I can remember seeing my feet and other appendage. Happy days

JCB Joe Charles Buckle

funny how at one time all lads came out of the barbers with the same hair cut and non style. could not wait for the day i was allowed to go on my own to pick the style i wanted.

That would have been my 12th birthday onwards.

Sweets no longer avaliable:
Delights
Caramac
Taz
Toffo 's
Aztec
Treets
Cadbury Snaps
Cadbury milk chocolate coins.

wish they,d add cadbury,s chocolate oranges to that list. hate em with a passion as others must by seeing the numbers of them we get in raffles after christmas.

Lions wine gums

Just been to Iceland and was very surprised to see both Caramac and Chocolate coins still on sale These are shown as longer up for sale maybe a gimmick to get the sales moving upwards when people who like these treats buy lots quickly.

Some things you think have disappeared haven’t …it’s just the big boys seem to dominate the shelves…I was surprised to find Golden Wonder crisps are still made…Cheese and Onion

That's mad I thought they had disappeared after WW2 at least it seems that long.

Best Crisps ever...Beefy XL...FACT!!!

And me and Snowy found an empty packet above the ceiling tiles years ago...I've got a photo of the said packet somewhere...it was that rare!!!

Did he lick the packet or you.

Nah it probably had asbestos in it.

Wasn’t just asbestos…remember when a tile came down and a load of used needles fell out of the ceiling…poor old Mick Biott God bless him volunteered to move the tile and they all missed his arse by inches…it was like Rourke’s Drift as they all flew past.

Anyone remember Chipmunk crisps…our lass said I imagined it…I said I imagined marrying her.

I remember them. I also remember these now gone Topics & Fry's Chocolate bars & Drifters & Banjo

There was also a chocolate bar called Nux or something similar…and Bar Six.

Nux made by rowntree and discounted in late 60s. I used to love the Bar Six.

You can still get Frys Chocolate Creme, Topics and Drifters.

Well that's pissed me off I always hoped to see a Topic one day my favorite Chocolate bar but it's to late now I have Diabetes.

Yes, they were 2 and a half new pence a packet when all the others were 3p a bag.

The TV show "Countdown" has been around for over 40 years, and it's probably 30-odd since I last saw it, so watching it this afternoon was a bit of "blast from the past".

Why did I watch it? Well the Hartlepool lass who was one of the contestants just happens to be my youngest daughter Laura.

Did your Daughter win then Kenny So she is a clever girl does she take after you or the boss.

Remember when shops had machines outside for fags or chocolate bars.

especially chocolate bars on railway stations. always remember leeds station with a machine where you could print a thin piece of metal with your name or anything else you wanted on it. you selected a letter on a dial and pressed a leaver to print it. those must have been around at other main line stations but never actually saw one.

I remember a old bloke who lived above our local shops he was somehow able to get a free packet of cigarettes from the machine outside. I once asked him ( as a 8 yrs old ) why he doesn't empty the machine. He smiled and said " never bite the hand that feeds you son ". I know he used to put a metal bit of rod or maybe coat hanger in the slot then wiggle the bottom draw and hey presto the fag draw opened and he took his freebies. If memory serves it was Woodbines in 5 packs or maybe 10

Who remembers the cardboard triangle packets of custard in the 70s. Used to get one every pocket money day from our half crown coin. In those days that was 12.5 pence but by heck you could get a lot back then. We would get very large mix up / large pop / and a custard triangle all for 12.5 pence. How times have changed for the worst.

Rattling good value for twopence

actually i never got pocket money. my old man used to say you get enough. i pay for you into the match and your ma pays for you going to the pictures. you share all the sweets in the house so why do you need more. he carried on like this if i went to a match later with my mates. it was down to a penny with nothing left over. never told him we walked to games both ways and saved the bus fare for chips walking back home.

Sweets in the house what I reckon you came from a posh background Accy We used to be lucky if we had eggs milk & bread in the house never mind luxuries. Let's be honest we had to wear plastic brown sandals in the snow and rain to school. We had to get to school early and ring ours socks out then hang them on the radiators to dry. Then sit on the floor with the soles of our feet up against the red hot radiators.

I used to buy loads of those chocolate logs. Anyone remember them or when they stopped making them.

sweets were free from an aunt who worked at mackintoshes who brought mis shapes to us because working with them put her off eating em.

Brilliant what a topclass aunt to have in those days.

Take it you must have been sweet back in those days.

Jumping off the bus at the traffic lights

with a decent looking lass taking the fares.

Back to the times when we had a manager with sense

Back to times we had a Chairman who could actually manage the club properly, instead of someone who really shouldn't have been succesful in business if you look at his performance at Pools.

Funny that Accy because I cannot remember female conductors

Me and my brother did that as the No7 bus turned into Rossmere way one fine summers night…l was 8 and my brother was 7 and our smile turned to dread as a Police sergeant with a bike stood there…. he gave us a bollocking and asked for our address…which we gave….we went home later and my dad ‘welcomed’ us in…..his saying he always used was …”never bring the police to my door”…….. let’s just say he wasn’t going to counsel us

might have been too young to take notice.

or back to the time nobody spoke of who the directors were or where interested in them. when i started watching pools i knew the players names but had no clue who the manager was never mind directors

Maybe back in your days clubs had no managers.

Don’t forget there was no social media so all news for the average supporter came via the Football Mail ( RIP) or gossip…or some clown pretending they were in the know ( that’s never changed).
Basically supporters had no interest in who was running the show as long as it stayed on the road, yet doubtless things went on, but it never really aroused the fans interest….the fanzines set the ball rolling….quickly followed by the internet.

Very true

She lost mate, but she certainly wasn't thrashed. Did the family and the town proud.

I'm far too modest to claim that her clever genes are from me, but her mam couldn't do a two-piece jigsaw without the picture on the front of the box...!