Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 1853 Location: Lanarkshire, United Kingdom Thanked: 32 times
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:07 pm Post Subject:
one for the oldies
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in them, but we weren't overweight because......WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY , No video/dvd films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms.........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
Lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...
We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on .........MERIT
Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bully's always ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of They actually sided with the law!
Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL !
And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age
Excellent , was born in 1960 and that gave me a flash through my complete childhood its as if we were mates
when i got it i was actually laughing out loud reading it, as you say it was like going back in time, brilliant, my missus had to have a look at what i was reading, (i'm a 1961)
Joined: 08 Mar 2009 Posts: 473 Location: Staffordshire, United Kingdom Thanked: 15 times
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:07 pm Post Subject:
My memories of 60's childhood:
I was brought up in a draughty old farmhouse with no central heating, Dad seemed to be forever thawing out pipes in the winter.
Were the winters colder then? I remember the toothbrush frozen to the mug in which they were kept.
Lots of snow, and big icicles.
Very few carpets, and splinters in my feet.
Drinking raw (untreated) milk; don't forget that TB & Brucellosis was rife then, but we survived.
Early on a Sunday morning, Mum would put a big joint of beef in the aga, then give us kids a shout around 11.00 o'clock, she would then dip a piece of bread in the fat for us!! I can't see the health police allowing that now
Doors were never locked, and keys would be left in vehicles.
Food was never wasted, what wasn't eaten was recycled as something else at a later date.
Happy Days
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Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 1724 Location: Devon, United Kingdom Thanked: 10 times
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:57 pm Post Subject:
Born in 1957,one of eight, no mains services in the house,so know what poverty is all about,but happy oh yes :lol:lived in a village 6 friends all born in the same year plus older ones of my brothers ages made our own enternainment,cowboys and indians,bows and arrows.Now with bonfire night approaching reminds me of when we would collect rubbish from the villagers and build a great big fire and it was a event where most of the village would attend.Don't know about anyone else but the church was an important part of village life with sunday school part of weekly life.
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Don't know about anyone else but the church was an important part of village life with sunday school part of weekly life.
We didn't have a lot of village life in the heart of Liverpool 5 but Sunday school was pretty much compulsory. Funny that I can't remember my parents ever going to church, though?
The high point of Sunday afternoon was legging it home afterwards in time to see Torchy the Battery Boy and Robin Hood in glorious B&W on a 14" Ferguson telly.
...Also watch out for the Flying Doctor at 7:30 followed by Sunday Night at the London Palladium!
Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 2144 Location: Zaire Thanked: 38 times
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:03 pm Post Subject:
There was a time when I would rather be dead, than be seen without my davy crocket hat and my snakehook belt. Anyone else remember these essential items of the fifties child fashion victim.
Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 1724 Location: Devon, United Kingdom Thanked: 10 times
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:39 pm Post Subject:
Earliest tv i can remember was watch with mother,we had moved to a council house in 1961 with all mod cons,a flushing toilet, still out doors to get to it though.
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