bickster Posted February 28, 2018 Moderator Share Posted February 28, 2018 On 26/02/2018 at 11:39, lapal_fan said: My house backed onto Woodgate Country Park, and the other side of a field was a small new estate built in the 80s. So my dad mowed the field, knocked up some goal posts with nets and everyday in the spring & summer until it got dark all the kids (about 12 or so, would just play football, or race go karts we built or play Aki Aki 123 (I think). I'm quite a bit younger than my brother and the kids which did it, and once they went further than my mom could see, I had to stay back - but it was great as a kid. from 4 or 5pm until about 8.30/9.00 it was just play time all the time. I still think the dark nights and the unability to play out is the main reason I'd **** month October, November, December, January, February and half of March off. My point is, I didn't have to call anyone or anything, everyone just had their tea and came across to the field. Whoever wasn't there wasn't thought about. It was just the one Ackee, immortalised in song be The Beat (ignore the English bit we're mainly not Yanks) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 28, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 28, 2018 (edited) 7 hours ago, Risso said: Without wishing to get all Peter Kaye about things: The pop man coming round being the highlight of the week. Binning the pop man off because you'd got a Sodastream Going back to the pop man because your parents couldn't be arsed to replace the gas canister in the Sodastream, and the cola, which was horrible at the best of times, was even worse when essentially flat. Oh and @sidcow I loved Big John, Little John. Nobody I've ever spoken to about it recalls it at all. I can sing the theme tune to Big John Little John an B J and the Bear but I can barely remember what I did last week. Agree entirely about soda stream, that's exactly how it went. Edited February 28, 2018 by sidcow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 28, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 28, 2018 Ooh yes, ackee 1-2-3. Which leads us on to the word used for a truce in kids' games. For us it was 'barley' - sometimes corrupted to 'arley'. Whole studies have been done on this subject. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted February 28, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 28, 2018 57 minutes ago, sidcow said: I can sing the theme tune to Big John Little John an B J and the Bear but I can barely remember what I did last week. Yes!!! BIG John Little John! I loved that when I was a kid (still remember the theme tune too). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post maqroll Posted February 28, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2018 I was born in 1971 and grew up about 10 miles from Boston. A lower middle class neighborhood in an upper middle class town. Standard metro Boston life growing up. Boom Town 80's. But the 70's were different. We had a black and white Zenith TV with 5 channels. We walked to school. Our days were mostly spent outside, where the world was full of dangers. There were drug dealers in my local park. Tough kids who did bad things. At home we had the power shut off a few times and we wore hand-me-down clothes from older neighborhood kids. The 70's were pretty volatile financially, and things were generally pretty threadbare back then compared to today's kids who live in that area. But we managed to keep it together. It was a very privileged childhood in the scheme of things. I still dream of it. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 So did anyone appreciate brutalist architecture at the time? It's friggin' hideous and only recently are our major cities recovering. I bet they looked better in the immediate aftermath of Nazi bombing than they did in the 60s/70s/80s. My favourite fact about Oxford being so well preserved is that Hitler wanted it as his capital of the 'Western Reich' so it was never bombed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 28, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 28, 2018 11 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: So did anyone appreciate brutalist architecture at the time? It's friggin' hideous and only recently are our major cities recovering. I bet they looked better in the immediate aftermath of Nazi bombing than they did in the 60s/70s/80s. I think we all thought it was exciting and 'modern' (THE key word of the 50s and 60s). And they did look quite good to start with, but I don't think anybody had considered how horrible concrete looks when it weathers to a damp dirty shade of beige. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Birmingham - "It's hard to imagine that for centuries earlier it was a small town of no importance" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bickster Posted February 28, 2018 Moderator Share Posted February 28, 2018 3 hours ago, Wainy316 said: So did anyone appreciate brutalist architecture at the time? It's friggin' hideous and only recently are our major cities recovering. I bet they looked better in the immediate aftermath of Nazi bombing than they did in the 60s/70s/80s. My favourite fact about Oxford being so well preserved is that Hitler wanted it as his capital of the 'Western Reich' so it was never bombed. Quite like Brutalism myself, the Library was a great building. Once it weathered it became more organic with random patterns of concrete colours Much rather have that than all the buildings that are predominantly made of mirrored glass on a steel frame. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 28, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 28, 2018 The DSS building in Leeds (opened in 1993). It even has an airship mooring mast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 On 2/26/2018 at 11:42, Wainy316 said: I'd say the late 80s/early 90s was the best time to grow up (but I'm probably biased). It just seemed to have the best mix of everything. Thats my period as a kid and I have to say i loved it. THE 90S were great although the fashion then baggy jeans and clothes oh dear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 28, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 28, 2018 Was there ever a good time for fashion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted February 28, 2018 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2018 Us seniors can't even have a thread without it being hijacked - growing up in the 90s? You're still children! 2 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 (edited) A house we moved to in the late 70's still had an outside shitter and a concrete bomb shelter in the garden, The toilet situation was soon changed but the bomb shelter was fun to play around in (if rather unsafe and likely to collapse on top of you at any time) Edited February 28, 2018 by LakotaDakota 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 28, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 28, 2018 1 minute ago, LakotaDakota said: A house we moved to in the late 70's still had an outside shitter and a concrete bomb shelter in the garden, The toilet situation was soon changed but the bomb shelter was fun to play around in (if rather unsafe and likely to collapse on top of you at any time) Not built to withstand bombs, then? My grammar school playground still had a row of bomb shelters (aka The Smokers' Club). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 It may have been built to withstand them in the 40's but 35+ years later and a loud fart in there was cause for concern 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 28, 2018 Moderator Share Posted February 28, 2018 At the back of our house were fields, the farm buildings (pig farm) were all old military air raid shelters, (I'd guess from some sort of camp or airfield), a few of them weren't used as farm buildings, we used to play in and on them all the time. Just looked on that google maps satellite view and they seem to have gone, as has the farm, looks more like a country park now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Outside toilets are great. It means that if you're out doing some gardening or whatever, you don't have to trail back into the house. Obviously in addition to proper toilets inside the house. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 28, 2018 Moderator Share Posted February 28, 2018 Outside toilets aren't great when you have to sleep in them in sub zero temperatures early on New Years Day dressed as a Nun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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