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THE WAY WE WHERE by irishdrifter
dangers of lead poisoning so even cribs were painted with brightly colored lead based paint. Medicine and Bottles with tablets did not have child proof lids
No seat belts or air bags in cars, nobody knew or if they did told our parents smoking and drinking was bad for the baby, kids shared coke from one bottle, soda had masses of sugar and we ate real white bread and butter and everything else including full fat milk that we are now told is bad for you
Parents couldn't reach us ( no mobiles ) and most of the day we would be out playing with friends and parents knew we would be safe with hardly any weirdos wandering the streets. If we got caught doing stuff we shouldn't the cops would take us home and we may well have a got a hiding for breaking the law ( but no do gooders saying mustn't smack children ). And if we played up in school the same applied.
While playing we got cuts and bruises and the occasional tear in jeans but it was just part of being a kid and no visit to the hospital.
We had no fancy games but could play for hours making a Go cart or a new tree swing and for other games most times we would find a ball and whatever we could use as a bat. or in the summer all jump into the nearest place we could find and if the water wasn't that clean we just didn't swallow it.
We rode our bikes with no helmets and doing whatever stunts we could ( bikes were so much heavier and hard waring ) and always had punctures to repair or get dad to help with.
If we didn't get in the team we were not good enough and that was that.
But most of all we were allowed to be kids
To dream, to invent and to play.
It's no wonder that the generation that grew up then created some of the most innovative and exciting technology we have today
Thanks for those years and all those "BAD THINGS" that is why we are who we are
George Lawson
Trying to remember events from so long ago is something of a mixture both of school and of Hull as it then was. The one thing I remember most clearly is the sense of community which existed in those days and a general interest in the well-being of friends and neighbours. Remembering school in those days certain names come back to me of staff and pupils,
Sister Mary Aquinas, of course, was the headteacher she seemed to be so old even then other sisters included Sister Mary Joseph who always seemed so kind and Sister Mary Bernadette who was quite the opposite in my recollection the only lay teacher was Miss Ryder.
Holderness road seemed to be the hub of our lives with East Hull Baths where we had our swimming classes every Tuesday morning, the Savoy Cinema and Holderness Hall (Cinema) . Holderness Road was the main shopping area fro east hull and boasted the City's second Woolworth's store. The old Craven Park was the home of Hull Kingston Rovers and Thursday and Saturday dog racing.
We went to the Savoy Cinema as a school group with the sisters having special permission the see "The Song of Bernadette," for which Jennifer Jones received the academy award.
V.E. day of course brought great celebrations and at school we all received a certificate declaring the end of the war signed by King George VI.
I remember Sister Mary Aquinas visiting each classroom every Monday morning with a large register in which she recorded our attendance (or not) at mass and whether we had been to confession and holy communion. I remember the Friday's in church wanting to go to confession and trying to think of sins worthy of One Our Father and three Hail Mary's.
CAROL CAMPBELL
I don't often think about my childhood ,but this site has got me realy going through my memories . I remember most of the shops mentioned . Does anyone remember the rag man coming around ringing his bell? I think we got a few pennies if we gave him some old clothes.
I know one day I gave him a pretty new top of Mam's , I was mad at her at the time ! Then I felt real guilty afterwards- (My catholic upbringing) I used to look forward to the milk man coming , I would run out as soon as I saw him , and sit on doorstep- drinking the cream off the top .I was always a picky eater and a skinny kid, so Mam didn't mind! We had a fish shop down our street so on a Friday she would send me for some for our Tea , and I used to always ask for 'scraps' I liked them better than the fish -HA!
I remember Dad getting up an hour ahead of us girls so he could get the fire going and warm the place up-it was always so freezing in a morning in winter .I must have been a wierd kid-I was always excited when the coal was delivered , and loved to watch as he threw it in our coal house in back yard -clouds of black dust flying everywhere! Tommy Mackew was his name. He used a horse and cart to deliver ! Us kids used to play in the bombed out house at top of our terrace There was one on practically every street ! We had a little grocery store in our terrace called Hudson's ,as soon as I had a penny or 2 I would go and get Kay-lie (Is that wrong spelling)and a liqurice to dip in it .
I had to walk through an ally way to get home when I got off the bus at end of Craven St every day , does anyone rmember it-We called it Ping Pong Ally? I used to run like mad when the train came through-it was so loud!
It was scary when it was dark nights and foggy! We played Hop scotch -kick the can-or we roller skated up and down the street . Carol Campbell
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent 'clackers' on our wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the back yard tap and not from a bottle - tasted the same.
We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles at times, we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No
one was able to reach us all day and no one minded.
We did not have Playstations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do the same thing again.
We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue - we learned to get over it.
We walked to friend's homes.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff, and although we were told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes out, nor did the live stuff live inside us forever.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
JAMES PORTZ
SUE ASKs
Do you remember when?
Today, 1:56 AM EST
I was sent a few of these in an email and have added to it. Lets see how long we can get this list. Maybe we could add it as a site page when we have added all we can think of Paul?
CLOTHING
1. All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
2. Big navy blue knickers which you wore for sport
3. Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
4. All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
5. Crimpelene dresses with lace daisies
6. Seersucker
7. Bras with circular layers of stitching that came to a point at the end!
LIFESTYLE
8. Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
9. You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air?
10. It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
11. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers. Cream on the top of the milk.
12. Newsreels before the movie
13. B Movies before the main movie
14. Letting off crackerjacks in the street around bonfire night - or trying to avoid them.
15. Cocoa and cereal for breakfast at school after early morning mass.
16. Punishment by ruler across the knuckles
17. Punishment by the strap or cane. Ouch
18. Farthings
19. Ha'pennys
20. Threepenny bits
21. The day your first ever TV arrived - black and white of course and it It took five minutes to warm up?
22. 45RPM records
23. Washtub wringers
24. Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
SAFETY
25. No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
26. Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
27. Taking drugs meant aspirin?
28. No one had heard of omega-3 or EPA but our parents always had Cod Liver Oil at the ready.
FAVORITE TV AND RADIO SHOWS
29. Dixon of Dock Green
30. The Lone Ranger
31. Listen with Mother
32. Andy Pandy
33. The Woodentops
34. Captain Pugwash
35. Noddy
Lets see if we can get it up to 100 at least?
FOOD
36. Always Fish on a Friday
37. Lollies being sold in the school yard
38. Candy cigarettes
39. Flying Saucers filled with sherbet
40. Sherbet Dips
41. Arrow Bars
RE: Do you remember when?
marie hildyard remembers
78 RPM records of Frankie Laine, Frank Sinatra and big dance bands.
Then magically,45rpm records to use with our Dancette record players. We could then listen to Bill Haley and the Comets, Little Richard, Elvis, Tommy Steele, Eddie Cochran, Little Richard etc.
Hearing Paul Anka sing "Diana" for the first time. Unbeliveable.
Wearing wide skirts with masses of net underskirts that swirled out when the boys spun you round when bopping.
St. Mary's Youth Club.
Emergency Ward 10
Believing that a glass and a half of full cream milk went into a bar of Cadbury's Milk Chocolate.
Tasting Nescafe' coffee for the first time after years of Camp coffee and thinking I had really gone up in the world as film stars drank coffee. Being given a whole Mars Bar to eat to myself.
How did Mum's Sunday lunch hot roast beef last for cold beef salad (tomatos and lettuce) for Sunday night's tea,
Monday morning pack up for Dad and a beef stew for Monday night's tea.
Mine only ever lasts for Sunday lunch!
Why was her gravy out of this world and I can't survive without Oxo and Bisto?
I could go on and on.
Marie
JACKIE BRADY
ANN JOYCE
i will never forget the stews my mum made with the leftovers from sunday dinner . nothing ever went to waste not like today . mum always did the dumplings which were made from self raising flour salt n pepper and margerind .they always rose out of the pan and were delicoius . i still do these today , my grand children ask me to go and do a stew for them and they go mad on these dumplings . i also like them better than the suet ones . mum always used stork and she used to send us to the shop for loose cigs when she was skint 5 woodbines or park drive , and i recall the joke made for the cigs . it was 2 woodbine was walking down the street crying and a park drive asked it what was the matter . and it said kensittas. silly joke really . i loved bonfire night when all the gangs would go hunting for stuff for the fire . and we would throw the spuds in to cook . . mum used to also have a long toasting fork which she did our toast with in the mornings . and oh how i miss the coal fires
reading Sue,s list, it got me remembering things of long ago
SEND YOUR STORY TO PAUL WHITNEY www.wpw1502@hotmail.co.uk thank you
THE WAY WE WHERE by irishdrifter
dangers of lead poisoning so even cribs were painted with brightly colored lead based paint. Medicine and Bottles with tablets did not have child proof lids
No seat belts or air bags in cars, nobody knew or if they did told our parents smoking and drinking was bad for the baby, kids shared coke from one bottle, soda had masses of sugar and we ate real white bread and butter and everything else including full fat milk that we are now told is bad for you
Parents couldn't reach us ( no mobiles ) and most of the day we would be out playing with friends and parents knew we would be safe with hardly any weirdos wandering the streets. If we got caught doing stuff we shouldn't the cops would take us home and we may well have a got a hiding for breaking the law ( but no do gooders saying mustn't smack children ). And if we played up in school the same applied.
While playing we got cuts and bruises and the occasional tear in jeans but it was just part of being a kid and no visit to the hospital.
We had no fancy games but could play for hours making a Go cart or a new tree swing and for other games most times we would find a ball and whatever we could use as a bat. or in the summer all jump into the nearest place we could find and if the water wasn't that clean we just didn't swallow it.
We rode our bikes with no helmets and doing whatever stunts we could ( bikes were so much heavier and hard waring ) and always had punctures to repair or get dad to help with.
If we didn't get in the team we were not good enough and that was that.
But most of all we were allowed to be kids
To dream, to invent and to play.
It's no wonder that the generation that grew up then created some of the most innovative and exciting technology we have today
Thanks for those years and all those "BAD THINGS" that is why we are who we are
George Lawson
Trying to remember events from so long ago is something of a mixture both of school and of Hull as it then was. The one thing I remember most clearly is the sense of community which existed in those days and a general interest in the well-being of friends and neighbours. Remembering school in those days certain names come back to me of staff and pupils,
Sister Mary Aquinas, of course, was the headteacher she seemed to be so old even then other sisters included Sister Mary Joseph who always seemed so kind and Sister Mary Bernadette who was quite the opposite in my recollection the only lay teacher was Miss Ryder. Holderness road seemed to be the hub of our lives with East Hull Baths where we had our swimming classes every Tuesday morning, the Savoy Cinema and Holderness Hall (Cinema) . Holderness Road was the main shopping area fro east hull and boasted the City's second Woolworth's store. The old Craven Park was the home of Hull Kingston Rovers and Thursday and Saturday dog racing.
We went to the Savoy Cinema as a school group with the sisters having special permission the see "The Song of Bernadette," for which Jennifer Jones received the academy award.
V.E. day of course brought great celebrations and at school we all received a certificate declaring the end of the war signed by King George VI.
I remember Sister Mary Aquinas visiting each classroom every Monday morning with a large register in which she recorded our attendance (or not) at mass and whether we had been to confession and holy communion. I remember the Friday's in church wanting to go to confession and trying to think of sins worthy of One Our Father and three Hail Mary's.
CAROL CAMPBELL
I don't often think about my childhood ,but this site has got me realy going through my memories . I remember most of the shops mentioned . Does anyone remember the rag man coming around ringing his bell? I think we got a few pennies if we gave him some old clothes.I know one day I gave him a pretty new top of Mam's , I was mad at her at the time ! Then I felt real guilty afterwards- (My catholic upbringing) I used to look forward to the milk man coming , I would run out as soon as I saw him , and sit on doorstep- drinking the cream off the top .I was always a picky eater and a skinny kid, so Mam didn't mind! We had a fish shop down our street so on a Friday she would send me for some for our Tea , and I used to always ask for 'scraps' I liked them better than the fish -HA!
I remember Dad getting up an hour ahead of us girls so he could get the fire going and warm the place up-it was always so freezing in a morning in winter .I must have been a wierd kid-I was always excited when the coal was delivered , and loved to watch as he threw it in our coal house in back yard -clouds of black dust flying everywhere! Tommy Mackew was his name. He used a horse and cart to deliver ! Us kids used to play in the bombed out house at top of our terrace There was one on practically every street ! We had a little grocery store in our terrace called Hudson's ,as soon as I had a penny or 2 I would go and get Kay-lie (Is that wrong spelling)and a liqurice to dip in it . I had to walk through an ally way to get home when I got off the bus at end of Craven St every day , does anyone rmember it-We called it Ping Pong Ally? I used to run like mad when the train came through-it was so loud! It was scary when it was dark nights and foggy! We played Hop scotch -kick the can-or we roller skated up and down the street . Carol Campbell
When we were young
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent 'clackers' on our wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the back yard tap and not from a bottle - tasted the same. We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles at times, we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No
one was able to reach us all day and no one minded. We did not have Playstations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do the same thing again.
We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue - we learned to get over it.
We walked to friend's homes.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff, and although we were told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes out, nor did the live stuff live inside us forever. We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
JAMES PORTZ
When I was a kid we used to play at Sammys Point, all that was over that side of the river was cocoa mill and it was wild sort of country and they had stacked timber from the ships. I believe it is a lot different now, lived in Strawberry Street Drypool and it was in one of the history books as being the most bombed parish in the UK. My sister in law Sheila Portz (Brady) said you were a relative of her. There was the Brady's and Bowen's when I was growing up.
SUE ASKs
Do you remember when?
Today, 1:56 AM EST
I was sent a few of these in an email and have added to it. Lets see how long we can get this list. Maybe we could add it as a site page when we have added all we can think of Paul?
CLOTHING
1. All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
2. Big navy blue knickers which you wore for sport
3. Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
4. All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
5. Crimpelene dresses with lace daisies
6. Seersucker
7. Bras with circular layers of stitching that came to a point at the end!
LIFESTYLE
8. Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?9. You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air?
10. It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
11. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers. Cream on the top of the milk.
12. Newsreels before the movie
13. B Movies before the main movie
14. Letting off crackerjacks in the street around bonfire night - or trying to avoid them.
15. Cocoa and cereal for breakfast at school after early morning mass.
16. Punishment by ruler across the knuckles
17. Punishment by the strap or cane. Ouch
18. Farthings
19. Ha'pennys
20. Threepenny bits
21. The day your first ever TV arrived - black and white of course and it It took five minutes to warm up?
22. 45RPM records
23. Washtub wringers
24. Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
SAFETY
25. No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
26. Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
27. Taking drugs meant aspirin?
28. No one had heard of omega-3 or EPA but our parents always had Cod Liver Oil at the ready.
FAVORITE TV AND RADIO SHOWS
29. Dixon of Dock Green30. The Lone Ranger
31. Listen with Mother
32. Andy Pandy
33. The Woodentops
34. Captain Pugwash
35. Noddy
Lets see if we can get it up to 100 at least?
FOOD
36. Always Fish on a Friday
37. Lollies being sold in the school yard
38. Candy cigarettes
39. Flying Saucers filled with sherbet
40. Sherbet Dips
41. Arrow Bars
RE: Do you remember when?
marie hildyard remembers
78 RPM records of Frankie Laine, Frank Sinatra and big dance bands.Then magically,45rpm records to use with our Dancette record players. We could then listen to Bill Haley and the Comets, Little Richard, Elvis, Tommy Steele, Eddie Cochran, Little Richard etc.
Hearing Paul Anka sing "Diana" for the first time. Unbeliveable.
Wearing wide skirts with masses of net underskirts that swirled out when the boys spun you round when bopping.
St. Mary's Youth Club.
Emergency Ward 10Believing that a glass and a half of full cream milk went into a bar of Cadbury's Milk Chocolate.
Tasting Nescafe' coffee for the first time after years of Camp coffee and thinking I had really gone up in the world as film stars drank coffee. Being given a whole Mars Bar to eat to myself.
How did Mum's Sunday lunch hot roast beef last for cold beef salad (tomatos and lettuce) for Sunday night's tea,
Monday morning pack up for Dad and a beef stew for Monday night's tea.Mine only ever lasts for Sunday lunch!
Why was her gravy out of this world and I can't survive without Oxo and Bisto?
I could go on and on.
Marie
JACKIE BRADY
| Beanstalk | RE: The Way We Were Today, 2:21 PM EST Enjoyed reading this page. Brought back memories of my nanny doing her washing, which was usually an all day job for her. I remember a lot of people used to use the little 'dolly bags of blue' to get their whites clean, which were made by Reckitts.  I worked at Reckitts in the '80s until 1996 when we got made redundant, I worked on a machine that made the blue but they were produced in blocks, I still have a box of them upstairs,they were the last blocks of blue to be made on my machine. The machinary was all then shipped to France.As for the 78rpm records go, my attic is full of them they were given to my partner when his Dad and Grandad passed away, had no idea Elvis sang on 78's until I heard him. And the goodies we use to have as kids my pockets were always full with some kind of goody. Penny dainty's seemed to last forever and Arrow bars, the toffee use to be so creamy, rainbow kaylie and liquorice to dip into it was lovely  We had a small corner shop where we lived and me and my sisters would get the things we needed and asked them to put it on Dad's bill, which he paid at the end of the week. Don't think he ever found out that my middle sister was getting loose cigarettes and putting them on on his bill, lol! Jackie. |
ANN JOYCE
i will never forget the stews my mum made with the leftovers from sunday dinner . nothing ever went to waste not like today . mum always did the dumplings which were made from self raising flour salt n pepper and margerind .they always rose out of the pan and were delicoius . i still do these today , my grand children ask me to go and do a stew for them and they go mad on these dumplings . i also like them better than the suet ones . mum always used stork and she used to send us to the shop for loose cigs when she was skint 5 woodbines or park drive , and i recall the joke made for the cigs . it was 2 woodbine was walking down the street crying and a park drive asked it what was the matter . and it said kensittas. silly joke really . i loved bonfire night when all the gangs would go hunting for stuff for the fire . and we would throw the spuds in to cook . . mum used to also have a long toasting fork which she did our toast with in the mornings . and oh how i miss the coal fires reading Sue,s list, it got me remembering things of long ago
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jobs were pretty easy to get in those days . anyone remember osgerbys the firelighter place , kingston box , kingston lamp . there was always work at skeltons bakery and jacksons too . my brother and sister therese and tony worked at craven park with the grehounds . they loved it and also hollis,e and imperial typewriters . wonderful working at these places . i forgot to mention the pickle factory to . has anyone got any tales to tell of how they faired after leaving school .
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this page remind me of everything i was and did,i grew up in ;thomas st;,i worked at the ;co-op butcher,s on the corner of
strawberry st& thomas st;, i think i gave more ;meat,s ; away then i sold,all the old age pensioner,s use to make a bee line for me, to serve them,then the time we was lucky to get a t,v, about half the st; piled in our house to watch (war in the air),the lady next door<james> used to peel onion,s for a local factory,(you guessed it)she use to bring them with her and her family and peel them watching t.v; you could not see t.v for tear,s in our eye,s,( the good old day,s eh ) |
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Love this page- my husband was realy interested too! He grew up in New Brunwick with a very similar life style to me . I do miss the small friendly stores , I hate the big superstores! We were not very well off, growing up, but we had fun! Kids nowadays think they are so lucky to have everything- I think WE were the lucky ones ! I had forgotten a lot -but this page brought it all back--thanks ! Carol
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