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My dad would always take us to the small toy shop on corner of our Street on a Friday afternoon to by us a lucky bag...anyone remmber them....it burned down in 75 and took half the Street with it...I really miss my dad...a good old bloke :cry:
Open air swimming pools ! :shock: Kids don't know they're born these days with their centrally heating indoor pools and hot showers. Get into an open air pool, freezing water, hyperthermia on your goosebumps and have a great time !
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Open air swimming pools ! :shock: Kids don't know they're born these days with their centrally heating indoor pools and hot showers. Get into an open air pool, freezing water, hyperthermia on your goosebumps and have a great time !

Swimming pools, thats the spot where the river is deeper, yes?
Talkin of 76 i remember i had an orange VW Beetle like pedal car which i loved till some twonk nicked it lol
Also remeber in in later 70's and early 80's me on my raleigh grifter and my mate on his raliegh chopper riding side by side playing CHIPS that used to be on TV. I was Ponch and he was the other bloke who no one rembers :lol:
We had those horns that played different sirens and chased the cars up the road.
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Open air swimming pools ! :shock: Kids don't know they're born these days with their centrally heating indoor pools and hot showers. Get into an open air pool, freezing water, hyperthermia on your goosebumps and have a great time !

Here, that wasn't you at Llandaff Fields was it? lol
What about the tidal baths in Penarth?
Hand me the snorkel - I'm going down! wink
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Open air swimming pools ! :shock: Kids don't know they're born these days with their centrally heating indoor pools and hot showers. Get into an open air pool, freezing water, hyperthermia on your goosebumps and have a great time !

Here, that wasn't you at Llandaff Fields was it? lol
What about the tidal baths in Penarth?
Hand me the snorkel - I'm going down! wink
I wasn't posh enough to use Llandaff Fields :giggle: Guttersnipes like me had to make do with Splott Baths with a ride on Jessie afterwards :happy:
and before you lot ask, that wasn't the Parkie's Mrs :giggle: Jessie was an old steam engine that was a feature of the children's playground...............ah the memories biggrin
Ah...hunting Tommy Loggers from under the rocks in the river. Fetching out mesh fulls of Crayfish for eating (dont think its allowed now) Saturday mornings at the pictures for a shilling to watch a film whilst trying to smoke 10 number 6 or 10's depending on funds. Colecting refundable bottles ready for a Sunday splurge on blackjacks, fruit salads and the like after Sunday school. Whole summers at the swimmming pool with a packed lunch and a bunch of mates. Dark and cold winters with crumpets toasted on the fire whilst watching the telly all together and a host of other things that have already been mentioned.
Not so good but equally remembered were table spoon fulls of Castor and Cod Liver oils every day. Smelling horrible twice a week when my hair was rinsed in vinegar water to make it shine, embarrasing when your 12 and going to school discos where everyone else smells of Brut and you smell like sixpenny bag of chips. Unheated rooms and the pain of a bath when its cold.
All in all childhood was fantastic !
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Ah...hunting Tommy Loggers from under the rocks in the river. Fetching out mesh fulls of Crayfish for eating (dont think its allowed now) Saturday mornings at the pictures for a shilling to watch a film whilst trying to smoke 10 number 6 or 10's depending on funds. Colecting refundable bottles ready for a Sunday splurge on blackjacks, fruit salads and the like after Sunday school. Whole summers at the swimmming pool with a packed lunch and a bunch of mates. Dark and cold winters with crumpets toasted on the fire whilst watching the telly all together and a host of other things that have already been mentioned.
Not so good but equally remembered were table spoon fulls of Castor and Cod Liver oils every day. Smelling horrible twice a week when my hair was rinsed in vinegar water to make it shine, embarrasing when your 12 and going to school discos where everyone else smells of Brut and you smell like sixpenny bag of chips. Unheated rooms and the pain of a bath when its cold.
All in all childhood was fantastic !

Wot hair!!???
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Ah...hunting Tommy Loggers from under the rocks in the river. Fetching out mesh fulls of Crayfish for eating (dont think its allowed now) Saturday mornings at the pictures for a shilling to watch a film whilst trying to smoke 10 number 6 or 10's depending on funds. Colecting refundable bottles ready for a Sunday splurge on blackjacks, fruit salads and the like after Sunday school. Whole summers at the swimmming pool with a packed lunch and a bunch of mates. Dark and cold winters with crumpets toasted on the fire whilst watching the telly all together and a host of other things that have already been mentioned.
Not so good but equally remembered were table spoon fulls of Castor and Cod Liver oils every day. Smelling horrible twice a week when my hair was rinsed in vinegar water to make it shine, embarrasing when your 12 and going to school discos where everyone else smells of Brut and you smell like sixpenny bag of chips. Unheated rooms and the pain of a bath when its cold.
All in all childhood was fantastic !

now dont quote me on this but as far as i know as long as you only take the american signal crayfish from the river its ok as they are killing & taking over from our native variety much the same as the grey/red squirel problem sad
we also used to collect the empty corona bottles for the deposit's on them & take them to the local pub smile we used to do quite well from it as well untill the landlord realised we were finding them in crates behind his pub lol :lol: