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Old 11-06-2012, 22:27   #601
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A towd thi...Hoddlesdon University English Exam paper.... ave anuther forty of em' yet

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Old 11-06-2012, 22:33   #602
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A towd thi...Hoddlesdon University English Exam paper.... ave anuther forty of em' yet
What's Hoddlesdon University when it's at home?
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Old 11-06-2012, 22:37   #603
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What's Hoddlesdon University when it's at home?
Yeh been away too long susie, Dya not remember "One Step Beyond"?
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Old 11-06-2012, 22:58   #604
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Old 11-06-2012, 23:00   #605
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Old 11-06-2012, 23:01   #606
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Can't be retlaw, The Jam Butty Estate never had one.
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Old 12-06-2012, 00:30   #607
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She were good in Pledges Pickles, Ooh I must get a little hand on this watch, wi the little Specky four eyed manure carrier, who went on to become Norah Batty's husband.

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I usd to get called Specky four eyes at junior school! (Not manure carrier though thankfully) had my revenge when many of those who taunted me ended up with specs at secondary school, by which time no-one noticed mine anymore
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Old 12-06-2012, 08:53   #608
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I usd to get called Specky four eyes at junior school! (Not manure carrier though thankfully) had my revenge when many of those who taunted me ended up with specs at secondary school, by which time no-one noticed mine anymore
Not those horrible wire glasses mobertol
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Old 12-06-2012, 09:08   #609
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NHS Specials?
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Pink covered wire for a girl, and fake tortoise-shell if you were a boy....grim....and if you had a squint - or a lazy eye, one lens covered with Elastoplast or Zinc oxide tape.
Not a good look was it?
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Old 13-06-2012, 07:13   #611
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Pink covered wire for a girl, and fake tortoise-shell if you were a boy....grim....and if you had a squint - or a lazy eye, one lens covered with Elastoplast or Zinc oxide tape.
Not a good look was it?
Lads must have been posh down Clayton.

I remember girls wearing the pink ones, but I never saw tortoiseshell glasses.

The boys I knew wore similar ones to the girls, that were a transparent pale blue.



Glasses were also referred to as gigs, or bins,

Happily the pink for a girl, blues for a boy spectacles, seem to have been binned nowadays.
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Lads must have been posh down Clayton.
I was in Accrington way back then G....and my brother thad the tortoise shell ones......mind you that would be when he was about 10 years old......he hated them and couldn't wait to get non NHS frames(which were paid for by our gran).
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Not those horrible wire glasses mobertol
Having worn them from the age of two - unfortunately -Yes! Had an elastic under my hair to keep them on!
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Pink covered wire for a girl, and fake tortoise-shell if you were a boy....grim....and if you had a squint - or a lazy eye, one lens covered with Elastoplast or Zinc oxide tape.
Not a good look was it?
That was me Margaret (I had and still have a "Lazy eye")-sounds better than a squint! In our class it was me and Michael Quirk who had the elastoplast treatment, he was bullied really badly.

I also remember having a sort of red see through lens at one point. I was quite raffish of course -like a young Jack Sparrow (I had long hair and plaits back then). Only benefit was an afternoon out of school every so often for visits to the health center in Blackburn...

Once the treatment was over -by age 10 -the glasses had changed and were coloured plastic - very Edna Everidge. They never sat straight on my face as one lens was much heavier than the other. On all my school photos they were skewiff - didn't mind mum throwing them out on the tip to be honest.
I grew up thinking I was the ugly duckling - still haven't turned into a beautiful swan yet.
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Glasses were also referred to as gigs, or bins,

Happily the pink for a girl, blues for a boy spectacles, seem to have been binned nowadays.
Never heard of gigs or bins, some used to call them goggles - I distinctly remember one time "binning" my glasses when i was abut 8 or 9. I threw them down a drain at the side of the house and told mum I'd lost them

I have actually returned to pink glasses recently.
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