Remember these ?

[Dizzy]

This is brilliant (well I think so as it brought many memories flooding back for me.... TV programmes, toys, spangles and even Rumbelows)    

 

 

 

 

[asperity]

A lot of memories there Dizzy. It's amazing to see how more Hi-tech the 70s and 80s were compared to the 50s and 60s!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:

[fugtifino]

After my time a lot of that, Diz.

 

I've posted this here before but it bears a repeat appearance, Public Information Film Archive:

 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/

[Lt Kije]

Brilliant Dizzy

[Bazj]

I used to have a six million dollar man doll.... used to look through the back of his head to see thru the bionic eye!! Pure Quality!

[Peter T]

Memories eh? Surprising what one forgets.

 

Remember when Mars bars Penguins and all the rest used to be twice the size that they are now?

[Cleopatra]

And less than half the price they are now. I remember the BIG mars bar was only 6d, or 2.5p as it became.

[Cleopatra]

Timmy Mallet.... What a plonker! Never could stand him.

[Lt Kije]

I remember the BIG mars bar was only 6d,.

 

Does d=Dupondius,

 

Just how long have you been around Cleo?

[Cleopatra]

Longer than you, methinks.

[Dizzy]

I used to have a six million dollar man doll.... used to look through the back of his head to see thru the bionic eye!! Pure Quality!

 

My brother had one of those too Baz.  I wonder if it's still in my dads loft as he keeps moaning that some of our toys are still up there.

 

Was there an action man that you could do that with too ? 

[fugtifino]

Heh.

 

Baz had a doll.

 

I had Meccano.

 

<feels old>

[algy]

One Xmas just after the war, I got a wooden stool, my dad made, a donald duck jigsaw and in the sock hung at the bottom of my bed, an orange some toffee's, nuts and that was it, never did get a meccano set, I don't suppose other working class kids did much better though as there wasn't much about in the way of toys and our parents had enough to do in feeding and clothing us.

[Lt Kije]

Fugs

 

We live in a "Liberal" democracy, Gay marriage, Gay adoption of kids and Boys playing with dolls in fine, We are not judgmental on here.

[Bazj]

I had Meccano too.... but it was an old set with the red and green parts that my older cousin Alan gave me.... I had to wait until I was 12 to get my first train set!!! (I have an 11 year old lad who is 12 this June.... I could imagine his reaction to a train set!!!)

[Nick Tessla]

I had Meccano too.... but it was an old set with the red and green parts that my older cousin Alan gave me.... I had to wait until I was 12 to get my first train set!!! (I have an 11 year old lad who is 12 this June.... I could imagine his reaction to a train set!!!)

 

When I was little, I asked Santa for a train set.

 

On Christmas morning I excitedly opened my stocking .........and ............................ found just  a note.

 

 

 

"Sorry young Nicholas I was going to give you a train set but that naughty Doctor Beeching stamped on it

 

 

 

Love Santa"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(No , not really)

[wolfie]

I had Meccano too.... but it was an old set with the red and green parts that my older cousin Alan gave me....

Baz, where is Alan, there was a bloke on the train with a Nutri-Grain Breakfast biscuit looking for him. 

[Cleopatra]

One Xmas just after the war, I got a wooden stool, my dad made, a donald duck jigsaw and in the sock hung at the bottom of my bed, an orange some toffee's, nuts and that was it, never did get a meccano set, I don't suppose other working class kids did much better though as there wasn't much about in the way of toys and our parents had enough to do in feeding and clothing us.

 

By heck Algy! You just reminded me of my mother. Every Christmas she would remind us that we didn't know how lucky we were then went on to tell us that when she was a child all she got for Christmas each year was a sixpenny doll from Woolworth's and an apple and an orange and some nuts.

[Peter T]

I remember in my sock I used to get a silver coin that had to be given back to my mother to go in the xmas pud. When I was going through her stuff I found quite a lot of them.