Remember our school milk being frozen in bottle in 1962/3 winter and when taken in school to thaw milk and frozen milk rose and pushed cap off. Chips were 4 pence a portion in 1976 the drought year due to low yields, in 1977 they jumped to 50 pence and never went down although a few years later yields were up to normal. Capitalism 
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Shilling ticket for kids Saturday morning cinema, Think the first full length film I saw was Peter Pan or Bambi
@Ingo66 Milk came in cartons when I was at school & I hated it. It was warm in the summer. Yuck. I volunteered to be milk monitor so I could get away without having any 
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At my Primary School there were two air raid shelters at the top of one of the playgrounds. We never got to see inside them because the entrances were bricked up. They were still there when I left in 1969.
It must have been a tight fit in there when they had to be used.
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Just remembered the rules of knock-down ginger. As a gang you knocked on door and waited the first one to run was a chicken followed by other chicks. The brave one who faced the wroath of inhabitants was winner.
While flicking through tv channels y/day I see they have the Man from U.N.C.L.E
reaching the grand age of 10 I was an avid fan of this series & became an agent getting the case /I.d Badge & the gun with its lengthened arm & sites firing red plastic bullets along with my own special Id badge that I remember showing the Id badge in my blazer top pocket until that is I was told to keep my toys at home 
United Networks Command.for Law & Enforcement . U.N.C.L.E. 
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i dfo i collercted the wrappers for something, i remember the gollewogs on jam jar we collected for a golliwog badge, its all racist now
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we lived in one on the airfeild, the race track was there and my brother used to get =under fencem to watch stirling moss, mike hawthorn , john surtees, he collected the corona bottle tops and got money
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i do and on the step, blue tits pecked the cream
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At tea- shop I lodged in early sixties they had wonderful display of golliwog bandsmen and sports men on shelf. The owners would buy boxes Robertsons jam, steam of labels and sell as homemade. Then the rascals would send off the stickers on lids for plaster of Paris golliwogs that they shamefacedly displayed.
Always remember the smell of cap guns when fired … wearing my cowboy outfit with x2 pistols
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Did the Indians have to make their own bows and arrows with twigs and string to fight off the Cowboys? If we didn’t use the correct wooden twigs then the bow kept breaking!
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Oh, the smell of cap guns. Diolch, I had forgotten about this hidden scented gem. 
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Not forgetting cap-bombs, load with caps send heavenwards and with luck it lands on tarmac or pavement with satisfying bang:boom:
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i do when on step blue tits pecked the top and took the cream icles hanging down,frost paterns on windows like stars
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Aye, that sounds like the winter of 1963 
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it was we lived in a thatched cottage, no heating only open fires kitchen range and candles
@Loshy i remember we had a bath on a sunday evening ready for school on a Monday. Washed with soap & flannel at sink rest of week. We’d never cope with that now would we.
Sunday was also shoe polishing day. We used to be lined up on the back doorstep polishing away.
I used to walk to school collecting our mates on the way.
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We had to polish shoes six days a week at grammar school! It was like military discipline!
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