Cardiff City in the welsh cup and ecwc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grandstand Boy
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Cardiff City in the welsh cup and ecwc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grandstand Boy
The joy of finding a Corona bottle top and taking it to the shop and getting 5p's worth of fruit salads and black jacksQuote:
Originally Posted by Auntie Andy
OMG I could type as essay ...
but sticking with the pub theme.
Lifting the barrel of scrumpy onto it's stand for the landlord and getting the first pint for free as a thanks.
Floating a coin on the surface of a pint of scrumpy.
Getting kicked out of a pub because the landlord said the chips we carried in would make his beer go flat
Driving to the pub in a Morris Traveller with split screen & 8 track
3 up on a motorbike with no crash helmets, drinking 12 pints & riding home
those we the days :)
Not sure if already mentioned but 'bread and dripping' luverly....lol
The football special from Llanishen with a steam train and a city scarf round the funnel��
BERNI INNS, treat her to a proper steak meal :hehe:
Bird nesting
Taking the bottles back 10p on pop 12p on cider and beer bottles
King ball
Releego
Square peg
Scrumping apples
Getting a chase off the farmer
Airfix models
Football 78's panini stickers
Playing football over the red gravel
Space invaders
Pac man
Zx spectrum
50 p Postal order off your nan for your birthday
Jusoda and Tizer
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..........
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Worcester
And...
Baker delivering bread by van
Butcher delivering meat by van (My mam had meat & bread deliveries until about 1970, in Ty Sign, Risca.)
Coal deliveries.
Golden Goal comp down at NP.
Airfix
Meccano.
Train sets.
Playing OUTSIDE.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
Oh for the good old days...
with rickets, polio, caning in school...
No central heating => ice ferns on the inside of your bedroom window
PorkiesQuote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Playing pitch and toss outside the goodies.
Building a bogey .
Sledging in the snow with your mums best tray .
Playing football all day
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..
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
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.
Trolleys ended in the late sixties or esrly seventies I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanD
Just seen the earlier post saying 1970.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elwood Blues
COUNTY flicks!..Quote:
Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
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Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
60 in April...Marlborough then moved to Carisbrooke Way so went to Llanedeyrn from form 1 when it was brand newQuote:
Originally Posted by rs3100
i went llanedeyrn highQuote:
Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
went to the capitol morning flicks
and briefly played in a band with mark
we may well know eachother
Cap guns
Playing Cowboys and Indians
Hedgehog flavour crisps
Meccano
Evel Kenieval
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.
Sleeves on a duvet....
I was confusing trolleys and trams. Vaguely remember trolleys but never went on one that I can remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elwood Blues
I used to supply El Grecos, with their salads veg and mushrooms:thumbup: free steaks on a Saturday nightQuote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Mort
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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
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Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
...only in Llanedeyrn for the first two years then moved to Royston..nr Cambridge.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK
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 tragicQuote:
Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
you may have known Andy Seawood, Steven Dubler, Mike Driver.
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.
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. :hehe:
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Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
def Mike Driver..Andy rings a bell..never found out how he died.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK
Standing for the queen at the end of a film.😬
Im in my 40s and don't remember most of the things on here!
6 of the best off Brother Claude !!!!!!!
F ucking hurt as well :frown:
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
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.
Frank f*cking Callus for us at Lady Mary!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Exactly, you are a part of the younger generation compared to us fossils😂😂Quote:
Originally Posted by ken smith
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.
Lol, just said Sister Christopher was a cow as well (before they mixed the classes)Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker