Things We Had Growing Up

Loved Bar Six and Fireball XL5 was my favourite Gerry and Silvia Anderson show - probably because the main bloke was called "Steve"!

 

Sold mine on ebay a few years ago!

 

Somethings are best forgotten!

 

That's a fantastic pic find Steve, well done !!!

 

Still available at Sainsburys!

(of course, they are a lot smaller)

 

Silver spoon me.....my first car was a Singer Chamois - so there!
(for those too young.... a Hillman Imp with a few bits of wood on the dash and chrome trim / pretend grill)

 

Things you wanted but never got!

 

Things you wanted and got ... but which were utter crap!

 

I had one a Johnny Seven for Christmas when I was about 6, had huge fun shooting the cat all morning, strangely all the grenades and rockets etc were nowhere to be found after Christmas dinner, (I think my Mum felt sorry for the cat!).

 

And I thought I was on old fart!

 

still got them but in crap condition

 

Is that in your garage still DD?

 

Lucky sod....... I had to walk everywhere!

 

I had freedom........
....... oh, how I miss it!

 

No responsibility!

 

And moved the rear stay and seat forward so you didn't tip off the back when you rode up a hill (or factory ramp).
Did my apprenticeship (remember those) at Raleigh 45 years ago when they were huge, used to get around the factory unsurprisingly on push bikes, working in the design office you got a Chopper to ride around on.

 

Remember this stuff? It was like John Wayne. It was rough, it was tough and it didn’t take no s**t!

 

Surprised no one has mentioned the ABC minors yet on the Saturday mornings, happy days