Childhood memories (ruined)

[themadhippy]

Did you ever visit Tescos in the early 70s

Not often,we were more a fine fare family.

[davidinyork]

As someone said, the past is a foreign country!

It was the novelist LP Hartley: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there". It's the first line of his novel 'The Go-Between'.

[Newportnobby]

As someone said, the past is a foreign country!

It was the novelist LP Hartley: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there". It's the first line of his novel 'The Go-Between'.

Ah. I thought that was J.R. Hartley, the chap who piddled on a telephone directory and called it the Yellow Pages

[dannyboy]

I thought J R Hartley was the chap who went fishing for flies 

[daffy]

If the past is a foreign country, which one was it?  Did I speak the lingo when I was there, cos I can only speak English now? 

You forget so much.

[marco neri]

Steam trains....here they are a rarity..wa have not very steam locos in service.

IRON MAIDEN in Rome (1981) one ticket=£ 5

IRON MAIDEN in Rome (2016) one ticket £ 50😟.

...too much trash food

Cheers

Marco

[The Q]

Don't lose sight of the fact that some things are better now than in the 60s/70s.

- there's a much better choice of food & drink in supermarkets

And the death of  town centers and the small independent butcher, baker and greengrocer

Did you ever visit Tescos in the early 70s ?

Rice was exotic (except when boiled with milk and sugar and served with a dollop of jam).

Does anyone feel nostalgic about tapioca, sago, school dinners, gypsy tart (makes you ..........) ?

Does anyone miss the Navy Lark, Sing Something Simple with the Adams Singers, followed by Sunday evening TV ?

Best regards,


Joe
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No.... where I lived for the majority of the 1970s there was no Tesco and  still isn't  (Benbecula, Outer Hebridies).  I didn't see a Tesco until 1990...in Milton Keynes.

Our current Tesco food aisles are gradually being taken over by pre-prepared plastic junk in expensive small plastic packaging... another aisle went last week.

The Military bases had a NAAFI, very variable....

I certainly don't miss the school food, which at one of the schools was bad enough to reach national TV.

Yes I do miss the navy lark.... Left hand down a bit... and I still listen to Friday night is Music night....

I hate Macdonalds  Sweet Buns with your burgers?! that's just not right!! and I hate the Office...
The only MacDonalds owned café I would Enter, is the one in Armadale Castle... (that's Clan MacDonald not a stupid red clown)..

:)Fast food.. Fish /Chicken / Sausage / Pie and Chips from the chip shop in Station Approach, Ludgershall. .   food of the gods....    Now gone in the turning of the old railway station site into a housing estate.

When I moved to Norfolk (1999) we had a bank in bank street, a baker in bakers street and a good variety of other shops, then Tescos opened. The banks / building societies have gone as has the bakers it's mostly charity shops now......

"cos I can only speak English now",  you'd have had a clip round the ear'ole from the teacher for saying "cos" and not "because"...

[Newportnobby]

Does anyone feel nostalgic about tapioca, sago, school dinners, gypsy tart (makes you ..........) ?

Does anyone miss the Navy Lark, Sing Something Simple with the Adams Singers, followed by Sunday evening TV ?

School dinners - green lumps in the mashed potato, prismatic scum floating on the boiled mince (a bit like you see floating on oil), cabbage with the life boiled out of it , pink custard on rock hard choc bricks (yum). But at one school we had a tuck shop where you could get cream buns and iced chelsea buns At another school the seniors got coffee with their dinner but it came in metal handleless mugs so you had to wrap a handkerchief round it or scald your fingers

Yes - I remember Sing Something Sinful, along with Sunday lunchtime radio like The Goons, Round the Horn, The Clitheroe Kid, Hancock's Half Hour etc but in the evening my parents used to watch the appalling Black & White Minstrel Show

[Bealman]

Yeah my mother used to love that. 

[Nick]

Does anyone miss the Navy Lark, Sing Something Simple with the Adams Singers, followed by Sunday evening TV ?

Certainly do! I still listen to the Navy Lark on DAB! 

[austinbob]

Is that on on Radio 4 Extra? Lots of good old stuff on there.

[Nick]

Yes, indeed. R4x

[railsquid]

I wrote a long piece about the things I've lost of my childhood memories (plus  most of my adult life) but it's vanished into the ether. So here's a precis...

Schools of the 5 schools I attended.
1 is a community centre, two are demolished, one is half its previous size and one is still intact...

Of my places of work
Two have closed and moved elsewhere, one has gone completely, 4 have gone down from around 600 staff to about 25., one is half it's size. and I'm still in this one...

Three of the five schools I attended have been demolished, I found when I checked them up on Google maps. All three were in the same town and I haven't been back there for 20 years so the sense of loss is minimal (OK, I punched the air in celebration when I saw one had been reduced to the outline of its foundations). The two other schools (in very different towns) still exist.

[broadsword]

One of the schools I attended is now a Wetherspoons type pub with an
attached comedy club.  Others demolished, however couldn't give a
monkeys .

[austinbob]

Pleased to say all three of the schools I attended are still going strong.
Gorringe Park primary school Mitcham
Merryhills primary school Enfield
Enfield Grammar school