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The Good Old Days.
« on: 26 March 2021, 12:53:49 »

Just seen them cooking Fish n Chips from a 60's show on tv and it took me back to the days when I were a lad and we were visiting Grannys for the weekend.  Dad took me to the local chippy in Langley Park and I will never forget they were cooking the food in dripping on a coke fired cooking range

There were 2 older ladies running the shop, one cooking and stokeing the fire, the other serving.  As nice as fish & chips are today these were the best I have ever had. :y :y

The next best, Other Granny we were in Cullen, Dad decided to treat all the visiting family to the chippy, me and my cousin were sent off with the "List" and £20 (old money)

There were 9 fish suppers (2 fish each), 2 x pie & chips, sausage n chips x 3, 2 bags of chips & quite a few cartons of peas and as a favour to us the rest of the chips in the warmer , the 2 customers behind us had allready left as they were told shey were done frying for the day.

Plus we came back with some change.  Good day all round. :y
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Re: The Good Old Days.
« Reply #1 on: 26 March 2021, 13:00:25 »

Plus on one of the trips to Langley Park I realised my Dad seemed to know every one.

At the petrol station (Dad's old made ) I was given a full set of kings and queens heads of the UK and a plastic castle/mount to stand the heads on..  Cant remeber the number (Maybe 18/22 or so) were all in sealed packets so I had the basics to start swapping at school.

Then when he went to see another mate that just happened to run a pub.  I walked away with a full set of Watneys beer mats  printed / pressed in sets of 12  I eneded up with over 1000 beer mats swapping them at school the next week. ::)
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Re: The Good Old Days.
« Reply #2 on: 26 March 2021, 13:02:38 »

To add (BUT THIS MAY BE CLASSED AS RACIST - Please delete if this is the case)

As  a kid my Mum saved me a full set of Chivers Gollie wogs.  Still never found out who nicked them :-\
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« Reply #3 on: 26 March 2021, 13:04:05 »

Plus on one of the trips to Langley Park I realised my Dad seemed to know every one.

At the petrol station (Dad's old made ) I was given a full set of kings and queens heads of the UK and a plastic castle/mount to stand the heads on..  Cant remeber the number (Maybe 18/22 or so) were all in sealed packets so I had the basics to start swapping at school.

Then when he went to see another mate that just happened to run a pub.  I walked away with a full set of Watneys beer mats  printed / pressed in sets of 12  I eneded up with over 1000 beer mats swapping them at school the next week. ::)

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Re: The Good Old Days.
« Reply #4 on: 26 March 2021, 13:07:58 »



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« Reply #5 on: 26 March 2021, 13:09:27 »

Plus on one of the trips to Langley Park I realised my Dad seemed to know every one.

At the petrol station (Dad's old made ) I was given a full set of kings and queens heads of the UK and a plastic castle/mount to stand the heads on..  Cant remeber the number (Maybe 18/22 or so) were all in sealed packets so I had the basics to start swapping at school.

Then when he went to see another mate that just happened to run a pub.  I walked away with a full set of Watneys beer mats  printed / pressed in sets of 12  I eneded up with over 1000 beer mats swapping them at school the next week. ::)

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Re: The Good Old Days.
« Reply #6 on: 26 March 2021, 13:11:03 »

To add (BUT THIS MAY BE CLASSED AS RACIST - Please delete if this is the case)

As  a kid my Mum saved me a full set of Chivers Gollie wogs.  Still never found out who nicked them :-\

I remember these. Innocent fun.
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Re: The Good Old Days.
« Reply #7 on: 26 March 2021, 13:13:53 »

I've still got one of the original Esso Tigers tails in my garage I believe it's priceless..😂😂😂
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« Reply #8 on: 26 March 2021, 13:36:33 »

I've still got one of the original Esso Tigers tails in my garage I believe it's priceless..😂😂😂

Did Esso use the slogan.........Put a tiger in your tank?

It  sounds familiar.
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« Reply #9 on: 26 March 2021, 13:42:10 »

Yes they did , had an Esso garage at the bottom of our road when we lived in Croydon.
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Re: The Good Old Days.
« Reply #10 on: 26 March 2021, 13:51:09 »

Green shield stamps ! that's going back a bit , a massive thing in its day , I can remember my parents collecting them .
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« Reply #11 on: 26 March 2021, 13:54:17 »

Green shield stamps ! that's going back a bit , a massive thing in its day , I can remember my parents collecting them .

Some petrol stations would offer 8, 10, 12 or even 16 times green shield stamps to encourage customers.

They'd be spewing out of the machine for ages if you had just filled a full tank..... ;D 
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« Reply #12 on: 26 March 2021, 14:30:16 »

Green shield stamps ! that's going back a bit , a massive thing in its day , I can remember my parents collecting them .

Some petrol stations would offer 8, 10, 12 or even 16 times green shield stamps to encourage customers.

They'd be spewing out of the machine for ages if you had just filled a full tank..... ;D 

I remember them spewing out of the machines in the Co-op and then people shopping with carrier bags full of green sheild books.
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Re: The Good Old Days.
« Reply #13 on: 26 March 2021, 14:30:41 »

Then there were the Ciggy coupons :y
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Re: The Good Old Days.
« Reply #14 on: 26 March 2021, 14:37:08 »

To add (BUT THIS MAY BE CLASSED AS RACIST - Please delete if this is the case)

As  a kid my Mum saved me a full set of Chivers Gollie wogs.  Still never found out who nicked them :-\
There was nothing racist about golliwogs back then, cute little black people toys. Kids aren't racist until they're taught to be racist, and they're little boys till they're taught to be little girls.
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« Reply #15 on: 26 March 2021, 15:01:05 »

To add (BUT THIS MAY BE CLASSED AS RACIST - Please delete if this is the case)

As  a kid my Mum saved me a full set of Chivers Gollie wogs.  Still never found out who nicked them :-\
There was nothing racist about golliwogs back then, cute little black people toys. Kids aren't racist until they're taught to be racist, and they're little boys till they're taught to be little girls.

Yes......of course. Pretty obvious really. We were born boys, treated like boys, expected to act like boys, and expected to have sex with girls. :)
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« Reply #16 on: 26 March 2021, 15:07:57 »

Plus on one of the trips to Langley Park I realised my Dad seemed to know every one.

At the petrol station (Dad's old made ) I was given a full set of kings and queens heads of the UK and a plastic castle/mount to stand the heads on..  Cant remeber the number (Maybe 18/22 or so) were all in sealed packets so I had the basics to start swapping at school.

Then when he went to see another mate that just happened to run a pub.  I walked away with a full set of Watneys beer mats  printed / pressed in sets of 12  I eneded up with over 1000 beer mats swapping them at school the next week. ::)

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Green shield stamps.
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The bullet holes werent stick on when I was growing up.  ;D
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« Reply #17 on: 26 March 2021, 15:11:14 »

Plus on one of the trips to Langley Park I realised my Dad seemed to know every one.

At the petrol station (Dad's old made ) I was given a full set of kings and queens heads of the UK and a plastic castle/mount to stand the heads on..  Cant remeber the number (Maybe 18/22 or so) were all in sealed packets so I had the basics to start swapping at school.

Then when he went to see another mate that just happened to run a pub.  I walked away with a full set of Watneys beer mats  printed / pressed in sets of 12  I eneded up with over 1000 beer mats swapping them at school the next week. ::)

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Green shield stamps.
5 star petrol.

The bullet holes werent stick on when I was growing up. ;D


That is witty......and true in your case. Hopefully things are better now.
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« Reply #18 on: 26 March 2021, 15:16:42 »

Plus on one of the trips to Langley Park I realised my Dad seemed to know every one.

At the petrol station (Dad's old made )

One of the garages used to hand out the football coins (can't remember which brand garage gave them out, might have been Shell  :-\ ) that you collected as you got fuel. You had a football team card to stick them in. Even though they looked like a 10p coin they were actually the same size and weight as a 2p coin. Just saying like, but Phone boxes used to accept 2p coins.  ::)
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« Reply #19 on: 26 March 2021, 16:42:35 »

10 pence pieces were the same size and weight as a Deutsche mark, so back in the day in Germany you could buy a packet of 20 fags from a machine for 40p, rather than £1.70..... or so I'm told  :-[
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« Reply #20 on: 26 March 2021, 16:44:25 »

Plus on one of the trips to Langley Park I realised my Dad seemed to know every one.

At the petrol station (Dad's old made )

One of the garages used to hand out the football coins (can't remember which brand garage gave them out, might have been Shell  :-\ ) that you collected as you got fuel. You had a football team card to stick them in. Even though they looked like a 10p coin they were actually the same size and weight as a 2p coin. Just saying like, but Phone boxes used to accept 2p coins.  ::)


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« Reply #21 on: 26 March 2021, 19:57:43 »

you get 73 of these Dalasi coins for 1 pound sterling in Gambia ,they look like 50 pence ,weigh the same   :-X

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« Reply #22 on: 26 March 2021, 20:09:16 »

you get 73 of these Dalasi coins for 1 pound sterling in Gambia ,they look like 50 pence ,weigh the same   :-X

 ....

Mombasa had a 50p sized coin too .... too long back to remember exactly ... buy they worked well in the UK phone boxes too .... apparently  ::)

And a US Quarter was the same size as the bigger old 5p/shilling ..... they fitted the vending machines on the jetty in Florida ... 2 x 5p/shillings for a can of pop & you got change  :y
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« Reply #23 on: 26 March 2021, 20:12:58 »

I remember fish 6d and chips 3d.

When we worked as teenagers at local farm , thefarmers eldest ( 19) lad used to always have fish and chips thrice. In the days before you got a ton of chips with a fish like you do now.
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« Reply #24 on: 26 March 2021, 20:19:51 »

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I remember fish 6d and chips 3d.

When we worked as teenagers at local farm , thefarmers eldest ( 19) lad used to always have fish and chips thrice. In the days before you got a ton of chips with a fish like you do now.
I remember fish 6d and chips 3d.

When we worked as teenagers at local farm , thefarmers eldest ( 19) lad used to always have fish and chips thrice. In the days before you got a ton of chips with a fish like you do now.

I used to own a chippy in the 80's

Even then.  £1.32 got you Fish & chips with peas on a tray . . . and a fork.
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« Reply #25 on: 26 March 2021, 20:23:09 »

Which I would guess puts you at 70 ish years old now ?  :-\
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« Reply #26 on: 26 March 2021, 20:26:55 »

Which I would guess puts you at 70 ish years old now ?  :-\

I think he is 60.
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« Reply #27 on: 26 March 2021, 20:28:51 »

you get 73 of these Dalasi coins for 1 pound sterling in Gambia ,they look like 50 pence ,weigh the same   :-X

 ....

Mombasa had a 50p sized coin too .... too long back to remember exactly ... buy they worked well in the UK phone boxes too .... apparently  ::)

And a US Quarter was the same size as the bigger old 5p/shilling ..... they fitted the vending machines on the jetty in Florida ... 2 x 5p/shillings for a can of pop & you got change  :y

I had Fish and Chips from a chippy in Nairobi once.  Tilapia from Lake Victoria and proper soggy chips in newspaper for about 100 Bob.  :y

That's Kenya shillings (Ksh) of course as I'm far too young to remember British shillings!  :)
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« Reply #28 on: 26 March 2021, 20:30:26 »

Which I would guess puts you at 70 ish years old now ?  :-\

I think he is 60.

You may be right, although 20,s is a young age to own a chippy.
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« Reply #29 on: 26 March 2021, 20:30:37 »

you get 73 of these Dalasi coins for 1 pound sterling in Gambia ,they look like 50 pence ,weigh the same   :-X

 ....

Mombasa had a 50p sized coin too .... too long back to remember exactly ... buy they worked well in the UK phone boxes too .... apparently  ::)

And a US Quarter was the same size as the bigger old 5p/shilling ..... they fitted the vending machines on the jetty in Florida ... 2 x 5p/shillings for a can of pop & you got change  :y

I had Fish and Chips from a chippy in Nairobi once.  Tilapia from Lake Victoria and proper soggy chips in newspaper for about 100 Bob.  :y

That's Kenya shillings (Ksh) of course as I'm far too young to remember British shillings! :)

Something we share in common.... :)
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« Reply #30 on: 26 March 2021, 20:32:28 »

you get 73 of these Dalasi coins for 1 pound sterling in Gambia ,they look like 50 pence ,weigh the same   :-X

 ....

Mombasa had a 50p sized coin too .... too long back to remember exactly ... buy they worked well in the UK phone boxes too .... apparently  ::)

And a US Quarter was the same size as the bigger old 5p/shilling ..... they fitted the vending machines on the jetty in Florida ... 2 x 5p/shillings for a can of pop & you got change  :y
I remember that very ruse from the vending machine in the lobby at a hotel in Clearwater... circa 1990 8)
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« Reply #31 on: 26 March 2021, 20:35:33 »

Which I would guess puts you at 70 ish years old now ?  :-\

Me.  59, 60 next month ::)
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