Site Supporter fatolive Posted July 10, 2019 Site Supporter Share Posted July 10, 2019 Lock ins on a Saturday / Sunday afternoon All day opening fucking ruined that ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athywhite1958 Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Our bread man had a horse and cart, I've got my dad's first rent card from 1957, rent on a 3 bed semi on Everest Road, Hag Fold was 2/6 a fortnight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athywhite1958 Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 6 minutes ago, fatolive said: Lock ins on a Saturday / Sunday afternoon All day opening fucking ruined that ... Pubs in Athy on Sundays were 2 o'clock last orders, we could get to the 3 Crowns in Daisy Hill as Bolton was 2.30 then to Hag Fold working men's club for the 4 o'clock bell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burndens Bogs Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 3 minutes ago, athywhite1958 said: rent on a 3 bed semi on Everest Road, Hag Fold was 2/6 a fortnight 12.5p? I was about 11 when decimal currency proper kicked in, i was confused as fuck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidy82 Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Focus points from cig packets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Winchester White Posted July 10, 2019 Site Supporter Share Posted July 10, 2019 3 o'clock on Sundays can fuck off but I quite like 11 or 12 finishings as I am an old twat now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkonion Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 10 off Bolty's list and 8 off Satan's. Fast food for me was chippy about once or twice a month when my dad came home from his rare visits to the conservative club (he was labour till the day he died but said the Conny club was a better place to go, the whole family were sworn never to divulge his secret). The chippy in question was Mr and Mrs Lee's opposite The Bell pub on Manchester Road East in Little Hulton and the only items they sold were fish, chips and peas. The first prices I remember were 1p for peas, 2p for chips and 3p for fish, I think this would have been just after decimalisation. If I was asleep he would wake me up and me and my mum and dad would share a portion of chips and fish between the three of us and watch whichever black and white film was on telly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Zico Posted July 10, 2019 Moderators Share Posted July 10, 2019 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Aidy82 said: Focus points from cig packets Me and my mates all smoked embassy or regal but only one mate collected them, so we gave all ours to him It took him a long time and all he had to show for it after what seemed like years was a pool table shaped ashtray and some clippers for shaving his head Edited July 10, 2019 by ZicoKelly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bolty58 Posted July 11, 2019 Author Members Share Posted July 11, 2019 7 hours ago, Good Knee said: Cheers P I'm positively ancient remember all of em. No worries C. Not mine BTW. That was sent to me by one of the head honcho's from BHP Iron Ore in Perth. He's from Whitehaven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bolty58 Posted July 11, 2019 Author Members Share Posted July 11, 2019 (edited) 7 hours ago, Moon boy said: Great post bolty, can I add, Donkey stoning front steps, Taking a pudding basin to the chippy, Tripe, Orange juice from the co-op milkman, Cider lollies On the subject of coffee shops with jukeboxes, loved them, can remember a few of them Powell’s, Togs/Tognarellis in Farnworth, the one on the corner at the bottom of Trinity street, near the technical college, who’s name I can’t recall Remember all of them mate. Thanks to TMGJ who also pointed out the taking bowls to the chippy. A brilliant way of avoiding plastic waste - hadn't thought of that! The most influential coffee shop (with a soulful Juke Box beyond compare) in my life has to be the one close to the top of Bank St. (next door to Preston's). I used to catch the bus home as a raw 11/12 year old after attending BCGS on Gt. Moor St. Had to walk to the bus stop bottom of Bank St. outside the grain place. Seeing the Lambretta's lined up outside the Espresso Bar; the hugely impressive sharply dressed Mods and their beautiful birds (totally different and massively superior to the rough slapper Rocker tarts I was used to up Tonge Moor) had a lasting influence on me which, to an extent, has shaped my life. My interest in gears developed from my first foray into an Li 125 gearbox and led to the career which has taken me around the world and rewarded me well; my Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean musical tastes started there as did my lifetime devotion to such things as 501's, Gazelles, Fred Perrys etc. Still wearing the latter now to accusations of "dressing too young". 'Fuck off - I've been wearing these since the mid Sixties' (not the very same ones, obviously!). Cider lollies! Reminded me of Jubblies and Mambo's! Edited July 11, 2019 by bolty58 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freds dad Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 11 from Boltys list. I also remember the pop man coming round. At first it was Corona then Alpine muscled in with their cheaper prices but with inferior quality. Taking bottles back to the shop for the 1d deposit. A chocolate vending machine outside Billy Phythians shop on Springfield Road in Kearsley. Half day closing on Wednesday and Bolton holidays when almost everything closed for at least a week. Pub Sunday opening hours of 12-2 and 7-10.30. Spud guns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bolty58 Posted July 11, 2019 Author Members Share Posted July 11, 2019 40 minutes ago, freds dad said: 11 from Boltys list. I also remember the pop man coming round. At first it was Corona then Alpine muscled in with their cheaper prices but with inferior quality. Taking bottles back to the shop for the 1d deposit. A chocolate vending machine outside Billy Phythians shop on Springfield Road in Kearsley. Half day closing on Wednesday and Bolton holidays when almost everything closed for at least a week. Pub Sunday opening hours of 12-2 and 7-10.30. Spud guns. Them bastards could sting if they hit you in the right place! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayjayoghani Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 1 hour ago, freds dad said: Pub Sunday opening hours of 12-2 and 7-10.30. Only changed in 1995, dont have to be that old to remember! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh white Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Playing stretch with knives, jacks n dobbers, ikey ikey and rolly 123 in your childhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bolty58 Posted July 11, 2019 Author Members Share Posted July 11, 2019 38 minutes ago, leigh white said: Playing stretch with knives, jacks n dobbers, ikey ikey and rolly 123 in your childhood. Finger, thumb or Icky? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatanGreavsie Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 I wonder if anyone ever plays piggy now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted July 11, 2019 Site Supporter Share Posted July 11, 2019 Seem to remember someone selling Bolton Evening News outside the bottom Bull from a little stand: maybe paper shops closed for local holidays or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Steejay Posted July 11, 2019 Site Supporter Share Posted July 11, 2019 (edited) 48 minutes ago, bolty58 said: Finger, thumb or Icky? Aye, used to be brutal, landing as heavy as you could on top of some poor bastard who was hunched down! British Bulldog - carnage for an 11 year old against the bigger lads. 38 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: Seem to remember someone selling Bolton Evening News outside the bottom Bull from a little stand: maybe paper shops closed for local holidays or something. All the newsagents closed down for Bolton holidays, which were the last week in June and the first week in July. There were sales points for the Evening News all around the town. Bolton was like a morgue in those two weeks. Most folk scarpered off to Blackpool or Rhyl. Edited July 11, 2019 by Steejay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh white Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 56 minutes ago, bolty58 said: Finger, thumb or Icky? Was called finger, thumb or dumb in some districts, we called it ikey, ikey in a bucket. Same game different name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter RONNIE PHILLIPS Posted July 11, 2019 Site Supporter Share Posted July 11, 2019 What was the lad called who sold the BEN in his wheelchair on the precinct? I've got Derek in my head but not sure... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Steejay Posted July 11, 2019 Site Supporter Share Posted July 11, 2019 9 minutes ago, RONNIE PHILLIPS said: What was the lad called who sold the BEN in his wheelchair on the precinct? I've got Derek in my head but not sure... Bernard??? Didn't the Chelsea lot throw him down the town hall steps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter RONNIE PHILLIPS Posted July 11, 2019 Site Supporter Share Posted July 11, 2019 2 hours ago, Steejay said: Bernard??? Didn't the Chelsea lot throw him down the town hall steps? That's the man! Yeah I seem to recall something like that happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 I'd heard that a 'Bolton lot' put him in the fountains... Didn't he do a bit of bird for tobacco smuggling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 And had about 12 kids (allegedly). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Steejay Posted July 11, 2019 Site Supporter Share Posted July 11, 2019 2 hours ago, Youri McAnespie said: I'd heard that a 'Bolton lot' put him in the fountains... Didn't he do a bit of bird for tobacco smuggling? 2 hours ago, Youri McAnespie said: And had about 12 kids (allegedly). Probably. I heard that he got done for fiddling with the women while they were paying for their paper! I remember him dropping all his takings over the floor once - he jumped out of his chair & was scrambling all over the floor shouting 'Oh No, Oh No', while everybody dived in, helping themselves! He'd get a job at B & Q these days mixing paint. Sorry... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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