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Post by ARENA on Dec 22, 2020 9:19:51 GMT
What were your presents back in the day (apart from tangerines)
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Post by althea on Dec 22, 2020 13:19:48 GMT
As part of a large family, we didn't get much, but because there were six piles of toys it always seemed a lot.
I was just thinking yesterday of when I was ten and wanted a bike.
My mother bought an old second
hand bike from a neighbour and to make it look "nice", painted it a shade of bilious green.
It was awful, but I loved it.
My uncle would always buy us a box of Milk Tray EACH. We thought he must be a millionaire.
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Post by themanwhoknewnothing on Dec 23, 2020 9:11:58 GMT
My stocking usually contained a Beano annual
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Post by honeybear on Dec 23, 2020 9:25:33 GMT
This was my stocking present.  |
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Post by aubrey on Dec 23, 2020 11:46:56 GMT
I remember having Mumps one Christmas and finding a sherbet sweet in my stocking. I still got it down.
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Post by rondetto on Dec 24, 2020 15:24:57 GMT
In the early fifties I had an older brother and sister, we usually had an apple and an orange in our stocking and maybe a three penny bit. The first good present I can remember was when I was about 10 or 11. I was music mad at that age and listened to Radio Luxemburg. So I woke up on Xmas morning to find I had a brand new transistor radio. I was made up with it as in them days not many people had one.
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Post by althea on Dec 24, 2020 17:09:57 GMT
That reminds me, Ron. I had a Dansette transistor radio. I was about 13 at the time.
It was like a little square suitcase and quite heavy to carry. I used to listen to Radio Luxembourg on a Sunday night, in my bedroom.
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