Liverpool & Leeds Canal.

[Captain Kong]

I remember before the war in the 30s we never wore shoes for playing out. they were kept for Sunday school.
I have seen a few photos of Scotland road in those halcyon days, kids had no shoes. Did us no harm.
Cheers
Brian

[cappy]

never had no shoes...but many a pair with paper or cardboard in the bottom.....always got a new pair of plimsolls at easter........regards cappy

[Lou Barron]

I can also remember those days the pawn shops did a roaring trade and it also reminds me of that song
BAREFOOT DAYS

[John Arton]

I can also remember those days the pawn shops did a roaring trade and it also reminds me of that song
BAREFOOT DAYS

Barefoot make a very nice range of wines sold here in the UK.
Not a lot of people know that.
rgds
JA

[Jim Brady]

Notice there aren't any obese kids it the picture in actual fact they all look as though they could do with a good pan of scouse down them.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[cappy]

Notice there aren't any obese kids it the picture in actual fact they all look as though they could do with a good pan of scouse down them.
Regards.
Jim.B.

####or pan hagglety jim regards cappy....with dumplings

[Ivan Cloherty]

Notice there aren't any obese kids it the picture in actual fact they all look as though they could do with a good pan of scouse down them.
Regards.
Jim.B.

Only fat kids you saw in our times were in a circus or pages of a comic, we were too fit and that was normal, we were always being chased by someone or other for reasons I forget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cappy]

Only fat kids you saw in our times were in a circus or pages of a comic, we were too fit and that was normal, we were always being chased by someone or other for reasons I forget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#####old boily our local copper chased us but if you got over a fence he would stop cos he wouldnt put his bike over a fence......he would shout i willsee your dad but never did .......my big memory of hum was after we found a bomb......we were hitting it with a stick to seee if it went off ......a man passing by sent for boily he sent for a bucket of water cos he said it was an incendiary ........he was walking very gingerly with the bucket hung on his handle bars......and us behind him shouting ......bang ...bang bang.....and him all of a tizzy shouting bugger off you little sods ....but frightened to put the bucket down.......jeez i still laugh even now

[Jim Brady]

Cappy I imagine hagglety is a delicacy in Shields whats in it besides dumplings ?

Ivan when I was a kid I didn't consider myself to be fat maybe just a bit more plumper than the rest of the class,maybe this was caused by a year of inactivity due to me being in hostpital for three months suffering from rheumatic fever and not able todo much exercise for twelve months.What you have just brought to mind is the teacher always refered to me as fat boy,be quite fat boy come out here fat boy etc.It was water off a ducks back to me I just accepted it and thought nothing of it ,imagine what would happen to that teacher today,and I would probably need counselling the worlds gone mad.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[cappy]

pan hagglety .....same as scouse really just every thing in........my granny had it permenantly on the range top.... dumplings were extra my gran had a cafe in shields market.....until the early war when it was bombed also that night barbours the oilskin people in those days now a national icon was bombed flat also the whole market flattened.....but missed brighams dock only 3 or 4 hundred yards away.......i believe there are still bodies from a shelter under the market....there were some real seafaring characters ....granny told me about ...ie half nose paddy aitkenwho it would take 3 coppers to put him down......and a mr mqueen who left a banjo till he came back cos he couldnt pay ....but was lost at sea .....some stories wished i had listened more.......regards cappy