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Do you remember something called "Calfresh" ANNE?. Used to get it in a tin and was supposed to be full of vitamins. You used a couple of spoonfuls to make a drink. That was back in the early sixties. Tasted a bit like fruit flavoured Andrews!

;D

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Av some vague memory of this stuff Cazzer. Did it come in a small tin the colour of the flavour and looked a bit like kaylie? Loved those spearmint penny arrow bars best. mmmmmmm

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That was the stuff.  :)

Do you remember Fennings powders? Came in a little wrapper?
Maybe they still do them don't know!

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I used to give them my eldest daughter when she was teething.
Do you remember a sedative for teething infants. Brilliant! ! stuff called phenergan. Think you can still get it but not has strong. Nurse harveys. Not allowed to give them that any more. Used to catch Mick swigging it from the bottle. He used to pinch her choccy puddin and her rusks too.
One spoon for her and 6 for him. He was only testing it mind.  

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Farleys rusks? they were yummy. and the gripe water, got a craving for that when pregnant with my third!

And "Biccy Pegs" the hard rusk things.

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Rusks..Ahh yes:)

Right I have 7 kids in total. 1  from wife number 1 and eeerm let me think.. 1 from wife number 2 and a bit of a gap... 5 from current with 4 still at home...

I am easilly led....:)

Anyone beat that? :)

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Did anyone mention GOB STOPPERS

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Hehe!! ;D ;D

Beat me by one Harry!

5 lads 1 girl

31,29, 27, 25, - big gap - then 13 year old twins.

Just the twins at home now.

Plus 1 grandson aged almost 4

You'll have changed a lot of nappies then ???

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forgot to add parma violets, purple and perfumed and my grandad used to bring home brittle hard liquorice sticks, short dumpy sticks he would spend ages cutting up for me, lovely

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used t use them as chalk for hop scotch board. We are 30yrs married.  :o  :o Dont seem so long 4 grown up children two of each 2 boys 2 girls in that order and eight Grandchildren. Cost a bomb at Christmas.
Better a Gran than a mum though you can love them to bits have all the good bits and give them back. Nice to see them come and nice to see them go. They light up our life and keep me young.

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Blimey ANNE! eight grandchildren ALREADY! :o

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Oh, Yes  5 Girls 4 boys.  Told them they arn`t rabits He He He  ;D ;D
Tried putting durex in their stocking once but they didn`t take hint.
I remember when sleepless nights were caused by crying babies and not hubby snoring and saying he`s NOT asleep when i wake him.

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Me change nappies?  Did it once only.. well half did it.... Sorry I know your not going to like this... But thats womens work...

hehehe Bet thats put the cat amongst the pidgeons.

7 kids and never changed a nappy... dont know what i am missing you say?  gawd leave it out :)

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i remember when Asda used to be on Blackburn road and it had a little ramp that we used to ride on the trolley coming out!

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I went for a job at ASDA on blackburn rd ..Glynn Webb is there now... I was offered the job but it was what was then reffered to as "A closed shop"  Is that the expression?  nothing to do with being a shop... But it had a union and you had to join it... you couldn't work there unless you joined the union... I think the term was closed shop and that is now of course illegal...

Anyway even at that early age I had a distinct dislike for unions so I turned the job down...

I was living in Blackburn (for a short period) at the time so must be well over 20 years ago..

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Yeah that's the term Harry :)

Anyone remember that place being Bleasdales Cars?

That's why the ramp was there, to get the cars down from the upper floor.

Was hard work on your own with a fully stacked trolley on that ramp, could easily go out of control ;D

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We ad a bath in front of the fire on a friday night. Toast done on an open fire. mm nothing like it. My mouth is watering at the thought.
Do you remember playing on the big rock on the little park Harry. Also do you remember bugging the work men in Atwaters factory and that smell. Or hows about playing in the miley tunnel?

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Tin bath and coal fire yes.. Too right..

Miley Tunnell. Blimey now ya have taken me back.. Not heard of that for donkeys... last I saw all nicely landscaped.

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;D ;D[quote author=HarryX link=board=nostalgia;num=1059916385;start=80#112 date=08/21/03 at 02:21:38]Me change nappies? Did it once only.. well half did it.... Sorry I know your not going to like this... But thats womens work...

hehehe Bet thats put the cat amongst the pidgeons.

7 kids and never changed a nappy... dont know what i am missing you say? gawd leave it out :)

[/quote]

Ooooooh!!!!!! Womens work usually means it's hard, dirty and thankless.... Bet I've changed more nappies than most people. No kids, but have delivered thousands. ;D ;D

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any one remember making your own perfume out of rose petals and water. what about spanish water it was allways good for making you go to the toilet if nothing else.I allways was a cheap skate! must be showing my age remembering things like that. ::)

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Not on your own Janet i to remember making my own perfume. Always turned into a nasty smelly gunky mess. Nose wrinkle, can still remember the horride smell to. YUK! ! ! !

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All my mates would go down the miley while i was left kicking my heals at the top. Being fat I was too much of a scardie cat to go down because i was fat. One day i decided i`d ad enough of being left at the top. I lost my footing and went down that banking rolling at top speed banging my head at the bottom. Dave Taylor thought i`d killed mi sen. Gave im quite a scare.
Gave mi ed quite a bump too.
Thats why i must av married at sixteen woz that bang on the ed that did it.
Wouldn`t swap im though.
Ah, bless.  :-* :-*

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listen to ALL REED SATURDAY DINNER TIME.
and tennis  good fun when oyu cant see the ball head still went left and right.

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He's one for you Cazzer.
I remember when we had to wear those awfull libertybodises in the winter.
Goose grease and brown paper when we had a cold. Stunk to high heven it did.
Onions under my bed to keep the cold away.
Not forgetting dried milk and orange juice every week from the clinic.

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Ah yes, the good old liberty bodice. A sleeveless thing with buttons down the front. the vest went underneath.
Always had to wear an underskirt too.
Standing in front of a sun lamp every Sunday, cos it was supposed to be good for you!
Head checked for nits weekly too.
Cod liver oil every day. Yuk

Remember the double ended feeding bottles!

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Double ending feeding bottles now your going back some Cazzer. Didn't av no sun lamp. Remember nitty Nora the head bug explorer very well. I to was made to wear underskirts. No sun lamp. But remember havin a bath in front of fire in old tine bath on a Friday night.
It was codliver oil that made me fat. Used to drink it by the bottle full apparantly. ugh! the thought makes me sick. Vile stuff.

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Green shield stamps, Co op books and fag coupons that you could trade in.Many a shop took 200 points on coupons and you got 2IIb of spuds for it

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[quote author=flashman link=board=nostalgia;num=1059916385;start=80#85 date=08/17/03 at 12:25:31]


Do you mean the root liquorice sticks that we dipped into the Kali?[/quote]

Sure do that is the one.

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Used to save all our green sheild stamps up and used them to get christmas pressies. Saved us a fortune.  ;D

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I too can remember when there were no trees on the coppice, but I can remember the entrance to the bowling greens, playing hide and seek, I hid behind a bush there and sat next to a toad, a big toad, a very very big toad. It put me of frogs for life, I will never forget it.

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I remember when kids were kids.They knew how to play and use there imagination without things that cost the earth.

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where is/was miley tunnel?

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Sorry...Miley (railway) tunnel is/was Preston..As Anne , Mick and I are originally Prestonians we get carried away.

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The old Miley Tunnel in Preston has been a non working line for many years, but it's supposed to be Haunted by a ghost train at mid-night.

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[quote author=HarryX link=board=nostalgia;num=1059916385;start=100#105 date=08/21/03 at 00:45:17]Rusks..Ahh yes:)

Right I have 7 kids in total. 1 from wife number 1 and eeerm let me think.. 1 from wife number 2 and a bit of a gap... 5 from current with 4 still at home...

I am easilly led....:)

Anyone beat that? :)[/quote]
Wow you were busy then Harry.Any share holder of Rusks would have been proud of you  :o

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I remember greasing the slide in Bullough park with bread wrapping paper and watching from a distance who would be the first down,to shoot off the end, and land on their bum.

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Used to get coupons in Embassy fag packets too and No 6 were called coughing nails.  
I went many times for 5 woodbines and they put them in those little triangular white paper bags. Also one seven o'clock razor blade we couldn't afford a full packet, but they were the good old days.

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Can't remember when I have laughed so much. Thanks for these wonderful memories. Our kids today will never have memories like these. Anyone remember Lung healers. I used to sit with my friend in the cupboard under the stairs and pinch these tiny grey little balls from her uncles pocket.  He had a big strap he used to sharpen his cut throat razor on. It was hung at the side of the mantle piece.  What about picture rails or dust collectors as my mum used to call them.  
Swimming hats with rubber straps under the chin. Never did keep my hair dry.

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Some drinks I remember.  Orange Juice in cartons called Sun something. Round dotted hole on the top you pushed in and put your straw in.  Jubblies pyramid shape carton we used to put them in the freezer. The milkman delivering orange juice in small bottles.  Sweets: flying saucers coloured discs filled with kali. Same time as mo jo's and black jacks there was another called refreshers blue and yellow packet. There was a caramel one too but I cant remember the name.  Red spanish. American cream soda kali.
Comics Bunty, Judy, Beano, Topper.
Bonfire nights coming up many a time I went collecting wood only to wake up the next morning to find some so and so had raided it. Many a couch and armchair went on the fire in mistake.

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Will definately agree with Anne there.Fantastic trip down memory lane even if i am only 41.Lynn after all this time i finally find out who was doing that with the slide.Not nice.Many a pants got ripped and i got a real rollicking.Kids nowadays eh! They do not know they have been born!!!!!!

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My 4yr old Grandaughter got an halloween mask.
I looked at her and pretended to be frightend. All i got was dont be silly Grandma its only a mask.  ::)

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Sorry Mik. Now I have grown up I know better. Hope you will accept my apologies and forgive me.

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I used to go to the Saturday morning Mickey Mouse club at the Odeon in Burnley starting around 1936 -- Milky way and Mars bars -- Buck Jones (my favorite) -- Ken Maynard -- Tim McCoy -- Charlie Chan -- Jungle Jim (Johnny Weissmuller).

Playing Cowboys & Indians afterward with cap guns -- the little kids had to to be the Indians.

Some Saturday mornings went to the Coliseum in Rosegrove where my cousin lived -- fare was essentially the same.

James Pickering
http://www.jp29.org/

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I remember living in richmond street, which is where autocol is now! One winter a load of us got together and went up the big hill by the side of the old richmond pub (now a doctors surgery) and made what was possibly the biggest snowball ever and rolled it down the hill. I was only about 4 or 5 at the time so the size may be exaggerated.
I remember the shop that was on the corner of brown st and willows lane, they did some sweets called space dust, a mouthful of that and a swig of coke and your mouth foamed like a rabid fox!!!!!!! :blush8:

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:rose8: Summer holidays playing footie on holy farmers playing fields, starting at 3 a side and by the time it was dark at least 18 a side, arguing if the ball went over the jackets ( posts ) no ref, or at least the oldest one or biggest one made the decsion.

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That spare land where the Hyndburn Sports Centre is now we called “The Wreck” and it had air raid shelters where boy met girl and found out the difference.;)

Going dancing at Knowlmere St to learn how to dance. Had to learn ‘cos that’s where the girls were.:cool:

My first pint at 16 in the Australian Inn just off Bull Bridge in ’53.:drink:

Watching the blacksmith shoe shire horses also next to Bull Bridge.:confused:

Swimming at Accy baths just down from the pit and diving off the top board of the diving board into just 6 feet 6 inches of water. Then down a side street just across the road and through a ginnel to buy 1d or 2d packets of crisps. All broken of course but very full bags.:D

Working down Scaitcliffe pit as a pit pony.:rolleyes:

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I think you're a bit off with your directions Jambutty.

Where the Sports Centre is was called Nelson Square, and the "Wreck" was behind Hydburn Park School in the direction of Accy. But the memories remain the same.

You were 16 when you got your first pint at the Australian Inn??....why did you wait so long??...they use to serve 'em in short pants. I know...I got my first Half of Mild...at the serving window (stand outside and be served from the bar), when I was just 14. Never looked back since :drink: :drink: :drink:

Remember Mr. Smith (Supervisor) the guy who use to make the young kinds get out of the warm shower. He was OK really and helped a lot of kids to learn to swim. Did you ever dive off the Balcony?? (no! I didn't have the nerve to do it, but watched a cople of "big" lads do it!!)

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The interesting thing is why Nelson Square was/is called Nelson Square...anybody know why ? (I think I do)

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Do tell T.

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well, if you look at the very old maps.....there is one about 1848 which shows it...you will see that there were a number of houses built on the site, at a position between what is now the reception area of the Sports Centre and the bridge over the river (the river was further north-east then). the house were built in the typical Georgian style of the time...a square (with one open end). Naturally, the square was named after the hero of the time..Nelson. When the houses were demolised - in the early part of the 20th century, the name still remained...Nelson Square.

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Do ye know...that's what I was told when I was a young whippersnapper. But what about the factory that was on "Nelson Square"? What was it called?

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I'm lost on that one....I think there was a small factory built on the site of the Georgian Square..but I don't know how long it lasted. I do remember the water works on the left hand side as you came off Henry Street by the Bridge Pub..and I also remember that where the river banked from it's natural course into the straight channel there was an awful lot of old iron lying just under the ground surface...

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I don't know the answer either as it was before my time!

My dad told me that there was a mill there when he was young. Circa 1914 or so.

I'll have a look on the old map!

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I can just about remember the blacksmiths at the end of Union Street. A fabulous, dark and filthy place. A sort of wooden building with an oddly sloping roof. The inside was crammed full of lengths of rusting metal. it was a regular stop-off point on the way home from the Odeon on a Saturday morning. Another good stop off was the Slaughter House, where the new cinema is now. They used to store the offal outside in great piles, endless hours of amusement poking at it with sharp sticks --- What? It's a 'boy' thing.
I also remember the Herbalist's on King Street. You could get Liquorish (sp?) sticks there that were thick, black and shiny and as brittle as coal.

Does anyone remember the cafe/chippy under the Kendal Hotel at the top of King Street?
What about playing inside the derelict Hippodrome? There was a brilliant rope swing on the stage.

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Fish and chips on Friday night. Sherbert dips and my paper round at Christmas (all those tips!!!! I thought I was rich) Midnight mass and black ice (neither of which I have done or seen for over 30yrs).

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I remember the blacksmiths at the end of Union St, I cant remember the name of the guy but we took a horse there to be shod (have new shoes) it would have been about 82/83. It was great to watch, its not the same now, there's certainly not the same amount of skill involved ( no offence to farriers).

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Cazzer i remember that one too.Mum and dad buying the coal in alittle blue bag and yours truly was responsible for carrying it in.They could have done smaller bags i am sure.Also remember throwing sugar on the coal to get it started faster

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Anybody remember having to take fag coupons and trade then in at the local shop for some spuds.Not to mention the Co op stamp books.LOL!

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I remember counting all the ciggie coupons my Dad collected and then looking in the Embassy catalogue to see what we could send off for.

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I do....What about Green Shield Stamps...

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I've just been reading back through this thread and remembering lots of things. Albert Birtwell ("Hice Cream Heeyah!") was some distant relative of mine. I remember him coming round with the ice cream in a pony and trap - most of the kids would give the end off their cornet (with a dollop of ice cream in) to the horse. That horse never seemed to need instructions on where to stop or where to head off to next.

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Aye, it were reet good 'an all

Went to school with one of his grandsons/nephews - Tony Birtwell. Never got any free samples though.

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2 books of Green Shield Stamps & you can buy David Beckham.

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But did you have it "With Blood"

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oh aye allus wi blud

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Alreet lads if ya called the red sauce blud what did you call the choccie bits.Our local ice cream man asked if ya wanted rat droppings, and no nobody was disgusted.If you was really good you got a cone with bluddy rat droppings.Treat of the week.Not to forget the screwball.Plastic cone full of ice cream with a bubble gum at the bottom

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I don't think Albert did choccie bits. It was either blud or nowt.

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how about Crushed Nuts.....

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Yummy, Yummy dont forget the flake.

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Anyone remember Moody Blue Lollys - Lions Maid I think c1965.

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After having spent some time reading all of these posts, I have to say you all ought to be ashamed of yourselves making an old bloke cry. I remember all of the above pre 64 back to just after the war. I used to go to St.Johns at the top of ?? Maudsley St I think. I had a class mate called Alan who used to live in Manor St. His house didn't have electricity, it was still on gas. He, like a lot at school wore clogs. I never did for some reason. He once took me to a back st. that runs parallel to Burnley Rd. It was where he used to get his clogs re-ironed. I also discovered that this back st. was also the hang out of the 'rag and bone man' who used to give us a ' yellow stone' to do the front doorstep with in exchange for rags. Later on he would give plastic bags with water in and a goldfish. Round about that time there was an 'Air Raid shelter' at the top of the St. where we used to play quite often. When the council started to knock them down all the street would come out to watch this crane with a great big concrete ball at the end of the cable and see it swing from side to side demolishing the shelters. Great fun.

There was a shop on the corner of Meadow and Derby st's run by Jack and Elsie Marsh where we used to spend all our ration book tickets and one on the opposite corner called I think?? Stars. I was only 8 or nine. I was madly in love with their daughter LOL(from afar). We all had billy carts and used to race them down the steep hill from the 'Clock Garage to bull bridge copping many a cut and bruises. I eventuall got older and ended up going to Accy Grammar and used to walk there from Derby St. along Hyndburn rd, often stopping by the abbatoirs to watch them killing the animals(not a fun sight). There was also a grave yard opposite with old graves that they used to keep the sheep in awaiting slaughter. In this graveyard was a stone lying flat next to the railing It's epitaph said
Spare a thought as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you will be
Prepare youself to follow me.
Even though it frightened me I still used to read it.
My grandmother told me of a policeman that late one night on Hyndburn Rd near the viaduct was suddenly confronted with a plague of rats. He stood rooted to the spot as the rats surged past jumping on and off his feet. She said that he had to retire and that his hair had turned white overnight???? One day I was walking to school and a bloke who as he was passing said in a loud voice."The Kings dead" It didn't really mean anything to me at the time.
Sometimes walking around town I used to come across this bloke who had no nose and looked terrible but he seemed to be aware of it and always took his hat off to cover his face if he was passing young people.
I remember walking down Avenue Parade on the opposite side from the Odeon towards Blacburn Rd(there were hoardings there at this time and no sunken gardens). I noticed the english teacher from school (A.G.) His name was actually Mr, English sitting in his car just staring forward. I said hello Sir but he didn't respond. The day after I learned he had committed suicide that day.
There was also a bloke in Accy that used to stand around street corners mostly on the main roads taking copious notes in a note book. One day us mischievous lot decided that one of us was going to creep up behind him and nick his notebook. So in order to decide who:- One potato two potato three potato four .......etc. The 'chosen' hero was decided and the said notebook was duly nicked and we all ran off towards the Town Hall laughing our heads off. We discovered that there was absolutely nothing in said notebook. In hindsight the poor fellow was probably a nutter. Ah yes the railway line behind the cricket ground. I remember us trying to shove a railway wagon along the track without much success.. I seem to remember that there was a hill of rubbish near there that was perpetually on fire or something. It was always smelly. You 'orrible lot, you have lit a fire in my memory banks:D (albeit nice memories) I will just have to conclude my waffling in another post.

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I posted here but can't find it.:confused:

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Yeah.. I remember him Terry, he always wore a Trilby and a raincoat. I heard that he been wounded during the war..real mess...but he was extremely polite and always kind. Poor soul.

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I remember him too! My mum said he had been in an industrial accident at Bulloughs.

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Does anyone remember the 'Pendletons Twicer'......as the rhyme said....what could be nicer than a Pendletons Twicer? ......ice cream with a lolly each end.
After Birtwells, they were my favourites.
I also remember being sent along Nuttall St by my dad to get some Bile Beans...... they were something like 10 for a penny and the lady who owned the shop gave them to me in a little twist of paper. On the way home I decided to try one of these little round tablets.......I put it into my mouth and sucked the sugar off and got to the medicinal bit which tasted VILE.....so I spit it out. When I got back home my dad counted the Vile bile beans and made me go back and tell the lady in the shop she had given me one to little. She was not impressed and although she gave me another one she let me know she thought I had taken one. Bile beans were always Vile beans after that episode.......and i avoided going into that shop for ever after that.

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There was a young girl of Southend,
Who had only 'tuppence' to spend,
So what could be nicer than a Pendleton's Twicer,
Ice cream, with a lolly each end.

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Good on yer John......couldn't remember the first bit for the life of me.
I think it must be an age related thing......over 21!!!!!(and the rest)

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You probably would have enjoyed the "Remember the Commercial" thread Margaret. In fact, I have a good idea that the 'Twicer' advert was one of the ones posted. If you have a search you will be able to find it and may even regenerate the thread?

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Thanks for that John.....will give it a try

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Well I wasn't actually born in Accy. I was born in Manchester in 1939. My mum was from Accy and my dad from blackburn. During the war years( when I was old enough to remember) the air raid sirens used to go off with that terrible wail(a sound I'll never forget) and dad would upend the arm chairs and settee and then put the table top over the lot. That was our shelter just in case. Great fun for me but not for my parents. Later dad told me he never went down the local air raid shelter because whole streets of people used to get wiped out if it copped a direct hit. Dad later told me that the Germans used to drop 3 incediary bombs to light up the area for the rest of em. Aparently, the last one of three had dropped two streets away. We must haved lived near an airfield because I remember 'airy planes' with funny colours, and big funny looking fat balloons all floating high up in the air at the end of a long rope(young perceptions). A big truck like a removal van would come round occasionally and the end would open up and inside was a picture screen so that the locals could watch the latest news on the war. All kinds of good were sold by blokes coming round on horse and carts selling it and people used to rush out and collect the horse dung for their gardens or vegie plots.
Mum must have taken me to Accy lots of times during this period to my grandma's and grandad in Willow lane. I remember on the trip through Manchester to Accy that there were 'hose pipes' all over the place and buildings on fire. I used to see horrifying red glows coming from some places. I had lots of nightmares of these sights as a kid. I used to love visiting grandma in Willows lane. Except for one time when everybody was having dinner. In the middle of the table was a plate of bread and butter?????? and everybody had a boiled egg in an eggcup. My dinner was the two tops sliced off from mums and grandma's eggs. Mum would slice up a piece of bread into fingers and she would give me one that she had dipped into her egg. It was the tastiest food ever.(Ihave loved eggs ever since) But you know kids. I wanted a full egg. So uncle David had finished his and turned it upside down and replaced it in the eggcup without me noticing and put it in front of me. They gave me a spoon and I cracked it open only to discover it was empty. My resultant tantrum was rewarded with a few good hard smacks on my bum.
whilst in Accy at some stage mum had taken me to the pictures in Edgar st. to see Bambi.(I suppose records could confirm that) anyway, apart from the film there was an newsreel that started with a big Cock. During this newsreel it showed a truck on fire and bodies that were also on fire jumping off. I asked my mum who they were and she said Germans. In a totally quiet theatre I said in a loud voice.'Oh poor Germans" The reaction from people around was not very nice and I was quickly shushed by mum as well as copping a smack on the leg.:) How can kids understand? Well the war came to an end and we eventually left Manchester and moved to Huncoat for a brief 6 month period and then moved into Accy to live in Derby St.
Whilst there I attended St.Johns school. From then oh boy did my mischevious adventures start.............

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That's fascinating to read Terry. I wonder how much Willows Lane has changed since then. I have an old photograph from early last century and it is quite recognisable in the area between Richmond Road and Bullough Park. Unfortunately it's scruffier looking now, my main complaint being against the refuse collectors who seem to drop at least one binload a week.

My Dad used to do that trick with the empty egg shells too so I can sympathise with you there, and my Mum told me how she and her sister used to get the tops off their parent's eggs. It looks like you did twice as well as them because they only got one egg top each!

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Sounds like your memories are flooding back Terry. It's sometimes amazing that you can remember such times, way, way back.

Sometimes during quiet moments, I can see Oswald Street, Church...we lived at number 20 (I've still got my mums childrens allowance book from 1946 with the Oswald street address on it, I was worth 5/- a week). We had a big tabel in the kitchen, and my mum use to prepare meat and minced meat pies on it, before putting them in the big black range oven (remember them?).

One day she ran out of minced meat, so I went out into the back garden (a postage stamp really) with my little spade and dug up about 20 / 30 worms. I rushed back into the kitchen and told my mum I'd got some fresh meat for her. She was not amused when I wanted to put them in her pastry before poping them in the oven!!!

I was just over 2 years old at the time!!!!!

The next year we had a terrible winter (1947) and I couldn't go out for weeks. We ran out of coal, and so we had to burn some old furniture to keep warm. The coalman (Henry Steer from Ernest Street) came down our street next day and so we were able to have a nice warm fire again. I had to run behind the wagon and pick up pieces of caol that had fallen from it. Got mi little bucket full a couple of times! Mum's little helper I woz!!

Does anybody remember how we wrote 5 shillings? (5/-) £ s d (£1/14/3d??) Or am I too old?

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Aah! Darby. The memories. When I first started living in Derby st. It was round the corner from the main st. Two up and two down. This was after the war and from 46 onwards. The floor of the house was made up of flag stones and all uneven. Ours had lino on it (kitchen) and one day dad decided to pull it up and put new stuff down. Well, when it was pulled up we found there were layers and layers of old newspapers used as the under felt as it were, some of which were a million years old. Should have saved a few. The kitchen had an old 'slop stone' i.e. a stone sink. A clothes rack hanging from the ceiling. The old tin bath on the wall. A kitchen cabinet. A big wash tub complete with posser. An old huge mangle. Gas oven. It wasn't 'till a couple of years later we got a 'proper' sink and a water heater, and a washing machine complete with small mangle and the inevitable 'Flatley dryer' Wasn't much room left to do anything much except the chores. The fireplace was one of those old huge things with a compartment which supposedley was an oven and a something else on the other side. It was pain in bum having to 'black it' with this stuff black stuff that you could buy to make it look nice:)
The front room also had was was called a 'vestibule' Ha Ha
One of the funniest things to my mind was this peculiar ritual that was inevitably practiced by adults nearly every year, and that was the re-decorating of the front room. This used to happen with nearly everybody in the street. Dad would come home with the rolls of wallpaper and that damn strip that was put on as a fake picture rail. No new fangled paste for dad. it was the usual flour and water paste. Didn't take the old stuff off. Just straight on to the old. In fact there was a patch just near the stairs where you could see all the old wallpapers of years gone by. Layer upon layer, and by jeez there were some ugly wallpapers. Which reminds me. These old terraced houses had a resident poulation of a trillion cockroaches, and it didn't matter how much bait one put down, there were just as many deadies the day after. They had the run of the whole block of course so it was just a waste of time. In any case I reckon that they had a smorgus board with all the flour paste that was always available. The outside 'dunnies' were a laugh. Up our end 6 houses had a common backyard and so all the dunnies were all together in a line, and they all had the usual holes poked out between the stones(bricks) so you could spy on what was going on next door.:D Yes Darby 47 was a bad winter. There were snow drifts up to the roof in some parts. Whalley road was a mess. Traffic almost a complete stop. We even had a snow drift in our kitchen when we got up in the morning. Must have got through under the back door. Had to dig our way out the front door. Was good for the kids though We ended up up building big igloos in the street. Jolly good fun. I'll continue another time. For now Happy Christmas everybody and a happy new year if I don't get to you sooner. Wish I could be having an Xmas drink with you. Have one for me though.