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celeste

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #45 on: 23:56:26, 24/10/09 »
welcome to the forum, I never did that though my son and a little lad who lived round the corner did it - these things get handed down :)
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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #46 on: 00:04:29, 25/10/09 »
Ha ha ha, you should have experienced it, carting down the road -breaks don't work, extremely dangerous, but absolute fun.

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« Reply #47 on: 00:26:52, 25/10/09 »
Ha, had enough 'fun' riding my bike riding downhill and headfirst into a bush (near a roundabout) while my friend was wetting herself laughing or having a first lesson on a horse and the groom said lets gallop now!!
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wick.Sixpence to get in.
 

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #49 on: 07:19:52, 16/05/11 »
Hiya Kirky.  Same price to get into the saturday matinee at The Temple Cinema in Cheetham.  I never liked the 3 stooges, but there was no choice.  It was that or nothing.  Even when tv came along, programmes didn't start until teatime.  An earlier post from HackMyNoons made me smile, at the mention of white dog poo.  It used to be left on the street until sunlight bleached it white.  I'd forgotten all about that.  Not all early memories are savoury ones! 
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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #50 on: 16:49:29, 16/05/11 »
I remember Hope Hall at the top end of Brunswick street. I remember the hippodrome at ardwick green, long gone. I remember waiting for the artists to come out so we could get their autographs. I remember Mansfield street school pulled down 2 years ago, St Pauls Church on Brunswick street,  the trolley buses going up and down Brunswick street, Cranworth street were I lived many many years ago. Time marches on.

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #51 on: 17:52:26, 16/05/11 »
I remember Bonfire Night and my Mum making treacle toffee. She bent her head to see if it was ok and her glasses fell into the sticky mass. I laughed so hard I had to disappear asap!
 
I remember Dad giving me sixpence and saying I could go to any sweet shop I liked and didn't need coupons any more. I couldn't envisage the "any more".
 
I remember there being newspaper cut out sheets in the toilets at school and this was a privately run school!!!
 
I remember Dolly Mixtures, Dandelion and Burdock, Stalin lying in state (the first dead man I had ever seen), threepenny pieces, farthings, Babycham (got horribly sozzled on it and was carrying my inevitable hair rollers upstairs when I dropped them on the landing and as I was picking them up, I noticed two bedroom slippers with my mother's feet in them. Did I get a talking to!! She told me to drink reputable alcohol such as whisky, etc. She shouldn't have done that!!!!)

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #52 on: 21:50:25, 16/05/11 »
Hmmm
Some of the kids in my neighborhood when I was a kid (long, long ago) used to put lawn mower motors on the carts and terrify all the old ladies in the area.
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« Reply #53 on: 23:50:05, 16/05/11 »
'Should have had brandy with your babycham, SwissGill!  That used to be a favourite of mine, tho being a lightweight drinker in my youth, I could only manage one, then I had to retire for the evening.  Anyone remember advocaat?  'Evenings und mornincks, I drink Warninks, Warninks Advocaat'the tv advert jingle went.  Mixed with lemonade, it was a snowball.  Very 1960s.  'Laughing Cow' processed cheese cocktail squares (still popular in Switzerland, I understand). 
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« Reply #54 on: 15:32:34, 17/05/11 »
 O0 Ah cheethamgirl, I used to enjoy a brandy and babycham (only one) in my youth.
I also liked a barley wine which is quite potent. It was sold in small bottles or served
from a small barrel usually on the bar. xx
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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #55 on: 15:59:38, 17/05/11 »
Yes, Greengate Girl, I recall Barley Wine.  The choice of students, but if one had a few bob, a Carlsberg Special would banish those rainy day blues.
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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #56 on: 13:26:46, 18/05/11 »
Kunzle cakes.

Gorgeous!!
 
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« Reply #57 on: 07:07:23, 19/05/11 »
There's a whole thread on here about Kunzle cakes!  They were obviously everybody's favourite.  :smitten: 
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