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no we didn't have a phone either,had to go up the road to the phone box! would'nt use one now!--well we don't have to with the mobiles we have and home phone, a phone was a luxery,we got our first phone in the early 70s.

here's another one--sorry bit morbid really-----when someone died they were brought home to be laid out in the front room and all the curtains shut untill after the funeral, my dad died when i was 14 nearly 15 in 1966 and was brought home and was in the front room untill the funeral, and because my bedroom was over the front room i would'nt sleep in my bed and got in with mum!!
don't know if there were any chapels of rest then?

Birthday cards from the chums club. I think it was something to do with the Birkenhead News.

yes i did have it once, in egremont primary school, peg leg gave it to me

i do remember getting milk in school to, i remember gettin half penny sweets from the shop by the unit 4, i cant remember his name, and he used to sell us ciggies

Buying the chemicals and blue touch paper at the local chemist's to make your own fireworks. Great fun!!!!

HA HA Bert when i took a look at the first picture i could smell the dust lol great picture`s though .i can remember 11 off the list ,we used to take the old newspapers to the chippy and they would give you a big bag of fishbits, used to love them,

I also remember Tesco`s opening a small shop in moreton cross and it closed at 5 pm and never opened on a sunday ,infact all the corner shops used to open on a sunday morning to sell the papers and then close at 1pm ? We also had a rented tv from Reddifusion lol it had a socket screwed on to the window ledge ,it had 2 buttons for the channels i think and then another button for the radio good old memories great subject thanks for putting it on

we had tvs rented to, 50p we had to put in the back, we had that on the fiddle and the gas man, when he came we all used to sit round the coffee table and see how much rebate we got back, if me dad did beat him to it lol, some times we owed him

That`s funny Lemonhead i`m going back further cos we didn`t have 50 pence`s then we had a shilling or 2 bob ha god it makes me laugh it`s like another life time ago .I don`t think many people owned their own tv at the time it`s sad isn`t it if ours broke now we would just go out and buy a new one lol

i cant go back to far, i wouldnt be born, a blast from the past is good, guinea gap baths, happy hour was good swinging off the beems on the mats was good

Collecting the labels off Robertson's Jam bottles and then sending them off, to get your next Golliwog badge.

They can still be collected now, as Golly badges.Don't know where all mine went to, but some of them are worth a fortune these days.

Yes, Birkenhead News. Aunty Gladys; she lived in School Lane, Bidston.

Later it was Barbara Stredder I think.

These bamboo beaters are still used in Japan today by almost everyone. Most people there sleep on a futon so it has to be beaten at least once a week and hung outside so the sunlight can kill all the mites.

no we didn't have a phone either,had to go up the road to the phone box! would'nt use one now!--well we don't have to with the mobiles we have and home phone, a phone was a luxery,we got our first phone in the early 70s. [/quote]

Down the line in time a little (1967) I was working in the telephone exchange at Lancaster House, Old Hall Street, as an operator on the 'Irish Service'. All calls to Ireland were 'personal calls' due to the fact that there would only ever be one telephone in each of the villages over there. So, we would make contact with the person who housed the telephone which was usually the local shop or the pub. Sometimes the shop turned into a pub at night time!
We would tell them who the telephone call would be for and post haste, someone would race down the road to find the individual concerned. Often, we could be holding on for 5/10 mins until eventually a very breathless voice would try to utter a few words at the other end. Then we could connect the call and start to charge for the duration. They always seemed to loose a couple of minutes of talk time as they tried to get over the excursion of running from one end of the village to the other, near collapse some times!