Things you remember from back in the day? (2 Viewers)

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rondog1973

rondog1973

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torchomatic said:
Those toffee bars - scottish name can't think of it.

Buying sweets in quarters and getting them in a white paper bag.

Would you risk it for a swisket?
Secret lemonade drinker
Frank whatever doing the fruit and nut adverts
It's frothy man - can't remember the name of the drink for the life of me. It was a bear in shades
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Frank Muir.
 
rondog1973

rondog1973

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SkyBlueScottie said:
Raleigh burner, Mag wheels, Mongoose.

I spent a lot of my youth pelting around the BMX track by the Morris common, every now and again I would sneak down to Stoney Stanton BMX track, but that bugger was a bit big and some of the jumps were difficult to get over for a youngster.
Playing football over the common, stopping the game as soon as a dog was anywhere near for fear of them popping the ball, which was often as dogs wandering around the streets on their own was pretty common.

Staying out all day in the school holidays and summer, very rarely getting sun burnt... Getting a "legger"

The Young ones, yes I was allowed to watch them from a young age, the A444 not being built, playing along the railway embankment, dodging teenagers on "scramblers" discarded pornos in the bushes, sneaking in for the last 15 minutes once the gates were opened at Highfield road. What a bloody wonderful time it was!!
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Stoke Heath BMX track was brilliant! Really tight and winding. Remember seeing Trevor Robinson practicing round it, mouth agape at how fast he was.

You were right about the other one being too big. Coventry wheels I thing it was called and it was built when the BMX fad was on the wane.

Wood End was my local track. Remember loads of us gathering to race every evening in the summer of 85. Great memories!
 
Otis

Otis

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Don't know if it has been mentioned yet, but Rondello biscuits!

Divine, but expensive. Truly melt in the mouth.
 
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SkyBlueScottie

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rondog1973 said:
Stoke Heath BMX track was brilliant! Really tight and winding. Remember seeing Trevor Robinson practicing round it, mouth agape at how fast he was.

You were right about the other one being too big. Coventry wheels I thing it was called and it was built when the BMX fad was on the wane.

Wood End was my local track. Remember loads of us gathering to race every evening in the summer of 85. Great memories!
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We also used to have a 1/2 pipe, never plucked up the courage to go on it though. Sadly it was destroyed when somebody set fire to it.
 
Gazolba

Gazolba

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skybluejelly said:
logarithm tables..at school instead of calculators
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And slide rules. One of the shortest-lived inventions. I swear one month after they were invented, someone invented the calculator.
 
Gazolba

Gazolba

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I remember when you bought a box of breakfast cereal it was full to the top instead of just half-way. Not only that but they used to sometimes give you a free gift in the box. I had a whole set of toy soldiers, all free from Kelloggs cereal boxes.
 
Malaka

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I liked the glass toy display case between Davies and Barnbys in Smithford Way. I also remember a large Colibri sign that you could climb over out side a tobacconist. There was a big bird cage by Nello's and I remember the fountains outside Marks and Sparks
 
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