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| Iceboy53 This message was updated on 3/26/2006 10:45:35 AM by Iceboy53 | Rembering your Youth posted on: 3/26/2006 10:43:58 AM How much can you remember of your past.Can you remember your milkman,local shop keepers,garages,school trips,school teachers present and past,gala's,bike rides,buildings,how much things cost,anything from the 40s/50s/60s that affected your growing up in these times before the internet. |
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suzard
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 3/27/2006 9:39:44 AM Ice, I can remember my youth better than I can remember what happened yesterday!!! Food shopping was a very different experience to what it is today. No one had a fridge or freezer so perishables had to be bought in daily and a trip to the local shop meant Mum had to change her clothes-put on her "weekday" coat and dress - and on Saturday you got really dressed up to travel further afield-to Nottingham, Derby or Ilkeston.Monday was (rain or shine) washday-and dinner was cold meat and pickles, hot veg and warmed up fruit tart and custard. Throughout the week meat would be fetched daily -as it had to be kept in a "meat safe" (a wooden cupboard with a mesh front to it-which stood on the thrawl in the pantry)Friday night Wilsons butcher would call and bring the Sunday joint, Vegetables were usually from the allottment.Friday was the day for cleaning right through the house and doing the windows. Furniture was polished with Johnsons Wax Lavender polish-lots of elbow grease needed)and the "order" would be taken into the Coop-ours always used to start "Butter, sugar, tea, lard". Butter was out of a wooden tub, weighed at the time it was bought and wrapped in greaseproof paper, sugar was weighed out into a thick blue bag. Salt was bought in a block.If we bought bread it was from the corner shop and we waited for the baker to arrive -the bread was still warm when it came off his van. Saturday tea time Poundall's Hawkers van used to come round, laden with fruit and veg. The only food I can remember being in tins was salmon, crab, fruit-and a tin of ham "for emergencies".That's enough of what we ate -It's making me hungry! |
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suegill
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 3/28/2006 10:55:42 PM We moved away from Heanor when my sister and I were small but I will always remember coming "Home" for Christmas. Riding the bus from Manchester and getting off by the Cosy, and walking to Ray Street. There was always a rabbit stew waiting for us in the top oven of the black range in the living room. On the morning of Christmas Day a fire would be lit in the parlor so it was warm when the rest of the family came over in the afternoon. I think that was the only day the parlor was used (except for funerals). There was a horsehair sofa in there that had to be one of the most uncomfortable pieces of furniture I have ever known. Mum would play the piano and everyone would sing along. Good times. |
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Iceboy53
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 4/4/2006 4:30:27 PM riding the bus in those days were usually a cold event on the midland general,no back doors and a rush for the heater at the front.i always remember getting everything ready for christmas,making the garlands and putting the lights on the christmas tree.going into halls record shop to buy the lastest beatles single for about 3/6p,visiting woolworths for broken biscuits.the market place was always full of stalls in those days,light bulbs dangling dangerously from the frames..i suppose in one way Robert is right about the internet..was there life before,but i certainly think there was. |
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frano
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 4/4/2006 7:40:32 PM I remember those stalls in the mid thirties.The lights then were large gas lamps rather like the top of one of the old street lamps just hanging on a wire. I don't know where the gas came from. There were also glowing iron braziers scattered about and the smell of cooking treacle toffee. I used to like going into Rowells shop and stand next to the large coke stove in the middle of the shop. It was about twice as tall as I was but it was great on a cold day. On the crockery stall the chap would hold up a tray of pots and if nobody made an offer he would smash the lot on the floor. frano |
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frontcentre
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 4/8/2006 5:34:48 AM It was quite a day when we went upstairs in Rowells. That meant a new dress and the sales were always a good time. What was the ladies dress shop called just acros from Freddie Crooks. Think it is something to do with bathroom and/or kitchen fittings now. Anyway, the store had a sister shop further down the hill towards the doctors. My mom used to watch for their sales and go and line up to see what she could get. Couldnt afford to go there at regular prices. FC |
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paulr
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 4/8/2006 9:32:47 AM Hi FC, The dress shop was Birks,when we were married in 1960 my wife spent quite a lot of time looking in their other shop just above Marshall Street. PaulR |
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Iceboy53
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 4/8/2006 10:09:38 AM when i was a boy i remember when the main road lights hung across the road with like one light in the middle,obviously you had the normal street lighting where you hang on that bar LOL. anybody else remember that sort of lighting?. how much pocket money did anyone get in their youth..i think mine was about half a crown,which we would spend on a bus going to heanor and then a night at the empire for two films, yes two!!! film,then on to elliots chip shop for chips n gravy and still some left to save for your next record. |
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RMMee
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 4/8/2006 11:51:37 AM How old were you when you got half a crown, Ice? It seems like a huge amount of money! (I'd only just gone to secondary school when decimal currency came in!) |
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Iceboy53
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 4/8/2006 12:22:40 PM i think i was about 11 then Robert,looking back now it does seem a lot of money doesn't it.but i think, but i am not sure,that the price to get into the empire was a round 1/- then..could be wrong, but if anyone else has any information regarding the prices i would be very interested in hearing about them.but i did do a paper round as well in those days to make my money spread out so i could a afford a pop single. |
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Jennypeg
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 4/8/2006 2:41:54 PM Iceboy, The only admission charges I’ve found are: 1922 Cosy, Pit 6d, 9d, and 1/- (booked 1/3) Balcony 1/3 (booked 1/7) Sat, matinee 2d. 1934 Cosy, 5d, 7d, 9d, 1/- booked seats 11d and 1/3. The Empire adverts I have don’t have the prices on. Empire 3rd Feb 1956,Doris Day in Love me or Leave Me, and Norman Wisdom in Man of the Moment. Cosy, 3rd Feb 1956,Virginia Mayo in Pearl of the South Pacific, and Ray Milland in A Man Alone. Jenny |
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Iceboy53
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 4/10/2006 3:39:49 PM i think it was about a shilling or one n ninepence...too many brain cells have gone since then.funny thing is seeing half a picture and watching an whole one then watching the other half of the one we walked in on and still understanding it all. |
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suzard
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 4/10/2006 4:03:58 PM I remember 1/9's -they were the better seats ! Didn't you used to get in half price if you were under 15? |
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Iceboy53
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 4/10/2006 6:23:56 PM do you know i can't honestly remember su,i can't remember halfprice seating. |
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bobbrown
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 4/24/2006 12:25:46 AM Remember going to the Empire with my mate a nd two girls. 1/9d downstairs and 2/6d upstairs. My mate said "two 1/9s please" and the girl he was with said " I'm not going downstairs!", so my mate just said "One 1/9d please" and went in on his own! |
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Iceboy53
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Rembering your Youth
replied on: 4/27/2006 1:10:38 PM well bob brown..thats funny co's now ya mention the 2/6s it all comes back..i still kept thinkin of the 1/9s..but now the sub concious brings back the balcony days.well done bob. |
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