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  1. Naylors Ark

    Naylors Ark Struggling to tame her French acres.

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    I remember sherbert pips, drumsticks, sweet tobacco (coconut)and cola cubes.
    Stilts made from two old paint tins and string.
    TV's were black & white and rented.
    Not everybody had a phone in their house. (some had party lines)
    whizzer & chips, Whoopie, Shiver &shake, jackie, Mandy, My Guy,Blue Jeans comics/magazines.
    Some old comics here: http://www.26pigs.com
    Some old style sweets here: http://www.oldfashioned-sweets.co.uk
     
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      Ooooooh Sherbert Fountains.:wub2: My pregnancy pash.Used to eat about 3 a day !!
      And also, tinned Victoria Plums from the corner shop. I could demolish a whole tin in 5 minutes ,
       
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      They were broad minded in the fifties!!! :snork: I think the mattresses were stuffed with horse hair, they were quite hard and lumpy.

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      Ah, I know what you mean now - I had one as a kid that was stuffed with a mix of horsehair stuff and this other fibre that looked almost like coco fibre.
       
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      Ohhh, we all remember Sue Warrilow :lunapic 130165696578242 5:
       
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        You can still get Sherbet fountains, I carry an emergency one with me at all times. They are a bit different now with a plastic cap over the liquorice, and the liquorice no longer has a hole so you can't suck the sherbet up through it. Also the tube is made of plastic so no more soggy paper mess as you try to extract the last tiny bit of sherbet in the bottom. Apart from that I know very little about them ... :love30:
         
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          I used to cut the soggy tube open and suck the mushy left overs out . The best bit John,
           
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          the old days were just one big sugarfest really weren't they? Then Captain Compensation appeared.
           
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          Can't do that anymore on these new-fangled ones:
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            And the Food Police :wallbanging:
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            UM BONGOOO twice the added sugar 100% more satisfaction!
             
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              Do you mean The Bioscope? :)


              I remember all of those :dbgrtmb: 10:4

              I hope you used to wear your liberty bodice in the winter as well!

              Also Roy Rogers with Trigger and Bullet
              Don't forget the Lone Ranger's and Tonto's horses - Silver and Scout
              and Hoppalong Cassidy's horse, Topper
              Then, of course, there was 'The Singing Cowboy' Gene Autry and his horse Champion

              I remember watching the first episode of The Quatermass Experiment on our friend's 9" TV.

              Then there were the popular radio programmes:
              Life With The Lyons
              The Navy Lark
              Dick Barton
              Beyond Our Ken
              Worker's Playtime 'from a factory somewhere in England' !!!!!
               
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              I'll have you know that Sue was very well known around these parts and very well liked by many! [winky smiley thing]
               
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              What's a Sue Warrilow?
               
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              Did someone mention Cremola foam? :ccheers:
               
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