Memories of Childhood

Okay we were all children weren't we and of course we will have loads of memories of our childhood, hopefully good, so a chance to tell us here.

What can you put here? Well anything really, but here are some suggestions:

Food you remember eating, including names that may or may not be still around.

Television-we all watched it, what made an impression on you, did you get influenced by
certain cartoons or a programme OR maybe you watched something that made you try and get a job concerning it-like Tomorrow's World.

Comics-you must have read some-which were your favourites? They were cheap back then and maybe you kept some.

Anything like that-your choice. Let's see how well this thread goes.

i voted seventies because for me that is a golden era of kids' TV and pre TISWAS i enjoyed Blue Peter HOW/ Magpie (One for sorrow, two for joy) and Michael bentine's potty time was one favourite!!

I voted 1970s as well.

God so many memories....

How different things were in that decade compared to now. The only times I really watched television was on a Saturday. Monday through to Friday, after school it was straight out of the door. Climbing trees, going to scrump apples (got caught by the local Bobby one time and literally got a clip round the ear for it. He then took me home where I got another thick ear)

Another time I was up an apple tree on the scrump with a mate of mine (who was supposed to be acting as lookout) then the old dear who’s tree it was comes out of her house (unknown to me), so I’m up there thinking yes gonna get a good haul here...then a voice pipes up “what you doing up that tree”?

Cue panic from yours truly who falls out and lands on his back, totally winded but then I get up and hobble away with my mate laughing hysterically as I hear the old dear saying “that’s what you get for climbing other people’s trees”

I had to endure my mate’s mocking voice saying “what you doing up that tree” for days...,

This is just the first post from me for this thread.

Nice one Greeny by the way.

Comics - I have a memory of reading Marvel Comics, would have been between the ages of 8 and 10 (1973-75) Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Thor..

I also remember reading another comic called Cor! - after a look on Wikipedia it turns out that this comic only lasted until 1974, a lot longer ago than I thought. For some reason I never bothered with the Beano and the Dandy, although my Uncle did...now, before anyone thinks that sounds weird, I have an Uncle who is just 2 years older than me.

I was born in 1979, so my childhood was the 80's, meaning I was fortunate enough to have some great tv shows/cartoons.
The A-Team, Knight Rider, The Dukes of Hazzard, Air Wolf. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, ThunderCats, M.A.S.K., Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, DuckTales and too many others to mention.

Where's my 2000's options.

I voted for the 90s as i was born in late 88 so pretty much all my best memories are from the 90s all my favourite cartoons were on like
Batman the animated series
X-men
Spiderman
Dexters lab just to name a few
I got my first playstation and played my favourite game metal gear solid i still hear the theme in my head today lol
Had my first kiss and also the decade i started fingering....
Also was the first time i saw wrestling i walked past my living room one night and on the tv a man with white face paint (sting) came down from the roof of an arena on a wire and beat up 10 people (nwo) with a bat... i was like hmmm i like this the 90s was a great time

(19-01-2019 18:28 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  Comics - I have a memory of reading Marvel Comics, would have been between the ages of 8 and 10 (1973-75) Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Thor..

I also remember reading another comic called Cor! - after a look on Wikipedia it turns out that this comic only lasted until 1974, a lot longer ago than I thought. For some reason I never bothered with the Beano and the Dandy, although my Uncle did...now, before anyone thinks that sounds weird, I have an Uncle who is just 2 years older than me.

i also loved Whizzer and Chips I think that was out for a few yeas longer than Cor!! (Which I don't remember reading much of, and Roy of the Rovers as well).
Not only that I have memories when we had our own Subbuteo league going (I think the Melchester Rovers Subbuteo set is a rare thing to find as well) we didn't have much of a stadium though mind you.

Thursday nights in the mid 70s watching Tomorrows World which my Mam and Dad (God bless them) were big fans of, I’d sit through it because I’d be waiting for Top of the Pops which came on straight afterwards...funny how my Dad would watch that as well...whether that had anything to do with the girl dancers Pans People (later Legs & Co - these were the days before videos) or whatever I don’t know

David McCallum as the Invisible Man was another one I was an avid watcher of, as well as Sapphire and Steel which started in around 1978/79 if memory serves..

What else?.....Space 1999...seem to remember we’d all be sat watching it while eating our tea which I’d been sent to the local chippy up the road for, along with what I thought was the drink that had been sent from the gods...dandelion and burdock...in a big glass bottle...

Bloody hell Greeny you’ve started something here...

He has hasn't he mate bif kudos to you Greeny Any other Subbuteo nuts on here?