BEWITCHED
Bless This House
THE BIONIC WOMAN
BONANZA
THE BRADY BUNCH
CHARLIE'S ANGELS
Citizen Smith
Dad's Army
DALLAS
DIFF'RENT STROKES
FANTASY ISLAND
HAPPY DAYS
HART TO HART
HAWAII FIVE-O
HERE'S LUCY
Here's Humphrey
IRONSIDE
KOJAK
KUNG FU
LAVERNE & SHIRLEY
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GRIZZLY ADAMS
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
LOU GRANT
Love Thy Neighbor
THE LOVE BOAT
Love Thy Neighbor
M*A*S*H
Man About the House
Mind Your Language
THE MOD SQUAD
Morecambe and Wise
MORK & MINDY
The Muppet Show
THE ODD COUPLE
On the Buses
THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY
The Persuaders
Please Sir!
Prisoner from Cell Block H
POLICE WOMAN
QUINCY, M.E.
RICH MAN, POOR MAN
Rising Damp
ROOTS
THE ROCKFORD FILES
THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN
Upstairs Downstairs
SOAP
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
STARSKY AND HUTCH
Star Trek
THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO
The Sweeney
TAXI
THE WALTONS
This is Your Life
WELCOME BACK KOTTER
WONDER WOMAN

you forgot THE CLASSIC Aussie programme....BLUEY...Starring Lucky Grills. and also bargearse
we started a fan club in liverpool and the great man came over to appear in the Wooky Hollow night club....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzdHZq3U4M0

hahaha brilliant gegs,m8

Ahh, the days of my youth, so many fond memorys. Adverts for coco pops, computer games, argos, Ronsil quickdrying woodstein...getting up to change the tv to see what adverts were on channel 4... sitting back down again for 7 hours with your family in utter silence with your jaws hanging open...driving to the supermarket, walking 30 agoraphobic yards to the entrance to be soothed by all the wonderfully coloured and pristinely packaged products, buying a bunch of products you heard about on tv...driving home... and then in 1997 we got a new tv channel!

Cinder toffee
American cream soda pop & sherbet dips
Master 5 footballs
Mambo,s
5p for a single cigarette
Lmao Gegs brown sauce on love bites our myth slightly differed we used toothpaste it didnt work
Putting fag ash in your bottle of olde english cos it gets you more pissed... wtf was that all about
Monkey Boots ,stretch armstrong , crappy black jackets you'd got your mum to sew T birds on back
Lmfao

at least you smelled better with toothpaste ken......

airfix models and toy soldiers (i loved eighth army and africa corps)...
whip and top,hula hoops,stocking leg with tennis ball tied in it.
clackers (omg my hands still hurt)...talking about sore hands....knuckles!!!!...

barbers that only knew one cut...
those grey school socks with two coloured stripes at the top of them....
tuf shoes with animal prints on sole and a compass inside the heels......brilliant...

Old leather footballs that would soak up the rain and mud and push your head out of your arse when you tried to clear them, the laces leaving a scar on your forehead to make it look like the place to unzip your brain. And those pimply, plastic balls that used to make you want to pull your teeth out to ease the pain when they were lashed into your thigh from close quarters on a freezing day. Football pitches that had to be a quagmire from the end of September to mid March and the tin bath, filled with cold water, except for the piss that the first in left to warm it up.
Standing with your school mates outside headmaster's office waiting for the cane, trying to laugh away the fear and praying you wouldn't cry.
Whit Sunday parades where you polished your shoes so your new suit would reflect in them.
Wagon wheels as big as a plate and gobstoppers that would take months to suck away.
Laughing at the ricket ridden old men and telling them they couldn't stop a pig in a passage.
Gas street lamps you could swing from.
Blue police telephone boxes with fag stubs all round
Public toilets
Butlins and summers where the sun always shone and we burned, peeled, burned, peeled till autumn saved us from malignant melanoma.
Making toast on an asbestos sheet over a camping gaz stove, proving that ignorance is bliss.
Sitting out on a summer's evening with mates. Talking of dreams, ambition, aspirations, knowing that to get out from the gutter you either robbed or grafted but we all knew we would be something.
Scrumpy that made you sick as a dog and pinching apples for the hell of it.
Tickling trout.
20-a-side football in the park when even grandads would join in for ten minutes and try to kick lumps out of you.
A thriving textile industry, the envy of the world, dark, satanic mills now soulless apartments.
England winning the world cup and a toothless nobby stiles dancing like a court jester and we thought Besty, though Irish, was god.

i use to get half a crown pocket money 2/6d id go to saturday morning picture by bus 3d there 3d back 6d to get into the cinema. id watch zorro , flash gordon and sing songs following the bouncing ball prompt. when i got home i would buy 3 comics the beano beezer and dandy 3d each id buy a bottle of r whites or tizer and get 3d back on the bottle all this on a saturday morning for 2/6s then we would all go and play soccer till it got dark i was always jimmy greaves proper days they were. posted by mitcham 55 years young

5:30 am ice hockey pratice, dad the church treasure...me caught 'stealing coins from God'..comic book down pants for spanking buffer, watching Churchill's funeral on wooden box tube b&w tv set, penny candy (3 for a cent) from grandparents' corner store, hockey card with clothespin used to make flapping sound on bike spokes...adjust with foot--bike front flip--crash into bees nest...oh the joy...O Sweet Pea (Tommy James) soundtrack to first erotic dream (had some great ones through the teens...now can't get 'em no matter how hard I try)

luv bites..that Brit for hickies? used to pinch neck hard to look like we had 'em..then do a bad job of covering them with some of Mom's powder to look as if you were trying to hide then...just so others would think we were cool enough to get them

getting over hang over while watching rick parfitt chat up sally james(cor) on tiswas sat morning, and damn the man for eternity,gary glitter was so out there then, push bike gangs and love letters , with a swalk written on them ,the first feel off home base and going to far round lol.

i had the first years worth of marvel comics - spiderman,incredible hulk,fantastic four silver surfer thor and many more - stan the man lea, wat would they be worth now !!!

the shock off how over or under coulered the ppl on telly were when coulor first came out ,cus presenters wouldnt where make up
oh and panda flesh u missed out skippy

oh yeah gudge - skippy was a legend ... if there was a helicopter crash - he'd let everyone know.

know 999 channels on sky? u poor, poor people lol

i do love the way all the oldies are saying how great it was but i bet u all have tv's,fridges,computers,internet (obviosly) etc if it was so great discard these items and relive ur childhood :).

then we'll see how long u last

we didnt much like smart-arses back then either...hahahaha

perhaps craig,if your mother and father had internet....you wouldn't be here now?

central heating,ntl,mobys,all things forced on me by mrs and kids,and apart from this site and the porn sites, i could get rid of the pc lol,i still use the libry and read books,and i cant for the life of me remember wat i wore before doc martins came along.
and theres no way cds are better than good old album covers, real works of art lol,cd cases belong in room 101

so theres anew thread to start , what would u put in room 101, and craigd ,dont say oldies lol

What I would put in room 101 gudge is folk that take their mobile phones to concerts and instead of rocking out to the music ... stand there, like David Bailley, with their mobile phones up high, trying to capture the moment - instead of just enjoying it.

cool panda, but me gotta confesion, when me took me 63 yr old mum , 9 yr old daughter mrs and a friend to robbie williams at nebworth me phoned me mate on moby so's he could get pissed off at hearing gig,and when ereryone takes flash pic at same time it looks awesome

SCRUMPING in the neighbours gardens for apples and pears,conkering,coming home with bags of conkers and stringing them with shoe laces to play for hours on end,sweet cigerette cards flicking them in a game ,if u managed to land on your opponents u won there card.marbles , flicking marbles trying to hit your friends marble to win it, british bull dog 123 a rough game but what fun,playing football in the street with a tennis ball and your coats/jumpers as the goal posts, ravensbury park boating lake , getting a rowing boat out for 30 mins for a couple of shillings and using a bycicle pump to suck up water to squirt at your mates in other boats brilliant,swings slides roundabouts,playing all day,chessington zoo,sunday matenaes at the cinema watching jason and the argonaughts,summer holiday,help,and more,making your own TRACK bike from parts u scavenged, knobbly tyres fixed wheels no brakes lol great fun,snow ball fights ,a clip round the ear from pc smith for giving your mate a crossbar or saddle on the pavement ,,!!!! lambrettas mods rockers levi stapress ben sherman brutus doc martins crombies ,,, red rover bus tickets all day just riding the busses to all places far and wide ,keys on string hanging behind the letter box""!!!!!tamla motown reggae ,,youth clubs,, thumbing a lift,,your first girlfriend now that was heaven....

we didnt much like smart-arses back then either lol ynot

perhaps gegs but we'll never no.

and gudge i think i'll stick to 'oldies' :)

There must have been a million kids living on my block, every one of us out playing until it got dark. Kick the can, hide & seek, cowboys & indians, GI Joe...

The ice cream man came every day during the summer, you could set your watch by him.

When I was old enough to drive I bought a car for a coupla hundred bucks with a V8 engine. These days those cars are classics and, even as rust buckets, they're worth 5 times their price when they were new. I feel sorry for kids these days in their little Honda Civics...

I'm suprised nobody mentioned reel to reel tape recorders. They made a short comeback in the 80's after cassettes were the big items because they would play for hours on end. Then along came CD's.

Great memories, a big thank you to shaunieboy.