Author Topic: memories that make us smile,  (Read 8780 times)

Diasi

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Re: memories that make us smile,
« Reply #15 on: Mar 25, 2019, 07:19:54 AM »
It's not a memory that makes me smile but rather the vision of the future where all today's youngsters, who've grown up stamping their feet & getting their own way, will be old men & women, living in a world where they're the ones having to look at youngsters getting their own way & they'll be totally unable to cope with it.
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Re: memories that make us smile,
« Reply #16 on: Mar 25, 2019, 10:36:44 AM »
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2/9d for a pint? Surely not at the same time that petrol was under 3/- - which is about what it was when I started driving in 1970. Back that I seldom drank beer in a pub, but spirits were 2/- a nip and beer was cheaper.
Mike
Oh yes I expect you're right my memory is a bit hazy on prices back then.... :-\

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Re: memories that make us smile
« Reply #17 on: Mar 25, 2019, 02:24:39 PM »
Raining cats and dogs the day Dad dropped a £5 bag of sixpencies in the High Street....

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Re: memories that make us smile,
« Reply #18 on: Mar 25, 2019, 04:45:32 PM »
Oh yes I expect you're right my memory is a bit hazy on prices back then.... :-\
Mine's a but hazy now! Where did I leave the keys?
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Re: memories that make us smile,
« Reply #19 on: Mar 25, 2019, 05:55:04 PM »
Join the club.... ;D ;D

crabbyob

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Re: memories that make us smile,
« Reply #20 on: Mar 26, 2019, 06:33:33 AM »
were in the club....arent we?
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Re: memories that make us smile,
« Reply #21 on: Mar 26, 2019, 09:34:05 AM »
I recall paying 1/11d  for a pint of Ind Coope bitter in the 60's and at that time petrol was under 5/- a gallon.  However, the country was to become blighted by Watney's "Red barrel" - or "Grotneys" as CAMRA named it.
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Re: memories that make us smile,
« Reply #22 on: Mar 26, 2019, 10:06:50 AM »
Getting strange looks while smoking Sobranie Cocktail (with different pastel coloured papers)
And the first time I paid £1 for a pint.
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Re: memories that make us smile,
« Reply #23 on: Mar 26, 2019, 11:34:13 AM »
Teddy boys, winkle pickers, guys in orange robes in the Kings Road going on about Hari Krishna, paying the bus conductor, flared trousers, no speed limits, an AC Cobra doing 185mph on the M1, ETypes, MGBs, Sprites.... :)

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motorsport/day-jack-sears-hit-185mph-m1-motorway

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Re: memories that make us smile,
« Reply #24 on: Mar 26, 2019, 11:57:14 AM »
Getting strange looks while smoking Sobranie Cocktail (with different pastel coloured papers)
And the first time I paid £1 for a pint.

I felt dead sophisticated smoking a Sobrani! I liked the Dusty Springfield look, kohl round the eyes, pale lippy, a beehive and a mini skirt.  The skirt was a bit of an issue getting on the boyfriend's motor bike!

I may have heard Crabby playing the pipes, I had aunts in Edinburgh and visited quite often.  Like Devonian, I remember the coffee smell. My mother always bought loose tea from a specialist shop, and I loved that roasting smell.  The shop is still there in Dundee, I must revisit next time we're there.
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Re: memories that make us smile,
« Reply #25 on: Mar 26, 2019, 12:18:26 PM »
I can't remember her name, but there was a girl in town who would take several packets of Cocktail cigs and then swap them so that she had boxes of all the same colour.  She would then smoke cigs whose colour matched the clothes she was wearing.

The smell of coffee - ahhhh.  There was a grocers in town owned by an Italian gent.  It had smoked hams and a big hand cranked coffee grinder.  The smells were amazing.  My mother (she of the Glasgow school of cooking - as I called it) never bought this foreign rubbish.  She wasn't a bad cook, but she set whole new standards in lack of flavour and imagination.
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« Reply #26 on: Mar 26, 2019, 12:30:32 PM »
I can't remember her name, but there was a girl in town who would take several packets of Cocktail cigs and then swap them so that she had boxes of all the same colour.  She would then smoke cigs whose colour matched the clothes she was wearing.

The smell of coffee - ahhhh.  There was a grocers in town owned by an Italian gent.  It had smoked hams and a big hand cranked coffee grinder.  The smells were amazing.  My mother (she of the Glasgow school of cooking - as I called it) never bought this foreign rubbish.  She wasn't a bad cook, but she set whole new standards in lack of flavour and imagination.
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Re: memories that make us smile,
« Reply #27 on: Mar 26, 2019, 07:16:35 PM »
The cooking of a Sunday roast .. Walking up the road the wonderful smell of lamb.. and cabbage filled the air.
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Re: memories that make us smile,
« Reply #28 on: Mar 27, 2019, 08:28:21 AM »
going down the pit on a monday day shift
my god you needed an oxygen mask
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Re: memories that make us smile,
« Reply #29 on: Apr 07, 2019, 12:40:19 AM »
I recall paying 1/11d  for a pint of Ind Coope bitter in the 60's
Bloody Hell you were ripped off. Bitter 1/6d in the vault and 1/7d in the best room in 1968 (Chester's Mild 1/5d in the best room)