How times have changed

[j.sabourn]

#8... Jim I was married in 1962, and my wife every month had to travel to Newcastle, 56 pilgrim street, and stand in a big queue to receive her allotment money. People had to make actual movements in those days, we never had a car until well into our married lives so was all public transport. In fact the first car we bought was a second hand Vauxhall viva from a garage for 450 pounds, which I had in travellers cheques (American Express) as had been on a foreign flag vessel. Most of us come from similar backgrounds, so the present generations who know no different than what they have now, know no better. Still the old days were better and seemed more to life than the present day. Cheers JS

[j.sabourn]

#10 That's the way it should be Des, as long as the press keeps its nose out and doesn"t start stirring about peoples rights and all the baloney that goes with it. Is the one sensible thing that politicians have done in the past few years that makes sense, and thanks to our border protection services who can get things right if given the proper authority. Any future government who tries to change this attitude I would like to think will get short shift. Cheers JS

[Jim Brady]

John S #11 our kids school was over a mile away my wife did that trip 8 times there and back every day hail rain or snow with a big silver cross pram,one running alongside and two in the pram,not to decry the young girls of today but I don't think they would have the stamina for it.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[j.sabourn]

#13... Silver Cross pram is still a dirty word to me after 50 years. I was mate with Dalglieshs at the time and the ship chandler said he could of got me a brand new Silver Cross pram for cost which were all the rage then and considered the Rolls Royce of prams. On telling the wife she didn't want and wanted a pram much lower in height than the S.C. so had to fork out the full cost of a new pram different model. Then to crown it all she didn't keep when the first kid outgrew prams, and 6 months later had to invest in another brand new pram. Perhaps she was trying to tell me something. Like who was going to run out of money first, me having to buy new prams. The only pushchair I was forced into buying was when she and the first one were down in Middlesborough and I got tired of carrying the girl all the time so had to invest in a push chair. Could of been a rich man today if it wasn't for prams and push chairs. Cheers JS

[Jim Brady]

We got the pram on the drip John 5 bob a week or whatever.It lasted the three kids out plus I think it was sold for a few bob when the kids out grew it.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[j.sabourn]

The wheels would have made a good bogey when we were kids. Would have made a good Christmas present. The wheels that is. JS

[John Pruden]

how many of us have tried to fold one of these new fangled things up???? jp

[Ivan Cloherty]

how many of us have tried to fold one of these new fangled things up???? jp

And they're so bloody big, why? the parents have got everything but the kitchen sink in them everytime they go out, the one we had for our twins yonks ago folded up to nothing by releasing one catch and carried hooked over your arm whilst still having both kids in your arms, nowadays it seems that 'bigga is best' syndrome has taken over and those bloody jogging parents with pushchairs with bicycle wheels are a bloody menace and expect everyone to get out of the way because they are healthy responsible health nuts saving the planet, mind you the kids are fat!

[j.sabourn]

I was never an advocate for health exercises Ivan. How come I'm still alive and so many of these health freaks pass away long before their time. When I say this to the wife she just says your pickled though. We may have the reputation of being big consumers of alcohol, but this is a mis interpretation of sailors being drunk. We were brought up on dry ships and what they probably saw was akin to feeding time at the zoo, only we had been dry in some cases for months on end. Anyhow most of us don't drink much these days as spill most of it. Cappy had the right idea when he made his cider in the bottom of the apple barrel, this excuse he made about falling in, was to fool people. Cheers JS

[Captain Kong]

When I was Five years old after our house was included in Adolf's slum clearance plan, we were rehoused and I then had to walk three miles to school and three miles back alone, in the black out, being bombed and machine gunned by the Luftwaffe all the way there and back.
They don't know they are born today, Kids are taken to school in mummy`s car now and picked up.
After a couple of years I got wise to myself and played hooky all day, so I was never educated.
Brian