Remembering When I Was Young

[bobbie22]

When I was young I remember my mother washing the clothes in the sink, then putting them through the mangle to get the excess water out. Later on she would iron them with an electric iron which was plugged into the light after taking the bulb out. We had a rented house, the toilet was at the bottom of the garden, and the cold water tap (the only tap we had) was outside.

Everyone was the same so I didn’t feel hard done by. This was in South Wales and we lived right by the steelworks and the railway line

[pastafreak]

It's a good..and fun thread. But those with non-UK memories don't get noticed.

[burlyshirley]

Oh of course yes, but what an awful name for it ! If I remember rightly back in the day the ice cream man just asked if we wanted the red juice.

[Bobbisox1]

That's we called the red squirty juice that's was put on the ice cream Shirley :0))))

[Bobbisox1]

Pasta I love hearing about your childhood in NY

[bobbie22]

We had lovely Italian cafes nearby my mother used to give me few pence to get some ice cream I remember the wonderful smell of coffee in them. Shedman I went to Glanafan grammar school Lots from sand fields and cwmafan there. I went to port Talbot last year. It was quite nice Glanafan is now flats

[burlyshirley]

Something else I remember was dancing around the maypole on May Day all dressed up, does anybody else remember that ?

[237SJ]

I remember the snowstorms we used to get in N Devon and being snowed in (especially in the bad storm of Feb 1978) and my Dad going to my Gran's field to break the ice on the water tanks so that we could get water to keep the Rayburn going.

[Bobbisox1]

Yes with a pretty new dress on, white sandals and socks
Happydays

[bobbie22]

Yes I remember. The ribbons used to get in a terrible knot

[Bobbisox1]

237SJ, I recall sliding off of the church roof to a huge drift then climbing up that drift to do it all again

[burlyshirley]

^ Yes, they did !

[burlyshirley]

^ that was to 18:46.

[Sqad]

LOL LOL.I am laughing just thinking about it LOL.......sorry !
Was the summer of 1945 and Germany had surrendered V.E day, the war was over and the whole country celebrated. I was 11years of age, a precocious Jack the lad sort of boy.
Each street organised a party with tables,chairs, food that was available each household giving sandwiches and bottles of "pop." Music was laid on and a microphone offered to anyone who cared to contribute a song.
This 11 year old youth took the microphone and beltedout his rendition of ......GALWAY BAY...and that little boy was your much loved and admired.......sqad.

[windywillow]

Lol at Mamya.

[theshedman]

bobbie22, I noticed that your old school had changed to flats and mine had also been pulled down and has now been rebuilt as a Welsh School. Also many empty shops but that is the same everywhere.

237SJ, I went to a funeral in North Devon a number of years ago as wife has many relatives there and I have never known a place so cold. I once spent a winter in the artic and wasn't as cold as I was in Torrington.