Things We Had Growing Up

Nope I’m too young, unlike you old farts
You'll be posting picture of lassie next !

 

Here’s a lassie

 

You take her for a walk by all means!
I'll let her sleep on my bed afterwards as she might be tired and need a cuddle

 

Are his kids tasty?
Never knew that dogs were a threat to them

 

Sorry.....

 

Remember sunny SAN plastic sandals

 

Used to buy bags of batter for a penny

 

When I get my moped out on the road I'm gonna ride ride ride Me mom won't let me fix it in the kitchen I gorra fix it in the gaaardin ?

 

They are not a thing of the past, there are 120,000 people in the UK living with the effects of polio contracted before immunisation in the mid fifties plus people from abroad who contracted it since then. Not all wear callipers (KAFOS) as a lot have had to succumb to using a wheelchair or scooter.
See British Polio Fellowship.

 

Especially if you lived in a prefab with metal framed windows and poor insulation.

 

Or an inch of ice on top in winter.

 

I've got a pair of Diana pop-outs in my loft somewhere. Used to buy cat slugs from the cycle shop and go around shooting at anything that moved or didn't !!!


Can't believe my parents allowed us to run around with these stuffed down the back of your jeans. Mine's went everywhere with me as a kid.

 

That reminds me did anyone else put a piece of wood on a roller skate, sit on and go downhill, dodgy steering and no brakes = bruising and missing skin brilliant fun though

 

And dad had Davenports Beer At Home delivered.

 

Do they have the arse tore out and the knees scuffed?

It was the 70's, yoga was something you got in a small pot with ski on the side?

 

We knew when Xmas was coming as Davenports would deliver the Xmas booze. Crates of Pale Ale, Brown Ale, Mackeson Stout.