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Progressing from Tuesday ‘no alcohol ‘ night to Thursday & Saturday loads of alcohol nights in the Rank.
The foghorns & ships hooters coming from the Channel, even more so on New Year’s Eve.
New school uniform but with sandals for Corpus Christi (junior school, not senior).
Nazereth House fete & all the sports, sack race, egg & spoon, 3 legged race etc, great times.
Queuing for tickets to see a band on a first come first served basis. I queued round the block to get tickets to see wings in the Capitol in the 70s. These days all the tickets are bought up en bloc by third party greedy companies and then re sold on line for about 5 times the price, scandalous.
Another one I can remember is getting the inside of my thighs chapped through wearing short grey flannel (rough as hell) trousers.
Radio One Road Show down Barry beach where some perverted 40 something DJs would get to fondle young girls whilst Smiley Miley would pick the biggest clueless tw@ts from the thronging masses to do 'bits and pieces' (feckers wouldn't know a thing) and then you'd get a band like Bad Manners miming to My Boy Lollipop
I once 'saw' Radio Ones Mike Reid do a DJ set at a nightclub in Great Yarmouth in 1985 he walked on stage in his mod suit and straight mini tie and had a pint thrown at him - he told us all to feck off and walked back off stage
Saved us from listening him destroy a Secret Affair song anyway
Playing in the woods, building dens and dams.
Picking bluebells and delivering bunches of them to all the fit mums in the street.
Street water fights.
Playing in Rumney river.
Having a paper round.
Getting the bus to town and then legging it down to Ninian Park.
Artic light
Worthington e
Barley wine
Tenants super
The cockle man
8 pints on a Sunday morning 12 til 2
Riverside railway station
Clarence Road railway station
Ely Main Line railway station
St. Fagans railway station
Cefn Onn Halt railway station
People who used to knock on your door
Whipperine
Man who repaired umbrellas sharpened knives
Rag and bone man
Redifusion/radio rentals man to empty the money box on the back of your telly (although no money left as your dad had already opened the box and spent it)
Electricity man to open money box (see above re your Dad)
Rent man
Pop man
Milkman
Bread man
Insurance man
Doctor (whenever requested even if you only had a cold)
Fruit and veg van man in a reconverted ambulance
Coal man
Salvation Army coming round the pubs on a Friday night selling the War Cry
The chip van with chips for sixpence
I also had 6 off Claude. I am convinced to this day that the man was a sadist who got pleasure out of inflicting pain.
As for the cinema does anyone remember this every Saturday morning at the Olympia I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzWjw7AO_Xo
Catchy little tune from the late 50's/early 60's.
Football Echo .
End of term troubles ,
Short trousers
Carry bags instead of rucksacks
sandals
clothes from Woollies
Buying smokes on the way too school.
PE ins your school uniform
fighting everywhere
walking to school in heavy snowfall
playing football in the streets
doctors and nurses
Dial a disc.
mind you the phone line quality gives MP3 a run for the money
gary glitter at the capitol
It's really strange some of the things that people think that kids don't do these days. Playing in the woods or playing football in the street?