The Oldies "I remember when" thread

[Ram-Alf]

2 minutes ago, FindernRam said:

Spot the ball competition in almost all papers. Remember my Dad doing it almost without fail. Never won though!

If only Roos could ?

[Crewton]

On 16/08/2022 at 18:38, Wolfie20 said:

I do but can't remember the host - or quizmaster as we used to call them.

Great quiz programmes - Double Your Money, Take Your Pick, Spot The Tune

Criss Cross Quiz -  there were adult and kids versions - and quite a few presenters over the years apparently (including Chris Kelly and Bob Holness) but the one that rang a bell with me was Peter Wheeler. 

[GB SPORTS]

On 16/08/2022 at 14:09, maxjam said:

My parents bought me a ZX81 (and then a Spectrum 48k followed by a 128k) back in the day.  I can remember waiting for 15-20 mins for a game to load from tape only to have it fail right at the end - then tweaking the dials a fraction and trying again.

The Amiga 500 with games loading from disk was a huge advance!

Still got my ZX81 waiting for the day it becomes an antique.

[Elwood P Dowd]

1 hour ago, I DONT MIND said:

Still got my ZX81 waiting for the day it becomes an antique.

You will be antiques together ???

I still have a cricket game called Owzthat I used to play at school, the school is long gone. I am still in touch with my old Owzthat adversary, we went all the way through school together.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owzthat

Edited August 20, 2022 by Elwood P Dowd

[FindernRam]

4 hours ago, I DONT MIND said:

then a Spectrum 48k

This was the original time warp device: Deliveries were always within a few days according to Sinclair; this went on for months as I recall. Morphed into our favourite "48 hrs" today

[FindernRam]

4 hours ago, I DONT MIND said:

Still got my ZX81 waiting for the day it becomes an antique.

You need to have the original "ram pack" rubber bands for it to be worth anything.?

For you kiddies out there it strapped the 8k ram block into the zx81! Hitech indeed.

[GB SPORTS]

1 hour ago, FindernRam said:

You need to have the original "ram pack" rubber bands for it to be worth anything.?

For you kiddies out there it strapped the 8k ram block into the zx81! Hitech indeed.

Yes got the RAM add on (of Course) also i have got the most valuable thing in there (so i am told), and that was the manual, learnt basic from it and now have a second income from being a techie.

[Miggins]

On 18/08/2022 at 17:49, Mucker1884 said:

Assuming "Brains" refers to faggots?  I quite like a faggot every so often, but never tried them on toast... and not sure I want to!
Love(d) dripping on toast, with oodles of salt.  I'd still enjoy that today... If only Muckerette would allow it!
We too, never had a car.  Dad could (apparently) drive a tank, but never passed his driving test.  (I seriously doubt he was ever in a position to afford a car anyway!).
We too had to eat up, and ask to leave the table.  (I went one step further than heaving on one ocassion... and dad never forced me to eat another sprout, which I never have to this day!
No fridges on holiday (Caistor caravan at best) so it was cornflakes with evaporated milk for brekky.  Disgusting!

 

Other random memories:

• Cornflakes with warm blancmange* for school pudding.  (*Not fully set, more the consistency of thick custard).  Delicious!
• Casey Jones on telly... and later "The Tommorow People".
• Banana & sugar sandwhiches.
• Mum starting her Saturday evening shift on the mobile chippy van (Our street being first stop), and me escorting her to work... and coming back with an armful of mad-hot chips, just as dad took the warm "Take & Bake" out the oven, and big sis switched on the telly, all with perfect timing to sit down for Sale of the Century ... "From Norwich... It's the quiz of the week"!  I just loved those Saturday evenings!
• Taking 17 mins to cycle to school (Via Mansfield Road where The Paddock now stands, and up by The Rocket), and less than 3 mins to cycle home, bike shed to front gate. (Downhill all the way, via Scarborough Rise)!
• Mum thinking it hilarious to interrupt our footy game, to force me to give her a kiss when she headed off for (yet another) evening job.  All whilst my mates pointed and laughed.  Banter back then.  Child abuse nowadays!  ?
• Having a VIP-Executive-Box style view of the whole show from my very own bedroom window, as they blew up the bridge (Breadsall Viaduct, or "Seven Arches" as we called it) pretty much where The Paddock pub now stands. The front row of houses (Whitby Avenue) were evacuated just in case, leaving 16 year old me with the best view of all, and everyone else stood gathered in front of our house.  Dad was sensible enough to open all our windows, to give them room to shake when the blast came.  Many other houses around us suffered smashed windows.  Lots of 'em!  As it was a Sunday, (23rd September 1979) they were hastily but temporarily boarded up, and the glass was replaced the following day.  Respectfully... and with my eternal gratitude... every single one of those glazers stopped work, downed tools, and stood with heads bowed, at the kerbside, as mum returned home for the last time, before we followed her back out of the street, and off to the crem to say our goodbyes.  
  They don't make weekends like that anymore!
  xxx 

It's not often a post can make you both laugh and cry... ❤️

[Frogram]

On 18/08/2022 at 17:05, Elwood P Dowd said:

Does anyone remember the forerunner of the Ice cream van, the guy who used to have a three wheeler bike with a big insulated box on the front, see the link below. There wasn't any of this soft whipped ice cream just solid rectangles of ice cream "bricks" that fitted into rectangular shaped wafers. 

https://www.reevesdesign.co.uk/stop-buy-one/

There was also a guy who went around the houses sharpening knives he had the grind stone powered by the bikes crank.

The Walls man came round our estate , trouble was he was a distinctly unsavoury character . His hands were permanently black , as if he had to keep replacing his bike chain . His teeth were an amazing mixture of colours , my dad always said that if he had a white one , he'd have a snooker set .  Chellaston in the 50s , anyone remember "Georgie " ?

 

 

 

[Frogram]

On the subject of offal , my dad used to love tripe , in all it's disgusting forms . He'd have it cold with vinegar and a  tomato , or cooked in milk and onions , this would stink the house out , and make me feel queasy . Don't even ask what chitterlings were !

 

 

 

[Guest]

Any Ashbourne Road milers on here? This was a pub crawl starting from the Derbyshire Yeoman (now McDonald’s) at markeaton park island down Ashbourne road and friar gate and wardwick into town. From memory the pubs were yeoman/travellers rest/swan and salmon/gallant hussar/brick and tile/Garrick/greyhound/friar gate hotel/rising sun/buck in the park/lord nelson/wardwick tavern/saracens head 

brick and tile was an arguable inclusion as it was just off the main road and on brick street but it was a popular one

Not sure if this is the complete list but I have good memories of the start and some indifferent ones of the end! 

[Ram-Alf]

1 hour ago, Monty said:

Any Ashbourne Road milers on here? This was a pub crawl starting from the Derbyshire Yeoman (now McDonald’s) at markeaton park island down Ashbourne road and friar gate and wardwick into town. From memory the pubs were yeoman/travellers rest/swan and salmon/gallant hussar/brick and tile/Garrick/greyhound/friar gate hotel/rising sun/buck in the park/lord nelson/wardwick tavern/saracens head 

brick and tile was an arguable inclusion as it was just off the main road and on brick street but it was a popular one

Not sure if this is the complete list but I have good memories of the start and some indifferent ones of the end! 

Did you stay to long in the Yeoman...The Travellers Rest followed by...The Wagon and Horses ?

[Turk Thrust]

5 hours ago, Frogram said:

On the subject of offal , my dad used to love tripe , in all it's disgusting forms . He'd have it cold with vinegar and a  tomato , or cooked in milk and onions , this would stink the house out , and make me feel queasy . Don't even ask what chitterlings were !

 

 

 

Chitterlings hmmmm. That takes me back, very tasty

[TimRam]

On 20/08/2022 at 10:45, I DONT MIND said:

Still got my ZX81 waiting for the day it becomes an antique.

Great machine and got me a career. 

[uttoxram75]

7 hours ago, Unlucky Alf said:

Did you stay to long in the Yeoman...The Travellers Rest followed by...The Wagon and Horses ?

The Derby Mile was a coming of age thing for young lads from the shires.......it always got a bit messy.

[Gee SCREAMER !!]

9 hours ago, Monty said:

Any Ashbourne Road milers on here? This was a pub crawl starting from the Derbyshire Yeoman (now McDonald’s) at markeaton park island down Ashbourne road and friar gate and wardwick into town. From memory the pubs were yeoman/travellers rest/swan and salmon/gallant hussar/brick and tile/Garrick/greyhound/friar gate hotel/rising sun/buck in the park/lord nelson/wardwick tavern/saracens head 

brick and tile was an arguable inclusion as it was just off the main road and on brick street but it was a popular one

Not sure if this is the complete list but I have good memories of the start and some indifferent ones of the end! 

There was another one off Vernon Gate if you were really going for it, Wagon and Horses as well.  Yeoman was not part of my mile as turned into a Mcdonalds maybe 3 years before I started it.  In later years they chucked in Seymours by St Werburghs.  Think there are maybe just The Greyhound and Travellers left- maybe the Brick and Tile.  Always very messy, especially in the days you could get a top deck on your birthday which was pretty much half a pint of mixed spirits at the half way point.  My mate went AWOL at one all dayer and sobered up at some ones wedding he'd apparently been taken to by someone in The Greyhound.   Problem was it was up near Dovedale. 

[Crewton]

1 hour ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

There was another one off Vernon Gate if you were really going for it, Wagon and Horses as well.  Yeoman was not part of my mile as turned into a Mcdonalds maybe 3 years before I started it.  In later years they chucked in Seymours by St Werburghs.  Think there are maybe just The Greyhound and Travellers left- maybe the Brick and Tile.  Always very messy, especially in the days you could get a top deck on your birthday which was pretty much half a pint of mixed spirits at the half way point.  My mate went AWOL at one all dayer and sobered up at some ones wedding he'd apparently been taken to by someone in The Greyhound.   Problem was it was up near Dovedale. 

Brick and Tile is still there. Rising Sun is Bishop Blaise, Garrick is a student pub iirc. Nowadays, you can add in Mr Grundy's and there's a few newer bars between Ford St and town. I reckon you could still do 12 bars. 

[Gee SCREAMER !!]

19 minutes ago, Crewton said:

Brick and Tile is still there. Rising Sun is Bishop Blaise, Garrick is a student pub iirc. Nowadays, you can add in Mr Grundy's and there's a few newer bars between Ford St and town. I reckon you could still do 12 bars. 

Last time I drove past there it looked derelict.  If it's still open best avoided. 

[Ram-Alf]

8 hours ago, uttoxram75 said:

The Derby Mile was a coming of age thing for young lads from the shires.......it always got a bit messy.

Yep sure did in more ways than one, I never completed it, The rule of thumb was half a pint in each pub but pints were the order of the day, Half pints for the Ladies, I'd be done for at The Buck in the Park?

[Mostyn6]

On 20/08/2022 at 09:37, FindernRam said:

pot the ball competition in almost all papers. Remember my Dad doing it almost without fail. Never won though!

Did you know that the Spot the Ball competition is not based on where the actual ball is/was? A panel of people decide where to put the ball!! FFS!