Once Upon A Time......

[gray_marian]

In a land far far away



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[gray_marian]

Let me think Richard...Annette v Thunderbird probably a bit of both

As to my children's upbringing, completely different to mine in that I was reared in a city albeit with lots of parks!
My family were well travelled country bumkins, grandchildren the same, so mine must have enjoyed it. Their only complaint was that they had to be driven to schools as theirs were never nearby.

[Captain Kong]

Good one Marian, I think I was born long before all that. It all happened when I was seafaring so I guess I missed most of it.
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Hi. good to see your still with us Richard, I was wondering if you were OK in Paris. I mentioned it on a previous post.
Cheers
Brian

[John F Collier]

#2 I can identify with some of that but in much different surroundings, as kids we played freely on the streets and bombsites in London. Apart from a family trip to the seaside (Southend) we were very happy with the local Lido (in the summer) also the indoor swimming pool, we had our bikes and soapbox trolley's, the Saturday morning pictures and all manner of street games, we made our own entertainment with very basic stuff. the word "Paedophile" was unheard of to us, the only instance I ever heard of was in 1947-8 when a local man "Ben Wilson" who ran a boys football team,was put away for molesting young boys at his club, after that every where you went you saw "Dirty Ben was here" chalked on the pavement
it's funny that I've never forgotten that, even though I never even saw him. I'm so glad I've known better times. cheers JC

[Ivan Cloherty]

Our parents never had a problem, only came home for dinner at 7pm to shower-bath, put on clean clothes eat it, walk the dog if it had not been with you all day. Then to bed at 8pm to listen to the nightly radio serial. Cool (:

'Dain't know the're born, I say dain't know the're born' !Dinner at 7pm! !Shower! bed at 8 pm! more like Tin tub in front of the fire twice a week if you were lucky, last in if you were the youngest, sitting in your sadistic sister's pizz !providing of course you'd traped thru snow to fill galvanised bucket from pump in yard to boil on fire. Dinner, nay lad Tea more than like! bed at 7pm after listening to Dan Dare on the radio, that is if you'd walked two miles to have the accumulator charged and hadn't spilt the acid out of it on the way back, climbing over fences to take a short cut, dain't know the're born!

[Keith Tindell]

Thats brought back some memories Ian, Dan Dare, Dick Barton etc. Jump out the bath tub, and if we were lucky , get to dry in front of the coal fire,. Tea used to consist of a chunk of bread and jam, and do you remember jam rolly polly pud, anything to fill us up KT

[Dennis McGuckin]

Not to mention walking to school through two feet of snow, uphill both ways!

[Captain Kong]

I remember it well Ivan, and all the time Adolf Hitler was trying to bomb me, I still don't know what he had against me, must have upset him.
We could not even afford a tin bath, that was pawned, we went to the bath house once a month whether we needed one or not. the bunk in the air raid shelter was covered in a WW1 Army Great Coat to keep us warm. three of us fighting to see who slept in the deep end or the shallow end.. Never went to school as it disappeared in a cloud of dust when the Luftwaffe bombed it, so by the age of 11 I could still not read or write.
We had no dog, it would have been eaten.
They don't know they are born today, I say, they don't know they are born.

[Keith Tindell]

Slept with two brothers in the same bed, both were bed wetters, i had learned to swim by the time i was 3 years , kt

[John F Collier]

#6 When you take all of that in, you realise that we all had different things to contend with for instance we never had much but we did have our indoor cold water supply. The toilet was outside next to the coal bunker, everybody had a p*ss pot known as a po under their bed and a stone hot water bottle, when they got cold and got pushed out of bed they made a loud bang as they hit the floor. We always had a Joanna (piano) in the front room and mum could really play all the lively stuff, she used to get up and play in the pub sometimes when she worked behind the bar. She told me that a bloke was making a nuisance of himself, and someone told dad and it all kicked off. Some of them tried to break it up but the landlord locked the doors and said let them get on with it, could be that he didn't like the other bloke much as dad used to box in the army and he gave him a good hiding. I used to love listening to them all singing in the pubs when they'd had a few, those blokes had all been through the war and were entitled to let themselves go. l find todays news is so bloody depressing that I lose myself in my memories as an escape. cheers JC