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The Banana Splits - the best children's program ever, even if it was made by spaced out hippies!
Fleagle take out the trash and Dear Drooper - hilarious.
Used to love watching that in the summer holidays along with subtitled black and white programs like White Horses and Robinson Crusoe.
Also used to love the Double Deckers.
I see some of you mentioned Corona fizzy drinks. My uncle used to deliver it to people on a milk float in Irthlingborough, Northants back in the 70's.
I used to help him when I stayed at my grandparents in the summer holidays.
Knock down Ginger was a favourite game of the day, knocking on front doors and then legging it. It might be called something different up North?
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Loved the Banana Splits!!!

Anyone get the single by the Dickies. Less than 2 mins in lengh! Top 5 I think though

Yellow vinyl naturally
My my my, such a lot of guns around town and so few brains
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lufc1304 wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:43 pm Must admit I've never heard of 60 seconds!! :shock:

You missed a treat mate :)

It was a filler while you waited for yer mates, when only 4/5 were at the park for a game of footie. One in goal, you had an area, inside you could only score with your head, outside you could only score with a volley, the keeper counted to 60, if you didn't score in that time, someone else went in goal, if you did he'd have to start again from one.
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sat mornings , swap shop, arabian knights size of an elephant lol

some more classics on here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usxxj3Jrzv0 enjoy.
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Nana and Grandad's bungalow on Flamborough Head, you could hear the waves in bed at night and the lighthouse shining through the curtains. Tinned salmon Salad with pickled cucumber and pickled spring onions for tea on the Sunday before we drove home.
Fruit salads (didn't like black jacks), Bazooka Joe bubble gum, fry's chocolate cream, Heinz baked beans and sausages, pineapple chunks sweeties, and Spanish shoe laces (liquorice)
Being rubbish as backstop in the school rounders team
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ahh! food.....being from a single parent set up it was all the cheap stuff. Mince that you had to skim off the fat! Liver without bacon and beanfeat spag bol!
Yuk!
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tinned salmon pickled cucumber and bloody spring onion you posh git :)
white swan , me old mum n dad used to have a caravan in ulrome near brid early 70s loved going there as a kid and used to c flamberhead from our van so i know about the waves at night.
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sorry meant flamborough head ! bloody spelling.
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gessa wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:37 pm Kerbie.
Nurky 1 2 3
Texan Bars.
Chippy for some free batter bits
Climbing up and around the scaffold on the local building site.
Penny for the guy.
Spud bashing.
Doing the milk round from aged 9.
Texan bars were great, also toffee treats :tup:
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Gessa...i did the milk round with my stepfather around that age too!
There were Coop (blue floats) Unigate (Red Floats) and Magnus and Usher (Green Floats)!!!
The battery was the size of a small car and most used to break down after a few miles!
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Neither have I but then no one else has heard of Fred which was my favourite game to play in the playground as a kid
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Was anybody else glued to this screen during the 80's?
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Ellandback1 wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 2:48 pm Was anybody else glued to this screen during the 80's?

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Tele-printers on a Saturday afternoon with David Coleman or Frank Bough

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whiteswan wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 1:35 pm Nana and Grandad's bungalow on Flamborough Head, you could hear the waves in bed at night and the lighthouse shining through the curtains. Tinned salmon Salad with pickled cucumber and pickled spring onions for tea on the Sunday before we drove home.
Fruit salads (didn't like black jacks), Bazooka Joe bubble gum, fry's chocolate cream, Heinz baked beans and sausages, pineapple chunks sweeties, and Spanish shoe laces (liquorice)
Being rubbish as backstop in the school rounders team
Jill & I was walking across Flamborough Head just a few weeks ago :)

I use to like playing rounders as I fancied Stephanie Freer & Diane Barker :love:
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The Binatone tennis game.
Ice breaker bars with the minty shards in the middle.
Swiskit bars "I'll risk it for a swiskit"
The tomorrow people - the theme music scared the bejesus out of me
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leic white 63 wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 2:03 pm tinned salmon pickled cucumber and bloody spring onion you posh git :)
white swan , me old mum n dad used to have a caravan in ulrome near brid early 70s loved going there as a kid and used to c flamberhead from our van so i know about the waves at night.
Use to have a client who owned a caravan site in Ulrome

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Spearmint lollipops
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Chumping & nicking wood off other bonfire sites
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Dalton wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 1:00 pm Loved the Banana Splits!!!

Anyone get the single by the Dickies. Less than 2 mins in lengh! Top 5 I think though

Yellow vinyl naturally
No but I have got every episode on DVD!
Got the box set off eBay a few years ago.
My 16 year old daughter thinks I have lost the plot when I sit there creasing up at it.
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leic white 63 wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:25 am watch with mother ....... flower pot men , tinker and tucker :)
the herbs, banana splits , double deckers.
z cars, the sweeney
subbuteo
scrumping
black jacks oh and the ever lasting gobstopper :)
Aah The Flowerpot men.....weeeeeeeeed !!

Loved subbuteo with floodlights, collected loads of teams in their respective colours.

We had leagues, funny how Leeds United won everything & Man U & Chelsea were always at the bottom of the league :lol:
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