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The other week i was walking near Accy college when i was approached by a (young) lad who asked "oh Mr,What was ya favorite fast food when ya was growing up?"
I politely informed him,"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,it was all slow"
"C'mon man, Where did you eat?" he said with a puzzled look on his face.
I explained "It was a little place called home''.
I also informed him "my mum cooked every day of the week and when my Dad got home from work, we all sat at the dining room table together" and
"if I didn't like what she put on my plate,there was always the option of going to my bedroom till i did like it :) (such a lonely place,I remember it well :D).
He started asking other questions about my childhood but i said i was "really busy"(truth is, i don't think his system would of been able to handle my answers) For example, Pizzas were not delivered to our home,milk was.

Here are some of the other things I would have told him about my childhood (if I'd figured his system could have handled it):

1.All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers.
2.There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive.
3.Trouser leg clips for bicycles with one gear (slow) and without chain guards.
4.TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.
5.The bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons :D

These memories are some of the best parts of my life.But my Question is this:

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, and a youngster asked you about your childhood (plus you thought there system could handle it),"what memories would you liked to of shared"?.....

Answers on a postcard :D

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I would share the fact that:-
During the winter we could make ice lollies on the window bottom of our bedroom - on the inside.

That no-one I knew had fitted carpets - we had carpet squares and the wood floor that showed was polished with lavender Mansion polish.

The fire grates were black leaded with Zebo and a hard brush and a lot of elbow grease.

That no-one I knew had an indoor toilet or bathroom.

That Friday night might have been Amami night, but it was also Nit check night and bath night - the bath being hauled in off the yard wall and filled with hot water from a Slaxone boiler...and that you bathed in front of a roaring fire.(cleanest first)

I would tell this young person that we used every scrap of food - leftovers were not thrown in the bin - they were made into something else - and that green mould was scraped off food and then it was eaten - the food not the green mould( and Lo - we are still here to tell the tale).

I would tell them that during the winter most children had 'Dunlop Rings'...marks where wellies had caused chafing of wet skin - and most of us knew what chilblains were.

That there were no 'designer' trainers.....there were pumps - you could choose, either black(very practical) or white (High maintenance - needed to be whitened with a block of white stuff that was grated and put into water then dabbed on..what a faff).

Dragging the mangle up the back yard was a weekly event...Monday morning...no wonder none of us had a pick of fat on us - we all worked and played too hard.

Listening to the radio in the light of the fire...toasting freshly sliced bread and drinking cocoa(not hot chocolate - Cocoa).....having a twist of paper with sugar and cocoa in it as a treat. Or a twist of paper with sugar in it to dip a stick of raw rhubarb into.

I could go on and on.

It sounds like a century ago......and it sounds unbelievable..but it is all TRUE!

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What about filling the tin bath in front of the fire in the living room wi pans of hot water carried from the oven:D;) sorry missed that bit margaret but then its a thing silly owd sods do regular.

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If I was asked by a young person of today, I would like to share with them:

A special treat was eating the sugar butty I was given to feed the coal man's horse. Bread, butter and white sugar were more plentiful than apples or carrots.

A regular sound on the street was the shout of the Rag and Bone man with his horse and cart. It sounded something like: "Rag'nBoannnnn!" In those days everything was used, mended and re-used until it was only fit for this man and his horse and cart to pick up.

When I lived in Heights Cottages up Sandy Lane, the only source of hot water was from an immersion heater over the kitchen sink. Bath time for me was sitting on the draining board with my feet in the sink. No hour long soaks in a nice deep tub.

The school I attended had a strict dress code: girls were not allowed to wear pants, irregardless of the cold knees in winter. They had to, however, run around outside in navy cotton knickers for gym class.

More will come to me later...

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Just realised yeh were posher n us Margaret, yer bath filled from a boiler.:eek::eek::eek:

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Remember the days when corner shops had bubblegum / chewing gum machines stuck to the wall outside? And the big shop meant a trip to the 'Queens' (Asda) on Blackburn Rd. The only fast food I remember was going to the chippy. I also remember my dad brewing up on a camping stove during the power cuts in the 1970's when the neighbours across the road had their own generator that kicked in, the only house with light on the street!

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You have to remember we were a big family and my mother used the slaxone boiler regularly to boil the bed linen - we had a bed wetter in the family(it wasn't me)......and the slaxone boiler was something gifted to Ma from the inlaws...they were posh...they had a washing machine with a mangle built in...electric too...no hard work for them.
The slaxone boiler was delivered by the coalman and his horse buttercup.
Happy days eh?

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Have a read of this....

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/b...f-the-60s.html

It will give you something of a flavour of my past.

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remember these .... :p

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People used buses , and what a great service they provided from first thing in the morning until the last bus at 11 p.m.

Also buses were available on Burnley Road to all parts of Accrington after a Stanley match at Peel Park . A bus to Fern Gore got you home before 5 p.m.

As a lad , what you wore on Monday you still wore in Friday when you had the one bath of the week .

No supermarkets , but friendly corner shops , butchers , confectioners , iron-mongers , green-grocers , cloggers , grocers , chippies , and not to forget the co-ops .

Red metal oil lanterns on the pavements or streets to mark where workmen were working , and the lanterns were still in place come morning .

The policeman coming round the corner on his bicycle , and woe-betide you if you were up to mischief .

In general , friendly folk , time to pass the time of day , respect , discipline , a good community spirit , kids playing out without fear from the combustion engine . In short , a much better place to live .

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Another thing i remember plainly,is on a sunny day,many front doors on many streets were open wide, also pensioners sat on stools at em, enjoying the sun n talking to whoever walked past, Out with the dog these days,i rarely if ever see this,?? Think its such a shame the world has changed so much. cos we all know the reason why this has virtually ceased.:(

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Yes, we rarely locked our doors...but then we were so poor that if anyone broke in they probably would have left us something.

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Yeh but as a nipper i used to love talking to the owd folk sat at the doors, thats all gone now.:eek:

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Yes, those old folk knew a thing or two.
Little girls seeing a pram outside a house would go and ask if they could take the baby for a walk....I have to admit to not doing that. We seemed to have a baby at our house every year for a long time.

Children played games in the street. and each game had a season...skipping ropes, two balls, Jacks, hopscotch.....and then there were the naughty games like knock and run.

Children could go out early in the morning and stay out almost until bedtime - playing out.
You could always see women providing jam butties for a host of children...and they would sit on the kerb eating them(the jam butties, I mean).

In summer playing with the gas tar bubbles - a few of us got into strife with our mothers for that.

When I think about it, we have a wealth of memories that will never be understood by those children growing up today.
We might not have had the mobile phones, the computers and video games...but we had our imaginations, our friends and time to play. We were not forced to growe up before our time......and that is priceless.

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What a great thread this is – brings back so many memories it’s hard to know where to start. However, here’s a few that come to mind and I certainly also share the same as those on the other postings.

Mum’s washing day (always Monday) – no washing machine only the dolly tub and the posser, then through the big and heavy wooden mangle, but all the clothes so beautifully clean. When dry EVERYTHING was ironed and hoisted up on the rack to make sure they were all aired before use.

A Fair came to the local market town twice a year. I would have a whole 2 shillings to spend that my uncle would give me to go to the fair and which would last all day. This was also supposed to include my bus fare – though I always spent this as well and had to walk home.

Not always being good kids - oops! - we did go robbing orchards (they belonged to the rich people who didn’t bother to pick the fruit anyway) – and then had to eat the green crab-apples to ‘destroy’ the evidence of what we’d been up to. Numerous times ended up with bellyache.

Us kids could go off all day on a non-school day with a bottle of cold tea (left-over from the pot) and a jam butt to keep us going. No fear of anything bad happening – except maybe a skun knee or two.

In school the cane was used with regularity but mostly on boys – and the only response from parents would be to give them another whack when they got home. Parents did not interfere with school.

Swearing resulted in the mouth being washed out with carbolic soap! (Or the threat of it).

A ha’penny would buy sweets – carefully chosen as this was a real treat.

Better stop now before I get too nostalgic….

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Ah, the days when a thrippny bit got you into the movies on a saturday afternoon ... bonfires ... conkers ... candle stumps in jam jars made great lanterns ... your mac made a helluva fine cape if you felt like being Superman ... French onion sellers ... goldfish for old rags ... spuds thrown onto the fire until they turned black ... toasting forks ... the wireless ... the midnight flits:eek: ... visiting my gran and sitting with her while she listened to Gilbert and Sullivan; she had all of their stuff on a massive collection of 78 r.p.m. records ... played them on a real gramaphone ... not electric of course.:D ... my prize possesion, a bag of about a dozen or so marbles ... the annual Middle Club trip to Blackpool. It seems so long ago. Thing is, we had it better than did our parents and our grandparents.

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'Fast' food - Kenyons pie shop down a cellar on Blackburn Rd. facing Corporation St. for steak pudding & peas after the pictures.

Going too & from school from age 6 with no adults in attendance and with the door key on a string round my neck so I could get back in after school.

Sun curtain at the front door to stop the paint from bubbling - our front faced south.

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Having milk delivered straight from the farm.......no choice as to skimmed or semi skimmed....but, you old have half a pint straight from the churn into your milk jug...then you put a Lacey doily weighted with coloured beads over the top to stop the dust or flies getting in.
No-one I knew had a refrigerator or freezer...so no frozen fish fingers, burgers or peas.
The birtwells ice cream cart came round every weekend and you would go out with your glass dish...or you would choose a cornet.....sprinkled with raspberry vinegar(yum).....or you could have an ice cream sandwich. The ice cream was buttery yellow and the taste was far superior to anything you can buy in the shops today.

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OK, slightly different era but probably just as alien to todays teens..

my home computer had 1K of memory,output was black and white to a TV, if you added a RAM pack it went to 16K , problem was they wobbled and reset whatever you were doing.
no such thing as downloads, everything was stored on cassette tapes and loaded from your domestic tape player which you had to spend ages getting the volume "just" right for it to work. games took upwards of 10 mins and you never knew if it was going to work till it finished.

You could copy games if you had a tape to tape stereo ( or more likely your dad did ). Amstrad seemed to be king of the roost when it came to reliable copies...

Handheld games were LCD only and extremely basic

Digital watches were red LEDs that only lit up when you pressed a button

Honda Cub ( or chicken chasers as they were affectionally named due to the sound they made with a busted exhaust ) were the field bike of choice for 10-14year olds

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yep I remember them long woody things with bits sticking out:p
and it hurt when you climbed them and fell out

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You could hang ropes on them and make a great tree swing...play Tarzan(well the boys could).
Many happy hours were spent on rope swings...that, building dens and bogeys(they weren't green and slimy). They had wheels on(usually pinched from an old pram) and if you took one to the top of Carter Street you could achieve a fine rate of knots by the time you reached Victoria Street on the 'factory bottom'.

This was real exhilarating fun, and it was healthy(well, it was unless you met a bus on Victoria Street)because you had to drag the bogey back up to the top of the hill to do it all over again...many many times.

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My mum shouting us all in for tea (five of us) from the front door, Sunday nights after the bath watching Dads Army in front of the fire. Sheets and blankets instead of quilts and people's pet dogs booted out to take themselves for a walk! I can also remember it being that cold in winter that my mum had the oven on with the door open just to get some heat in to the house. Happy days! :)

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There was a great rope swing at the bottom of Swales's pasture, out over the Stink ... we used to go looking for bird's nests, blackberries, and pignuts down there ... a bottle of spanish jink and hey ho, off we go.

And train spotting ... locos had character back in the day:D ... I remember seeing "Silver Jubilee" come through Accy Station ... they said the numbers on it were made out of bars of silver ... and you could save a halfpenny on the platform ticked by buying a half-priced single to Ossie for three ha'pence.:rolleyes: Helping Basil Brierley rub down his horse, Tommy. And playing in the piles of junk he had on his allotment ,,, and there was even more junk at his place off Lower Barnes Street ... there were four allotments together back of Rishton Road ... three of them were owned by guys with the first name "Thomas" ... Thomas "Basil" Brierley, Tom Noble, and Tom Pilkington, and my grandad's middle name was Thomas:confused: ... he had the other allotment ... we had chickens, a vegetable garden, and a greenhouse where my grandad grew tomatoes. And glads that were taller than I was. I remember there was an elderly couple who lived on Stone Row ... every day the old girl would trot off down to the Village Blacksmith (Dutton's house) with a big jug which she would get filled with beer. In summer they would sit outside drink the beer, and chat to people passing by. Playing inside the old chimley at the paint works ...

You know, the more I think about this stuff, the more things come back to me.

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yes Eric...isn't memory a wonderful thing?

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And we had time to absorb life ... it had solidity, like a plate of double pudding, chips, and peas:D Change wasn't constantly being shoved in your face ... not much of "bigger, better, newer, faster." Stuff was built to last. It had a life span of more than a couple of months. Like my gran's old gramaphone ... a great piece of furniture made out of real wood ... none of that veneer garbage ... and if it were around today, not only would it be worth a bunch of money, it would still work! And values ... they were solid too. You didn't need political correctness, you knew the difference between right and wrong.

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You have nailed it Eric...maybe that is why the youngsters today seem to have so little regard for personal interaction...all they seem to focus on is their devices.
Devices have no soul, no feeling, no personality. (and I like my devices - though only a very basic mobile phone..it makes calls and sends texts, but nothing else).

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I'm not opposed to change per se, facing it stubbornly and stupidly like some modern day Canute ... nor do I favour regression, a retreat to a Golden Age that never existed. Steam locos were impressive, but, alas, at 25% efficiency, they just had to go.

But I do think that change should be scrutinized in detail, not accepted as a bundle ... you know, like the ones that tv providers offer. What I do object to is that "change" has somehow become synonymous with "progress" ... building more lethal weaponry is not even remotely similar to advances in medicine. And then there are the false claims ... ok, let's be honest and call them "lies" ... spouted by the developers and purveyors of technology, and other assorted big businesses. A faster smart phone ain't gonna make you happier ... a car that will park itself doesn't improve your life ... supermarkets are selling "stuff" not, as they claim, "a satisfying shopping experience" ... whatever that is ... if you belive the ads, it's something like an orgasm.:D

What I object to ... I'm on a real rant, eh:D ... is that so much "chage/progress" is driven by corporate greed. Microsoft, Samsung, Sony et al, are in the business of making money, not improving lives ... anti-social networking and the devices that facilitate it are, in no sense ,a "boon to mankind"; it's just another way of getting at your cash. And they accept no responsiblity for the downsides of "progress", high and deadly rates of obesity is just one of the dangerous negatives. Technology and the science behind it are receiving all the attention. What is being neglected is us ... our humanity. You can't fix social, moral, and, yes, spiritual problems by building a whole bunch of better mouse traps. If you've got a problem with mice, get yourself a cat for chrissakes;).

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Eloquent as always Eric, and it must be my age or something because I agree with every word.

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If you refuse to embrace some of the modern technology then you are looked at with mild amusement.
I was in Manchester before Christmas and was asked to put my name to a petition of some sort. I said to the guy 'right, where do you want me to sign?'
'Oh' he says ' you don't actually sign anything - you send a text message to this number'
I told him I couldn't do it as I had no mobile phone.
'How do you keep in touch with your friends? He asked.
'Haven't got any' I said.
I left him scratching his head. I wasn't sending any text messages so that I could be bombarded with advertising spam.

When I took my old(but bomb proof) Nokia phone to have a new SIM card put in(I act old and daft so that they transfer all my data onto the new card ) the girl was derisory about it and said I would need to change it to a new 'smartphone' sometime in the not too distant future.
I told her that when they bring out a phone that is smart enough to do my washing, ironing, and housework......I will be first in the queue for one. Till then they could stick 'em up their jumper.

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I wonder what today's young people will remember fondly in thirty years time when everything now seems so old fashioned. Will flat screen TV's become a hologram in the corner of the room for instance?

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You're right, Eric - the more you think about the past the more you remember.

On Saturday nights, before TV came into our lives, the BBC broadcast excellent plays. My mother and I used to listen to these - but without fail just before the end my dad would come home from his Saturday night at the local, always very cheerful (wonder why!). He would have a bottle of O.B.J. in one hand which was for my mum, and a parcel of fish and chips in the other for us to share. Often he would insist on singing - one song he liked to sing was 'I don't want her, you can have her, she's too fat for me' and couldn't understand why we kept asking him to shush as we wanted to hear how the play finished.

I was very excited when my mother bought a second-hand gramaphone - a piece of furniture probably similar to your gran's, Eric, and said it was for me. It was a wind-up one (one full wind-up just about lasted one record) and I played my cherished Johnny Ray record over and over again ('Cry' and 'The Little White Cloud that Cried'). The gram had come with a number of records - some of the very funny ones about Albert and the like. I was the only one of my friends with such a device and thought I was the bee's knees.

Don't know what it cost but I'm sure my mother would have had to do without something herself to get it.

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What about going to the BUG HUT Saturday night with a bag of broken biscuits from Woolies then pie and peas at Raymonds Café top of King st total spend about two shillings Happy days

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Haven't been on here for a while, and last night I was missing Ossie so much that I wished I had had that machine (Star Trek- beam me down Scottie) so that I could beam down on my town!! then I found this thread which has brought back memories, joy and even a few tears. We really were lucky. The generation before us lived through war, the one after us, who knows what lies ahead for them?
Some say as we get older we all say that our generation was the best, but I can't remember my mum and dad ever talking about theirs.
I can remember the penny- tray at the sweetshop, hot muffins and teacakes and broth in winter; and sliding down iced-over Duke street on a piece of wood right down into Trinity St with no fear ever of getting knocked down. Now I'm afraid to cross the road on the crossing!!
Thanks for the memories

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In winter we used to double glaze our windows by fastening plastic sheeting up with drawing pins.https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/i...9sJ8ApFat9ptSz

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More memories keep flooding in.

Sunday afternoon walks up Whalley Nab, my mum and me - followed by afternoon tea at my Aunt Maggie's cafe (Ye Olde Scotts Cafe - if I remember the name correctly) in Whalley. Long gone now I would think. There was a woman there who played the piano and sang - would sing the first half of a song in a female voice then do a slight cough and sing the second half like a man. I was fascinated by her.

My aunt gave free meals to servicemen who had been injured in the war and were convalescing in the nearby hospital - think it was Calderstones. She looked after them well, bless her. They all wore pale blue outfits.

I was a little kid during the second World War. Couldn't get butter and I well remember my mother skimming the cream off the top of the milk and putting it into a lidded jar. Then we would take it in turns to shake it for ages and ages until it turned into some semblance of butter. As I didn't like butter it was a treat for my mum - made all the arm-aching worthwhile to see how much she enjoyed a slice of bread with it on. She didn't get many treats.

I remember hiding in the outside 'loo (no indoor ones in those days) because I didn't want to be fitted with a gas mask but eventually had to be of course.

Remember well the street parties when victory was declared.....

....oops! I really am showing my age. Better stop.

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I can remember sliding down Riley's hill(in the snow) on Ma's best tin tray......I got a hiding for denting it by running into the kerb on Marsden St.

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Damn right we were. Both my grandads were born in 1896 ... this would make them 18 yrs old in 1914. My dad was born in 1921 ... bummer. For them, the world turned in on itself in a fit of murderous mayhem ... for us, it opened up ... we had the 60s ...we had sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll:alright: (by the way, I'm still going strong:D) ... they had WW1 and WW11.:mad:

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What a trip down memory lane this thread is. I must have been 'posh' as our house although a terrace did have a bathroom so no tin bath for me but like many others we only had a carpet square and polished wooden edges round the room. the mention of Birtwells icecream brought back happy memories . I remember every Sunday evening listening for his whistle while at my granny's in Huncoat.When we heard it she would give me a pint pot to get filled. he always asked if I wanted 'Lion's blood.' on the top. The people sitting on doorsteps reminded me of everyone after mopping the front step and window bottoms going along the edges with a 'Donkey stone' given by the rag and bone man in exchange for rags. Some stones were whitish and others yellowish. great pride was taken in making houses look neat and tidy. As for school I got plenty of good hidings from Mr Gleave at Peel Park. What a wonderful teacher he was. pity there is not the same discipline now a days.

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Oh, I remember Mr Gleave, Mr Heaton, and Miss Butterworth......and not forgetting Mr Hinchcliffe the headmaster.

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I was taught by Mr. Gleave and Mr. Heaton too! I once got the ping pong bat on the fanny (in full view at the front of the class) from Mr. Gleave for being late in handing in my science notebook. He was nice really, even helping me by pulling out one of my teeth that was stubbornly hanging in.

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Reading all the thought provoked/provoking comments I realize now,this is what happiness looks like.;)

“Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only ever allowed two bags. And while those bags might hold a few hazy recollections—a diner with a jukebox at the table, being pushed on a swing set, the way it felt to be picked up and spun around—it didn't seem enough to last a whole lifetime.” ― Jennifer E. Smith

Good to see folk are not bored to tears reading this, Keep the memories coming :alright:

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I think it is wonderful that so many people have such rich memories of times when they were young....these are the memories that give us a hug when we are old.......and no-one else wants to hug us :)

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Hi Turtle, I couldn't help but chuckle about the way different countries have different meanings for the same word. ::D

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My first recollection of my childhood is the day I fell down the stairs (4 yr old) and my older (evil) cousins just laughed.I remember I was so upset I cried for nearly 2hours in spite of my parents,cousins attempts to comfort me.If i remember rightly I only quietened down when I was given some goats milk ice-cream. Luckily,(Although some may think otherwise) there was no lasting damage.
My days were happy ones,I had good neighbors/family members to play with from morning till evening. We dressed as cowboys and Indians and rode about on our tricycles happily for hours on end,I'm sure there were other games we played to occupy our time but i cant quite remember them.
Then I started going to school around the age of five :(, this turned out to be quite an ordeal for me. To begin with, I remember feeling quite sad having to leave my mum and go off to be among strangers.I remember crying and wanting my mother around, much to my teacher's displeasure. As the days went by, however, I made friends in class and found their company top notch. I became happy again and actually looked forward to leaving the house and mother each morning.:D
I still remember the days I was learning to ride my bicycle. I fell and bruised myself several times but I never gave up. Finally, I was able to join my friends going around the neighborhood on my bike (I was tore moon).

Another fond memory is the end-of-year play. I was chosen to play the role of Jack in 'Jack and the Beanstalk.I remember becoming a 'celebrity' overnight an receiving lots of compliments for my performance from teachers other parents.

What a wonderful childhood I had and at times wish I could relive those days (NOT THE CRYING ONES) :D

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Glad some of you remember Mr Gleave at Peel Park. Ofcourse I remember Mr Hinchcliffe the Head Master but cannot recall Mr Heaton. Maybe he came after I left. Mrs Madden was in charge of Class 2 and Mrs Becker Class 3. I was in her class twice.The first time I was so frightened of her I was physically sick every morning but I still got put on the bus to school. How times have changed.No one would dream of sending a 6yrs old on a bus to school alone now but I lived in Hapton and Peel Park was a much better school than the 2 in the village so my parents thought I would have a better chance of passing the 11plus. They were right too I did pass and went to Accrington High School for Girls.Ha ha and there was Miss Horne who was just as intimidating as Mrs Becker. How many of you lot recall standing outside her study trembling ?

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Oh, Thank you Rowlf....I had been racking my brains to remember the name of Mrs Becker(though I can see her quite clearly in my head)...she was scary. Her glasses made her look like a stern owl.
There was Miss Kay too(she married and became Mrs Phillips) and a very round lady called Mrs Shaw....I liked her. She used to come to school in a fur coat and she let me try it on one day.

Mr Gleave was the teacher of the top class....Miss Butterworth(lovely lady) was in charge of class 2 and Mr Heaton(first name John) was in charge of class three. I was in his class and was told I would not pass my eleven plus - and I didn't.
Mr Heaton was a tall man who wore rimless glasses - he didn't shout at the children and didn't throw chalk or board dusters at us for inattention.
Mr Gleave was a dead eye with a bit of chalk - he never missed.
I also went to Peel Park on my own......I was given the bus fare, but preferred to 'run it' to school......crossing Manchester road and going up Avenue Parade. A long way from Riley's Hill for my little short legs.
I spent my bus money on Majestic wafers to eat at playtime.:)

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Not me dahlin';):D But I do remember that I made Ben Johnson's hit:eek: list more than once. The list began: "The following boys will see me in my study.":D He's the guy who told me that I was definitely NOT university bound. I'd just love to send him a note, and sign it: Dr. E. Slater, B.Ed., B.A.(Hons.) (Sask.), M.A., Ph.D. (Queen's). Anyone out there know the postal code for Hell?:dflam:

The more I think about this thread, the more I conclude that what is being lost today is a lot of which defines us as a species. Two things that make us so successful are creativity and the willingness to take risks ... a love of play and a sense of humour are right up there too. Now, the generations coming up are willing, even eager, to let others do the creativity thing for them ... video games are a prime example. Don't get me wrong here; I'm no Luddite. I kinda like my X Box and games. And I do admire the creativity that is part of their construction ... but it ain't my creativity. When I play, I'm nothing more than a button pusher. And risk? Now we have Health and Safety ... we've traded "playing out" for obesity.:mad: And we sit in front of our flat screens and get our "thrills" from watching others take risks, (Check out the Winter Olympics ... I have a feeling you will be sick of hearing "O Canada" by the time the games are over), or watch action movies with lots of stunts. And is it just me, or is the divinding line between video games and movies becoming kinda blurred?

Enough ranting ... there is snow to shovel.:mad:

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Oops - what did I say - have I goofed? Wouldn't surprise me Hah hah.

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Think you'll find the highlighted word the cause of raised eyebrows & wry smiles, in the Mother Country you'll find fanny = Ladygarden. ;)

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Mr. Gleave was a bit harsh on me when he heard I was going to emigrate to Canada. I'd just done poorly on a math test, and he singled me out by saying "And YOU want to go to Canada?" He repeated this several times, much to my discomfort. I can see now that he had a wry sense of humour (even when giving me the bat!) but back then I was too sensitive to see that.

On a brighter note: Kaylai (sp?) in a paper bag to dip my fingers in and lick.
Necklaces made of little candies on an elastic string. You could wear it around your neck and eat 'em. Aniseed balls. And that most forbidden of all: chewing gum! (My mum said it was filthy stuff, made of horses' hooves)

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Kali and black spanish...yum, Used to buy Rainbow crystals or american cream soda.....the cream soda was gentler on your tongue....but what did we care. We didn't often get sweet stuff.
Bubble gum was banned in our house because I was forever having to have it cut out of my hair.

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My father deciding I should have a proper sledge. I don't know how he got away with it but he was working at Howard and Bulloughs then and made one from welded one inch angle iron. It seated three, weighed about the same as a Ford Popular and was just as hard to pull to the top of Steiner Street.
BUT- with that weight and three of us on it was the Ferrari of sledges!
Two problems- at that speed it was hard to stop and at the bottom of the street was the River Hyndburn wall. Still, one inch angle iron and my hard head could handle that.
Second problem was the milkmans' horse. After a few days sledging it was taking one step forward and two slips back going up the street. Don't even remember seeing a car try to get up the street, not many about then so sledging was safe(except for the wall!).

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Definitely Mrs Maiden in charge of Class 2 when I was at Peel Park. Talk about Mr Gleave being a good shot with a piece of chalk she threw the board duster and never missed. It was not a fluffy piece of material either but the sort with a wooden handle. Glad I wasn't in her class!!! Mr Gleave used his pump on boys for punishment but the girls,me included,
were given the flat of his hand on our backsides. He would grab us round the neck, bend us over saying 'Face the East and bow to Allah'....then the hand or slipper would be brought down with force with the words 'The Almighty, the all forgiving.' Still I thought he was a wonderful teacher and he certainly gave me a good grounding in English grammar especially spelling.I once had to write 'Immediately' and 'Necessary' out 500 times and it worked as I have never forgotten how to spell them.

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I started at Peel Park somewhere around 1954.......and those were the three top class teachers when I left in 1958.
Now whether it changed after that I cannot say..although my brother was a year behind me we didn't talk much about school(or not that sticks in my memory anyway).
All three of the teachers menationed were brilliant......they had great influence on our young lives.

When my Daughter was at All Saints Mrs Butterworth came to teach there...I went to a parents evening and she remembered me.......later still(during my career) I nursed her during a serious illness. She gave me a book of Rudyard Kiplings 'Just so' stories.

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Oh My Goodness!!!!!! (Blushing furiously) Tee Hee!!

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(trying to change the subject after my silly gaff - thanks Dave for enlightening me!)
In winter we used to make 'slides' in the school playground. We probably didn't wear boots, but our shoes would compress the snow to make a long track of ice that we would speed down one foot in front of the other. Some of us would get quite daring and some of us would have nasty falls. One classmate (Jennifer I think her name was) fell down and cracked her head - a nasty greenish bump resulted.

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(I'm on a roll now...) At Peel Park, there was a tree in the playground with a stout branch at just the right height from the ground for me to climb. I would sit there at playtime, watching all and sundry (I know, a bit of an introvert me!). That is when I wasn't playing marbles with the boys, or kiss-catch :)

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I'm going to have to appeal to the oldies on here now.
Do any of you remember seeing tomatoes put on the top frame of the window ledge to ripen?
You could walk past houses that had two or three unripe tomatoes in the window - hoping for the sunshine to ripen them up.

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And let's not forget rationing ... I remember eating my gran's whole week's cheese ration. She'd been saving the cheese in order to make a souffle for my grandad ... the guy who appears as my avatar ... he had been badly messed up at Paschendael ... not the only one I hear . And the beating I got:eek:; the bruises only went away last week;) It was worse than the mauling she gave me when I dropped my grandad's medals down the grate:D

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Yeh I remember my dad putting tomatoes on the windowsill to ripen. We had eggs in a big bucket too with water in and I think something called water glass. No fridges them days just a cupboard with a mesh on the door which stood in the back pantry .There were 2 stone slabs either side too which milk bottles stood on. What about top and whip with chalk patterns on the top. I loved that game. The flags were good for playing hop scotch with numbers chalked on them. No nasty tarmac pavements then. My Grans back street had gas tar bubbles which I loved popping in the summer. I have had many a smack for getting in on my white ankle socks or frock. If I remember right lard was used to get it off. None of our parents had much but most of us had a lovely childhood and todays kids really don't know what they are missing.

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And what about your co-op number....vital for the Divi 2/6 in the pound....beats today's loyalty cards.
I remember running all the way along Nuttall Street reciting the number all the way10168......got to the co-op and couldn't remember what I had been sent for.....but I didn't forget the divi number!

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Am I right in remembering that there were little pink slips of paper that one had to stick on a sheet? I remember the Co-Op at the corner of Sparth Road and Lower Barnes St., across from the Forts. My grandad used to wrap shopping money in a piece of paper and pin it in the inside of my jacket so that I wouldn't lose it. One time the money was a five pound note:eek: ... one of the old ones ... I was informed, in no uncertain terms, that if I lost, it my death would be long and painful:D

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Yes Eric, after each purchase you got a little coloured slip......they were coloured different for each quarter of the year - each divi season....because the divi was paid quarterly, then it went to half yearly.
Our divi slips were put on a bill hook which lived on a nail at the back of the pantry door.
When divi payout was coming up, my mother(financial brain of the family) would take down the bill hook and carefully take off all the stubs and would work out how much had been spent over the quarter....so that she knew to the penny how much divi she had coming.
Invariably, the money was spent before it ever landed(in her head, if nowhere else).
Though sometimes there was enough for a treat.

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I can still remember my mum's number....6409 .

On the topic of co-ops , they had their distinctive smell , as did other shops . Not unpleasant smells , but enough to inform you of where you were if you had been taken in blind-folded .

Woolworths on Blackburn Rd had its own smell , and whenever you went into Woolworths in another town it was still the same .

Veevers on Peel St had its own odour .

The cloggers all had the smell of leather . There was a clogger in an old shack up Fern Gore . I think he was called John Roberts . Black clothes , black hands and black face . Not much more than a grunt when you went for your shoes to be repaired , but he did a good job and took pride in his workmanship . Totally different was Mr Eastwood , the shoe-repairer on the corner of Fountain St and Willows Lane . The shop had the same smell of leather , but he had a handle-bar moustache and was always smartly dressed and well-spoken .

I think my favourite shop , which had the smell of lamp oil , was the iron-mongers on the corner of Perth St and Fountain St . It was like going into Aladdin's Cave with all the ironmongery he had on display .

Then there were Woods' and Riley's tobacconists . When my dad took me into Riley's tobacconist's on Blackburn Rd I was fascinated by that very long and tall counter . It was like it was saying that the stuff in here is not for little 'uns , so you need to grow a bit bigger before you can buy 'owt in 'ere .

Not to forget the chippies . The aroma of paradise .

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Bob Wilkinsons on Nuttall street....that was the iron mongers that we went to.....it smelled of Lamp oil and moth balls....unless he had just had a delivery of coal bricks, then it smelled of coal dust.
Blowers, at the bottom of Church Street smelled of sawdust and coffee...they would grind a quarter of coffee beans for their customers.....I never heard anyone ask for more than a quarter of coffee.

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I remember the little corner shop in Stanhill Village (next to the pub) was like stepping back in time in the seventies. None of your self service there. It was run by Jim and Doreen and was also their home, as you could tell when Doreen retired in to the back in the afternoon to make tea. There was always the smell of home cooking,it always smelled of cabbage or sprouts to me and they knew most of their customers by name. You had to ask for what you wanted and Jim or Doreen would reach to the shelves behind them and put it on the counter. I always spent my pocket money there,usually on a bottle of bitter lemon and a Granny Smiths apple. Everthing seemed so innocent then.

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My mum's coop number was 1963 and I remember thinking that some day the date would be that. Well that certainly came and went !!!!!!!

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Talking of divi Margaret, my husband tells the story, that when he lived in Park Rd the co-op was in Tremellen St, the next street, but he had to go with his truck to the co-op which was in Union Rd Oswaldtwistle near the Palladium for the weekly order, because the divi was about sixpence more. One day he forgot the divi book and when he got home his mother made him go all the way back with the book to get it filled in. Those were the days.

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I just read through this entire thread. My goodness I can't believe how it took me back. I really enjoyed it. Thanks for reminding me of all the things that were buried somewhere in the back of my brain. Absolutely wonderful. I also went to Peel Park school and the names of the teachers came back right away. I think I had a special place for Mr. Gleave. He was so nice to me. Wasn't there another woman teacher who was rather scary. Seems to me that her name was Crabtree or something like that or maybe we just called her Crab. The days of Mable Horne are forever etched in my mind. What an absolutely terrible person she was.

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"I remember when" I use to be able to go to the shops with a couple of shillings and I'd come back with pockets full of sweets,a newspaper and some spuds for tea....


CCTV put a stop to that :D

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My nan worked in the co-op when I was a little girl. She lived in Countess Street and we lived in Park Road. There was a stool by the counter and a lovely wooden floor.