Things we used to do

[Dirk]

Have a return bus fare to school for 1d.
A shilling a week for school dinners.

 

[Mrs M]

Walk to school with All the other kids

Would have been nice but my friends school went in 15 mins after mine (for segregation purposes).
Hers was a Catholic school, mine wasn't.
This was just outside Glasgow with all the Rangers/Celtic nonsense.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Would have been nice but my friends school went in 15 mins after mine (for segregation purposes). a Catholic school, mine wasn't.
This was just outside Glasgow with all the Rangers/Celtic nonsense.

we had the comp and the catholic school next to each other but all that crap never seemed to be a problem here.
we did scrap now and then but religeon played no part

 

[Globalti]

Wake up in the morning and collect the milk bottles off the door step

Er....'scuse me....we still do this every morning! It's cheaper from the supermarket but we think it's important to support our milkman and make a stand against supermarket bully-boys.

 

[TissoT]

I still have milk delivered. I'm also 25.

Funny I awake at 5am to hear a electric milk float that's passing the house to make a delivery in the street
So I guess there are a hand full out there that are still picking there pint bottles of the door step each morning .

 

[Mrs M]

We don't have a milkman anymore .
Wish we did as the creamy milk at the top is the best thing ever on Frosties.

 

[matiz]

Proper binmen carrying heavy metal bins up alleyways often full of hot ashes without moaning the lids sticking up half a inch

 

[Trickedem]

Buying two ounces of sweets with my pocket money. Cola cubes were a favourite

 

[sight-pin]

Popping down to the old Canning Town market in the winter with my mum and having a glass of hot sarsaparilla while she did the shopping.
Canning Town was buzzing place in them days.......

 

[stephec]

Take lemonade bottles back to the shop to get the deposit back.

Shinning over the back yard wall of the shop to collect empty bottles that were then cashed in at a different shop.

 

[TissoT]

Shinning over the back yard wall of the shop to collect empty bottles that were then cashed in at a different shop.

Was just taking about the very same thing to the Mrs last night ... I was quilty of the same criminal act

 

[Katherine]

Write letters.
Get two postal deliveries a day.

 

[Asa Post]

Use lead weights for fishing

That made me curious..................what do they use now?

All sorts of other metals. I've seen mention of tin, nickel, steel, iron, bismuth and tungsten. I think tin is the most common.
It's only certain sizes of shot that can't be made of lead, but they are the sizes that are used the most.

 

[swansonj]

Proper binmen carrying heavy metal bins up alleyways often full of hot ashes without moaning the lids sticking up half a inch

Yeah, and they used to clear up after fly tippers too...

 

[ColinJ]

See a fat child. I can only remember one in a school with 800 pupils.

[Probably related to the above ...] See a child being brought to school in a car.

I speculated that in my lifetime computers would improve so much that it would be possible to fit one in a large suitcase, powerful enough to be a communications hub, do animations, and play and compose music on. They would only cost about £25,000. An old schoolfriend reminded me of that conversation recently and told me that it had sounded like a science fiction story at the time. In fact, it happened about 40 years sooner than expected, at about a fiftieth of the price, and taking up less than a hundredth of the space!

Play with asbestos outside the old Cape Asbestos Factory.

That one is chilling ... I read THIS just the other day.

There used to be a Cape Asbestos factory in Old Town, above Hebden Bridge. Hundreds of former workers have died agonising deaths as a result of the time they worked there, and they are still dying now, decades after the factory was shut down and the site cleared. Read about Acre Mill HERE.