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Peace perfect peace
Ive had a good day to day in the workshop mainly and i decided to sort my desk out (i have this old desk with an old filing cabinet for mainly info ref the verious tools ive collected and the old diaries full times of long ago)
While i was sorting through these old papers etc i found some bits and pieces that made me think of my childhood and when i did live in a very rough area of the north of england not like the life i live now but was life safer then ?
I played in a street without many cars but lots of kids, and mothers who stayed home and did'nt work,
What ever happend to,
The things your mum would say to you like " If ive told you once and twice "I'll not tell you a second time" ?
And when she'd say go and play on the railway, !!!!!!!!!!! "We did'nt have any grass area's No fields or parks only concrete back yards and the front door led onto the street,
the only grass area was the embankment that was at the top of the railway tracks, and all the kids had long ago taken the fence down and played on that area,
So it was the norm to hear some stressed out mum telling kids "Go play on the railway"
What happend to those street games, the long rope tied to the old Lamp post and girls running under the swinging rope singing songs "like two six nine the goose drank wine etc, And the event of the day when someones Mum would join in the skipping?
What happend to Hop-scotch, and that other game of film stars ,?
The pop man delivering Lemonade on a friday afternoon and leaving the full bottles on the door steps never to be taken by anyone except the house owner?
The rag and bone mans horse drawn trailer (the horse was black "but was known as silver" we did'nt know any other horses name) If you gave the ragman enough rags he'd give you a gold fish!!!!!!!! (Sorry mum) I gave me mums washing to him off the line,
What happend to going to the saturday morning kids picture house , Screaming and booing the Indians ,
And that older kid who'd open the fire doors and let you in for half the full price, (cash only)
What happend to all those cardinald painted door steps and cleaned windows by the window cleaner every week ( money was tight and all the houses in our street we're old and damp "but door steps and windows had to be cleaned"
What happend to
Thos invisible horses every kid had "the ones you had to smack hell out of your own arse to make the horse go fast, And you had to know how to tie an invisible knot when you parked the horse up outside the nice mans sweetshop so it would'nt be stollen,
And the nice mans sweet shop, the nice owner who would be asked time &time again on friday (pocket money day) How many of those do you get for a penny?
And have you any Lucky bags left ? (these Lucky bags really we're left over bits of sweets from the big jars) But boy did that shop owner put up with us kids,
And fat john our local Policeman who'd walk up & down the street telling us to keep off the railway, (He educated us to what a push bike was, we never ever saw him ride his 'he'd just push it along "Hence the fat john name tag" And our education ref the meaning of the word "Push bike"
What happend to kids having manners and saying please and thank you? Was it because of the warnings "Mum gave us if we visited any aunt"
ie (Now if your offered anything you say No thank you, and another thing "Dont fidget, sit still") The visit seemed like days instead of hours,
What happend to people knitting
"you dont see many woolshops these days, "Every family had an granny who knitted " My gran knitted me my first and last swimming trunks, I remember her giving them to me and i was so proud of these post office red woollen trunks that when i tried them on in her house like an international model they fitted perfect "just under my belly button and nice and tight around my bum,
I dived into the pool while on our school day baths visit, all the class was watching both boys and girls,
As i climbed out of the pool everyone looked, I'd been subjected to a red die and the waist band was around my nipples as i held on for modest sake,
The bum area of the trunks was around my knees and the swimming pool was a blood red colour, I never really got over that and could hear the laughter for weeks?
What happend to kids eating kid size meals ?
We did'nt have one over weight kid in our street or school for that matter,
What happend to bed rooms only used for sleeping in?
Now these room's are fitted out with TV's and P,C, and the kids pers/mobile phone ?
What ever happend to friendship in the world ?
While i was sorting through these old papers etc i found some bits and pieces that made me think of my childhood and when i did live in a very rough area of the north of england not like the life i live now but was life safer then ?
I played in a street without many cars but lots of kids, and mothers who stayed home and did'nt work,
What ever happend to,
The things your mum would say to you like " If ive told you once and twice "I'll not tell you a second time" ?
And when she'd say go and play on the railway, !!!!!!!!!!! "We did'nt have any grass area's No fields or parks only concrete back yards and the front door led onto the street,
the only grass area was the embankment that was at the top of the railway tracks, and all the kids had long ago taken the fence down and played on that area,
So it was the norm to hear some stressed out mum telling kids "Go play on the railway"
What happend to those street games, the long rope tied to the old Lamp post and girls running under the swinging rope singing songs "like two six nine the goose drank wine etc, And the event of the day when someones Mum would join in the skipping?
What happend to Hop-scotch, and that other game of film stars ,?
The pop man delivering Lemonade on a friday afternoon and leaving the full bottles on the door steps never to be taken by anyone except the house owner?
The rag and bone mans horse drawn trailer (the horse was black "but was known as silver" we did'nt know any other horses name) If you gave the ragman enough rags he'd give you a gold fish!!!!!!!! (Sorry mum) I gave me mums washing to him off the line,
What happend to going to the saturday morning kids picture house , Screaming and booing the Indians ,
And that older kid who'd open the fire doors and let you in for half the full price, (cash only)
What happend to all those cardinald painted door steps and cleaned windows by the window cleaner every week ( money was tight and all the houses in our street we're old and damp "but door steps and windows had to be cleaned"
What happend to
Thos invisible horses every kid had "the ones you had to smack hell out of your own arse to make the horse go fast, And you had to know how to tie an invisible knot when you parked the horse up outside the nice mans sweetshop so it would'nt be stollen,
And the nice mans sweet shop, the nice owner who would be asked time &time again on friday (pocket money day) How many of those do you get for a penny?
And have you any Lucky bags left ? (these Lucky bags really we're left over bits of sweets from the big jars) But boy did that shop owner put up with us kids,
And fat john our local Policeman who'd walk up & down the street telling us to keep off the railway, (He educated us to what a push bike was, we never ever saw him ride his 'he'd just push it along "Hence the fat john name tag" And our education ref the meaning of the word "Push bike"
What happend to kids having manners and saying please and thank you? Was it because of the warnings "Mum gave us if we visited any aunt"
ie (Now if your offered anything you say No thank you, and another thing "Dont fidget, sit still") The visit seemed like days instead of hours,
What happend to people knitting
"you dont see many woolshops these days, "Every family had an granny who knitted " My gran knitted me my first and last swimming trunks, I remember her giving them to me and i was so proud of these post office red woollen trunks that when i tried them on in her house like an international model they fitted perfect "just under my belly button and nice and tight around my bum,
I dived into the pool while on our school day baths visit, all the class was watching both boys and girls,
As i climbed out of the pool everyone looked, I'd been subjected to a red die and the waist band was around my nipples as i held on for modest sake,
The bum area of the trunks was around my knees and the swimming pool was a blood red colour, I never really got over that and could hear the laughter for weeks?
What happend to kids eating kid size meals ?
We did'nt have one over weight kid in our street or school for that matter,
What happend to bed rooms only used for sleeping in?
Now these room's are fitted out with TV's and P,C, and the kids pers/mobile phone ?
What ever happend to friendship in the world ?
