Things we used to do

[vernon]

Whats a Donkey Stone?

 

[mybike]

This came up in a convo the other day at work. Putting a parafin heater under the car sump in the winter...I never did but my dad did.

I remember what looked like bonfires lit under the sumps of lorries seen from the South Bermondsey railway viaduct.

 

[subaqua]

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Vernon eats pies .

be more like Vernon

 

[Illaveago]

That's a great example of why there are now far more restrictions and rules around discipline at school. Some teachers given a free rein were sadistic bullies. To be fair most of my own teachers were pretty good, with some truly outstanding ones, and even though I'm now well into middle age here'd been enough of a clampdown on bullying teachers that the example you give were even then in the past. Sure, some lads were caned, but for proper crimes like fighting or stealing and what not

The gym teacher at my high school used to hit some of the boys for six with a cricket bat! I got the slipper for an accidental forward pass in a game of rugby in the gym off of another teacher.

 

[Poacher]

Buy Rag mags. Rag Week used to be a huge event with a procession of floats, lot's of events, Rag mag selling etc., etc., when I was an undergraduate in Leeds. There's very little evidence of the event now unless the fancy dress procession from pub to pub in Headingly that I sometimes encounter are part of it.

They used to have some good jokes in those mags.

...and some of them are still being recycled!

 

[MiK1138]

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Vernon can kiss my skinny white....wife

 

[vernon]

This came up in a convo the other day at work. Putting a parafin heater under the car sump in the winter...I never did but my dad did.

Ah but we don't get harsh/cold winters like we used to. I there's only been two Fen ice races in the past twenty or thirty years.

 

[Illaveago]

The winter of 1981/82 was bad if I remember. It was the only time I have seen thunder and lightning with snow before, we then we had really low temperatures. The thermometer at the garage where I worked broke at - 12 C.

 

[postman]

I played football in the street with my mates.I must have spent hundreds on those plastic footballs,that punctured with garden thorns.

 

[Illaveago]

I can remember I used to watch a programme on BBC 2 called the Great Egg Race with Professor Heinz Wolf. As the name implies teams had to construct machines to transport an egg safely and as quickly as possible using the limited bits supplied.

 

[Profpointy]

I can remember I used to watch a programme on BBC 2 called the Great Egg Race with Professor Heinz Wolf. As the name implies teams had to construct machines to transport an egg safely and as quickly as possible using the limited bits supplied.

anyone remember Prof Wolf's guest appearance on Sorry I Haven't a Clue? The had to ask "what's the time Prof Wolf?" and Heinz would duly answer some cod-Einstein relativity answer, until eventually answering "dinner time"

I guess you had to be there

 

[Illaveago]

You couldn't help feeling sorry for David Kossof and later Sid James as they cowered in fear when hearing Peggy Mount bellowing out at them as she went on the war path. She was a good actress!

 

[colly]

Stand on a wrought iron bridge directly over the railway line as a thundering steam locomotive passed a yard or two under your feet.

The trembling of the bridge, the whoosh of hot steam and smell of coal smoke and hot steam then the clickety clack of the carriages with the sound of the engine dying away behind you ......................ahhh !

 

[colly]

Another train related item...............single compartment carriages..............what we, various girlfriends and I, did between stations.....................ahhh !

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Another train related item...............single compartment carriages..............what we, various girlfriends and I, did between stations.....................ahhh !

You do know they got rid of them after a young lady was murdered in one...... Is there something you aren't telling us??