Strange memories from childhood

[Draytonian III]

Talking of graffiti, when I worra lad growing up in Balby we had "FREE FRANK COOK" daubed every where.

Going back even further (early 80s) in Retford I remember being able to buy my Dad cigars from the newsagents, couldn't do that now.



The newsagent would have been in Cannon Square,next to the Olde Sun ,it was called Bowskills you could buy cigarettes in singles,fireworks,and out of date sweets and chocs whilst wearing a school uniform

White dog shit.

Community spirit, where has that gone. One big childhood memory is that in summer time everyone's front door was always open and grown ups and kids just came and went as they pleased.

[Nudga]

Talking of graffiti, when I worra lad growing up in Balby we had "FREE FRANK COOK" daubed every where.

Going back even further (early 80s) in Retford I remember being able to buy my Dad cigars from the newsagents, couldn't do that now.



The newsagent would have been in Cannon Square,next to the Olde Sun ,it was called Bowskills you could buy cigarettes in singles,fireworks,and out of date sweets and chocs whilst wearing a school uniform

White dog shit.

Community spirit, where has that gone. One big childhood memory is that in summer time everyone's front door was always open and grown ups and kids just came and went as they pleased.

The newsagents was on the corner of Thrumpton Lane and Thomas Street, which is where i lived.

[Draytonian III]

Talking of graffiti, when I worra lad growing up in Balby we had "FREE FRANK COOK" daubed every where.

Going back even further (early 80s) in Retford I remember being able to buy my Dad cigars from the newsagents, couldn't do that now.



The newsagent would have been in Cannon Square,next to the Olde Sun ,it was called Bowskills you could buy cigarettes in singles,fireworks,and out of date sweets and chocs whilst wearing a school uniform

White dog shit.

Community spirit, where has that gone. One big childhood memory is that in summer time everyone's front door was always open and grown ups and kids just came and went as they pleased.

The newsagents was on the corner of Thrumpton Lane and Thomas Street, which is where i lived.

Opposite the chip shop ,think it was called Whites ,the bloke who used to run it also sold cigarettes singular as well ,the last I knew of him he drinking cans of Special Brew and sitting in Kings Park,but that was years ago

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The top Shelf in any newsagents 

[roversdude]

Co-op milk tokens, was amazed by machine that dispensed these and change

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Fruit and veg van that came round once a week.

It sold scoffs Aswell

Allways recall the cold november nites and his toffee Apples were bang on.

[jonnydog]

Ice Cream van selling fags, and Smoking in Hospitals (and anywhere really)

The old fountain in the Arndale

The beeb finishing on the National Anthem

Decent music programmes with trustworthy presenters

Alvin Stardust and Darth Vadar telling us how to cross the road, with Charlie the Cat telling us not to talk to strangers

NO REALITY tv shows

Betamax porn

Good 'ol fashioned hairy bush

Discovering your first porn mag in the woods/park

SodaStream revolution

The informative graffiti that highlighted stuff like the fact 'Tracy was a slag and liked it in her 'wrong 'un' " - and the classic bus stop cock n balls. That seemed to go on for years but doesn't feature much anymore.

Pong / Manic Minor

Telephone area codes before the '1' appeared (e.g. 0302)

Good old fashioned 'Fingering'

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Saturday morning at the ABC

swap shop

Black Jacks and fruit salads

The golly wog on robertsons marmalade jars

Having to hand yer train Ticket in to the Ticket inspectors that Stood on the  barriers at top Of stairs
At donny station.

2pence bus fares to town

And the 2pence bus fare back again

Public bogs outside arndale centre

Under road pass from arndale to train station

Jimmy hayes amusment Arcade near northern bus station

battle Of britian air display finningley every september

buses picking up from outside arndale

Woolworths

Saracens head

Out of date wagon wheels sold at the football

Free football league review that was inside Your matchday programme

seeing other parts Of europe on the tv Thanks to bbc and Its a knockout

Dustbin men riding shotgun

Coal wagon, and having to narrow the  stuff from out front to coal bunker in back garden

Smell Of Conisboro before it became a non a smokeless
Zone.

On the ball and football focus,vidi printer and all in Wrestling

[jonnydog]

Not only dustbin men riding shotgun, but also them coming on to you property getting your bin, emptying it and then bringing it back into your property where they got it from.

... None of these new fangled wheeled inventions

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Not only dustbin men riding shotgun, but also them coming on to you property getting your bin, emptying it and then bringing it back into your property where they got it from.

... None of these new fangled wheeled inventions

very true very true what yer say about the dustbin men

[Sprotyrover]

There was a large grate outside a cafe next to beehive pub on factory lane,every time I walked over it the smell of cooking was heavenly.
Cuttrises model shop in Duke st. With model rail layout,dolls hospital Hallgate,old Hodgeson and hepworths in st sep, the smell of ground coffeefrom their cafe.Gayles fishing shop on Copley Road and Donny Shooters store next door.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Smell of finny haddock at Denaby market. Smell of fetid unwashed bodies in Maces in Denaby. Coffee and cream buses. Them little cardboard train tickets at Cunny station. Vulcan bombers taking off.

Those big, big wide streets. Those useless MPs.

[Glyn_Wigley]

Not only dustbin men riding shotgun, but also them coming on to you property getting your bin, emptying it and then bringing it back into your property where they got it from.

... None of these new fangled wheeled inventions

They'll be wanting us to drive the bloody vans for them next.

[Sprotyrover]

Them big green articulated lorries with a three wheel tractor unit with horses head badge,I think they were called Scammel scarabs and were used by post office to deliver parcels

[Sprotyrover]

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/50_scammellscarab.htm

there you go!

[nutwellrover in dublin]

Good old fashioned 'Fingering'

Micky Flanagan quality, it is the demise of the youth of today.

[roversdude]

Three wheeled "invalid carriages" especially parked around the pitch
Police cars that looked like police cars
Motorbike in bike shop on Balby Rd with you can't afford it price tag
Disc collector record shop - guy who owned it had thickest glasses I've ever seen
Angies records in market place down an alley
Cooplands cafe and one on front of waterdale (Allports ?) best chip butty I've had

[RobTheRover]

2pence bus fares to town

And the 2pence bus fare back again

Spot on, Oslo.

I remember going to see Jaws 2 one saturday morning with my mates at the ABC, and forgetting I needed to keep 2p for the bus home.  Spent every penny on a Westlers Hot Dog.  Luckily the bus driver let me off paying.

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Three wheeled "invalid carriages" especially parked around the pitch
Police cars that looked like police cars
Motorbike in bike shop on Balby Rd with you can't afford it price tag
Disc collector record shop - guy who owned it had thickest glasses I've ever seen
Angies records in market place down an alley
Cooplands cafe and one on front of waterdale (Allports ?) best chip butty I've had

Angies records......iam sure i can recall that place but on the other hand i Cant

I must be getting lost in time?

[RedRover45]

Think the original Angies was in Scot Lane. That guy must have made a fortune, he was the first guy in Donny to hire out videos. I used to rent about a dozen a week and it was always packed out when I went in.

[Mike_F]

There's a retro cock & balls on a bus stop in Harworth. A steady 6/10. Lacking in pubes and not a drop of jizz in sight but nevertheless a welcome piece of public art.

[jonnydog]

There's a retro cock & balls on a bus stop in Harworth. A steady 6/10. Lacking in pubes and not a drop of jizz in sight but nevertheless a welcome piece of public art.

Kids today... Never follow anything through properly

[ravenrover]

The Walls ice cream bike, three wheeler with fridge at front
Pop bottles with screw in tops, or marbles
Whipping tops
Playing on the street when there was only one car a day, if you were lucky
All day football on the field, fat lad always in goals, can't come in for me dinner mam we need to score another 2 goals for half time
My Dad in bed after nights at Broddie pit, Jeez you dare hardly breathe in the house, and heaven help anybody playing outside near the front door.
Nail in leather studs, my 1st pair of togger boots Stanley Mathews cut away at the ankle (continental style it was called)
1/3 pint bottles of milk at school always warm
Getting sent to the headmaster for cane
Standing up on buses for old people to sit down
Club trip to Scarborough/Brid/Cleggy, Dad and Grandad and Uncles in the pub all day My Nan, my Mam and me and all the other Aunties and cousins on the beach all day even if it was lashing down, sandy sarnies, bits of bread floating in the bottle of water after you had had a swig after eating your sarnie, a tanner (2 1/2p) to spend from the committee man in charge of your bus
Race week on the free course, Prince Monolulu the buses having to pull into Marshgate because of the traffic jams
It never rained!

[RobTheRover]

Smell of finny haddock at Denaby market.

I speed read that line and I thought you were on about something completely different.

[roversdude]

Does the pop man still deliver

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Does the pop man still deliver

The pop man as in heath and Smith?

[roversdude]

The same Oslo part of growing up in Balby
Was also a veg wagon looked like a WW2 cast off

[jonnydog]

The same Oslo part of growing up in Balby
Was also a veg wagon looked like a WW2 cast off

I moved from Balby just over 2 years ago and confirm the Veg wagon was still going round prior to me moving

[RedJ]

I can confirm Balby looks like it's just come out of WW2 too.

Oh you meant the van.

[jonnydog]