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Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 08-02-2014, 10:10

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 08-02-2014, 08:38

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 07-02-2014, 21:12

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 07-02-2014, 14:11

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 05-02-2014, 20:20

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 05-02-2014, 19:20

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 05-02-2014, 12:55

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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....

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 05-02-2014, 07:28

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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 :)

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-02-2014, 22:08

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? Oh, I remember Mr Gleave, Mr Heaton, and Miss Butterworth......and not forgetting Mr Hinchcliffe the headmaster.

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-02-2014, 20:14

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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.

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-02-2014, 17:13

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-02-2014, 17:02

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? Eloquent as always Eric, and it must be my age or something because I agree with every word.

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-02-2014, 15:09

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-02-2014, 14:10

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? yes Eric...isn't memory a wonderful thing?

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-02-2014, 09:42

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-02-2014, 07:17

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 03-02-2014, 20:27

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 03-02-2014, 19:11

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? Yes, we rarely locked our doors...but then we were so poor that if anyone broke in they probably would have left us something.

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 03-02-2014, 13:19

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? Have a read of this.... http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/blogs/margaret-pilkington/2099-scent-of-the-60s.html It will give you something of a flavour of my past.

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 03-02-2014, 13:11

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 03-02-2014, 10:45

Replies: 70 What memories would you liked to of shared?? Views: 3,162 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: What memories would you liked to of shared?? 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...

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