General Chat

I know a lot of you were not even born then!! But for those who were, - Rock and Roll, luminous socks!! hooped petticoats, black and white telly,Sunday dinner at 1 o clock sharp, sixpence, thruppeny bits, 10 shilling notes, Anymore you remember?? Helenxx

Blue suede shoes (for the men) :)) sorry I mean boys

Hula Hoops Hopskotch Warm coke and smiths crisps roller skates and playing marbles in the road and the sun always shone lol

Those were the days girls did we feel safe Yes, i lived in leytonstone till i was 7 you could leave your front door open we had the smell of nevilles bakery, every day jonny mathis on the radio memories a???

Hi Helen Six five special on telly Rendezvous Club at Dreamland Ballroom Marcari,s coffee bar Roller skating Herne bay pier What Days Ronnie

Born in the 50s but I don't remember them! nell

Cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, a big bar of chocolate for 6d and 5 park drive cigarettes for 1s and the sun still shone

How about Tizer in bottles with the funny tops. Changing winter shoes for clarks sandals in the summer term. Penny ice lollies that went white when you sucked all the juice out. Sherbet dabs. Dick Barton on the radio early evening. Much Bimding in the Marsh with kenneth Horne and richard Murdoch (Friday evenings after the weekely bath), Childrens hour - Ballet Shoes, just William. Ann Glos

Saturday morning radio, that exciting song "the runaway train went over the hill and she blew, she blew, the runaway train went over the hill and she blew on and on and on, but l loved it. Champion the Wonder Horse and the Lone Ranger, sugar sandwiches!! lol

Bread and dripping sarnies the billy cotton bandshow with his wakey wakey on sunday which called you home for lunch

Saturday morning pictures, picnics with jam sandwiches and bottle of squash, out all day and feeling safe. Mum always at home when you got home from school, two weeks holiday in a caravan in the summer. Christine

Two weeks holiday, you lucky moo xx :o)

Little sir echo and woody woodpecker on the sunday lunchtime music programme. Blackpool for the illuminations.

I was born in 1948, so I was a Fifties Kid. I had blue suede shoes - from Dolcis in Oxford St. Drove my Mum mad till she bought them for me. I used to wear my big brother's V-necked jumpers - far too big and all the more fashionable for it. He played in a skiffle group and I had to play the notes on my recorder for him to tune his guitar. Everybody's sitting room had a radiogram, some had cocktail cabinets, a pouffe was a footstool, and there was 'contemporary-style' furniture. My Dad called it 'contemptible'. We read the Beano and the Dandy, then the Beezer came out. The first issue had a folded cardboard thing inside it that made a loud bang if you shook it hard. (We were easily amused!) We had Davy Crockett fur hats, sang 'My Old Man's a Dustman' and watched Popeye and The Cisco Kid on other people's TVs because only a few people had them then. Just think! In those days people were actually scared by the latest horror movies! These days, they're just a laugh. CB >|<

Farthings. Penny bars of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk. Disgusting Melba chocolate. Rupert in the Daily Express. The arrival of the (black and white) television. Popeye, the Woodentops, Rag, Tag and Bobtail. Bus fares were tuppence and you paid the conducter. Coal delivered on a lorry and ashes cleared from the grate each morning. Ice on the inside of windows in winter. The meat safe. Catching the train to go on holiday, my parents labouring across Waterloo with huge suitcases and two small children. Thinking that Beryl, my Sunday school teacher, was really old (she was probably 14!) Having to wear scratchy hand knitted cardigans. Seeing the word “Hilversum” on the radio, which was almost as big as the television. The Pifco hairdrier that always burnt my ears. The trouble is, if you were born in the fifties, how many of your memories actually date from then? Some of the above might possibly date from 1960! B

I remember very well the tizer bottles with the stoppers and bumpers and when 3 quarter trousers were in fashion i was 6 when they came out i felt like the bee's knees wearing them. i was born in 1952 so remember quite a lot, how the hand jive i used to walk to school on my own from 5 years!!!! Helenxx

How enjoyable reading allof your memories of the 50's. In 1950 I was just out of my apprenticeship anwaiting to go to do National Service. I remember my mother sitting close up to the wireless (as we called them then) listening to Dick Barton Special Agent. I think it was Compo from last of the Summer Wine that played one of his aides. All of the Comedy on the radio in those days would beat most of that on tv these days. As a lot of you have said times for some of us were hard but our parents ,moms and dads gave the majority of us the upbringing which in a lot of cases is missing today. Rupert Bear

Anyone else remember the machines on railway platforms that printed your name (or whatever you typed in) on a thin metal strip? Never knew what to use it for mind you! LOL Also 5 boys chocolate with the different expressions on their faces. Ballroom dancing lessons upstairs in the local cinema. I had silver shoes with lurex on them and thought I was the bees knees with my paper nylon petticoat that had been soaked in sugar water to stiffen it. Sitting in the bath with a new pair of jeans on to shrink them! Ice cream sodas as a special treat on a summer Saturday afternoon. Going to the corner shop and buying a small block of Walls ice cream and a bottle of cream soda to take home for Mum to cut into pieces in a glass and pour cream soda on top. Then slurping it through a straw - if we could get away with it! Using Hiltone on your hair to make it blonder. Washing my hair with Lemon Squezy if we had no shampoo. Lincolin beer shampoo in beer barrel shaped plastic bottles. Sunday night was hairwash night - drying my long hair in front of the fire while watching Tommy Trinder on Sunday Night at the London Palladium. Wirelesses with valves in them! Gramophones where the needle had to be changed after every record was played! Not being allowed to play in the street on Sundays. Playing Robin Hood with bamboo cane bows and arrows, or cowboys and indians with real cap guns (the boy next door had 'rich' parents LOL) Ah so many memories :0))) Sue xx

My mum always had the wireless on, on sunday, she used to sing while she cooked the dinner, and we always had homemade cakes for tea. Dad used to allow us a glass of shandy with sunday dinner!!! She used to us a boiler to do the washing and a wringer Helenxx

I remember on Sunday afternoons, we all used to get dressed up in our best clothes and go to the Tatler, then Dodinos and then the Savoy (Blackpool) for coffee, sometimes we varied the order, depended what boys we fancied at the time. Dancing in the Winter Gardens and Tower ballrooms used to finish at 10.30 during the week and 11 on Saturdays. Sometimes there were late night dances on until 2 a.m. but you were safe enough walking home. During the summer season the big bands used to play in the Winter Gardens, Joe Loss, Ted Heath etc. June xx