Do you remember when

[Blackrock]

This hot summer weather set me off day-dreaming about the school holidays we had as kids, and that led to other childish memories. Where have the years gone ? Do you remember when:
Boys wore shorts till senior school and girls had large blue knickers and grey skirts. We played 20-a-side football in the playground, usually with a tennis ball. On sports days we competed in tunnel ball and cross leg relay. We used to get 1/3 pint of milk in mini glass bottles, and sums were worked out on slate tablets with a piece of chalk. Wooden pens with a nib and ink wells came later.
We bought 3p lucky bags, black jacks, and swizzles to eat, and the Corona wagon came round once a week. Dad drove a hired Ford Prefect with three forward gears to take us on holiday, and we wore knitted woollen bathing costumes on the beach. Our chores included black leading the grate with Zebra grate polish and you had to 'draw' the fire with a sheet of newspaper and a poker support. At home, we listened to a Echo radio, usually the Light or Home service.
I could go on and on, but what do you remember ?

[Hamble]

Saturday morning cinema.

Sand pits with swings and slides or vice versa were big in my day.

How delicious food was after a swim in the open air baths or paddle in the sea.

The café on the beach next to Peter Pan's.

Toast by fork over the fire-tasted awful but so exciting to do.

Camping in the garden under a sheet draped clothes horse with an Enid Blyton book.

[grassroots]

Cooling down under the street taps.

Playing out till 9 o'clock .

Filling and empty lemonade bottle with water for a trip to Morton .

Bunking on the train to Southport .

[whiplash]

Saturday morning cinema.

Sand pits with swings and slides or vice versa were big in my day.

How delicious food was after a swim in the open air baths or paddle in the sea.

The café on the beach next to Peter Pan's.

Toast by fork over the fire-tasted awful but so exciting to do.

Camping in the garden under a sheet draped clothes horse with an Enid Blyton book.

ABC cinema club,still got the badge,

[Hamble]

ABC cinema club,still got the badge,

Before the film started the ABC had a talent competition every Saturday morning.

[Sue Ellen]

Playing hopscotch and jacks in the street.

[toothache]

*Victoria salt water swimming baths and a penny crust buttered, at the UCP café on Nevill St afterwards.
*Gores coaches.
*The Italian Venetian(?) ice cream place on Nevill St just past where Waterstones ends and the penny arcade close by.
*The Sat morning pictures at the Palladium (where Sainsbury’s is now)
*Not eating on Lord St - that was frowned on as ‘common’ so after Guides at St George’s we went to The Swan for chips and ate them walking along the back streets.
*Not daring to go into Marshall and Snelgroves during the week in school uniform as it was a posh shop. Only went in at weekends in our best clothes.
*The Chanel No 5 wafting from ladies at the bus stops on Lord St.
*Playing made-up games in the street with a ball or a stick. Hopscotch, whips and tops, jacks.
* Cooking our lunch on a campfire in the field at the back.
* feeding the ‘shankers’ ponies (big horses to us) on said field.
* Marshside Morris Dancers
* Dancing round a Maypole at Fleetwood Hesketh

They were happy days. I am so glad I had my childhood then, not now!

[gsgsgs]

Scrumping apples from the land that was the old railway line, now Norwood Junior/Holy Family schools.

Saturday morning pirates club at the Odeon, now Sainsburys.

Window shopping at Matti & Tissot, couldn't afford to buy anything.

Spending most days of the summer holidays at the open air pool.

Reacquiring empties from James Hall (now Booker) and taking them back to Mill Websters for the 5p return.

Being sent to Mill Websters for cigs for my mum and being allowed to spend the change on sweets, usually candy cigs so you could pretend you smoked!

Several other local shops on each corner, I can think of 8 with a couple of minutes walk, half day closing, nothing open on a Sunday.

Being turfed out the house not long after breakfast and making our fun until teatime, lunch was in whose ever house we happened to be nearest.

Bus fare to town was 18p.

Chocolate Ready Brek, Bubble gum that you could blow huge bubbles with that when popped would stick to your face.

Being made to do gym in your underpants if you forgot your kit.

Only 3 TV channels that shut down around 11:30/midnight with the national anthem, the test card.

Unplugging the TV in case it spontaneously combusted.

Bagpuss, Hectors House, Mary Mungo & Midge, Pipkins, Chorlton & the Wheelies.

[Hamble]

Scrumping apples from the land that was the old railway line, now Norwood Junior/Holy Family schools.

Saturday morning pirates club at the Odeon, now Sainsburys.

Window shopping at Matti & Tissot, couldn't afford to buy anything.

Spending most days of the summer holidays at the open air pool.

Reacquiring empties from James Hall (now Booker) and taking them back to Mill Websters for the 5p return.

Being sent to Mill Websters for cigs for my mum and being allowed to spend the change on sweets, usually candy cigs so you could pretend you smoked!

Several other local shops on each corner, I can think of 8 with a couple of minutes walk, half day closing, nothing open on a Sunday.

Being turfed out the house not long after breakfast and making our fun until teatime, lunch was in whose ever house we happened to be nearest.

Bus fare to town was 18p.

Chocolate Ready Brek, Bubble gum that you could blow huge bubbles with that when popped would stick to your face.

Being made to do gym in your underpants if you forgot your kit.

Only 3 TV channels that shut down around 11:30/midnight with the national anthem, the test card.

Unplugging the TV in case it spontaneously combusted.

Bagpuss, Hectors House, Mary Mungo & Midge, Pipkins, Chorlton & the Wheelies.

I say gsgsgs I think we are the same generation!

Do you remember the clinic next to Southport Tech sent to for the treatment of flat feet warts and cold sores?

Moors Market broken biscuits?

Picking blackberries on the Coast Road?

[gsgsgs]

I say gsgsgs I think we are the same generation!

Do you remember the clinic next to Southport Tech sent to for the treatment of flat feet warts and cold sores?

Moors Market broken biscuits?

Picking blackberries on the Coast Road?

I remember Moors Market, became Cassidys I think now The Office.

Also Whites Creamery in Cambridge Arcade which moved to corner of Market Street/King Street.

Asking the butcher for bones for the dog and my nan making a great stock from them.

I picked Blackberries on the old railway lines were Dodworth Avenue is now.

Phone boxes on most corners with a follow on call button if you hadn't used all of the 2p.

The brilliant public safety films Charley Says, Joe & Petunia and of course The Tufty Club.

How could I have not mentioned Trumpton, Camberwick Green & Play School.

[Hamble]

I remember Moors Market, became Cassidys I think now The Office.

Also Whites Creamery in Cambridge Arcade which moved to corner of Market Street/King Street.

Asking the butcher for bones for the dog and my nan making a great stock from them.

I picked Blackberries on the old railway lines were Dodworth Avenue is now.

Phone boxes on most corners with a follow on call button if you hadn't used all of the 2p.

The brilliant public safety films Charley Says, Joe & Petunia and of course The Tufty Club.

How could I have not mentioned Trumpton, Camberwick Green & Play School.

Do you remember the sign in schools and public buildings 'No Stilletto's allowed'?

Those charity collection models outside shops with words no longer pc on?
I always put my penny's in the child with caliper slot.
My brother always chose the animal variety.

[gsgsgs]

Do you remember the sign in schools and public buildings 'No Stilletto's allowed'?

Those charity collection models outside shops with words no longer pc on?
I always put my penny's in the child with caliper slot.
My brother always chose the animal variety.

Don't remember 'No Stiletto's' signs but do remember the charity boxes for The Spastics Society now SCOPE.

I recall being mortified in M&S when my mum asked a 'N' brown skirt her argument was it was a genuine colour!

[toothache]

Don't remember 'No Stiletto's' signs but do remember the charity boxes for The Spastics Society now SCOPE.

I recall being mortified in M&S when my mum asked a 'N' brown skirt her argument was it was a genuine colour!

I remember ‘no stilettos’ signs, they damaged wooden floors and Lino etc.

Yes, I remember my mum having a n brown coat. It was the accepted description of a dark brown colour and nobody thought anything of it at the time. I don’t think it was meant to be derogatory in any way just descriptive.
I rather think I must be considerably older than you.

[toothache]

I say gsgsgs I think we are the same generation!

Do you remember the clinic next to Southport Tech sent to for the treatment of flat feet warts and cold sores?

Moors Market broken biscuits?

Picking blackberries on the Coast Road?

The clinic by the Tech was where the school dentists were in my day. Mr Highton who a lot of the boys went to, was known as a butcher whereas Mr Martland who we girls went to, was much gentler. It was still pretty barbaric in those days though.

I remember Moors Market was in 2 sections. Fruit at the front, veg in the back area. As a little girl I got separated from my mum in there. Was very upset but people soon got me reunited.

[Rhino-Hamster]

OLOL had a sign that said something about plimsoles, as well as no stilettos, I always wanted to ask what a plimsole sole was, I never did for fear of being laughed at, glad I didn't in hindsight.

I seem to be younger than most on this thread, I was thinking recently of all the things in Southport I experienced when I was my sons age. I have four little darlings, and I wish they could experience the fun we had!

The old cinema was brilliant, the one where that crap hotel is now, used to go the sweet shop next door first, for 4ozs of nibbles.
The inflatables on a Saturday morning at the old baths were brilliant.
Twenty-ish years ago my Mum would give me a fiver, I'd get the bus to town and back, go to the inflatables, pop across to the fair, buy a bag of five doughnuts, have a spin on the Waltzers, and then off home again, all for a fiver, can you imagine, you can barely get the bus OR go swimming for that now.
Four wristbands for £20 split with three of my friends, few goes on the rides, then into the Funhouse, what I would give to take the kids in there now, before health and safety went mad, as half of it wouldn't be allowed now surely?
Teen Scenes at the Colosseum, I really liked them, feeling like a grown up in a club with your juice and sweets, so funny to look back on now.
Back to my earlier childhood, that mammoth play area in Funland was bloody immense! Probably wasn't as big as I think it was, I was only small.