Thread: What is new since 1948

petal · 10-09-2007, 07:49 PM

Well I'll try not to be flood.............lol I'll keep wearing jeans, long skirts, carry big shopping bags (empty or full) and be as dippy as I want............no-one will expect much more as the years go on so I can revert to almost being a child again...................lol -but hopefully with a bit more wisdom..................lol

paulettewinter · 10-09-2007, 08:54 PM

your right in sayeing about street games and gangs, we would find our own entertainment up the hills down the sunny banks as we called them, a little food and a big bottle of pop lowcocks,glass bottle mind you it werent surprising when some one caught me swigging this big bottle back and i chipped my front tooth.i was born in 1951 but things were different then you seemed as though you could roam all over then . loved playing two balls on the wall, skipping ,loved hop scotch. like you we had a outside loo news paper sometimes when funds were low. a ktchen sink inside no heating but a lovely coal fire i love coal fires and the old tin bath yes i dont think i could do wthout my little luxurys today though. but every one was the same and no body was better than anyone else, you could leave your front door open then, paulettex

Starlight · 10-09-2007, 09:19 PM

What about those Christmas decorations that you made yourself. Fish and chips at school every Friday incase some children were Catholic. We had our song for school dinners.

Talbot dinners, Talbot dinners
Mouldy greens, mouldy greens
Mucky semolina, mucky semolina
I feel sick, water quick.

slizzy · 10-09-2007, 10:00 PM

School dinner left overs were fed as swill to a farmers pigs
Our chant at school before dinner was ............

'For what we are about to leave
May the pigs be truly thankful.'

Remember: liberty bodices with their little rubber buttons?

School knickers with a handkerchief pocket?

Gaberdines (gabs) ?

Knee socks held up with elastic?

The comics I read .......School Friend, Bunty, Judy, and of course Beano and Dandy, comic characters the 4 Mary's, Desperate Dan, The Bash St. Kids, Plug.

And why, oh why did we lose trolley buses? They were so practical......always the last buses to stop running when we had pea souper fogs.

Our local shopkeeper was a slightly deaf lady. One day Mum sent me to the shop for bun cases, I obviuosly got a little confused and asked for bun papers, when I returned home everyone laughed to see what I'd brought back...........toilet rolls, the shopkeeper thought I'd asked for bum papers. But incidents like that kept people going, everyone seemed to see the funny side of things and were more relaxed, don't know about you but I never heard the word depression until I was much older................people got depression once life became too fast and too serious. It's a great shame as folks were definitely less stressed then. so we've paid a huge price for progress.

Starlight · 10-09-2007, 10:12 PM

I liked those liberty bodices, they were nice and warm. Then we had to do PE in our vests and pants. Plimsoles were supplied by the school but you didn't know who had worn them before.
I remember my older brother getting his first pair of long trousers when he went to Grammer school. I thought he looked funny in them.

I also read Bunty, Judy, Beano, Dandy, Beezer and Topper.

lookingback · 11-09-2007, 01:03 PM

I hated doing PE in knickers and vest and the smell of the changing rooms always comes to mind YUCK!!!... Did the school fire alarm ever go off while you were having a PE lessons??? We would have to line up in a road outside red faced with embarrassment, shivering in our shimmy

'til it was thought safe to go back in again???

petal · 11-09-2007, 04:06 PM

Slizzy you've just reminded me of some of the things I'd forgotten !.........lol
You're right.........stress.........depression ? Wasn't heard of then. People just got on with their lives............now it's a reason for time of work, more tablets that may or may not help...........if only people would talk on each other more and take just that little extra time then maybe, just maybe they'd feel better for it.
Oh well, such is progress..............

Starlight · 11-09-2007, 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slizzy

teachers we respected.

Who wouldn't when the boys got the slipper or the cane and girls got the ruler across their knuckles. Everyone had to duck the blackboard rubber as well.

paulettewinter · 11-09-2007, 07:49 PM

yes christmas , was your stocking hanging up full to the top with nuts and fruit a sixpence at the bottom, crayon books and a few pressies not the fuss of all the things ours gets today. every one seems to want more than any one else now, chrstmas parties were lovely at school and making decorations was the in thing then,my favourtes were the pantomines and saturday afternoon matinees, does anyone remember tommy steel the film little white bull, and hayley mills films ive seen them all i loved her acting she was a proper tom boy .paulette x

slizzy · 11-09-2007, 08:37 PM

Starlight, we didn't respect teachers who were cruel - we feared them, I have to say though from what I saw at school most kids who were caned did desrve a punishment, and I was once caned myself (caught smoking) I was relieved, as it seemed a much easier punishment than writing 100 lines, it was certainly over and done with much quicker. There were teachers at my school who we respected,some teachers were fantastic and treated their pupils with respect and truly wanted them to benefit from the opportunity of a good education. On the whole we showed respect to all adults - it was expected of us.

As you say Petal - we would all probably benefit from giving time, a smile, and a few words to people we come into contact with whilst out shoppig etc. giving is one of the best tonics.

I was raised in a small town/large village in the Pennines, it was a very mixed community, people with a more comfortable life style than us, and others with a less comfortable life style, but I don't remember there being any prejudiced people, or anyone looking down on those poorer than themselves, we were all encouraged to mix with each other, I had friends who were mill owners daughters and friends whose parents had a large family of children and very little money, we all played together without jealousy or snobbery. My parents (from me being 7) ran the local pub, and the customers were a mixed bunch who all socialised with each other. The mill owners, the workers and local characters all enjoyed each others company. Maybe this was because it was a small community - I don't know - as I didn't experience any other community until I was an adult.

10-09-2007, 07:49 PM	#21 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,637 Total Awards: 5	Re: What is new since 1948 Well I'll try not to be flood.............lol I'll keep wearing jeans, long skirts, carry big shopping bags (empty or full) and be as dippy as I want............no-one will expect much more as the years go on so I can revert to almost being a child again...................lol -but hopefully with a bit more wisdom..................lol
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

10-09-2007, 08:54 PM	#22 (permalink)
paulettewinter Super Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: i live in guisborough a nice little town in north yorkshire Posts: 1,098 Total Awards: 1	Re: What is new since 1948 your right in sayeing about street games and gangs, we would find our own entertainment up the hills down the sunny banks as we called them, a little food and a big bottle of pop lowcocks,glass bottle mind you it werent surprising when some one caught me swigging this big bottle back and i chipped my front tooth.i was born in 1951 but things were different then you seemed as though you could roam all over then . loved playing two balls on the wall, skipping ,loved hop scotch. like you we had a outside loo news paper sometimes when funds were low. a ktchen sink inside no heating but a lovely coal fire i love coal fires and the old tin bath yes i dont think i could do wthout my little luxurys today though. but every one was the same and no body was better than anyone else, you could leave your front door open then, paulettex

10-09-2007, 09:19 PM	#23 (permalink)
Starlight Ancestry Aid Manager Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: South Essex Posts: 16,349 Total Awards: 8	Re: What is new since 1948 What about those Christmas decorations that you made yourself. Fish and chips at school every Friday incase some children were Catholic. We had our song for school dinners. Talbot dinners, Talbot dinners Mouldy greens, mouldy greens Mucky semolina, mucky semolina I feel sick, water quick.
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10-09-2007, 10:00 PM	#24 (permalink)
slizzy Ancestry Aid Staff Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 16,194 Total Awards: 8	Re: What is new since 1948 School dinner left overs were fed as swill to a farmers pigs Our chant at school before dinner was ............ 'For what we are about to leave May the pigs be truly thankful.' Remember: liberty bodices with their little rubber buttons? School knickers with a handkerchief pocket? Gaberdines (gabs) ? Knee socks held up with elastic? The comics I read .......School Friend, Bunty, Judy, and of course Beano and Dandy, comic characters the 4 Mary's, Desperate Dan, The Bash St. Kids, Plug. And why, oh why did we lose trolley buses? They were so practical......always the last buses to stop running when we had pea souper fogs. Our local shopkeeper was a slightly deaf lady. One day Mum sent me to the shop for bun cases, I obviuosly got a little confused and asked for bun papers, when I returned home everyone laughed to see what I'd brought back...........toilet rolls, the shopkeeper thought I'd asked for bum papers. But incidents like that kept people going, everyone seemed to see the funny side of things and were more relaxed, don't know about you but I never heard the word depression until I was much older................people got depression once life became too fast and too serious. It's a great shame as folks were definitely less stressed then. so we've paid a huge price for progress.

10-09-2007, 10:12 PM	#25 (permalink)
Starlight Ancestry Aid Manager Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: South Essex Posts: 16,349 Total Awards: 8	Re: What is new since 1948 I liked those liberty bodices, they were nice and warm. Then we had to do PE in our vests and pants. Plimsoles were supplied by the school but you didn't know who had worn them before. I remember my older brother getting his first pair of long trousers when he went to Grammer school. I thought he looked funny in them. I also read Bunty, Judy, Beano, Dandy, Beezer and Topper.
	Starlight Ancestry Aid Manager Hampshire:- Barks, Bartholomew, Carpenter, Cousens, Cousins, Dumper, Gallagher, Goodchild, Glasspool, Hoskins, Light, Mason, Monday, Mundy, Pearce, Pitt, Shepherd, Spreadbury, Staniford, Terrill, Thornton, Warne, Webb, Woodford & many more. Top Tip: Use the forum search engine

11-09-2007, 01:03 PM	#26 (permalink)
lookingback New Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 22	Re: What is new since 1948 I hated doing PE in knickers and vest and the smell of the changing rooms always comes to mind YUCK!!!... Did the school fire alarm ever go off while you were having a PE lessons??? We would have to line up in a road outside red faced with embarrassment, shivering in our shimmy 'til it was thought safe to go back in again???
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11-09-2007, 04:06 PM	#27 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,637 Total Awards: 5	Re: What is new since 1948 Slizzy you've just reminded me of some of the things I'd forgotten !.........lol You're right.........stress.........depression ? Wasn't heard of then. People just got on with their lives............now it's a reason for time of work, more tablets that may or may not help...........if only people would talk on each other more and take just that little extra time then maybe, just maybe they'd feel better for it. Oh well, such is progress..............
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

11-09-2007, 07:49 PM	#29 (permalink)
paulettewinter Super Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: i live in guisborough a nice little town in north yorkshire Posts: 1,098 Total Awards: 1	Re: What is new since 1948 yes christmas , was your stocking hanging up full to the top with nuts and fruit a sixpence at the bottom, crayon books and a few pressies not the fuss of all the things ours gets today. every one seems to want more than any one else now, chrstmas parties were lovely at school and making decorations was the in thing then,my favourtes were the pantomines and saturday afternoon matinees, does anyone remember tommy steel the film little white bull, and hayley mills films ive seen them all i loved her acting she was a proper tom boy .paulette x

11-09-2007, 08:37 PM	#30 (permalink)
slizzy Ancestry Aid Staff Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 16,194 Total Awards: 8	Re: What is new since 1948 Starlight, we didn't respect teachers who were cruel - we feared them, I have to say though from what I saw at school most kids who were caned did desrve a punishment, and I was once caned myself (caught smoking) I was relieved, as it seemed a much easier punishment than writing 100 lines, it was certainly over and done with much quicker. There were teachers at my school who we respected,some teachers were fantastic and treated their pupils with respect and truly wanted them to benefit from the opportunity of a good education. On the whole we showed respect to all adults - it was expected of us. As you say Petal - we would all probably benefit from giving time, a smile, and a few words to people we come into contact with whilst out shoppig etc. giving is one of the best tonics. I was raised in a small town/large village in the Pennines, it was a very mixed community, people with a more comfortable life style than us, and others with a less comfortable life style, but I don't remember there being any prejudiced people, or anyone looking down on those poorer than themselves, we were all encouraged to mix with each other, I had friends who were mill owners daughters and friends whose parents had a large family of children and very little money, we all played together without jealousy or snobbery. My parents (from me being 7) ran the local pub, and the customers were a mixed bunch who all socialised with each other. The mill owners, the workers and local characters all enjoyed each others company. Maybe this was because it was a small community - I don't know - as I didn't experience any other community until I was an adult.