Remember when - for some of we older grapes

[veggiechicken]

Its perfect for that Roger.
If I showed it to my 94 year old Mum, she'd ramble on for hours about what life used to be like. Just another thing I've inherited from her

[dogsbody]

I remember "meeting" the 4pm train by hanging over the bridge to let the steam wash over me - can still smell it today.

[Potstubsdustbins]

As 12 year old making the 20 plus mile journey to Grantham station on a Raleigh sit up and beg just to watch a A4 class Pacific thunder through. All over in less than a minute and then the 20 plus mile journey back.

Going with Dad on a Sunday morning, pillion passenger on his BSA 500 Gold Star, two leather miners belts looped together to strap me to him. Out into the countryside foraging for anything from bluies to blackberries to bluebells for Mum. Stop at the Robin Hood pub on the way home, pint for Dad, Portella & a bag of Smiths for me.

[Alicante]

Lol as a kid, I used to do a milk round, delivering those thick glass, wide necked bottles - having to carry three bottles in each hand.

The farm which delivers milk to my Mum still uses those bottles. Although these days we can choose which type of milk we want and dont have to have raw unpasteurised milk.

[rary]

Life before TV and fridges

Are you saying that there was a time when there were no TVs!!, or is that just a Once apon a time story?

[Bill HH]

Yes I can remember we kept our meat in a meat safe to keep the flies off it and the milk on a settle ( thick tiled or marble shelf to keep it cool). And before TV was an amazing thing, people actualy spoke to each other. lots of card games and trips out to pubs or picnics, events in our village hall.Or just being sat round the radio in the evening by a large coal fire in the winter. Is life truly any better now?. So many things today to save TIME! but what do we want to do with that saved time? Just sit and watch endless soaps?
We got our first TV in 1952 to watch the coronation, Our entire village came to see it, seats arranged like a picture house, as a four year old I was very excited passing round sandwiches etc. But with that TV came a huge loss, family being together in the evening playing and talking. We only ever recaptured that when the electricity failed occasionaly. Interestingly when i was at school aged about 8 the top three children in our class in end of term exam results did not have TV's in their homes.

[veggiechicken]

Where I lived, the Coronation was in 1953
Only one family in the street had a TV and we all crowded into their tiny room to watch it. I don't remember much of the ceremony but we had a street party afterwards, with trestle tables down the middle of the street. Don't worry, it was a cul-de-sac and very few families had cars anyway. There were games, and party food and pop and a film show (Disney cartoon). All the kids were given a Coronation cup - which I still have.
I saw some photos of the street parties in a local history book - we all looked so poor, but since we were all the same it never crossed out minds that we didn't have much.

[Bigmallly]

I often wonder how the young generation of today would cope without computers & mobiles............perish the thought.

[roitelet]

Yes, NO TVs!!!!!!! I think I saw my first one in 1952. It belonged to a neighbor and we watched the Coronation on it like Bill HH. Tiny tiny screen with a big magnifier on the front which if you weren't sitting directly in front distorted the picture.

Another was the chimney sweep arriving on his bike with the brushes and rods strapped to the cross bar and he was black as your hat with soot and the entire room had to be cleared and covered. Slight change from today when they come with a posh vacuum cleaner and no mess

[roitelet]

I've still got my Coronation spoon which I found the other day.

[Mikey]

I often wonder how the young generation of today would cope without computers & mobiles............perish the thought.

I'm sure they would manage just fine BM, not all younguns are glued to these devices. My daughter spent today making a castle out of cardboard which she got plans for from wiki-how then tweaked it to suit her materials. She often uses youtube for instructions on how to create bracelets with loom bands, or downloads instructions for knitting patterns.

Computers are their new encyclopedia, library and manuals. They can be used constructively and with purpose, you just have to broaden their minds with traditional books, games and outdoor activities and then they will use a computer far more creatively.

Look at us lot, where would we be without the computer?

[JanieB]

Where I lived, the Coronation was in 1953
Only one family in the street had a TV and we all crowded into their tiny room to watch it. I don't remember much of the ceremony but we had a street party afterwards, with trestle tables down the middle of the street. Don't worry, it was a cul-de-sac and very few families had cars anyway. There were games, and party food and pop and a film show (Disney cartoon). All the kids were given a Coronation cup - which I still have.
I saw some photos of the street parties in a local history book - we all looked so poor, but since we were all the same it never crossed out minds that we didn't have much.

My dad ordered a TV for the Coronation (1953), but it wasn't delivered in time so we watched it on my best friend's parents along with a lot of other neighbours.

My mum kept mine and my siblings coronation cups and they disappeared along with some other stuff when she developed dementia.

I remember hiding behind the sofa in terror when Quatermass was on. Having seen reruns as an adult it all seems so silly now.

[veggiechicken]

I remember being scared by Quatermass too - Quatermass and The Pit with all those "bodies" in a tank We'd watch it at my Aunt's on a Sunday evening.
When it finished, we'd pile into my Dad's Austin 7 (RX 7268) and head home, sometimes via the Fish and Chip shop. He'd wrap the chips in an old blanket and my brother and I would cwtch this warm bundle all the way home

[KevinM67]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Reading this thread reminded me of the above.

[rary]

Why did we let things change so much, when children's hour was 5 till 6 then the TV shut down for 1hr. or was it till half seven? and on the wireless you had Butlins Beavers, Dan Dare and Tommy Walls with PC49
Oh so many memories.... and what was I going to do before I looked at this????