The good old days.

[Chippy_Tea]

Were they really?

I remember being the first up to go to work we didn't have central heating or fan heaters back then so I would light the coal fire and sit next to it to try to get a bit of warmth which didn't work as it hadn't got going by the time I sett off , a couple of years later we got a new type grate that had a door on the front you could close at night if you smothered the fire it would glow until morning, opening the door on the grate in the morning would bring the fire back to life, kids today don't know how lucky they are.

 

[Oneflewover]

Yes, they absolutely were. Give me my childhood in the 70s and 80s anyday over what today's kids have.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Were they really?

I remember being the first up to go to work we didn't have central heating or fan heaters back then so I would light the coal fire and sit next to it to try to get a bit of warmth which didn't work as it hadn't got going by the time I sett off , a couple of years later we got a new type grate that had a door on the front you could close at night if you smothered the fire it would glow until morning, opening the door on the grate in the morning would bring the fire back to life, kids today don't know how lucky they are.

My old nan used to get up first and make the fire. I’d stay in bed until the ice on the INSIDE of the window started to melt! Yes, the toilet was at the bottom of the garden and we had squares of newspaper hanging from a string over a nail in the wall. Ah! The good old days!

 

[Covrich]

Soon the good old days will be everyone reminiscing going down the corner shop without everyone jumping into the middle of the road like you are the walking dead.

As a child in the 80s I used to spend most of my days playing in the street Parents often didn't know where I was just knew I was around. Worlds a different place now.. My kids are active but I feel nervous when they are out of sight on their bikes

 

[An Ankoù]

Soon the good old days will be everyone reminiscing going down the corner shop without everyone jumping into the middle of the road like you are the walking dead.

As a child in the 80s I used to spend most of my days playing in the street Parents often didn't know where I was just knew I was around. Worlds a different place now.. My kids are active but I feel nervous when they are out of sight on their bikes

We were sent out to play after dinner and we weren't allowed back until tea time, but woe betide you if you came back after it had started to get dark.

 

[kelper]

We used to get free, school milk in 1/3 pint bottles. Often it was frozen and a banana-like object had pushed the caps off. The buses had no heating, there was only one radiator in our house which was in the hall and you would be cold all day! I was growing a carrot top in a saucer on the bedroom window sill and the water froze!

 

[kelper]

We were sent out to play after dinner and we weren't allowed back until tea time, but woe betide you if you came back after it had started to get dark.

I thought dinner was after tea?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Were they really?

I remember being the first up to go to work we didn't have central heating or fan heaters back then so I would light the coal fire and sit next to it to try to get a bit of warmth which didn't work as it hadn't got going by the time I sett off , a couple of years later we got a new type grate that had a door on the front you could close at night if you smothered the fire it would glow until morning, opening the door on the grate in the morning would bring the fire back to life, kids today don't know how lucky they are.

Central heating luxury! We lived in a cardboard box in the middle of the road and our dad would beat us with a stick with a nail it. If you tell the kids today they wouldn't believe you.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Central heating luxury! We lived in a cardboard box in the middle of the road

You had a cardboard box and road you were lucky -

I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah

 

[Rodcx500z]

born in the 50s was 10 when jfk was killed, just in time for the pop revolution, i remember the story about Harold Wilson asking Tony Benn in 67 to sort us out and alledgedly said no you do it i like it, was a great time to grow up

 

[marshbrewer]

I remember;

Ice on the inside of windows.
Heating in the downstairs rooms, by fire or the range, only.
Playing out all day, back for tea, then out again till dark. We went miles and miles on our bikes.
Owning an airgun, free to roam with it, until a sad day when I was nine when my dad traded it in for a .410, which I wasn't allowed to roam about with. In the plus side, I was driving a tractor by this age.
The general sense of freedom.
In my mid teens, drinking in pubs. Police would turn a blind eye unless you were being a massive prat.

Mind you, there were plenty of rubbish things as well

 

[Covrich]

I remember my parents putting the fire on

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I remember my parents putting the fire on

We had one of those in the living room when we moved into the house we are still in now, we got it taken out and went back to a coal fire, we still use the coal fire but we have the central heating so we can heat the rest of the house when needed.

We are considering moving to a multi fuel stove but they are expensive to install and i am a tight git.


Open fire, enjoy.

 

[marshbrewer]

I remember my parents putting the fire on

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Lol. There must have been one of those in every single student house I lived in during the late 80's/ early 90's. Lol. I remember the sound of the clicker that would fail to ignite them, so you used your *** lighter. Yearly gas safety check? In your dreams.

However, we were mostly too skint to turn them on

 

[kelper]

I think that is a Canon Gas Miser!

 

[chopps]

We had one of those except ours had little black burn marks on the slots in the white asbestos grilles, from lighting ****!

If you’ve never lit a cigarette on a Cannon Miser you haven’t lived. But you probably still have eyebrows.

 

[Obadiah Boondoggle]

and nostalgia is not as good as it used to be

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I remember the sound of the clicker that would fail to ignite them, so you used your *** lighter.

Chopps said
If you’ve never lit a cigarette on a Cannon Miser you haven’t lived. But you probably still have eyebrows.

That brought back some memories.

 

[Clint]

I had a JRT and a fishing rod. Spent all my holidays out roaming the woods, fields,ponds and river.
Knew where the best fishing was,best mushroom field,nuts etc. I always had a penknife in my pocket. The only money was sometimes found or 2p off pop bottles we got out the bushes!
Often came home with "creatures" to study including...frogs, toads,newts,rabbits,crows, magpies and once a grass snake..my mam would go mental...
There was a tip not far away full of old cars from the 50's and 60's..hours of entertainment... including cutting a big hole in the palm of my right hand..the scar is still there..
We had some laughs..

 

[kelper]

including cutting a big hole in the palm of my right hand..

Why did you do that? Or, if it was not deliberate, how?