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Annie · Sr. Member Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 193 Location: kent

Sorry Pam, cant remember which program that was, perhaps somebody else on here does, you are right it was Monica Rose, and yes David Jacobs.

We did have some rotten nicknames back then on occasion, one of my poor cousins was known as Flaps because of his jug ears, poor lad.

I guess Corrie would be a laugh if they repeated it. Or perhaps it would just be a trip down memory lane for us oldies.

One rather strange program my kids were into was The Water Margin, a set of Chinese legends. I think it was on B.B.C. 2. That was a must watch for them.
It would be nice if somebody else shared with us,
Annie

pam · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 12:05 pm Post subject:

What about these then - archie andrews - appleyards- billy bunter- crackerjack- blue peter- invanhoe -four feather falls- lenny the lion- noddy- pugwash- raiway children- watch with mother ( was that andy pandy and the wooden tops stuff?) whirly birds- worzel gummidge popeys(peep peep)

and lets not forget Mr pastry !! I LOVED TO WATCH HIM.

fOR THE YOUNGER MEMBERS 1970's ??
magic roundabout- newsround- paddington- partridge family- play school- banana splits-hong kong phooey jackanory and lets not forget -- GRANGE HILL

I used to watch that with my daughter.
Anyone remember watching these. Pam
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Speeds · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 1:25 pm Post subject:

Pam and Annie this needs to be a book. I admire your emergy and then despair at my apathy.

Here goes

Life from a 60's babe

Yes I watched Magic Roundabout, Chrystal Tips and Allistair, Jackanory, Mary, Mungo and Midge

I did watch Grange Hill and Joh Craven's news round. TV was that kids slot - not 24/7 like it is now.

Mum and my nan used to watch Corrie - it was a religion. We did watch Z cars and some of the other stuff on - the news was a complete bore - how different - today I do not feel complete if I cannot watch the news.

We used to play skipping in the playground, two ball up the walls (there are no walls at Thomas school suitable for playing two ball

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I went to a school which to me at 4 til 11 years looked old and now today is very old but guess it was built around 1910.

Things I remember about school:

1. I remember all my teachers - not always their names but their mannerisms.
2. On the subject of teachers I learnt quickly that what they said was not always what they meant. They portrayed the type of caring that happens today - the if you are late then don't do it again, if you need the loo in a lesson - ask to go. Fortunately I was never late for school (my dad was a stickler for time) but I saw what happened to those who were - ridiculed I suppose you would call it today. I saw people ask to use the loo (I seemed to then have a bladder with an immense capacity so rarely needed to use the school loos) only to be denied and then to be so desparate that eventually they would be begging to go holding themselves in front of everyone - so humiliating or even worse still at break they would be literally wetting their pants on the LONG walk to the toilets and then being told off for running. Thank god for me Thomas' school is not like that.
3. While corporal punishment was "sorta" non existent at my schools we did get flying chalk, rulers and blackboard rubbers launched at us and occassionaly hit us
4. Desks were desks at least at senior school and I much prefer those - seems better somehow but don't ask me why. There wer no locks on desks and lockers really did nto exist until I wsa at my second senior school. No one nicked out of others desks or if they did mine obviously had nothing to nick.

After school we all used to walk home in a gang - probably I do not feel such cameraderie these days with THomas but then we live outside of catchment but also the whole school has 200 pupils - there were about 1400 in the infants and juniors when I was at school.

Must admit though - I loved school.
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pam · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject:

Speeds thanks for sharing that trip down your personal memory lane. I can certainly identify with some of what you have said. Did you chewing gum stuck under your desks at school?

I got it on my skirt more than once!!
I find your memories very interesting though as much of it is very similar to my 50's recolections.
Have you anymore to share - ps that includes all the other 'babes' on the site.

Pam
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Speeds · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:21 pm Post subject:

Yes - chewing gum was there - as was the graffiti on the walls. I wsa graffiti bullied by some girls - not very nice.
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Annie · Sr. Member Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 193 Location: kent

Hey Speeds, you grew up as the same time as my two eldest girls, the youngest was an accident 14 years later so I am familiar with all the programs you watched.

Your school sounds very similar to the one I went to. They have improved in lots of ways since then, I actually remember one poor girl who wanted the loo but was scared to ask because the teacher was very strict and ended up wetting herself, we were all scared of that particular teacher but my opinion of him changed when I had an accident in games and he was really kind, made me think.

Yes Pam remember all those programs. Today I met somebody in the village who bought back another memory, home births, the norm when I was young. We were all born at home, I remember the night my brother was born, the village G.P. came with his huge black bag and the district nurse also. He was born in the night and we saw him next morning.

As sex was a complete mystery to us in those days for years my sister and I were convinced that babies came in the black bag, mind you some of our friends said theirs were found under a goosebery bush but general opinion was that doctors bought them. as we were of the beaten track the health visitor used to visit in her Queens Institute uniform with N.H.S orange juice and cod liver oil.

By the way doctors still charged when my sister and I were born, Dad said I cost one guinea, (born at my grandmothers as my parents house was bombed towards the end of the war) we had moved when my sister was born and her birth cost ten shillings, the same doctor delivered my brother free on the N.H.S. Real bit of social history there.
Annie

pam · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 11:07 am Post subject:

I can't remember having problems with the Loo - but I remember hanging on 'to it' on the really cold wet /snowy days as the toilets were right at the top of the playground. I to played 2 balls and all the other favourites of that time, in the school yard with my friends.
I remember the assembly mornings and singing my little heart out with the rest of the school. Having to put up our hands at the end of the mornings work to answer questions on maths or spelling - first hand up to get it right could go. Also putting our chairs on our desks and saying the evening prayer. I don't think they do that now - do they?
My senior school was a girls only - but when i got to my 3rd year we mearged with the all boys school next to us. We lost alot of female teachers when that happened.

What tele adverts do we remember?
You wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with errrr was it pepsodent or something?

Pam
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Annie · Sr. Member Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 193 Location: kent

Yes Pam, I remember the Pepsodent advert, I am racking my brain for some of the others, Oxo was one, fairly recently I saw a program where they showed some of them and they seem very unsophisticated by todays standards. Omo was another, whatever happened to that.

That brings up another thought, remember the test card, telly wasnt 24 hours in those days and originally there was only one channel B.B.C.

Assembly happened every morning and the evening prayer, plus we said grace before meals, '' For what we are about to receive may the Lord make us truly thankful'' was the one they used in all the schools I went to. I went to a mixed school untill I was 15 when I transferred to the local girls tech. Games were different, boys did football and cricket, girls did netball and hockey, we did have one innovative p.e. teacher who tried us out with cricket, all the pads were the same size so depending on how tall you were they either came over your knees or ended below the knee in my case, led to some very strange running actions.

School dinners, frogspawn (semolina). Always fish and chips on Friday, gypsy tart, school mash, foul stuff although usually it was boiled potatos and cabbage which legend had it was full of slugs, custard with most puddings, mostly traditional dishes, no pasta or curry in those days.

Annie

pam · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject:

I remember the 'test card' ann. Some more adverts were murry mints - the too good to hurry mints! - Rice crispies - snap crackle and pop! -, Don't forget the 'fruit gums' mum - Pg tips with the monkey - Cadum for madum - soap

Esso sign - means happy motoring! and lets not forget the -----
Interlude!!!
School dinners - never had them - the smell put me off when it was cooking!

I was fortunate to be able to walk home for dinner.
Speeds yes bullying went on back then as well - not pleasant if you were at the receiving end. Pam
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Annie · Sr. Member Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 193 Location: kent

Wrigleys spearmint was another and of course the now banned cigarette adds,'Your never alone with a Strand' was one. Lassie dogs bouncing with health from all the marrowbone jelly. I am sure others will come back.

There was some bullying in the school I went to but I think it happens every where, my middle daughter was a victim when she changed schools, I only learnt later, her friend told me after a couple of weeks of it she lost her temper and went for the girl in question who was apparently notorious, two other girls had to pull her of, no more problems ever after that.

Staff attitudes help as well, one young lad again notorious told my youngest she was 'as silly as her sister' (meaning Julie.) She really walloped him, when a teacher asked what had happened as she wasn't usually like that and she explained, that particular teacher told her if he ever said that again she could hit him twice as hard next time. Total shock from the lad and no more problems.

We did have the cane at my school and detentions but canings were quite rare, boys by the headmaster and girls across the hand by the female deputy head. Whether you approve or not we were all old enough to realise that it was our own actions that led to it and it was an accepted punishment at that time and not applied indiscriminately. Flung chalk and board rubbers happened and one teacher would slam the board ruler down hard on the desk. A hundred lines was another, usually I must not talk in class or similar. One R.E. teacher used to make us learn a chunk of the Bible of by heart,

Annie