School days.

[Tony Taylor]

I remember the houses in my school days. . He was also the Scottish Football Team manager when Scotland beat England the world champs at Wembley in 1967.

Regards from
Fouro.

Fouro, I can remember pestering my mother for tackety boots when I was in junior school, lots of kids had them, but she wouldn't buy me them. Some of the girls wore those plastic sandals winter and summer, often without socks; they had a tough upbringing.

[Red Lead Ted]

Mine was Secondary Modern, Only one in Authority i can remember was a nun Sister Mary, I got caught and clipped around the head for being in the girls half by her more times than i attended the place. I celebrated my 16th Birthday in Gravesend enough said Terry. Oh talking of footwear Tony i wore my wellies outside my strides in winter and inside during summer. Best days of your life

[j.sabourn]

#11 I had them Tony wore them in the winter and all the year round for delivering morning papers , so people could hear me coming up their front paths to deliver their paper. At O600 or thereabouts .
No creeping around for me .JS

[Red Lead Ted]

John, My missis has just laughed her bloody head off when i mentioned the plastic sandals apparently they were called Jellybeans, All or most of the girls at school with her had then also. Terry

[Red Lead Ted]

Does anyone else remember the xmas hamper your Mam paid for all year round arriving at xmas and its contents..............................
A tin of ham,
A tin of whole chicken,
A tin of tongue,
A tin of salmon,
A tin of spam,
A tin of carnation evaporated milk,
A tin of fruit salad,
A tin of rice pudding,
A tin of cream, Cant remember the brand name.
4 tins of Mackies,
4 tins of light ale,
Nuts, Oranges, Dates, Any more offers on them boat rations, My old man used to get more of the dock, Always something falling of wagons. Terry.

[Dennis McGuckin]

Sorry of topic,
Did you get my PM Terry?
Back on topic, more ore less.
How many remember wearing short pants winter and summer?
I didn't have a pair of long pants until I went to high school.
And I lived in Durham.
Most times cold and wet.

[Red Lead Ted]

Yea Den, I got your p.m. mate lets both keep pushing this rock up that hill for many years to come,
Regarding long trousers i was a victim but to make things worse it was a grey suite i got given of my uncle which was pale grey i used to go to school looking like a bloody picture negative with my wellies depending on the weather either inside the strides or outside they where the good old days, Regards Den Terry.

[Denis O'Shea]

Did you ever get your welly boots made into clogs, we had a cobbler who made the bottoms him self then cut the bottoms off your welly boot and studded them to his wooden soles to make them water proof then you got the shoe irons which were great making a slide if the ground was icy or snow but with the snow which stuck to them made you taller kicked off against a wall was great fun taking a good run at the slide to see who could get the furthest. Den

[Red Lead Ted]

Den, That post is worth its weight in gold mate laughed my bloody head off, Sadly i was never out of my wellies long enough to get them into a cobbler, It was only when i got my letter to travel to Gravesend and my train ticket that i got a pair of shoes and they were hand me downs possibly of one of my 52 cousins, Big family Den, My old man had 8 brothers and 3 sisters, My lovely old Mam had 5 sisters and 5 brothers Two of her brothers and two of her sisters were adopted by my old Gran and brought up as her own. One of her brothers married a Windrush girl she had 11 kids, There all Grand parents now I can honestly say we have never had a wedding a funeral or any other occasion were we all attended. Very best regards Den Terry.

[Denis O'Shea]

Terry you only got them clogged when you were coming out of the bottom of them, the cobbler worked out of his garden shed (cappy missed a opportunity there) his son ended up playing for Bolton Derek Henning. Den