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Childhood Memories

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Very seasonal but you couldn't throw a snowball at school today, yet I remember great snowball fights at school - it joins the no conkers too!
Sue
 
Bernie, I think you are right it's at heads discretion, but certainly last winter my sons mate got excluded for a day for throwing a snowball in the playground that hit another pupil on the back, not hurting her, but reported by another parent!!! Things are just so stupid sometimes, kids aren't allowed to be kids! That's my soapbox for today over!!!
Sue
 
If there is something to climb,little boy's will climb it,if there is something to throw little boy's will throw it.There will be a few lumps and bumps:(along the way but it's all part of learning.:)
 
Me and my best mate(we were both total scallys) made fire cans every year, cant put a time to it, but I suppose it must have been winter-time. The main object was whose can glowed the hottest! We both started collecting 1d bangers as soon as they were available, the twopenny 'thunderflashes' were really strong, they wouldn't be allowed now. Maybe I'm wrong and will stand corrected, but there didn't seem to be that many cases of mindless vandalism, but then again ,the punishments were much harsher.
 
My earliest memories of 70 years ago are of my Grandma Goode taking me to see the "dickie birds" in an aviary which was in the garden of a house on the corner of Manor House Lane and Sunnymead Rd ,South Yardley. She also used to sing a song ,of which I only can remember the first two lines.They were "all the dick dicks on the water,all the dick dicks on the sea....Idont know if she made it up,but if anyone knows this song I would love to know the rest of it. Margaret.
 
No one took any notice of the possible dangers way back when,i am glad to say.We did this sort of thing on a daily basis and i remember no more than a few scratches and bruises.Moss
 

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I'm afraid not everyone escaped with just scratches and bruises, when I was in Junior School at Burlington Street a boy was killed hanging on the back of the lorry delivering milk to the school, there were several boys with him but unfortunately he slipped under the wheels.
 
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We had these mugs for our nightcap of Bournvita in the 1950s. There was nothing like sitting in front a glowing coal fire with a mug of Bournvita. Adored the stuff. I thought our mugs had a man-in-the-moon on them but it must have been these. Viv.

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Vivienne14 said:
We had these mugs for our nightcap of Bournvita in the 1950s. There was nothing like sitting in front a glowing coal fire with a mug of Bournvita. Adored the stuff. I thought our mugs had a man-in-the-moon on them but it must have been these. Viv.

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I hope you were also listening to the Ovaltinies on Radio Luxembourg whilst sipping the drink.
 
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Radiorails said:
I hope you were also listening to the Ovaltinies on Radio Luxembourg whilst sipping the drink.
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We are the Ovaltinies little girls & boys...........Radio Luxembourg, probably the only decent radio programme we had. We had so little, so it didn`t take much to make us feel warm & happy. Today we have so much yet are we as happy as bck then?
 
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Off Piste again,!! come on Smudge, we "listen with Mother", "Uncle ? children's hour", Muffin the mule, The wooden tops, Dick Barton, Ect .Paul
 
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Off Piste again,!! come on Smudge, we "listen with Mother", "Uncle ? children's hour", Muffin the mule, The wooden tops, Dick Barton, Ect .Paul
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Paul, I guess my memory sucks because i only remember R/luxembourg for the music. I can`t remember the others you mention except for Special agent Dick barton (was he on r/lux ? And surely Muffin & the Woodentops were on tv?
 
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Paul, I guess my memory sucks because i only remember R/luxembourg for the music. I can`t remember the others you mention except for Special agent Dick Barton (was he on r/lux ? And surely Muffin & the Woodentops were on tv?
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Dick Barton, Special Agent, with his associates , Snowy & Jock. Light Programme 6.45pm till 7.00. The same time as the original Archers programmed, which, I think, took over from Dick Barton. In the children's programme it was Uncle Mac.

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Radio Luxembourg was established in order to advertise products. No such thing on the old BBC. The top weekly programme was the Sunday evening Top Twenty presented by ex. bandleader Jack Jackson, later by Pete Murray. I seem to think it was some beauty product. I need help on that one. The product, not the treatment!

Eddie
 
One for the girls and one for the boys out there. Although I also liked Meccano. Viv.

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Smudger;56470 Paul said:
I had no idea Radio Luxenburg was so old, started in the 1920s. I too only remember the music programmes. Here's a sample of the programmes from the 1950s (from Wikipedia). Viv.

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norfolk brummie said:
Dick Barton, Special Agent, with his associates , Snowy & Jock. Light Programme 6.45pm till 7.00. The same time as the original Archers programmed, which, I think, took over from Dick Barton. In the children's programme it was Uncle Mac.

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Radio Luxembourg was established in order to advertise products. No such thing on the old BBC. The top weekly programme was the Sunday evening Top Twenty presented by ex. bandleader Jack Jackson, later by Pete Murray. I seem to think it was some beauty product. I need help on that one. The product, not the treatment!

Eddie
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Eddie i don`t know what you`re taking for your memory but it`s bl...y good stuff. I can`t help you with the beauty product ( didn`t need any :-} I do have a vague memory of a advert on r/lux for the foorball pools. Some guy called Horace ? claimed he had a system, & also Milton Keynes was mentioned a lot (don`t know why )
 
Quite right all of you, I am just too young to have listened to a "Crystal Set Radio", my mug I remember distinctly as red plastic with white night cap, I remember Dick and Snowy, Dan Dare, and yes Muffin, the flowerpot men and the wooden tops, and Andy Pandy. and the cotton tails, Muffin the mule, were all on early BBC TV, the one where the starting shots showed Alex palace radio mast with words going round it.We had a TV in 52/53, how I don't know because we were poor as church mice, all our neighbours about 12 people crowded into our small parlour to watch the "Coronation".Paul
 
I remember as a nipper, i was a really skinny kid & whenever i called for my mate, his mother would forcefeed me a dripping sarnie, saying i needed feeding up. I didn`t need feeding up as i could stuff myself till the cows come home & hardly put on an ounce, unlike today i`ve only got to look at 4 squares of choc & i can feel my waistline bulging. Still enjoy a dripping sarnie today. As kids we would get on our bikes & ride to Walmley or Shenstone & we would often knock on someones door & ask for a drink of water, & quite often we would be invited in & have lemonade & a slice of cake. Folk seemed so much nicer back then.
 
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Quite right all of you, I am just too young to have listened to a "Crystal Set Radio", my mug I remember distinctly as red plastic with white night cap, I remember Dick and Snowy, Dan Dare, and yes Muffin, the flowerpot men and the wooden tops, and Andy Pandy. and the cotton tails, Muffin the mule, were all on early BBC TV, the one where the starting shots showed Alex palace radio mast with words going round it.We had a TV in 52/53, how I don't know because we were poor as church mice, all our neighbours about 12 people crowded into our small parlour to watch the "Coronation".Paul
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We never had a tv, but i do vaguely remember a crystal set & a wind up gramaphone which is probably where i got my love of classical music, "The dream of Olwen, Bolero, 1812th, & Holst`s Planets. & then around `56, along came a guy called Elvis & wow i was hooked. I took some Elvis records to my school leaving party & i remember my teacher saying " oh my lord, that`s horrible music" Not to us teens it wasn`t.
 
Smudger said:
I remember as a nipper, i was a really skinny kid & whenever i called for my mate, his mother would forcefeed me a dripping sarnie, saying i needed feeding up. I didn`t need feeding up as i could stuff myself till the cows come home & hardly put on an ounce, unlike today i`ve only got to look at 4 squares of choc & i can feel my waistline bulging. Still enjoy a dripping sarnie today. As kids we would get on our bikes & ride to Walmley or Shenstone & we would often knock on someones door & ask for a drink of water, & quite often we would be invited in & have lemonade & a slice of cake. Folk seemed so much nicer back then.
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Hi Smudger,

Or was it that the youngsters, yourself included, were better behaved and people were not frightened of you?

Old Boy
 
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Smudger said:
Eddie i don`t know what you`re taking for your memory but it`s bl...y good stuff. I can`t help you with the beauty product ( didn`t need any :-} I do have a vague memory of a advert on r/lux for the foorball pools. Some guy called Horace ? claimed he had a system, & also Milton Keynes was mentioned a lot (don`t know why )
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It was Horace Bachelor and his famous "Infra Draw Method" and I believe it was in Keynsham Bristol. How about that for memory?

Dave A
 
I can remember just 4 stations on our old 'wireless' (1) light programme (2) home service (3) third programme and (4) radio Luxemburg, if you had a 'wave change' switch you could also pick up a few foreign stations amongst the screeching and whistling. Needless to say nobody listened to the highbrow third programme in our house, Luxemburg and the Light were our favourites . I had the weekly (?) task of going to the local electrical shop to pick up a fully charged battery (what would Health and Safety say to that?) until we bought an 'electric' radio. One of the old programmes I loved was the Billy Cotton Band Show (Wakey Wakey) with his sig tune 'Some one stole my gal' I do not remember if that was radio or early TV. Happy days. Eric
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It was Horace Bachelor and his famous "Infra Draw Method" and I believe it was in Keynsham Bristol. How about that for memory?

Dave A
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Pretty good, though thinking about it now it was probably a scam. If his method of predicting footie results was any good he`d be living a life of Reilly in the carribean.
 
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