Things we used to do

[slowmotion]

Were the chocolate cigarettes wrapped in edible paper to resemble real ones?

I'm pretty sure that they were in a rice paper outer. The chocolate was dreadful.

I used to award myself the CDM.

 

[Dirk]

Yep, even got fake tobacco in a sort of suggary brown strands in a pouch!

Shaun

Spanish Gold.

 

[midlife]

Spanish Gold.

That's it! Old Jamaica was chocolate with rum

Shaun

 

[Noru]

Bending the reflectors down so it rubbed the tyre and sounded like an engine.

 

[Illaveago]

E="Dirk Thrust, post: 3996675, member: 40075"]Spanish Gold.[/QUOTE]
Wasn't that coated shredded coconut?

 

[Illaveago]

On the way to junior school we used to Pop into an old bakehouse where we could buy sweets , sometimes they would have freshly baked buns for a penny in old money.

 

[stephec]

Were the chocolate cigarettes wrapped in edible paper to resemble real ones?

That's the ones.

 

[Illaveago]

Getting your dad to make you a minnow bottle. It had to be a wine bottle with a conical end which he would then knock the centre out . put some bread inside and place it in the shallow part of a river or brook and watch them swim in.

 

[Illaveago]

Watching Captain Pugwash in black and white on the BBC.

 

[Hyslop]

Yep, even got fake tobacco in a sort of suggary brown strands in a pouch!

Shaun

Was that"Spanish Gold" by any chance?-wrapped in a waxy packet,with,I think,a galleon on the front?

 

[Illaveago]

I don't know if anyone has said this before and it may seem obvious but cycling to work played a major role in what we used to do.
A lot of us probably cycled to school or used them to do their paper rounds. It was an easy way to get to see your friends who lived across the other side of town.
In my home town in the late sixties traffic would come to a standstill at dinner time as the workforce went to dinner on their bikes. I can even remember seeing railway workmen cycling along the side of the track to where they were working.

 

[raleighnut]

I don't know if anyone has said this before and it may seem obvious but cycling to work played a major role in what we used to do.
A lot of us probably cycled to school or used them to do their paper rounds. It was an easy way to get to see your friends who lived across the other side of town.
In my home town in the late sixties traffic would come to a standstill at dinner time as the workforce went to dinner on their bikes. I can even remember seeing railway workmen cycling along the side of the track to where they were working.

My dad worked at English Electric/Gec in Whetstone, the bike sheds took up as much room as the car park in the 60s.

 

[Illaveago]

Holograms! Whatever happened to them? They were all the rage in the late 70's.
I can remember going to The Light Fantastic Exhibition at the Royal Acamemy in London. As the name implies it was fantastic.
The ones In particularly liked were the ones which projected out into the room and could be viewed from different angles.

 

[Oldbloke]

On the way to junior school we used to Pop into an old bakehouse where we could buy sweets , sometimes they would have freshly baked buns for a penny in old money.

We did this on the way home, the baker made roll sized loaves with his name (Felix) on their side.

 

[Dirk]

Cramming into the booths at the local record shop to listen to the latest 45s.