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Everyday things from back in the day that seem really weird now
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I still do this. My eldest sisters best friends Mum had a 90th Birthday the other week.thai malaysia addick said:Children getting one present for Christmas (plus, perhaps, a bar of chocolate and an orange)
Smoke-filled carriages on trains
Walking to New Cross from Charlton when there were train strikes/snow
Wearing a cap to school
Addressing or referring to an adult as Mr or Mrs
Medicine that tasted revolting (as a cure to stop you feeling ill)
Happy Birthday Mrs Shanahan says I, sorry I just can’t call you by your first name 🫣6 -
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Being put on a train at Crayford to go & babysit my nephew Sean.
I was 12yrs old.
They lived just outside Birmingham city centre.
Getting to Victoria coach station to get on the National Express was a piece of cake.
Trying to get across from Digbeth coach station to the bus that took me to my sisters was an awful experience.
And then if you didn’t have the correct change to put in the slot on the bus, the driver wouldn’t let you on.
Yep, they had sealed cabs in buses in 1982 for safety reasons 😳3 -
Bunking in Upton Park as a peanut seller
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Seeing kids at school in leg calipers due to Polio.
Seeing people with a "club foot" and thinking it was the shape of their foot and not realising it was a reinforced shoe to counter stunted growth in one leg caused by Polio.
Seeing Abbey Wood Comprehensive School built and seeing it demolished.
Great thread @North Lower Neil
Think I might have drifted off the original point a bit
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Buying a glass of cream soda at the sweet shop in Lee Green and drinking it in the shop.
Buying single hooks and a scoop of maggots in Todd's Tackle Shop in Lee Green.
Efgeeco fishing line.
Paper rod licences.
Returning glass bottles to collect the deposit.
The cigarette machine outside the local shop.
Halfpennies and farthings.
Pounds, shillings and pence.
10 shilling note.
Postal orders in birthday cards.
"Jumping jack" and "Bangers" fireworks. Both as dangerous as hell.
As others have said "Jack Frost" painting ice pictures on your windows.1 -
That's crazy. I mean surely they could've found someone who lived a bit closer.KBslittlesis said:Being put on a train at Crayford to go & babysit my nephew Sean.
I was 12yrs old.
They lived just outside Birmingham city centre.
Getting to Victoria coach station to get on the National Express was a piece of cake.
Trying to get across from Digbeth coach station to the bus that took me to my sisters was an awful experience.
And then if you didn’t have the correct change to put in the slot on the bus, the driver wouldn’t let you on.
Yep, they had sealed cabs in buses in 1982 for safety reasons 😳3 -
Help The Spastics collection boxes
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I Started Thomas Tallis in 1975 , there was a Computer room ............. never see inside it in 5 years , one them urban legends , i reckon they only had a pocket calculator .KBslittlesis said:Being forced to attend Mrs Das computer science class.
I left that school in 1987, there were still NO COMPUTERS.1 - Sponsored links:
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Sawdust on the floor of pubs !Plumstead_Micky said:sawdust on the floor of the butchers.1 -
Candy cigarettes2
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Getting the extra packet of chewing gum out of the machines on the fourth turn.
Exchanging the money off coupons out of magazines for cash at our local grocery store, without buying the products..... you legend Mr. Green
Pinball machines in the local cafe
Post Office savings stamps
Buying school clothes with Co-Op stamps that mum had to pay off weekly to the collector each Saturday morning
The loan club in the local pub, which paid out just before Christmas each year0 -
Carol Singing , knocking on peoples doors and threatening them with Encore if they dont cough up.
Building the biggest Bonfire the South East has ever seen and the Fire Brigade turning up because it always got out of hand .
KLACKERS , Guaranteed a trip to A&E With busted knuckles ( Top Kids Toy Of The 70`s)0 -
PC Lee if I recall? 😄BR7_addick said:
My old man did this his entire life and finally got caught and done about ten years ago, his response was “country’s gone”.ValleyGary said:Drink driving. My dad used to be the worst for it. 10 pints down the football club then drive me home. Then a big campaign come out and the whole attitude changed. Mental cos he was a fireman and always told us stories of a bloke getting decapitated and cutting people out of cars from doing it. Not one to be proud of but it was definitely worse 25-30 years ago.0 -
……and it seemed perfectly acceptable that kids would poke their tongues behind their bottom lips whilst saying “eergh Joey” in reference to Joey Deacon.DaveMehmet said:Help The Spastics collection boxes2 -
Being allowed a crafty fag in a Travelodge33
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Whilst waving arms - unbelievable.paulbaconsarnie said:
……and it seemed perfectly acceptable that kids would poke their tongues behind their bottom lips whilst saying “eergh Joey” in reference to Joey Deacon.DaveMehmet said:Help The Spastics collection boxes0 -
You know there was live commentary of that game on Capital GoldJiMMy 85 said:
I was on the phone listening to Charlton Club Call (0898 12 11 46) when Danny Mills scored the goal that kept us up for a week. That game cost me about 50 quid in pocket money.North Lower Neil said:Calling Clubcall for football news.4 -
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Was going to say I remember listening to that one on the radio!!Gary Poole said:
You know there was live commentary of that game on Capital GoldJiMMy 85 said:
I was on the phone listening to Charlton Club Call (0898 12 11 46) when Danny Mills scored the goal that kept us up for a week. That game cost me about 50 quid in pocket money.North Lower Neil said:Calling Clubcall for football news.0 -
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Sawdust on the floor of pubs !Plumstead_Micky said:sawdust on the floor of the butchers.
I can't say I remember this, but do recall a lot of pubs had two bars; "public" and "Saloon".7 -
Taking my Charlton rattle to a game and swinging it with no complaints1
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Why did Nivea Cream?.. cos Max Factorguinnessaddick said:
Avon calling lady, didn’t max factor?soapboxsam said:North Lower Neil said:The girls in your 6th form class having 25 year old boyfriends that picked them up in their Fiesta.
Weird one that, looking back.
Bill Wyman having a 13 year old girl friend when he was 47 and he was never charged despite Mandy Smith saying they had sex from when she was 14 !
They married when Mandy was 18 but divorced two years later as dirty Bill preferred younger women !
Gary Glitter has always felt this wasn't fair.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
Park keepers and 12 grass Tennis courts that were always busy at the weekend
Seeing local bill on a bike
Just the one bag lady or Tramp in the locality.
Gypsy Tart and custard.
Chocolate pudding and chocolate sauce.
Traveling to London before the IRA or any other terrorists spread their hatred.
Going to Butlins with Parents, Brothers and Aunt, Uncle and cousins.
The smell of the drains at the valley on occasions after entering the Sam Bartram entrance.
Individual fruit pies and getting the classified newspaper on a Saturday evening with the football scores.
The Coal man
Rag and bone man.
The insurance man.
Avon calling lady.
Delivering papers and taking 15 minutes longer on 'girlie mag' morning.
Drinking full cream milk at School.
Being beaten by a psycho teacher when 8.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
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Fond memories of Capital Gold, Jonathan Pearce and Tony Gale.North Lower Neil said:
Was going to say I remember listening to that one on the radio!!Gary Poole said:
You know there was live commentary of that game on Capital GoldJiMMy 85 said:
I was on the phone listening to Charlton Club Call (0898 12 11 46) when Danny Mills scored the goal that kept us up for a week. That game cost me about 50 quid in pocket money.North Lower Neil said:Calling Clubcall for football news.2 -
Properly made me laugh that one. Very good.Pelling1993 said:Being allowed a crafty fag in a Travelodge1 -
I thought you may of been there, a whole 18 months of getting the 314 to the pub cos he was too tight to get a cab 😆SuedeAdidas said:
PC Lee if I recall? 😄BR7_addick said:
My old man did this his entire life and finally got caught and done about ten years ago, his response was “country’s gone”.ValleyGary said:Drink driving. My dad used to be the worst for it. 10 pints down the football club then drive me home. Then a big campaign come out and the whole attitude changed. Mental cos he was a fireman and always told us stories of a bloke getting decapitated and cutting people out of cars from doing it. Not one to be proud of but it was definitely worse 25-30 years ago.1 -
Mail delivered 6 days a week, sometimes twice a day
Milk delivered everyday and it cost the same at the supermarket.
Rolf Harris and Jimmy Saville on primetime kids TV
Using the phrase 'in the past' to refer to days gone by.1 -
No DC Lee was in the Style CouncilSuedeAdidas said:
PC Lee if I recall? 😄BR7_addick said:
My old man did this his entire life and finally got caught and done about ten years ago, his response was “country’s gone”.ValleyGary said:Drink driving. My dad used to be the worst for it. 10 pints down the football club then drive me home. Then a big campaign come out and the whole attitude changed. Mental cos he was a fireman and always told us stories of a bloke getting decapitated and cutting people out of cars from doing it. Not one to be proud of but it was definitely worse 25-30 years ago.
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See the day…….Hal1x said:
No DC Lee was in the Style CouncilSuedeAdidas said:
PC Lee if I recall? 😄BR7_addick said:
My old man did this his entire life and finally got caught and done about ten years ago, his response was “country’s gone”.ValleyGary said:Drink driving. My dad used to be the worst for it. 10 pints down the football club then drive me home. Then a big campaign come out and the whole attitude changed. Mental cos he was a fireman and always told us stories of a bloke getting decapitated and cutting people out of cars from doing it. Not one to be proud of but it was definitely worse 25-30 years ago.
Married to Paul Weller wasn’t she?2
climbing these for PE 
