I Remember When

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  • triky auto
    triky auto Forum Participant Posts: 8,690
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    edited October 2016 #512

    When balls were two inches.

    Write your comments here...When tow balls were inch & a half !!Surprised.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited October 2016 #513

    Playing marbles as a child.

  • Oneputt
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    edited October 2016 #514

    Walking to next door farm to get a can of milk

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited October 2016 #515

    Walking to school

  • cyberyacht
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    edited October 2016 #516

    Slate and chalk

  • Spriddler
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    edited October 2016 #517

    ....we had a telephone on a 'party line'.

    .....the earthy smell of beetroot cooking in my village greengrocer's shop.

    .....buying Penny Chews and Blackjack sweets on my home from school

    .....being given the strap or the cane at school.

  • hostahousey
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    edited October 2016 #518

    Slate and chalk

    Write your comments here...Oh come on your not as old as that !

  • papgeno
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    edited October 2016 #519

    When you could tell who was the inkwell monitor because they had blue finger ends.

  • robsail
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    edited October 2016 #520

    Slate and chalk

    Write your comments here...Oh come on your not as old as that !

    Write your comments here... it's not thaat long ago! I remember using slate and chalk at school, or was that at blist hill museum?

  • papgeno
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    edited October 2016 #521

    When teachers wore gowns in the classroom and the maths teacher had huge wooden dividers and compass for drawing circles on the blackboard.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited October 2016 #522

    When White boards with marker pens started getting used instead of blackboards.

  • robsail
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    edited October 2016 #523

    Films were on reels. If the teacher was nervous and dropped the reel it could roll quite a distance leaving a trail of film behind!

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited October 2016 #524

    Cine cameras

  • cyberyacht
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    edited October 2016 #525

    Slate and chalk

    Write your comments here...Oh come on your not as old as that !

    Honest guv, I did. Only for one term IIRC. I think it was more to do with a paper shortage in the early fifties.

  • hostahousey
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    edited October 2016 #526

    Slate and chalk

    Write your comments here...Oh come on your not as old as that !

    Honest guv, I did. Only for one term IIRC. I think it was more to do with a paper shortage in the early fifties.

    Write your comments here...well I went to school before the early fifties,never used slate or chalk.

  • JVB66
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    edited October 2016 #527

    Slate and chalk

    Write your comments here...Oh come on your not as old as that !

    Honest guv, I did. Only for one term IIRC. I think it was more to do with a paper shortage in the early fifties.

    Write your comments here...well I went to school before the early fifties,never used slate or chalk.

    ..We used slate and chalk when i was first at school in 1947Surprised

  • papgeno
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    edited October 2016 #528

    I started school in 1948 and all I can remember is colouring in and having a sleep after lunch

  • hostahousey
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    edited October 2016 #529

    I started school in 1948 and all I can remember is colouring in and having a sleep after lunch

      Same in 1945

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited October 2016 #530

    I think it was 1955 when I first started going to school.

  • hostahousey
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    edited October 2016 #531

    I think it was 1955 when I first started going to school.

     Yeh,......... did you use chalk and slate Malc ?

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited October 2016 #532

    I think it was 1955 when I first started going to school.

     Yeh,......... did you use chalk and slate Malc ?

    Write your comments here...I do remember chalk and slate to begin with but it was soon phased out.

  • JVB66
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    edited October 2016 #533

    Just after  i started school,we moved from temp accomadation (our house in London was destroyed by a doodle bug)to a house that was 6,miles away and my dad for a month used to take me on the back of his bicycle to and from school,as he was on leave,until I went to a local school

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited October 2016 #534

    I remember my mother walking with me to school and walking home with me after school.

  • hostahousey
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    edited October 2016 #535

    I think it was 1955 when I first started going to school.

     Yeh,......... did you use chalk and slate Malc ?

    Write your comments here...I do remember chalk and slate to begin with but it was soon phased out.

      Wonder if anyone else used slate and a chalk at school ,around 1955 ? Ummmmm

  • JVB66
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    edited October 2016 #536

    I think it was 1955 when I first started going to school.

     Yeh,......... did you use chalk and slate Malc ?

    Write your comments here...I do remember chalk and slate to begin with but it was soon phased out.

      Wonder if anyone else used slate and a chalk at school ,around 1955 ? Ummmmm

    ...I left school in 1958 and we were using ink wells sunk into the desks,with pens that had nibs that we got a Whack if we bent them Surprised 

  • brue
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    edited October 2016 #537

    I started school in the early fifties, we did indeed have chalk and little blackboards but we also had pencils, wax crayons and plain exercise books. Loose white plain newspaper came in huge piles that had to be cut with a guillotine also coloured sugar paper used for painting (with powder paints.) We had plasticene "balls" to play with, all one colour after frequent use. No frills education in an old church hall with two classes squeezed in, so many of us born after the war, no room at the "proper" school til we were seven.

  • volvoman9
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    edited October 2016 #538

    When meat pies had meat in them Sad

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited October 2016 #539

    When can or tin openers worked!

  • briantimber
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    edited October 2016 #540

    Started school in '51, can remember chalk and blackboards but never personal slates, we used pencils and paper  'till the teacher thought our writing good enough, then we were given a wooden pen with removable nibSurprised......Cool

  • hostahousey
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    edited October 2016 #541

    I think it was 1955 when I first started going to school.

     Yeh,......... did you use chalk and slate Malc ?

    Write your comments here...I do remember chalk and slate to begin with but it was soon phased out.

    In Dreams ........maybe

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