When I were a lad

[ajlelectronics]

Buying all sorts of chemicals from Rackhams in Corporation St. ? Birmingham. Anything you could think of to top up my chemistry set.

Guy (not the Warrior, a model name I forget) buses on the number 8 inner circle with open rear doors.

Cycling anywhere and everywhere with nobody fretting that I was out of sight.

Young loves and losts!

400 series telephones with the drawer in the base.

 

[premmington]

never said it was..looked forward to it every week as a sprog

My poor Nan was nearly blind - I used to go to hers for tea on way home from school.

She used to do "tinned tea" - everything came out of tins. Absolutely everything.

Soup - new spuds - meat thing - peas - strawberries - cream . Even evap milk in tea.

When I started work - she was really old - I used to buy her a selection box of tinned food - she always looked pleased with them. She liked flowers as well...

As I got older - I asked her if she could read the labels - she said no - it was a lottery - she opened them - could smell them - and put them in the fridge if she opened the wrong ones. And would mix and match them for a meal the next day.

She lived to good old age - tinned food did not kill her....

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My Dad nearly killed the Asian lads at the local corner shop as they gave her a tin of cat food for joke once. No really - Dad landed like "the governer" - all hell unfolded...

 

[Mick Annick]

We had a pub up the road that had a small hatch that you could access without going in the pub (in a passageway just through the main door), as a kid we used to get sent up to change pop bottles which the landlord used to do. The smell of fags and booze when he opened that hatch was intoxicating as a youngster, I blame that for me spending far too much of my youth in pubs!!!

We had a pub like that in one of the villages I grew up in, dad was a travelling salesman and away all week, so if mum ran out of number 6 she’d send me to the pub for more, might get a bottle of pop if I’d been good.

 

[ajlelectronics]

Guy (not the Warrior, a model name I forget) buses on the number 8 inner circle with open rear doors

The Arab mk IV in blue and custard Corporation colours...

 

[8ob]

so if mum ran out of number 6 she’d send me to the pub for more, might get a bottle of pop if I’d been good.

A mate of mine was sent down the road two or three times a day to get his mum 5 park drive

Bob

 

[ajlelectronics]

My poor Nan was nearly blind - I used to go to hers for tea on way home from school.

Mine did a good line in stewed Rhubard which I was partial to. It ended up with me at the doctor because it looked like I was passing blood. It was the colour from the rhubarb!

 

[ajlelectronics]

A mate of mine was sent down the road two or three times a day to get his mum 5 park drive

I used to be sent up to the corner shop (O'Keefe's) with a sealed envelope with cash and a note enclosed. I returned with a box carefully wrapped in a brown paper bag and sealed against curious eyes.

 

[roofman]

My poor Nan was nearly blind - I used to go to hers for tea on way home from school.

She used to do "tinned tea" - everything came out of tins. Absolutely everything.

Soup - new spuds - meat thing - peas - strawberries - cream . Even evap milk in tea.

When I started work - she was really old - I used to buy her a selection box of tinned food - she always looked pleased with them. She liked flowers as well...

As I got older - I asked her if she could read the labels - she said no - it was a lottery - she opened them - could smell them - and put them in the fridge if she opened the wrong ones. And would mix and match them for a meal the next day.

She lived to good old age - tinned food did not kill her....

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My Dad nearly killed the Asian lads at the local corner shop as they gave her a tin of cat food for joke once. No really - Dad landed like "the governer" - all hell unfolded...

was it your dads mam?...bet he went all full on rage

 

[Onoff]

I used to be sent up to the corner shop (O'Keefe's) with a sealed envelope with cash and a note enclosed. I returned with a box carefully wrapped in a brown paper bag and sealed against curious eyes.

Probably vegan food so nobody saw it...

 

[Pond frog]

We had a pub up the road that had a small hatch that you could access without going in the pub (in a passageway just through the main door), as a kid we used to get sent up to change pop bottles which the landlord used to do. The smell of fags and booze when he opened that hatch was intoxicating as a youngster, I blame that for me spending far too much of my youth in pubs!!!

The pub near was the same the hatch was known as the outdoor, I was regularly sent to the outdoor for no.6 or senior service cigarettes, dad would let me get some sweets from the outdoor but they always tasted of fags.

 

[Greeves246]

was it on and old 405 line screen or a 625

405 back then. Took five minutes to warm up and when it was switched off we watched the white dot until it disappeared.!

 

[500e]

The Offy was a hatch where I grew up, used to stand close to it so the face could not be seen asking for a bottle of Cider, Sorry @Barking Mat

 

[ajlelectronics]

The pub near was the same the hatch was known as the outdoor.

That was as I remember it in Birmingham.

 

[DAPPH]

Probably vegan food so nobody saw it...

Mystery parcels for Mum's & big sisters sounds much more like it ,

 

[nickk]

My mum progressed?! to smoking Hamlet cigars,used to cut the grass with a flymo in bare feet,can of Heineken in one hand and the Hamlet carefully balanced on her lip,,she’d send me on my bike to cycle to the village just over a mile away to get 5 more cigars,I’d be 13/14.

 

[brewdexta]

Pop deliveries. A lorry used to park up in the street selling big bottles of dandelion and burdock, cola, cream soda and lemonade. Proper returnable bottles with big black plastic/rubber stoppers. I think it was Smith's who delivered, no, not John or Sam

 

[brightspark]

 

[ajlelectronics]

Pop deliveries. A lorry used to park up in the street selling big bottles of dandelion and burdock, cola, cream soda and lemonade. Proper returnable bottles with big black plastic/rubber stoppers. I think it was Smith's who delivered, no, not John or Sam

Oh yes, R. Whites and scavenging around for discarded bottles to get pocket money back.

 

[Pond frog]

Pop deliveries. A lorry used to park up in the street selling big bottles of dandelion and burdock, cola, cream soda and lemonade. Proper returnable bottles with big black plastic/rubber stoppers. I think it was Smith's who delivered, no, not John or Sam

Corona pop in thick glass bottles, at Christmas we had one of each flavour

 

[ajlelectronics]

Corona pop in thick glass bottles, at Christmas we had one of each flavour

Panda pops. Thick garishly coloured soft drinks. "It's frothy mannn".