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As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 5:32 pm
by No Ney Never
The pop man who used to call round every week with crates of the stuff on the back of his flat bed waggon.
The coal chap who used to ask how many bags you want, then proceed to tip them into the coal shed at the bottom of our back garden.
Rag and bone man with his horse and cart. If you gave him anything decent, he'd ask you if you want donkey stone or fire wood.
Women scrubbing their door step, then rubbing the chamfered edge with donkey stone to colour it.
My dad emptying the grate in the bottom of the fire of ash, then using wood from the rag and bone man and screwed up sheets of yesterday's evening star to light a new fire.
Going to the newspaper shop for the pink (evening star but called the pink because it had a pink star on it's header)
Being delighted when my dad asked me to put some X's on his cross the ball.
Building a go kart with pram wheels, wood and nails. If you were really inventive, you made a handbrake from a chair leg.
Building a ramp on the front Street with a piece of wood and bricks.
Go to the post office for the family allowance, told to get a couple of quids worth of Water and telephone stamps.
Playing in the mounds of sand left by the blokes laying mains gas with my big yellow tonker truck.
Knocking on doors and singing Halloween songs for money to buy sweets.
Knocking on doors and singing 'remember, remember the 5th of November.....' for money to buy fireworks. Well Benwell bangers actually, proper cr@p but that's all you could get then.
Going logging. Guarding your wood from raiders. Going home every night for a month stinking of smoke. Throwing aerosols on the fire to watch them take off like a rocket.
Ripping the back of any settee for money as soon as you got it in the back street.
Using the doors, nails and your dad's hammer to build a den.
Going round the 'posh' houses because they were the most generous singing Christmas carols
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 5:35 pm
by claptrappers_union
Ok boomer
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:03 pm
by No Ney Never
Aye but I never stopped living.
I also did the acid house back end of the 80's

, say around 86-88, then rave started.
At first it was piano rave, no words. Not for long though.
I started with attending illegal raves, we'd meet up then follow a car in a long convoy to an old cotton mill, then the nightclubs began to realise it was the future and there was money to be made. A couple of wraps of whizz, a love dove, and an ounce to come down with, had some fantastic nights.
It was a great until the kn0b ends started going around '93/94 and ruined the atmosphere.
Look at me now, using AI, TOT and chat GPT to advance both the way I and others work.
You young uns with your boomer quips, funny as
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:15 pm
by Rowls
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:20 pm
by Terrier
You forgot carrying 5lb bags of potatoes home from the local shop and being knackered, according to the experts I am at least 3 stone overweight so I am now carrying about 9 bags of spuds round all day, no wonder I feel tired!
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:23 pm
by DCWat
Some good memories from those lists, NNN.
You’re right that a lot of the house tracks lacked any vocals to start with. That soon changed as they tried a multitude of ways to sneak ecstasy (XTC, E, Extasy) into the lyrics - it lasted a fair while before those not in the know finally twigged.
More commercial by then but who can forget the classic that was Sesame’s Treet by Smart E’s.

Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:24 pm
by expoultryboy
Saving milk bottle tops for blue peter .
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:25 pm
by ClaretAndJew
Ah the apparent good old days.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:28 pm
by DCWat
expoultryboy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:24 pm
Saving milk bottle tops for blue peter .
We used to take the empty Barrs pop bottles back to the shop for 10p per bottle, I think it was.
The shop always had an open tray full of a variety of penny sweets, which was where the bottle money usually went - false teeth, cola bottles, candy cigarettes (whoever thought that was a good idea?) etc.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:29 pm
by Volvoclaret
Ah yes
Nits, polio, impetigo, izal bog paper, the air thick with coal smoke, all good stuff
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:32 pm
by Goalposts
Remember them all would add
Going to the toilet outside ..
A drying rack hanging over the kitchen fire , hoisted on a pulley.
A small cellar under the stairs.
A fire place in the front room kitchen and both bedrooms.
Collecting melted tar from old cobbled roads.
Making your own, slingshots ..
Linseed oil on cricket bats
Playing Kerby with a football , bouts of hopscotch.
Drying out and seasoning Conker’s with vinegar etc to make them hard for the seasonal battles.
Marbles in the schoolyard
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:32 pm
by No Ney Never
ClaretAndJew wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:25 pm
Ah the apparent good old days.
I wouldn't necessarily say good old days, living today is much more interesting, there's more happening, just fond memories.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:37 pm
by Lancasterclaret
This is the kind of thread what starts on town facebook groups, and always ends up with old people telling young people how easy they have it these days
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:44 pm
by fatboy47
Doctor resting his fag on the ashtray while he put his stethoscope on my chest
Honestly.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:48 pm
by No Ney Never
Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:37 pm
This is the kind of thread what starts on town facebook groups, and always ends up with old people telling young people how easy they have it these days
We had it easy, life was quite simple really, very little to get confused about.
Though I'd like to live forever to see where technology goes, there's so much happening these days, I don't know if it's worse being a parent trying to guide your kids or being a kid trying to make sense of it all. So many influences it's frightening.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:48 pm
by Rowls
The old ring pulls from cans of pop everywhere on the streets.
Same with fag ends.
The ring pulls were collected the same as bottle tops.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:56 pm
by claptrappers_union
No Ney Never wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:03 pm
Aye but I never stopped living.
Look at me now, using AI, TOT and chat GPT to advance both the way I and others work.
You young uns with your boomer quips, funny as
Snowflake
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:56 pm
by Jakubclaret
The days when men were men & women are women no fancy buzz words & no social media, you wanted to speak to somebody you knocked on the door, everybody knew where their stood without hiding.or being false, if you had a problem with somebody you'd step outside & at the end shake hands like proper men should.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:58 pm
by MACCA
Taking the milk bottles back for 5p ( I think )
Video man who had loads of videos in the back of his car
Pop man 5 bottles of cheap fizzy pop for a quid
Collecting " bommy wood" leading upto bonfire night
Wrapping swings on the park
If you had no PE kit you did it in your undies and vest
Going the shop with a written note and coming back with everything on it regardless of me being under age
Having to ask " whoevers ball it was" to join in the 16 a side game on the Rec, as if you asked anyone else the response was "soz, not my ball"
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:07 pm
by Claret Toni
The Clarets winning the league, and nearly winning the league, and being in the Cup Final.
Never had it so good

Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:13 pm
by Bosscat
Young-uns have it so easy these days

Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:14 pm
by No Ney Never
MACCA wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:58 pm
Going the shop with a written note and coming back with everything on it regardless of me being under age
Ha ha, love this one.
'Nip shop and get me 20 Embassy No.1'.
'Mum, I'm only 8'
'You'll be reit, Mary knows you'
'can I get some black jack's wi change?'
'aye, but no bubbly's!'
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:16 pm
by Dougall
Go cart = trolley where I grew up , and slingshot = catapult.
Don’t know whether there were variations across Burnley (though it is possible - Duke Bar was a different world entirely compared to Rosegrove!

)
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:16 pm
by AmbleClaret
White dog crap
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:25 pm
by CaptJohn
Getting a clip round the ear at school or from the local Bobby and not daring to tell your parents because you'd get another one.
Walking to school, two miles there and two miles back, in any weather. Hardly had any time off school due to sickness and I put it down to the exercise.
Thinking that it was compulsory to smoke in a phonebox, on a bus or on a train because they always stunk of smoke and other things
My mum using a Dolly peg and tub for the weekly wash.
Getting an Airfix kit for your birthday.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:30 pm
by Colburn_Claret
fatboy47 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:44 pm
Doctor resting his fag on the ashtray while he put his stethoscope on my chest
Honestly.
I used to get my haircut by a barber (Joe, can't remember his surname but it will come), who never took the cigarette out of his mouth. The ash just used to get longer.
You had a choice of Short Back and Sides, Short Back and Sides or Short Back and Sides.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:32 pm
by Bosscat
Colburn_Claret wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:30 pm
I used to get my haircut by a barber (Joe, can't remember his surname but it will come), who never took the cigarette out of his mouth. The ash just used to get longer.
You had a choice of Short Back and Sides, Short Back and Sides or Short Back and Sides.
Did you go for option a, b, or c on the haircut

Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:38 pm
by groove
Good thread and excellent OP. Life really has changed immeasurably in a generation or so. I'm so glad I grew up in the 80's.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:13 pm
by claret59
Being woken up by my elder sister to tel me that Burnley had won the title. A picture of Jesus whose eyes followed you wherever you were in the room and making you feel guilty even if you had done nothing wrong.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:18 pm
by bfcjg
Donkey stones given out by rag and bone man.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:22 pm
by claret2018
Who rembers proper binmen
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:22 pm
by ClaretTony
Some good memories there and I remember us having bread toasted over the coal fire.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:26 pm
by Cubanforever
Watching the scores come in on the vidiprinter
Ap Ka Hap on Sunday tv
The test card and national anthem when tv finished at night
Playing football all day during school holidays.....rush back keepers
Everybody having a parka coat for school
Getting the pump for forgetting an item of sports kit....boy did that hurt.....I was second in after the cock of our year came out crying but I kept the tears back
Only having sweets at the weekend
Not having much but always happy
Mass games of relevo and your mum shouting you in for tea
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:29 pm
by Barlickclaret
Whatever happened to green shield stamps.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:32 pm
by Cubanforever
claret2018 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:22 pm
Who rembers proper binmen
None of those wheels bins....they used to spin two bins on there edges from you yard to the wagon.....must be some with buggered wrists and backs now
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:35 pm
by giveusaB
Sunday nights taking turns in the tin bath in front of fire.
Long drop outside toilet.
Local park with giant slide,umbrella & Rocking horse(no risk assessments back then).
Corporation pop.
Packs of dogs running about.
One paying then letting rest of the gang in to the pictures by opening exit door.
Stink bombs.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:35 pm
by Tribesmen
Do recall hummm was it jubllies ( a triangle of orange ice in wax paper ) which was imposible to open and when you did it always fell on the ground , now you would always pick it up and dust off the bits and suck on it again .
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:43 pm
by Clovius Boofus
I vaguely remember a pigman coming around on Fridays to pick up potato peelings. Bottles were taken back to the shop and you got your deposit back. Proper recycling. None of this phony recycling we have today, like transporting all your crap to some third-world country where it's dumped a couple of miles down the coast.
Stuff would be mended in the home or the repair shop. We didn't have built-in obsolescence, or bother upgrading to the latest model just because the neighbours had something newer than you.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:44 pm
by No Ney Never
DCWat wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:23 pm
Some good memories from those lists, NNN.
You’re right that a lot of the house tracks lacked any vocals to start with. That soon changed as they tried a multitude of ways to sneak ecstasy (XTC, E, Extasy) into the lyrics - it lasted a fair while before those not in the know finally twigged.
More commercial by then but who can forget the classic that was Sesame’s Treet by Smart E’s.
I used to have a number of white labels, probably worth a few quid now.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:45 pm
by timshorts
Being physically assaulted by those in authority including having a wooden recorder broken when I was hit on the head with it.
Landing on your back in a hard sand pit when doing the high jump (and frequently then being winded)
Breaking into places to look for food (including church house which was on TV today as the synod were having a vote on gay marriage there). That place wasn't good for food though.
Football cards at 2 1/2 d for 6 and the smell of that piece of bubble gum that you got with them and burnley having no centre forward.
Going to the bean field, currant field in the summer holidays while your parent(s) picked.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:49 pm
by No Ney Never
DCWat wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:28 pm
We used to take the empty Barrs pop bottles back to the shop for 10p per bottle, I think it was.
The shop always had an open tray full of a variety of penny sweets, which was where the bottle money usually went - false teeth, cola bottles, candy cigarettes (whoever thought that was a good idea?) etc.
The bloke who had a shop near us used to take that long to come from out the back, we'd pick a couple of empty bottles from the crate in the shop and put them on the counter as though we'd brought them to the shop. When you could get 2 fruit salads for 1p, 10p went a long way.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:57 pm
by Clovius Boofus
Coming home from the Turf with my dad on a Saturday and having bacon ribs, mashed spuds and steeped peas. If our mum didn't do bacon ribs, it would be soss and mash. We always seem to have rice pudding for afters on a Saturday, especially in winter.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:03 pm
by Clovius Boofus
Going to Blackpool for a day out in my dad's car and usually breaking down either on the way there or on the way back. It was like going on an expedition. Will we make it or not, and if we don't, will we ever see our home again.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:06 pm
by No Ney Never
claret2018 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:22 pm
Who rembers proper binmen
Oh my, those blokes used to graft.
Great big metal bins with a huge heavy rubber lid.
It's no wonder they used to retire early due to a bad back.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:06 pm
by DCWat
timshorts wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:45 pm
Being physically assaulted by those in authority including having a wooden recorder broken when I was hit on the head with it.
Landing on your back in a hard sand pit when doing the high jump (and frequently then being winded)
Breaking into places to look for food (including church house which was on TV today as the synod were having a vote on gay marriage there). That place wasn't good for food though.
Football cards at 2 1/2 d for 6 and the smell of that piece of bubble gum that you got with them and burnley having no centre forward.
Going to the bean field, currant field in the summer holidays while your parent(s) picked.
I’ve got a loft full of them - sat alongside my old 1210’s. I keep meaning to get them out and have a play but never seem to find the time.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:07 pm
by CombatClaret
Zepplin raids
Tyndale's Bible
Cuneiform
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:10 pm
by No Ney Never
Colburn_Claret wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:30 pm
I used to get my haircut by a barber (Joe, can't remember his surname but it will come), who never took the cigarette out of his mouth. The ash just used to get longer.
You had a choice of Short Back and Sides, Short Back and Sides or Short Back and Sides.
We used to go to quick Micks, top o Padiham.
Short back and sides or a feather cut.
Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:15 pm
by DCWat
Cubanforever wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:26 pm
Watching the scores come in on the vidiprinter
Ap Ka Hap on Sunday tv
The test card and national anthem when tv finished at night
Playing football all day during school holidays.....rush back keepers
Everybody having a parka coat for school
Getting the pump for forgetting an item of sports kit....boy did that hurt.....I was second in after the cock of our year came out crying but I kept the tears back
Only having sweets at the weekend
Not having much but always happy
Mass games of relevo and your mum shouting you in for tea
I rarely seem to see kids playing football in the local park, where as you, we used to play pretty much all day, every day in the holidays and until it got dark after school.
We didn’t do rush back keepers but if numbers were short on one side, we did play ‘goalie when’ which often resulted in claims of cheating!
Relevo- used to love that. I always assumed it was a thing local to us as most people I mention it to have never heard of it.
A quick google brings up Ringolevio - I assume we played a variation of this but can’t quite recall the rules we had.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringolevio
We also played back to base, where I think you had to get back without being seen.
Them were the days

Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:16 pm
by Colburn_Claret
No Ney Never wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:10 pm
We used to go to quick Micks, top o Padiham.
Short back and sides or a feather cut.
Feather cut, that's luxury.
We used to have a rusty razor dragged over our head.
Rusty razor, you were lucky, broken glass were best we could do....
It just jumped into my head when I read your post.

Re: As a kid, I remember....
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:17 pm
by Cubanforever
Games of Wembley, headers and volleys and three and your in