Growing up in the 1950's

Following on from the footy thread,

We did not have mobile phones - computers - play stations or much else,

We went to school either by foot or bike,

So no school runs as not many parents had cars in those days,

After school we had tea and went out to play footy in the winter and cricket in the summer,

When it got dark we went home,

TV was the BBC,

One channel only and that did not start until about 5.00 pm

It closed down at 10.30- 11.00pm

Foreign holidays was for only the rich,

So Cleethorpes was packed in the summer months with yorkies,

People from Sheffield and Leeds would spend a week or two every year at their favourite holiday resort  CLEETHORPES!!!!!

School was easy going but very strict,

What I mean is, we did not take exams after the 11+ unless you went to grammer school.

BUT

Teachers and the head like to swing the cane in your direction at every possible opportunity,

Work was mostly manual in those times so Fishing made Grimsby Great also mining in Yorkshire was the main profession,

So 2 weeks at the seaside was heaven after spending the rest of the year down pit.

AND

Two weeks was the holiday entitlement then not 4 or 5 weeks,

People went to work on the bus or their bike,

Also went to the match on their bikes and payed 2d ( 1 p ) to leave their bikes in the front gardens in Imperial Ave and Constitutional Ave,

You could have a really good night out for less than a pound, 6 pints+ fish + chips and still have plenty of change.

Was those days better than today  ???

I do not know,

BUT

I am glad I was born when I was , just after the war and not today.

Thats how it was back then

The Geordies moved down to Yorkshire
The Yorkies moved down to Lincolnshire
and we get left in the poop

Quoted from Wrawby_Mariner

Thats how it was back then

The Geordies moved down to Yorkshire
The Yorkies moved down to Lincolnshire
and we get left in the poop

moosey club is back on line marc.

Quoted from grimsby pete

moosey club is back on line marc.

Yeah i just got a text

Quoted Text

After school we had tea and went out to play footy in the winter and cricket in the summer,

When it got dark we went home,

TV was the BBC,

One channel only and that did not start until about 5.00 pm

It closed down at 10.30- 11.00pm

And how many of us went out and smashed things up, or terrorised old folk, because, "we had nothing to do, and nowhere to go?"

Quoted from grimsby pete

Following on from the footy thread,

We did not have mobile phones - computers - play stations or much else,

We went to school either by foot or bike,

So no school runs as not many parents had cars in those days,

After school we had tea and went out to play footy in the winter and cricket in the summer,

When it got dark we went home,

TV was the BBC,

One channel only and that did not start until about 5.00 pm

It closed down at 10.30- 11.00pm

Foreign holidays was for only the rich,

So Cleethorpes was packed in the summer months with yorkies,

People from Sheffield and Leeds would spend a week or two every year at their favourite holiday resort  CLEETHORPES!!!!!

School was easy going but very strict,

What I mean is, we did not take exams after the 11+ unless you went to grammer school.

BUT

Teachers and the head like to swing the cane in your direction at every possible opportunity,

Work was mostly manual in those times so Fishing made Grimsby Great also mining in Yorkshire was the main profession,

So 2 weeks at the seaside was heaven after spending the rest of the year down pit.

AND

Two weeks was the holiday entitlement then not 4 or 5 weeks,

People went to work on the bus or their bike,

Also went to the match on their bikes and payed 2d ( 1 p ) to leave their bikes in the front gardens in Imperial Ave and Constitutional Ave,

You could have a really good night out for less than a pound, 6 pints+ fish + chips and still have plenty of change.

Was those days better than today  ???

I do not know,

BUT

I am glad I was born when I was , just after the war and not today.

But you never had Nicole's, did you?

£20 to get yer 'ole with a 19 year old blonde Lithuanian down Cleethorpe Road; that's progress for you.

...and...it's only £30 for brown, and that wasn't invented in them days, was it?

Quoted from Meggy

And how many of us went out and smashed things up, or terrorised old folk, because, "we had nothing to do, and nowhere to go?"

Before my time but i remember reading About Teddy Boy Razor gangs fighting and smashing up Cinemas Race riots not all perfect was it.

Quoted from MaccaBilk

But you never had Nicole's, did you?

£20 to get yer 'ole with a 19 year old blonde Lithuanian down Cleethorpe Road; that's progress for you.

...and...it's only £30 for brown, and that wasn't invented in them days, was it?

You don't let up do you??? Flogging a dead horse (and no, that's not a euphimism.).

Quoted from grimsby pete

Following on from the footy thread,

We did not have mobile phones - computers - play stations or much else,

We went to school either by foot or bike,

So no school runs as not many parents had cars in those days,

After school we had tea and went out to play footy in the winter and cricket in the summer,

When it got dark we went home,

TV was the BBC,

One channel only and that did not start until about 5.00 pm

It closed down at 10.30- 11.00pm

Foreign holidays was for only the rich,

So Cleethorpes was packed in the summer months with yorkies,

People from Sheffield and Leeds would spend a week or two every year at their favourite holiday resort  CLEETHORPES!!!!!

School was easy going but very strict,

What I mean is, we did not take exams after the 11+ unless you went to grammer school.

BUT

Teachers and the head like to swing the cane in your direction at every possible opportunity,

Work was mostly manual in those times so Fishing made Grimsby Great also mining in Yorkshire was the main profession,

So 2 weeks at the seaside was heaven after spending the rest of the year down pit.

AND

Two weeks was the holiday entitlement then not 4 or 5 weeks,

People went to work on the bus or their bike,

Also went to the match on their bikes and payed 2d ( 1 p ) to leave their bikes in the front gardens in Imperial Ave and Constitutional Ave,

You could have a really good night out for less than a pound, 6 pints+ fish + chips and still have plenty of change.

Was those days better than today  ???

I do not know,

BUT

I am glad I was born when I was , just after the war and not today.

No colour television then either

Quoted from pseudonym

No colour television then either

And in our house the remote control was the youngest sibling.  (ME   )

Quoted from pseudonym

No colour television then either

Still had a black+white telly in 1966,

So I am waiting to see England win the world cup in colour.

Quoted from grimsby pete

Still had a black+white telly in 1966,

So I am waiting to see England win the world cup in colour.

1966? My parents got their first one in 1970 while I was away at uni.

Quoted from Meggy

1966? My parents got their first one in 1970 while I was away at uni.

And of course those were the days when to go to university REALLY meant something. As opposed to today when someone does 'BA Media Studies & Forensic Science' at the University of Clugthorpe (formerly the Clugthorpe School of Hairdressing).

So education was better then too.  

Quoted from kingofthekippers

And of course those were the days when to go to university REALLY meant something. As opposed to today when someone does 'BA Media Studies & Forensic Science' at the University of Clugthorpe (formerly the Clugthorpe School of Hairdressing).

So education was better then too.  

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