The Nostalgia Thread

[colly]

Tar. On blistering hot days tar melting on the road would trickle oh so slowly, down into the gutters in small glistening black rivers. Just perfect for small boys with lolly sticks to mess around with.

Who needs playstations?

 

[colly]

Grass hoppers and crickets, where have they all gone?
Green, brown, white, even scarlet ones would be in abundance in any patch of long grass or meadow.

 

[vernon]

Grass hoppers and crickets, where have they all gone?
Green, brown, white, even scarlet ones would be in abundance in any patch of long grass or meadow.

They are still out there.

 

[colly]

They are still out there.

Maybe they are but not so as you would notice.

 

[Moodyman]

Avoiding the town centre on a Saturday afternoon in case the local football team lost and the fans (hooligans) went on a rampage.

 

[Rezillo]

60s picnics by the side of the road. For reasons that are unfathomable to me now, my parents, while on our family holiday trips, thought it was a great idea to park on the verge by a busy holiday route main road and have a full scale picnic. This was complete with primus stove providing a range of cooked meals.

Not only that but everyone did it. There was keen competition to grab a pitiful few feet of grass on which to eat while breathing in the exhaust fumes of heavy slow moving traffic going up, say, the A12 at Kessingland where the road was lined with cars and people were going from spot to spot trying to scrounge some key ingredient they had forgotten.

It was great fun at the time but still seems bizarre in retrospect.

 

[Paulus]

Constructing things out of Meccano on wet winter days.

 

[Night Train]

Peace and quiet in cities on a Sunday.
Children playing, without needing batteries, or a charger, or a TV, or expensive shop bought toys.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Has anyone mentioned Hornby Railways, and the 6ft x 4ft layout on boards you used to set up on the living room floor?

 

[EltonFrog]

Has anyone mentioned Hornby Railways, and the 6ft x 4ft layout on boards you used to set up on the living room floor?

Not sure, but I have one here, propped up agains the wall, waiting for me to put it up permanently on the wall. I'll probably get it done in the next thirty years or so.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Thunderbirds!!

 

[vernon]

Maybe they are but not so as you would notice.

Have you had your hearing tested recently?

Your auditory range might have been modified by advancing years. They are plentiful along the Meanwood Valley trail.

 

[vernon]

Has anyone mentioned Hornby Railways, and the 6ft x 4ft layout on boards you used to set up on the living room floor?

Ha!

What about Hornby tin plate O gauge stuff and the perpetual hunt for the clockwork locomotives' keys.

 

[vernon]

Not sure, but I have one here, propped up agains the wall, waiting for me to put it up permanently on the wall. I'll probably get it done in the next thirty years or so.

Don't count on it.....

Don't ask me how I know.

 

[vernon]

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