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Post by clioseward on Aug 31, 2018 9:48:20 GMT
Spot the fat children - 1940s
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Aug 31, 2018 11:01:20 GMT
Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2018 11:01:20 GMT
The only fat kid you saw in the 40s and 50s was Billy Bunter in a comic
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Aug 31, 2018 11:31:05 GMT
Post by starlilolill on Aug 31, 2018 11:31:05 GMT
Born in 1950 - out playing most of my childhood - rain, hail, snow or shine! Sticking children in front od a screen, any screen, is why there are obese children these days. We had suet puddings, we had lots of bread and butter, we had all the puddings that were going BUT we did all the exercise that was needed to keep us all fit and healthy.
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Aug 31, 2018 12:45:15 GMT
Post by ARENA on Aug 31, 2018 12:45:15 GMT
What games did you play , as a kid?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2018 13:16:17 GMT
Football, cricket, tennis - all very basic with make do kit. Cycling and roller skating. Lived close to a river with weir and lots of pools so much fishing. Collecting insects and grasshoppers and wondering why they all died
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Post by rondetto on Sept 1, 2018 16:31:08 GMT
Football, cricket,tennis, swimming. I played in goal for my local village, swam 400m freestyle for the county and cricket for the village. I would be out playing either football or cricket until it went dark most evenings. My Dad was coach for the village soccer team so I had to play anyway. Best game I ever played was when we lost thirteen nil to a league two team. I came off the field my hands and legs covered in mud and blood. I must have save about 30 shots at goal and losing 13 nil was an excellent result. Ah those memories. I remember meeting one of my heroes John Charles who had been a wonderful soccer player but alas in his latter years was riddled with Arthritis.
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Sept 1, 2018 18:43:21 GMT
Post by aubrey on Sept 1, 2018 18:43:21 GMT
Football, cricket,tennis, swimming. I played in goal for my local village, swam 400m freestyle for the county and cricket for the village. I would be out playing either football or cricket until it went dark most evenings. My Dad was coach for the village soccer team so I had to play anyway. Best game I ever played was when we lost thirteen nil to a league two team. I came off the field my hands and legs covered in mud and blood. I must have save about 30 shots at goal and losing 13 nil was an excellent result. Ah those memories. I remember meeting one of my heroes John Charles who had been a wonderful soccer player but alas in his latter years was riddled with Arthritis.
Didn't his career finish early through a badly broken leg?
I think I saw him play one time at a pre-season friendly between Leeds and Gainsborough Trinity - this would have been the early 70s. If it wasn't John Charles it was someone else from the same era (IE, before Don Revie)
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Sept 1, 2018 18:50:50 GMT
Post by aubrey on Sept 1, 2018 18:50:50 GMT
Spot the fat children - 1940s
To be fair on todays' kids, that was during the war and rationing. And in a period when there were few enough cars that you could play football in the street.
The Billy Bunter stories were popular precisely because there were plenty of feasts involved, and the picture comics of the time featured a feast - with sausages sticking out of a huge pile of mash - at the end of most stories, a trait that carried over at least into the eighties.
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Post by honeybear on Sept 2, 2018 8:30:42 GMT
We lived on all the 'wrong' foods. Lots of carbs , potatoes and fat. My after school treat was a butter and sugar sandwich.
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Post by althea on Sept 2, 2018 11:12:30 GMT
There used to be seasonal games when I was in primary school.At different times,we played two balls,bead swapping,skipping and find the four leaf clover. That last one was one of my mother's games. It kept us busy for hours. If you found a four leaf clover,you got a threepenny bit. Every year the same games came round at the same time of year. When I got to eleven I was mad on swimming and tennis. The corporation tennis courts charged four pence for a couple of hours. My best friend and I would go in the afternoons during the week and no one else was about. They let us stay and play as long as we wanted. We never seemed to tire of tennis and swimming. I think the fact that we walked or cycled everywhere stopped us from getting fat. When you live out in the countryside,you are a long way from everywhere.
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Post by althea on Sept 2, 2018 11:17:07 GMT
I always thought we were deprived as children because we never had shop cake or biscuits. My mother baked most days and we grumbled about having to eat home made scones and cakes. When I got married,I also baked cakes,scones and biscuits and people would go mad for them. I discovered that children who had shop cakes wanted home made. It seems as though we always want what we don't have.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2018 13:05:30 GMT
We lived on all the 'wrong' foods. Lots of carbs , potatoes and fat. My after school treat was a butter and sugar sandwich. I think we needed the carbs to warm us up from the inside. No central heating and limited coal supplies for the fire (was it rationed?) meant that those suet puddings were vital, and we burned it all off by lots of exercise - walking or cycling everywhere
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Sept 4, 2018 10:46:25 GMT
Post by althea on Sept 4, 2018 10:46:25 GMT
My mother used to say,"This will stick to your ribs," when she dished up suet puddings. I never liked the sound of that,though I did love suet puddings and dumplings.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 10:52:42 GMT
My mother used to say,"This will stick to your ribs," when she dished up suet puddings. I never liked the sound of that,though I did love suet puddings and dumplings. Spotted dick, jam roly-poly, treacle pud, All with custard Steak and kidney pud
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