Things The Younger Generation May Never Experience

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

I’ll kick off with pub experiences: ‘Last orders gents’ shouted by the landlord at about ten to three in the afternoon, ‘Any chance of a stop on’ quietly answered back, no chance, ‘C’mon let’s jump in the car???? and get down the Docks. The pub phone going off and grown men visibly shrinking, frantic hand signals being made to whoever answers it, lies being told by the answerer, ‘He’s just left or haven’t seen him today love’. Pranksters phoning the pub and asking if Mike Hunt is in the bar, funny if a novice barmaid has answered the phone and she’s shouting out ‘Is Mike Hunt here’. Easy pleased I know but I did love the old Cardiff pub culture, all gone now😢

Porkies

[life on mars]

Playing pitch and toss outside the goodies.

Building a bogey .

Sledging in the snow with your mums best tray .

Playing football all day

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

Saturday morning flicks at the Capital.
Home made Jubilees at the corner shop.
Walking down the City and getting in for free at halftime.
John Toshack.
Llanedeyrn High...Marlborough Juniors
11.55 am queue to get in pub on Sunday lunchtime...drink 8 pints in 2 hours 10 mins..stagger home.
Terraces
Spillers..Pint of Sasspirella..or Dandelion and Burdock and a cheese roll.
My mate Mark Humphries...
The sound of I'm Not In Love drifting across the City from Cardiff Castle..

[jon1959]

Conkers soaked in vinegar and then baked - lethal.

Watneys Party 7 - not lethal

Bulls Blood - posh party wine

Marbles by the 100 - dinners and beauts specially prized

Slinkies

Choppers - lethal

Chips and curry sauce - seems to have disappeared

Japanese Twists and Chinese Burns

Alf Tupper - The Tough Of The Track

[rs3100]

Llanedeyrn High...Marlborough Juniors

I’m trying to work out how old you are for these to be the two schools you mentioned - assuming you went to both, like I did.

I’d say your younger than me (41) otherwise Howardian would have been in the list, but then llanedeyrn only closed in 2014 so you could be as young as 21, but then you mentioned John Toshack who was way before my time so... ah **** it, you’re a time traveller.

[Elwood Blues]

Didn't the trolleys end in about '47?

Trolleys ended in the late sixties or esrly seventies I think.

[Elwood Blues]

Trolleys ended in the late sixties or esrly seventies I think.

Just seen the earlier post saying 1970.

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

Saturday morning flicks at the Capital.
Home made Jubilees at the corner shop.
Walking down the City and getting in for free at halftime.
John Toshack.
Llanedeyrn High...Marlborough Juniors
11.55 am queue to get in pub on Sunday lunchtime...drink 8 pints in 2 hours 10 mins..stagger home.
Terraces
Spillers..Pint of Sasspirella..or Dandelion and Burdock and a cheese roll.
My mate Mark Humphries...
The sound of I'm Not In Love drifting across the City from Cardiff Castle..

COUNTY flicks!..

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

Saturday morning flicks at the Capital.
Home made Jubilees at the corner shop.
Walking down the City and getting in for free at halftime.
John Toshack.
Llanedeyrn High...Marlborough Juniors
11.55 am queue to get in pub on Sunday lunchtime...drink 8 pints in 2 hours 10 mins..stagger home.
Terraces
Spillers..Pint of Sasspirella..or Dandelion and Burdock and a cheese roll.
My mate Mark Humphries...
The sound of I'm Not In Love drifting across the City from Cardiff Castle..

I’m trying to work out how old you are for these to be the two schools you mentioned - assuming you went to both, like I did.

I’d say your younger than me (41) otherwise Howardian would have been in the list, but then llanedeyrn only closed in 2014 so you could be as young as 21, but then you mentioned John Toshack who was way before my time so... ah **** it, you’re a time traveller.

60 in April...Marlborough then moved to Carisbrooke Way so went to Llanedeyrn from form 1 when it was brand new

[ToTaL ITK]

COUNTY flicks!..

i went llanedeyrn high
went to the capitol morning flicks
and briefly played in a band with mark
we may well know eachother

[The Bloop]

Cap guns

Playing Cowboys and Indians

Hedgehog flavour crisps

Meccano

Evel Kenieval

[Harry Monk]

The taste of coal in the air.
The colliery hooter sounding at 5.30am every morning.
The steam train taking the coal to the washery, jumping on the last waggon to get a free ride into town.
Sitting around a coal fire in the dark because of power cuts due to strikes and three day weeks.
Never throwing anything out.
Ice on the inside of the windows in the winter.
Walking to school by yourself at the age of 5.
Looking after your younger siblings (all 3 of them) at the age of 6.
Always being outside, even when it rained.
Not going inside until called by your mam, or it was dark.
Getting a belting off your mam for not coming in when she called or it got dark.
Christmas smelling of oranges.
Happy halloween.
Penny for the guy.
Carol singing.
Happy New Year.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Sleeves on a duvet....

[IanD]

Just seen the earlier post saying 1970.

I was confusing trolleys and trams. Vaguely remember trolleys but never went on one that I can remember.

[BLUETIT]

Chipmunk Oxo crisps

Tizer made in Llandaff North

A T-Bone Steak in El Grecos in a place called Caroline Street

Guildford Crescent Baths

I could go on..........

I used to supply El Grecos, with their salads veg and mushrooms free steaks on a Saturday night

[Harry Monk]

Sleeves on a duvet....

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

Saturday morning flicks at the Capital.
Home made Jubilees at the corner shop.
Walking down the City and getting in for free at halftime.
John Toshack.
Llanedeyrn High...Marlborough Juniors
11.55 am queue to get in pub on Sunday lunchtime...drink 8 pints in 2 hours 10 mins..stagger home.
Terraces
Spillers..Pint of Sasspirella..or Dandelion and Burdock and a cheese roll.
My mate Mark Humphries...
The sound of I'm Not In Love drifting across the City from Cardiff Castle..

i went llanedeyrn high
went to the capitol morning flicks
and briefly played in a band with mark
we may well know eachother

...only in Llanedeyrn for the first two years then moved to Royston..nr Cambridge.
Only got to know Mark in thise two years..he used to live at 325 Coed y Gores..brother Simon.
Sad i missed his funeral

[ToTaL ITK]

...only in Llanedeyrn for the first two years then moved to Royston..nr Cambridge.
Only got to know Mark in thise two years..he used to live at 325 Coed y Gores..brother Simon.
Sad i missed his funeral

Yes very tragic
you may have known Andy Seawood, Steven Dubler, Mike Driver.

[Malckent]

Checking my watch in the olympia cinema in Queen Street, hoping the film would finish so I could get a pint in before stop tap in the Taff Vale pub opposite. Stangely I remember that pint was always flat.

[B. Oddie]

Having wet ankles because someone has had a piss two rows behind and not caring because you're stoned from passively smoking pot....also coming down from two rows behind.

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

Saturday morning flicks at the Capital.
Home made Jubilees at the corner shop.
Walking down the City and getting in for free at halftime.
John Toshack.
Llanedeyrn High...Marlborough Juniors
11.55 am queue to get in pub on Sunday lunchtime...drink 8 pints in 2 hours 10 mins..stagger home.
Terraces
Spillers..Pint of Sasspirella..or Dandelion and Burdock and a cheese roll.
My mate Mark Humphries...
The sound of I'm Not In Love drifting across the City from Cardiff Castle..

Yes very tragic
you may have known Andy Seawood, Steven Dubler, Mike Driver.

def Mike Driver..Andy rings a bell..never found out how he died.

[lennybluebird]

Standing for the queen at the end of a film.😬

[ken smith]

Im in my 40s and don't remember most of the things on here!

[BLUETIT]

6 of the best off Brother Claude !!!!!!!

F ucking hurt as well

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

The sound of freight trains shunting at night (pre-air brakes!)
Wayfinder shoes, complete with animal footprints on the soles and a hidden compass in the heels
Snake belts
Warm school milk left by the radiator
The sound of manual rotary lawnmowers
Frost on the INSIDE of your bedroom windows
Coal fire in the bedrooms
Street parties