Things From Your Childhood (3 Viewers)

[eastwoodsdustman]

Fireworks, fires, playing on building sites, rope swings, swimming in the rivers & reservoirs, knock-down ginger, shoplifting, finding porn, apple fights & snogging random birds at the youth club.....

There must have been a goblin that would leave random stashes of jazz mags in bushes down by the river by us. Always a treat to find some.

 

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[bringbackrattles]

Hmm, plenty. Transformers toys, my vast GI Joe/Action Force collection (that my fucking mum threw away when I left home, I hate her I hate her it's not fair), those Nestle animal chocolate bars and Ribena after school, slapping people in Tae Kwon Do class at the Hillfields community centre, and smoking fags (aged 11) up Thomas King House so that my parents couldn't see or find me.

Anyone still have their footy Pro Set cards from the early 90's. I had a wad of those so thick, it could be used as kosh.

When I left home to live with my then girlfriend I left loads of football stuff from my childhood in my bedroom. We split up a year later and I went back home as I had nowhere else to live. To my disbelief my mum had lobbed all the football stuff I'd kept out and couldn't understand why I went ballistic !
It felt like a bereavement that only other football fans would understand.

 

[ajsccfc]

Still got my full Orbis World Cup 90 album, completed and intact. As God is my witness, I'll be buried with that.

 

[trevelfarandwide]

When I left home to live with my then girlfriend I left loads of football stuff from my childhood in my bedroom. We split up a year later and I went back home as I had nowhere else to live. To my disbelief my mum had lobbed all the football stuff I'd kept out and couldn't understand why I went ballistic !
It felt like a bereavement that only other football fans would understand.

It's female trait, isn't it? Discarding the male collection of precious things. That's why, to this day, I still sabotage all of my mum's beverages; she has to pay.

 

[skyblue1991]

Polyester clothing, cigar smoke and the words 'now then, now then'

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[olderskyblue]

Going on camping trips to the field by the jolly colliers, and swimming in the canal.... never took towels, the sun was always out wasn't it??.
Fishing up the slough or the hot waters
Riding my tracker bike with butterfly handlebars. Went all over the place, and use to have races on the cycle track by Henley College.
Walking over to the river Sowe at the back of our house with my air rifle to shoot rats.
Going every week night to Henley College youth club, sneaking into the gym to go on the trampoline
Scrumping by Bell Green club

 

[trevelfarandwide]

There must have been a goblin that would leave random stashes of jazz mags in bushes down by the river by us. Always a treat to find some.

My best find was 3 slightly water damaged Escort mags and a packet of 10 Silk Cut in the derelict Vauxhall Tavern. For a 12 year old, it was akin to finding the Lost Treasure of Sierra Madre.

 

[Otis]

Going on camping trips to the field by the jolly colliers, and swimming in the canal.... never took towels, the sun was always out wasn't it??.
Fishing up the slough or the hot waters
Riding my tracker bike with butterfly handlebars. Went all over the place, and use to have races on the cycle track by Henley College.
Walking over to the river Sowe at the back of our house with my air rifle to shoot rats.
Going every week night to Henley College youth club, sneaking into the gym to go on the trampoline
Scrumping by Bell Green club

Ah, the Jolly Colliers!!

Memories. I used to live in Ringwood Highway, so just up the road from me, though our local was the Acorn!!!

 

[Malaka]

I used to get a bus into town with my mum on a Sunday and had to walk through town from Corporation street. There was a display box outside Banaby's and it was rammed full of toys. I loved standing by it and looking at the toys. I also remember a shop ( I think it was Salt's) that sold lighters. There was a huge statue type thing that you could climb on. Colibri was the sign and it was right by the display box

 

[olderskyblue]

Ah, the Jolly Colliers!!

Memories. I used to live in Ringwood Highway, so just up the road from me, though our local was the Acorn!!!

And in later teens, the colliers was also a good place to get a packet of 3 from Could pop into the loo (machine on the wall) without going in the pub if you were in a hurry......, or have to suffer the embarrassment at the chemists..

Used to use the Acorn too Otis, some of my pals played for their football team. Used to pop over for a beer and a games of darts every week. Not too bad a walk from where I lived (Just down from the live and let live) and a much nicer pub

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

I used to get a bus into town with my mum on a Sunday and had to walk through town from Corporation street. There was a display box outside Banaby's and it was rammed full of toys. I loved standing by it and looking at the toys. I also remember a shop ( I think it was Salt's) that sold lighters. There was a huge statue type thing that you could climb on. Colibri was the sign and it was right by the display box

Used to love Barnabys. Airfix model and Action man heaven. Salts is still going I think , on the corner of little park street.

 

[Gazolba]

When I was little, before refrigerators were common, the sound of the ice-cream van coming up the street (they always played a jingle to get your attention). Then all the kids would rush out to buy a cone or a lollipop. And the ice-cream was the real stuff in those days, hand-made and delicious, scooped from a huge aluminium vat. The only flavour was vanilla but you could get a chocolate flake pushed into it.

 

[bringbackrattles]

Colliers and Acorn were my local pubs for years. Sometimes pop over the Boat for a few too. Went to Chalkies funeral a few years back the ex Colliers gaffer, I got on okay with him but could be a moody sod.
The Crem was packed and they played it said one of his favourite records: Bat Out Of Hell. Some wag said fairly loud : Bet Chalkie will tell the vicar to turn it down in a minute !

 

[Gazolba]

Ah, the Jolly Colliers!!
Memories. I used to live in Ringwood Highway, so just up the road from me, though our local was the Acorn!!!

My Dad, brother and I used to go on bicycle rides nearly every Sunday and the Jolly Colliers was one of our regular stops. We also used to go much further to Shilton, Bulkington. Sometimes even as far as Withybrook and Monks Kirby. My Dad would often stop at a farm along the way to buy fresh tomatoes from one of the farm greenhouses. We didn't think twice about cycling those distances and I never remember being tired afterwards

 

[Gazolba]

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Fishing up the slough or the hot waters
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The Wyken Slough used to be a great place. There was a snack bar and toilets. There was always a queue at the snack bar. You could rent a row boat or pay for a ride on the motor-boat. There was also a small area with kiddie paddle boats. Families would go there, bring chairs or spread out a towel and spend the whole day. It got pretty full on warm summer weekends. The last time I went there, there was nothing left except the pool and some swans, It's now a nature park and all traces of the snack bar and toilet block have gone. No-one goes there any more.

 

[Gazolba]

When I left home to live with my then girlfriend I left loads of football stuff from my childhood in my bedroom. We split up a year later and I went back home as I had nowhere else to live. To my disbelief my mum had lobbed all the football stuff I'd kept out and couldn't understand why I went ballistic !
It felt like a bereavement that only other football fans would understand.

That happened with my toy soldier collection. I had collected them from every toy shop in every town we ever visited. Spent a lot of my pocket money on them. Had some really nice and unusual ones (probably would be quite valuable now). One day I came home from school and asked where they were and was told my Mum threw them all out as she thought I was too old for them.

 

[bringbackrattles]

The Wyken Slough used to be a great place. There was a snack bar and toilets. There was always a queue at the snack bar. You could rent a row boat or pay for a ride on the motor-boat. There was also a small area with kiddie paddle boats. Families would go there, bring chairs or spread out a towel and spend the whole day. It got pretty full on warm summer weekends. The last time I went there, there was nothing left except the pool and some swans, It's now a nature park and all traces of the snack bar and toilet block have gone. No-one goes there any more.

I go down the Slough often as living in Bell Green its local to me. Great for walks and wildlife. You get some on those little scrambling bikes now and then who are a pain,but other than that its peaceful.

 

[Johnnythespider]

The thing I miss most is sharing a bedroom with my 4 brothers. We had some right laughs growing up, a few fights aswell but great times


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[skybluetony176]

Roller-skating. Fortunately it's back in vogue and I have two young children who love it. So for the first time in 30 years I own a pair of roller boots and I'm loving it. Still got it too. Well, some of it anyway. Enough.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

As with most a care free life but a few others below

1. Going home from school and going out playing football never bothered with homework
2. The belief that I would be retired by 30 but not sure how I was going to do it no shock I haven't still must be to do with the answer above
3. Getting most things I wanted bought for me as I was young during 80's building boom and my dad had a mortgage that each month was less than one day's pay.
4. School snow days
5. The excitement of live football on the tv on the occasional Sunday
6. Cricket on the tv in the summer and the test normally had a county one day game after the fifth day, Also rain delays on the to where they showed cricket from the 70's
7. Underage drinking
8. Lucozade cured everything
9. Playing snooker at breaks every Saturday morning.

 

[dutchman]

anyone reading this would thing Coventry was such an idyllic place to grow up in the 70s and 80s, not the violent madhouse that it actually was!

Some of us grew up here in the 50s and 60s when it was still a great place to live.

 

[clint van damme]

Used to love Barnabys. Airfix model and Action man heaven. Salts is still going I think , on the corner of little park street.

my mum would drag me into town on a Saturday morning to do the shopping, sometimes I'd get a treat from Barnabys, I could have spent all day in there looking at the toys. Great shop!

 

[Malaka]

When I was little, before refrigerators were common, the sound of the ice-cream van coming up the street (they always played a jingle to get your attention). Then all the kids would rush out to buy a cone or a lollipop. And the ice-cream was the real stuff in those days, hand-made and delicious, scooped from a huge aluminium vat. The only flavour was vanilla but you could get a chocolate flake pushed into it.

D Di
AKA D Di Masico
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/whats-on/food-drink-news/d-dis-ice-creams-finally-9621010

 

[Malaka]

The Wyken Slough used to be a great place. There was a snack bar and toilets. There was always a queue at the snack bar. You could rent a row boat or pay for a ride on the motor-boat. There was also a small area with kiddie paddle boats. Families would go there, bring chairs or spread out a towel and spend the whole day. It got pretty full on warm summer weekends. The last time I went there, there was nothing left except the pool and some swans, It's now a nature park and all traces of the snack bar and toilet block have gone. No-one goes there any more.

My Grandad owned the chippy by the Slough. On hot summers days, they used to queue up to the scout hut for chips. I used to love the rowing boats, the snack shop was rarely open tho.

 

[Sky_Blue_Daz]

Brilliant Friday night telly
Knight rider
Auf weirdershen pet
Central weekend
Red dwarf
Fantasy football league
Ren and stimpy
Proper music, swimming at cov baths, fishy moores
The Smithfield hotel
A barmaid from the old st Brendan's who no matter what round I bought always gave me a tenner in change


The HVC channel on Coventry cable TV
While I'm on about cable tv the sky blue show that was on the Colt channel

Listening to Billy Connelly and chubby brown tapes on my Walkman

Watching only fools and horses for the first time
Not having a mortgage

 

[Malaka]

I used to like to go on the roundabout outside of the market.
I also remember the sports shops in town, there was Davies, one in the precinct (cant remember its named ) and Harvey's. I remember how rammed they were with equipment.

 

[Malaka]

Polyester clothing, cigar smoke and the words 'now then, now then'

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Yes, the smell of cigars at the christmas city matches, Dad's used to get Hamlet or Castella cigars for christmas

 

[bringbackrattles]

My Grandad owned the chippy by the Slough. On hot summers days, they used to queue up to the scout hut for chips. I used to love the rowing boats, the snack shop was rarely open tho.

I was at that chippy last week as their chips are tasty and there was a long queue as it has a good reputation.

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

I used to like to go on the roundabout outside of the market.
I also remember the sports shops in town, there was Davies, one in the precinct (cant remember its named ) and Harvey's. I remember how rammed they were with equipment.

I bought a tin of linseed oil about 30 years ago from Davies's and still have it and use it now. It still has the price label on it.

 

[clint van damme]

I used to like to go on the roundabout outside of the market.
I also remember the sports shops in town, there was Davies, one in the precinct (cant remember its named ) and Harvey's. I remember how rammed they were with equipment.

I remember going down their with my Christmas money on boxing day, there was a sale on and I was the first one in the queue, I got welcomed in by the manager and last of the big spenders that I was I got some new flights for the darts I got for Christmas!

 

[Red John]

Being care free. ( and shagging me sofa)
My wind up evil knievel
Cheese flavoured snaps
Fang face the werewolf and the groovy ghoulies and sport Billy

Groovy ghoulies!!! God I used to love that....

 

[covcity4life]

I really miss not having responsibilities ..when the most important thing you worried about was if there was going to be 2 tom and jerry cartoons one after the other on a sunday afternoon instead of the normal1.i miss having a flat stomach and knowing what my willy looks like with out looking in a mirror,i also miss riding my bike no handed..its not that I cant do it now its the thought of the pain when I fall off..

yeah no responsiblities is a big 1

day where you could play for hours on end or watch snooker on tv for 3 hours without feeling like you were wasting the day away

 

[Otis]

The thing I miss most is sharing a bedroom with my 4 brothers. We had some right laughs growing up, a few fights aswell but great times


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Well lucky you! I was an only child apart from my two brothers.

Would have loved what you had.

 

[skybluesam66]

the FA cup final - the only real live tv football you saw, and it started on tv at 9am with its a knockout, following the team buses etc
Finding out if sky blues were on match of the day or star soccer, and turning up at HR to see the camera vans parked outside
Star soccer itself
Summer holidays to Mablethorpe or skeggy,
drinking in pubs in your teens (which todays youngsters tend to be ID checked so much which i am sure leads to most of the binge drinking later on)

 

[skybluedan]

Brilliant Friday night telly
Knight rider
Auf weirdershen pet
Central weekend
Red dwarf
Fantasy football league
Ren and stimpy
Proper music, swimming at cov baths, fishy moores
The Smithfield hotel
A barmaid from the old st Brendan's who no matter what round I bought always gave me a tenner in change


The HVC channel on Coventry cable TV
While I'm on about cable tv the sky blue show that was on the Colt channel

Listening to Billy Connelly and chubby brown tapes on my Walkman

Watching only fools and horses for the first time
Not having a mortgage

Swimming then fishy mores. Quality mate