Do you remember ?

[Techno]

But what did they cost, when we were nippers ?.....Anyone remember ?.....I certainly can't.....Oodles for a 'thruppeny bit ?'

Cheers - Phil

[Ithoriel]

My recollection was the school "tuck shop" sold them at 6 for 1d. Being right at the school gate they had a captive market so possibly you could get them cheaper elsewhere.

[Roy]

Childhood memories... [sweets don't feature, so, now, off-topic]

2-Star Petrol.
4-Star Petrol.

Talbot Alpine car.

Bob Carolgees and Spit the Dog.
Rod Hull and Emu.
Matthew Corbett with Sooty, Sweep and Sue.

Sunday afternoon wrestling on ITV.

Being completely satisfied if I got to go out for an afternoon, on a weekend, up the Yorkshire Moors and splashing about in a very shallow stream bed, just off the side of the road. Moor grass, heather, sheep and other cars with people there too, all of us just getting on together - children playing with each other happily - until it got to around five o'clock then we all went home. 

Eagerly awaiting for the A-Team to come on the TV. Thinking Mr. T (as B.A. Baracus) was brilliant, and laughing at Mad Murdoch's antics. Loving to watch the bit were B.A. built a heavily armoured vehicle out of bits of scrap, all to the sound of the theme tune.

Harvest Festival.

[Tawa]

Cadbury's Wildlife Bars anyone?

[skywalker]

My childhood memories:

Thunderbirds being shown on TV for the first time

Action Man

Tudor Crisps

Texan Bars

Highland Toffee, sold in long strips

Alpine Pop it was sold from a van that went round the streets

OMG..............I AM OLD 

[Wulf]

Who made the shoes with the animal print soles? Clark's was it?

[Wulf]

Thunderbirds being shown on TV for the first time

3 brand new episodes will soon be available, lovingly recreated just like the original, but on DVD, using audio recordings from the original cast released at the time on vinyl. Kickstarted and made in the original studios...

[Orcs]

No ray its not off thread - just reminicing



I can remember getting very cross when I was told that my Action Man was a "Doll !!"

NO ITS NOT ITS AN ACTION MAN!!!!!!

[Steve J]

We always said white dog poo came from poodles. No idea why, we just did!

[Ithoriel]

Being completely satisfied if I got to go out for an afternoon, on a weekend, up the Yorkshire Moors and splashing about in a very shallow stream bed, just off the side of the road. Moor grass, heather, sheep and other cars with people there too, all of us just getting on together - children playing with each other happily - until it got to around five o'clock then we all went home. 

Ah yes, I remember it well! </Maurice_Chevalier>

[Roy]

Cadbury's wildlife bars! 

Soda Stream machines - we had one like this -

The Bill (only on TV once a week).

I can remember when Thunder Cats was shown on BBC1, on Christmas Eve for the first time ever. Don't think they ever showed that (pilot) cartoon episode ever again. 

Particular to those my age and can remember things from the 80s;

Chernobyl Disaster.

Anti-Nuke protesters up at RAF Fylingdales.

It is a radar base and is also part of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS).

Berlin Wall coming down.

Everyone being scared about the world-wide spread of AIDs (seeing Deutschland 83 the other night made me remember this)

Oh, I remember a good one. I went to see one of these at Teesside Airport. Concorde.

[Leon]

Brannigan's crisps, easily the best crisps ever and they were only available from one shop near us.  I think they might still be in production, but I've only ever seen them online.

[O Dinas Powys]

Yep and here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9fDhWEJBD0

There's a Cresta bear model at Legoland in Windsor 

He's sunning himself in a deckchair by the boat driving ride 

[Techno]

Berlin Wall coming down.

Got a small chunk if that..... (Mum and Dad knew some good friends from Berlin....And they brought some small bits over, when they came here on holiday, one year.)

And one of Mrs T's first 'computer jobs' was on Concorde's components for BAC (?)

She laughs at how small the 'pieces' of computer code the programmers had to use in those days.

Cheers - Phil.

[Leon]

Does anybody remember:-

Aztec bars and a hard boiled sweet called - 'blobs', loved going to the sweet shop and asking for a pack of blobs!!!!

[Leon]

Does anybody remember:-

Aztec bars and a hard boiled sweet called - 'blobs', loved going to the sweet shop and asking for a pack of blobs!!!!

Its not leon its me dave, leons too young to know these things

[fsn]

White dog poo yes (see episode 1 of "Life on Mars" - the original British one, not the white dog US one.)

Being in hospital and my brother telling me about this new TV series that had a spaceship and a man with pointy ears in it.

Being in hospital and my parents bringing me one mounted or two foot Timpo ACW figures when they visited every week.

Going to hospital and being awed by the big green tanks on carriers on the authbahn.

Moving up from plastic headed Action Man (who all became Germans) to realistic hair Action Man (British para.)

Thinking how great X rated films must be.

Getting the Airfix Beach Defence set.

Sherbert dib-dabs

Bazooka Joe bubble gum with the mini cartoon inside

Cutting out "collectable" cards of footballers off the side of TyPhoo tea packs (loose tea, not bags.)

Green Shield stamps.

Proper money - pennies that dates from the 1800's. Earliest found was almost smooth from 1797.

My dad's box of Embassy Cigarette Coupons.

Getting a free glass when you filled up with petrol. I still have somewhere the badges of the regiments of the British Army from Texaco, and I seem to remember World Cup coins from ESSO(?)

The Magic Roundabout

Blue Peter with Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves and the Great John Noakes (none of the Magpie for me - that was for the sort of people who watched ITV)

Department S

Being in hospital and my parents bringing me a War Picture Library comic when they couldn't get Timpo.

Being in West Germany during the 1966 World Cup

The sound of English Electric Lightning's scrambling.

Radial and Cross Ply tyres

Ski Yoghurt being a luxury

TV weathermen attaching fuzzy felt symbols to an outline map of the UK

The first TV in the UK: a wooden box with shutter doors, on a tripod. First program I saw (in B&W) was the film with Dirk Bogarde kidnapping a German general in Crete.

Going to the cinema with a supporting and a main feature, with a proper interval, and ladies with ice creams in trays. They had wooden spoons and if you chewed on them you'd get a splinter in your tongue.

Apollo missions

Seeing the 1970 World Cup being broadcast from Mexico - in colour.

Snooker in B&W

Smokers

The Beatles (insert name of band here) releasing tracks.

Catching the Top 20 on the radio,

Getting up to change the TV channel to the other one.

Books in dust jackets.

Thinking Napoleon's Young Guard was strange and exotic.

Being in hospital and having to down an awful pink liquid that was supposed to calm me down but wound me up because I hated it.

Talking to veterans of WWII being quite commonplace. WWI vets were also around.

Worrying about nuclear Armageddon.



 

[Ithoriel]

Packs of ACW collectable cards, fake confederate money and bubble gum.

[d_Guy]

Being in West Germany during the 1966 World Cup

Strangely - so was I.
On train going into Berlin during the final and we were stopped by the East Germans for nearly 40 minutes. We were told later that it was so they could get the final score. Remember carting around a World Cup Willy bag I'd gotten in London.

[Westmarcher]

Ron Manager remembers ....