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celeste

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #15 on: 11:42:52, 03/09/09 »
I remember neighbours taking it in turns to hold bonfire night, so exciting - jumping over ripraps, watching the rockets light up the sky, how daring were those that lit the fireworks, collecting for the guy - one man gave us a pound!

Watching a firework display in Sale (Worthington) Park was fun too
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« Reply #16 on: 14:59:37, 04/09/09 »
School games, whip and top. we chalked designs on the tops and spun them. Hula Hoops. Marbles, played in the grids on the road [there was far less traffic then]. Skipping ropes where two kids held the ends and others jumped in, if you were part of the 'in' group that is.

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« Reply #17 on: 18:00:16, 04/09/09 »
As well as Dick Barton there was " Journey into Space " and I never missed an episode.

Opposite our row of Accrington brick terraced houses were the allotments - one to each house.

Mr. Hopkinson who owned the corner shop was a real entrenpeneur. While his wife was running the shop he was out delivering coal. He also had a chicken pen and sold eggs to the neighbours every Friday. Not surprisingly, he owned the only car on the street and his son was the only kid with a Robertson's metal golliwog badge and a tape to tape recorder.

I remember Domino cigarettes - four for sixpence in a paper packet and the man selling hot potatoes as you came out of the cinema.

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« Reply #18 on: 21:37:01, 04/09/09 »
playing Jacks on a friends doorstep, playing cards at someone's house in the school holidays - her mother bringing us all back chips from the chip shop
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« Reply #19 on: 22:08:48, 04/09/09 »
School trips just before the end of term - always somewhere like Fountains Abbey or Chatsworth House, York was ok four of us went on the Ouse in a rowing boat and got talking to some students from Durham University (male of course) ;)

Visits to the Library Theatre in Manchester with the school, always Shakespearean productions and trying hard to stifle giggles at the men in tights :-[ :)
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« Reply #20 on: 23:17:00, 04/09/09 »
Goodness, yes, school trips! We were taken to Little Moreton Hall, I was terrified! There was a really strange atmosphere there, I just had to get OUT! Maybe this will start a new thread on the paranormal? Anyone else felt uncomfortable there?

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« Reply #21 on: 23:20:53, 04/09/09 »
Yes - start a new thread bel O0
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« Reply #22 on: 16:59:45, 07/09/09 »
I remember a man coming in to give us Highway Code lessons
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« Reply #23 on: 21:30:11, 07/09/09 »
The nit nurse!

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« Reply #24 on: 18:15:38, 08/09/09 »
This is funny - when I was about ten I used to stand on top of the loo upstairs and talk to one of the sons next door, he used to go to sea and used to tell me all about it - he was about twelve feet away in his bathroom  then my mother who was in the kitchen below used to shout and call me down - so annoying

Years later when a guy from night school used to walk me home she always opened the front door at the crucial moment

Was your mother like this? ;)
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« Reply #25 on: 21:26:40, 08/09/09 »
My dad used to stand at the door ,catch me on the way out and fasten a safety pin in my blouse. Of course once I got down the street it came out again!

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« Reply #26 on: 22:07:28, 08/09/09 »
 :2funny: :2funny:
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« Reply #27 on: 18:48:53, 14/09/09 »
I remember my mother being terrified of mice - she would jump on a chair, she thought they came in the house as she used to have a hen run in the back garden (left from when previous owner lived in the house) so she got rid of the hens, got two cats - no more mice!

A neighbour whose house backs on to a brook has seen a few though.
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« Reply #28 on: 19:02:25, 14/09/09 »
I'm also terrified of mice! I read somewhere that women don't like mice because they have to 'do something about them' ie kill them. I feel sorry for the poor mites, but I also don't want them running around my kitchen!

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« Reply #29 on: 15:52:35, 15/09/09 »
I woke up in the night to find a spider hovering above my bed  :o
so I changed the furniture round immediately, I couldn't have gone to sleep otherwise, I have read since that we swallow at least eight spiders when asleep - I won't believe it!
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