Do You Remember

[chiddicks]

Over the last month or so I have been publishing a few things that I remember from growing up as a kid in the 60’s. So I hope you enjoy my little piece of nostalgia and my trip down memory lane…….

​​​​​​​https://chiddicksfamilytree.com/2021/12/19/do-you-remember/

[Treetotal]

Some iconic images there that made me smile....I remember the polio sugar lump. Also team house colours at school where we wore a coloured band across the body depending on which team you were in. School apparatus for PE, bean bags, rope ladder, the beam etc. Ice cream man on a push bike with a cart on the front! Rope swing hanging from the lamppost in the street, you had to use your jumper or coat as a seat. Playing marbles and jacks!
Thanks for the memories.
Carol

[frostyknight]

That brought back some memories. I had a tape recorder just like that, and also had a viewfinder which was a present from someone.

Very interesting reading and images Chiddicks.

Treetotal, I recall the polio vaccine given on a sugar lump. There was another vaccination given by injection in school when I would have been about 8/9, can't remember what it was for, (maybe for rubella, or it could have been the BCG) but there were a lot of crying children that day.

[Rena]

I too could relate to most of the images.   

One thing I wish I could bring back is that old fashioned Hoover vacuum cleaner.    I bought my first Hoover for £39.00 from the official agent, who conveniently lived next door to my parents. 

I currently have one vacuum cleaner upstairs and one vacuum downstairs, both produced by different manufacturers and neither designed for ease of use.

[Guy Etchells]

I don't know if it was a Scottish thing but we drank our milk outside in the playground, the crates were never in the classroom! Even in the winter when the lids were lifted by the expansion.
Cheers
Guy

[Millmoor]

It was certainly not a Scottish thing, Guy. I am still trying to get over the trauma of warm school milk some 60 years later. In my Edinburgh primary school the crates were frequently stacked beside the radiators and we drank it in the classroom. Sadly I was very rarely able to palm it off onto someone else.

William

[rayard]

Lovely happy memories! I wish I still had that kitchen cabinet, can't bend to see at the back of low ones anymore!
rayard.

[Milliepede]

Ah the space hopper - they were always orange 

I remember the sugar lump too, we had to file up onto the stage at school one by one to be given our dose.  And the team house colours which for us were named after rivers.  Avon yellow Kennet green Windrush blue and Thames red.  Amazing what you can remember when your memory is jogged.

[PurdeyB]

A lot of memories in that post! I vividly remember standing on my etch-a-sketch and being very upset when my foot turned silver. I was told it was my own fault for having a messy bedroom floor! I remember helping with the twin tub too, dragging the heavy wet washing from the wash side to the spinner with a pair of wooden tongs.