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Page No 2550
26th
January 2019
1st
Picture. Conker Tournament
3rd Picture. Shopping with Mother
4th
Picture. Prefab
More Reflections on Childhood
I remember the cheese
of my Childhood And the bread that we cut with a knife When the children helped with the Housework and the men went to work and not the wife
The cheese never
needed a fridge
and the bread was so crusty and hot the children were seldom unhappy and the wife was content with her lot
I remember the
milk from the bottle with yummy cream on the top our
dinner came hot from the oven
and not from a freezer or shop
The kids were a
lot more contented
they
didn’t need money for kicks just a game with their friends in the road and sometimes the Saturday
flicks
I remember the
shop on the corner,
Where biscuits for pennies were sold Do you think I’m a bit too nostalgic? Or is it….I’m just getting old?
Bathing was done
in a wash tub, With
plenty of rich foamy suds But the ironing seemed never ending
As Mum pressed everyone’s
‘duds’.
I remember the
‘loo’ was the lav, And the boogy man came in the night, It wasn’t the least bit funny
Going ‘out back’ with no light.
The interesting
items we perused,
From the newspapers cut into squares, And hung on a peg in the loo,
It took little to keep us amused.
I remember the
slap on my backside and
the taste of soap if I swore Anorexia
and diets were unheard of and we hadn’t much choice what
we wore
Do you think that
bruised our ego? Or our initiative was destroyed we ate what was put
on the table and I think life was better enjoyed
Looking
back these were the days when parents named their children after a friend or
relative and didn’t invent unusual names for their kids like Kiora, Blade,
Ridge and Vanilla.
Only girls
had pierced ears and you could buy Easter eggs and hot cross buns only at
Easter time and fireworks in October and November. We were given air guns and catapults
for our tenth birthdays, we rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and
knocked on the door or just yelled for them. Not everyone made the school football,
cricket or netball teams. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with
disappointment. Our teachers hit us with canes, gym shoes and threw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren’t concentrating.
Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road if we were unsure. Imagine that today!
The
important thing was that we had the freedom, the freedom to fail or succeed and
we learnt responsibility and in doing so we learned how to deal with it
all.
Having
read this, you might well want to share it with others who grew up in an era
before the lawyers and the government started to regulate and order our lives
and while you are at it, forward it to your children, so they will know how
brave their parents were.
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On this day 26th January 1960-1965.
On 26/01/1960 the
number one single was Why - Anthony
Newley and the number one album was South Pacific
Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was not listed and the box office smash was North by Northwest. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Burnley were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1
champions.
On 26/01/1961 the number one single was Are you Lonesome
Tonight? - Elvis Presley and the number one album was Tottenham Hotspur. The top rated TV
show was The Russ Conway Show (ATV)
and the box office smash was One Hundred and
One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £not very interesting and 13.25 were on the way to becoming the
Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Bootsie & Snudge (Granada).
On 26/01/1962 the
number one single was The Young Ones -
Cliff Richard & the Shadows and the number one album was Blue Hawaii - Elvis Presley. The top
rated TV show was Coronation
Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of
Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1
champions.
On 26/01/1963 the
number one single was Dance On - The
Shadows and the number one album was Out of the Shadows - Shadows. The top rated TV show was Coronation
Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's
money was worth £12.64 and Everton were on the way to becoming
the Season's Division 1 champions.
On 26/01/1964 the
number one single was Glad All Over -
Dave Clark Five and the number one album was With the Beatles - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Labour Party Political Broadcast (all
channels) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1
champions.
On 26/01/1965 the
number one single was Yeh Yeh -
Georgie Fame and the number one album was Beatles For Sale - The Beatles. The
top rated TV show was Coronation
Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's
money was worth £11.69 and Manchester United were on the way to
becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.
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