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Post by ARENA on May 8, 2013 10:13:48 GMT
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Post by scorp on May 8, 2013 16:53:36 GMT
... you could buy threepennyworth of chips and still have change from a sixpence...
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Post by jakeyj on Aug 31, 2013 7:19:08 GMT
You could buy Threepennyworth of chip and get some crackling for nothing.
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Post by jakeyj on Aug 31, 2013 7:27:56 GMT
Did anyone go fishing in the 50 s. We used to fish the New River at Palmers Green (North London)
It wasn't allowed as the river supplied drinking water.
We would climb over the gate and the stick a twig in the lock so we could hear the Bailiff coming.
We took the fish home for our cat.
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Post by scorp on Aug 31, 2013 8:01:01 GMT
Tried it at the boating lake at Alexandra Palace - dead boring - never caught anything, and wouldn't have known what to do with it if I had!
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Post by jakeyj on Aug 31, 2013 9:14:02 GMT
I used to go there regularly. I can see it from the end of my road.
I fished it but like you never caught anything.
Once for a bet we climbed hallway up the tower before the Trustees caught us. Remember the brown uniforms?
There was a model train that ran around the lake. The driver got drunk. Derailed and a child was killed.
Did you ever go roller skating there? we went every Saturday. till they shut it
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Post by scorp on Aug 31, 2013 21:25:51 GMT
My one remaining uncle and his wife used to do roller dancing there - I did go a couple of times. I did a lot of things a couple of times...
I remember the carcase of a V1 rusting away, visible from The Avenue - it must have been a dud.
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Post by jimshoo on Sept 2, 2013 9:03:22 GMT
My Dad took me to see his local "The Green Man". It was bombed the day Mum made him take her out visiting, otherwise he'd have been in there!
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Post by goldielox on Sept 2, 2013 13:51:10 GMT
Blimey!
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Post by scorp on Sept 3, 2013 7:25:51 GMT
Something else I was rubbish at was ice skating - Harringay Arena was the place. (Next door to the Harringay Racers speedway and dog track). Great venue, now demolished (of course). Ice shows, Circuses, Basketball (1948 Olympics) bloody Billy Graham...
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Post by ARENA on Feb 15, 2014 12:06:30 GMT
 From a bygone age of innocence |
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